Mexico's president Claudia Sheinbaum has Russian roots. Her grandparents were Eastern European Jewish immigrants who fled to Mexico City in the 1920s, and her great uncle was shot as a Trotskyite.
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October 2, 2026 at 2:06 PM
Mexico's president Claudia Sheinbaum has Russian roots. Her grandparents were Eastern European Jewish immigrants who fled to Mexico City in the 1920s, and her great uncle was shot as a Trotskyite.
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Michel Rocard & Pierre Mauroy were both Socialist PMs of France in the 1980s. In ~1979 Rocard said he was in complete political agreement with Mauroy about everything except the 1948 Young Socialist faction fight, in which Rocard led the quasi-Trotskyite splitters & Mauroy the Social Democrats.
September 30, 2026 at 8:56 PM
Michel Rocard & Pierre Mauroy were both Socialist PMs of France in the 1980s. In ~1979 Rocard said he was in complete political agreement with Mauroy about everything except the 1948 Young Socialist faction fight, in which Rocard led the quasi-Trotskyite splitters & Mauroy the Social Democrats.
The main difference btw Bluesky and the UMich Diag circa 1997 is more Stalinist Tankies, fewer Trotskyists and religious heretics, and the Maoists go with USians as opposed to United #$NAKES of America.
(The Trotskyite vs. Maoist pamphleteering was something, and mostly a Boomer vs. Gen X thing).
(The Trotskyite vs. Maoist pamphleteering was something, and mostly a Boomer vs. Gen X thing).
September 29, 2026 at 9:37 PM
The main difference btw Bluesky and the UMich Diag circa 1997 is more Stalinist Tankies, fewer Trotskyists and religious heretics, and the Maoists go with USians as opposed to United #$NAKES of America.
(The Trotskyite vs. Maoist pamphleteering was something, and mostly a Boomer vs. Gen X thing).
(The Trotskyite vs. Maoist pamphleteering was something, and mostly a Boomer vs. Gen X thing).
In 1954, Diego Rivera re-joins the Communist Party (PCM) from which he was expelled as a Trotskyite in 1929.
September 26, 2026 at 5:00 PM
In 1954, Diego Rivera re-joins the Communist Party (PCM) from which he was expelled as a Trotskyite in 1929.
Like her fellow Socialite Trotskyite, Vanessa Redgrave, she travels by Rolls-Royce.
September 25, 2026 at 3:28 PM
Like her fellow Socialite Trotskyite, Vanessa Redgrave, she travels by Rolls-Royce.
wrecker. entryist. possible trotskyite.
September 25, 2026 at 12:45 AM
wrecker. entryist. possible trotskyite.
He'd be in the Trotskyite version of this.
September 23, 2026 at 5:25 AM
He'd be in the Trotskyite version of this.
Will the last Trotskyite entity in Seattle please deliberate on turning out the lights
Okay, the second to last Trotskyite entity
Okay, the second to last Trotskyite entity
September 23, 2026 at 5:12 AM
Will the last Trotskyite entity in Seattle please deliberate on turning out the lights
Okay, the second to last Trotskyite entity
Okay, the second to last Trotskyite entity
Bushwick Trotskyite is my emo band name.
September 22, 2026 at 5:01 PM
Bushwick Trotskyite is my emo band name.
imagining a Trotskyite sect that’s line is critical support for Noel Tata against the Tata Sons board for incomprehensible reasons
September 21, 2026 at 10:08 PM
imagining a Trotskyite sect that’s line is critical support for Noel Tata against the Tata Sons board for incomprehensible reasons
Maybe he's actually still a committed Trotskyite and is just being sneaky about it.
September 19, 2026 at 4:27 AM
Maybe he's actually still a committed Trotskyite and is just being sneaky about it.
I like the conceit that one of the sample player characters is a Trotskyite Sandanista back in the US who'll be damned to Hell if she lets the _Soviets_ preside over the victory of world Communism.
September 17, 2026 at 6:05 PM
I like the conceit that one of the sample player characters is a Trotskyite Sandanista back in the US who'll be damned to Hell if she lets the _Soviets_ preside over the victory of world Communism.
September 16, 2026 at 6:13 PM
These are, uh, not mutually exclusive www.vanityfair.com/story/jd-van...
September 16, 2026 at 6:12 PM
These are, uh, not mutually exclusive www.vanityfair.com/story/jd-van...
www.vanityfair.com/story/jd-van...
“I don’t think JD Vance believes in anything,” says Stuart Stevens, who ran Mitt Romney’s 2012 presidential campaign. “I think he would be a Trotskyite if that would advance him.”
“I don’t think JD Vance believes in anything,” says Stuart Stevens, who ran Mitt Romney’s 2012 presidential campaign. “I think he would be a Trotskyite if that would advance him.”
God and Vance at Yale
Who is JD Vance? A political opportunist? A true post-Trump MAGA-man? This Yale alum believes the answers may lie in the GOP presidential frontrunner’s long-ago Ivy League sojourn.
www.vanityfair.com
September 16, 2026 at 12:16 PM
www.vanityfair.com/story/jd-van...
“I don’t think JD Vance believes in anything,” says Stuart Stevens, who ran Mitt Romney’s 2012 presidential campaign. “I think he would be a Trotskyite if that would advance him.”
“I don’t think JD Vance believes in anything,” says Stuart Stevens, who ran Mitt Romney’s 2012 presidential campaign. “I think he would be a Trotskyite if that would advance him.”
Should have ended with the cat drifting into a Black Sea port on the briefcase, and a Soviet fisherman / undercover KGB agent welcomes his new feline aboard with a gift of caviar. UNIVITED 2: TROTSKYITE TABBIES!
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#FrightClub #Uninvited
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#FrightClub #Uninvited
Cat in Ushanka with Soviet Flag
ALT: Cat in Ushanka with Soviet Flag
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September 16, 2026 at 3:29 AM
Should have ended with the cat drifting into a Black Sea port on the briefcase, and a Soviet fisherman / undercover KGB agent welcomes his new feline aboard with a gift of caviar. UNIVITED 2: TROTSKYITE TABBIES!
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#FrightClub #Uninvited
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#FrightClub #Uninvited
Formerly associated with the words Ba'athist, short-arse, sub-Leninist, East End carpetbagger and a pimp for fascism but a drink-sodden former Trotskyite popinjay was someone else.
September 15, 2026 at 9:24 AM
Formerly associated with the words Ba'athist, short-arse, sub-Leninist, East End carpetbagger and a pimp for fascism but a drink-sodden former Trotskyite popinjay was someone else.
Whether you call yourself a Socialist, a Communist, Anarchist, Marxist, Maoist, Trotskyite, eco-communalist, even you antifascist liberals - though we disagree on massive issues, I hope we can agree that we should always be caring for each other and building this world, no matter how bleak it gets.
September 15, 2026 at 7:47 AM
Whether you call yourself a Socialist, a Communist, Anarchist, Marxist, Maoist, Trotskyite, eco-communalist, even you antifascist liberals - though we disagree on massive issues, I hope we can agree that we should always be caring for each other and building this world, no matter how bleak it gets.
In three of them, workers more or less managed to win something that built toward further organizing–the west coast longshoremen, the Toledo auto workers, and the Minneapolis Trotskyite Teamsters.
September 12, 2026 at 1:21 PM
In three of them, workers more or less managed to win something that built toward further organizing–the west coast longshoremen, the Toledo auto workers, and the Minneapolis Trotskyite Teamsters.
Stalin was paranoid about anyone who could threaten his grip on power. He purged all of his political rivals. Zinoviev and Kamenev, both members of the first politburo, were suspected of participating in the Trotskyite conspiracy. Both were forced to sign confessions and executed.
September 12, 2026 at 12:37 AM
Stalin was paranoid about anyone who could threaten his grip on power. He purged all of his political rivals. Zinoviev and Kamenev, both members of the first politburo, were suspected of participating in the Trotskyite conspiracy. Both were forced to sign confessions and executed.
[February 7th, 1981] Lyndon LaRouche is a former Trotskyite leader who heads a global political network. He promotes conspiracy theories and uses tactical alliances to gain influence. His organization has been accused of spreading disinformation and having links to international terrorism.
September 10, 2026 at 3:03 AM
[February 7th, 1981] Lyndon LaRouche is a former Trotskyite leader who heads a global political network. He promotes conspiracy theories and uses tactical alliances to gain influence. His organization has been accused of spreading disinformation and having links to international terrorism.
Please take your liberal & reactionary *TROTSKYITE* nonsense elsewhere & stop working AGAINST the people whom you CLAIM to support
It only serves to confuse, which is why trotskyism is "acceptable" & part of the "COMPATIBLE LEFT"
See very long thread🧵👇 bsky.app/profile/prog...
It only serves to confuse, which is why trotskyism is "acceptable" & part of the "COMPATIBLE LEFT"
See very long thread🧵👇 bsky.app/profile/prog...
🟣 The “Compatible Left.” How empire manufactured the western “left.”
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Read: Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism by
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Read: Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism by
@ gabriel.rockhill
September 9, 2026 at 6:45 AM
Please take your liberal & reactionary *TROTSKYITE* nonsense elsewhere & stop working AGAINST the people whom you CLAIM to support
It only serves to confuse, which is why trotskyism is "acceptable" & part of the "COMPATIBLE LEFT"
See very long thread🧵👇 bsky.app/profile/prog...
It only serves to confuse, which is why trotskyism is "acceptable" & part of the "COMPATIBLE LEFT"
See very long thread🧵👇 bsky.app/profile/prog...
Fuuuuuck dude I’m a Trotskyite they’re gonna shove me in a locker
September 8, 2026 at 1:35 PM
Fuuuuuck dude I’m a Trotskyite they’re gonna shove me in a locker