Trotskyism
Trotskyism refers to the political ideology advocated by Leon Trotsky. Trotsky identified as an orthodox Marxist and Bolshevik-Leninist, and supported founding a vanguard party, proletarian internationalism, and a dictatorship of the proletariat based on working-class self-emancipation and mass democracy. Trotskyists have an international party called the Fourth International, which is now broken up in several competing organizations.
Trotskyists usually consider the Marxist-Leninist states neither socialist nor capitalist, or socialist but not democratic, and only a minority of Trotskyists consider them as capitalist. They consider them degenerated workers' states, and Trotskyist groups have historically had varying degrees of support for them. For instance, while "In Defense of Marxism" views the USSR under and after Stalin, China, Cuba, and the like as being degenerated workers' states, the Socialist Workers Party is historically Trotskyist, but is actually strongly supportive of Cuba.
