Editing Trotskyism

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<b>Trotskyism</b> is a form of early 20th century [[fascism]] that was synthesized during the [[Crisis of Marxism]] by [[Menshevik]] [[Leon Trotsky]]. It was originally [[astroturfed movement|astroturfed]] by the [[Federal Bureau of Investigation]] (FBI)<ref>[https://stalinsocietypk.wordpress.com/2015/06/20/trotsky-rivera-were-informants-of-the-us-government-american-researchers-revealed/ Trotsky and Rivera were informants of the US government – American Researchers reveal]</ref> as a weapon against [[Marxism-Leninism]] and [[Joseph Stalin]], going as far as supporting [[National Socialism]] in the years leading up to the [[Second World War]].<ref><i>Leon Trotsky's Collaboration with Germany and Japan</i> by [[Grover Furr]]</i></ref> In recent years, Trotskyism, alongside [[neo-Nazism]],<ref><i>The Big Lie: Exposing the Nazi Roots of the American Left</i> by [[Dinesh D'Souza]]</ref> has become one of the spearheads of the [[Leftism|Western left]]<ref><i>Cultural Marxism in Postwar Britain: History, the New Left, and the Origins of Cultural Studies</i> by [[Dennis Dworkin]]</ref> and the contemporary [[Democratic Party]].<ref>[https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/newspape/atc/1605.html Socialists and Barack Obama]</ref>

Many of the original [[United States|American]] Trotskyists later became founding members of the [[neoconservatism|neoconservative]] movement, encouraging [[Cold War]]-era [[imperialism]] against the [[Soviet Union]] and the [[Third World]].<ref><i>The New York Intellectuals: The Rise and Decline of the Anti-Stalinist Left From the 1930s to the 1980s</i> by [[Alan M. Wald]]</ref> Neoconservatism later became the dominant ideology of the [[Republican Party]] under [[Ronald Reagan]], [[George H. W. Bush]], and [[George W. Bush]], remaining in control until the [[Great Recession]] and the [[Second American Revolution]] triggered the rise of the [[Tea Party]] and [[Make America Great Again]].

== Notable individuals ==

* [[Leon Trotsky]]
* [[Ernst Röhm]]
* [[James Burnham]]
* Max Shachtman

== References ==

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