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{{Trotskyism}}
'''Trotskyism''' ({{Lang-ru|Троцкизм}}, {{transl|ru|Trotskizm}}) is the political ideology and branch of [[Marxism]] developed by Russian revolutionary and [[intellectual]]<ref>{{cite book |last1=Traverso |first1=Enzo |title=Revolution: An Intellectual History |date=19 October 2021 |publisher=Verso Books |isbn=978-1-83976-333-5 |page=68 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=de1DEAAAQBAJ |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Blackledge |first1=Paul |title=Leon Trotsky's Contribution to the Marxist Theory of History |journal=Studies in East European Thought |date=2006 |volume=58 |issue=1 |pages=1–31 |doi=10.1007/s11212-005-3677-z |jstor=20099925 |s2cid=85504744 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/20099925}}</ref> [[Leon Trotsky]] along with some other members of the [[Left Opposition]] and the [[Fourth International]]. Trotsky described himself as an [[orthodox Marxist]], a [[Revolutionary socialism|revolutionary Marxist]], and a [[Bolshevik]]–[[Leninist]] as well as a follower of [[Karl Marx]], [[Frederick Engels]], [[Vladimir Lenin]], [[Karl Liebknecht]], and [[Rosa Luxemburg]]. His relations with Lenin have been a source of intense historical debate.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Swain |first1=Geoffrey |title=Trotsky |date=22 May 2014 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-317-86875-0 |pages=1-10 |url=https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Im2hAwAAQBAJ&redir_esc=y |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=North |first1=David |title=In Defense of Leon Trotsky |date=2010 |publisher=Mehring Books |isbn=978-1-893638-05-1 |pages=52-90 |url=https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=mVqvouA22IkC&q=david+north+in+defence+of+trotsky&redir_esc=y |language=en}}</ref> However, on balance, scholarly opinion among a range of prominent [[historians]] and [[political scientists]] such as [[E.H. Carr]], [[Isaac Deutscher]], [[Moshe Lewin]], [[Ronald Suny]], Richard B. Day and [[W. Bruce Lincoln]] was that Lenin’s desired “heir” would have been a [[collective leadership|collective responsibility]] in which Trotsky was placed in "an important role and within which [[Joseph Stalin|Stalin]] would be dramatically demoted (if not removed)".<ref>{{cite book |last1=Blanc |first1=Paul Le |title=Leon Trotsky |date=15 April 2015 |publisher=Reaktion Books |isbn=978-1-78023-471-7|pages=1–30|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VMCkCQAAQBAJ&dq=Paul+le+blanc+swain+heir&pg=PT14 |language=en}}</ref>
Trotsky advocated for a [[decentralization|decentralize]]d form of [[economic planning]],<ref name="BRILL">{{cite book |last1=Twiss |first1=Thomas M. |title=Trotsky and the Problem of Soviet Bureaucracy |date=8 May 2014 |publisher=BRILL |isbn=978-90-04-26953-8 |pages=105–106 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3o2fAwAAQBAJ&dq=trotsky+decentralized+planning&pg=PA106 |language=en}}</ref> [[worker's control|worker's control of production]],<ref>{{cite book |last1=Wiles |first1=Peter |title=The Soviet Economy on the Brink of Reform: Essays in Honor of Alec Nove |date=14 June 2023 |publisher=Taylor & Francis |isbn=978-1-000-88190-5 |page=31 |url=https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/The_Soviet_Economy_on_the_Brink_of_Refor/mHAIEQAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=trotsky+legalization+of+soviet+parties+worker+control+of+production&pg=PA31&printsec=frontcover |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Leon Trotsky: Workers' Control of Production (1931) |url=https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/germany/1931/310820.htm |website=www.marxists.org}}</ref> elected representation of Soviet [[List of political parties in the Soviet Union|socialist parties]],<ref name="Verso Books">{{cite book |last1=Deutscher |first1=Isaac |title=The Prophet: The Life of Leon Trotsky |date=5 January 2015 |publisher=Verso Books |isbn=978-1-78168-721-5 |pages=293 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YGznDwAAQBAJ&q=isaac+deutscher+trotsky+the+prophet |language=en}}</ref><ref name="Mehring Books">{{cite book |last1=Trotsky |first1=Leon |title=The Revolution Betrayed: What is the Soviet Union and where is it Going? |date=1991 |publisher=Mehring Books |isbn=978-0-929087-48-1 |page=218 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hiCYS9Z3lDoC |language=en}}</ref> mass [[soviet (council)|soviet]] [[democratization]],<ref>{{cite book |last1=Wiles |first1=Peter |title=The Soviet Economy on the Brink of Reform: Essays in Honor of Alec Nove |date=14 June 2023 |publisher=Taylor & Francis |isbn=978-1-000-88190-5 |pages=25–40 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mHAIEQAAQBAJ&dq=trotsky+concentration+camp+stalinism&pg=PA25 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Knei-Paz |first1=Baruch |title=The social and political thought of Leon Trotsky |date=1978 |location=Oxford [Eng.] |publisher= Clarendon Press |isbn=978-0-19-827233-5 |pages=207–215|url=https://archive.org/details/socialpoliticalt0000knei/page/300/mode/2up?q=proletarian+culture}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Mandel |first1=Ernest |title=Trotsky as Alternative |date=5 May 2020 |publisher=Verso Books |isbn=978-1-78960-701-7 |pages=84–86 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xVmcEAAAQBAJ&dq=trotsky+as+alternative+mandel&pg=PT80 |language=en}}</ref>
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