trotsky

[revamerica23]

what where his beliefs exactly ? i find him interesting

[TheGodlessUtopian]

I think the Trotskyist usergroup could tell you a lot.

http://www.revleft.com/vb/group.php?groupid=13

[Per Levy]

all(?) his works your can find here

http://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/works/index.htm

some examples that might be usefull to you if you have the time:

http://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1931/tpr/rp-index.htm

http://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1931/tpr/index.htm

[Le Rouge]

Why many people here hate him so much?

[Commissar Rykov]

Why many people here hate him so much?
Well you have the Left Communists who hate the Bolshevik Camp and then you have the Marxist-Leninists who believe Trotsky was a fascist, counterrevolutionary, bomb-throwing child killer who disgraced Glorious Comrade Stalin. So Trotsky gets it from both sides here.

[thesadmafioso]

Comrade Trotsky stood for the ideological lineage of the thought exposed by Marx, Engels, and Lenin while still making his own contributions to the ever evolving framework of the Marxist dialectic.

More specifically, he exposed a firmly Marxist view on the concept of the necessity for international proletarian revolution to occur if the world should successfully attain the stage of communism. This internationalism is something which brought him into direct conflict with the Stalinist nationalists and their desire to wrongly conflate Russian chauvinism with what they considered to be 'socialism' over the actual idea of worldwide proletarian revolution.

In addition to this, Trotsky expressed a passionate and brilliant defense of the Bolshevik model of vanguard party and its heart of open debate and Democratic Centralism. This analysis is one which stood in stark contrast to the bureaucratic centralism of Stalin's counter revolutionary caste of thermidorian reactionaries which sought to squeeze every last vestige of revolutionary spirit from the proletarian and its organs in Russia and beyond.

He also stood for the theory of permanent revolution, which stressed the significance of the proletarian in the epoch of capitalist society as the driving force behind societal advancement along the dialectical lines of Marxism and which outlined a course for nations to move beyond certain stages of historical development to attain socialism. In addition to this, Trotsky also furthered stressed the significance of revolutionary internationalism through the course of formulating this path to socialism for underdeveloped nations, as he correctly noted that they would still require the support of the working classes of the world to succeed in the long term. The failure of this realization eventually led in part to the unfortunate reality of the deformed workers state headed by the revolutionary bonapartism of Stalin, and it only stressed the value of permanent revolution to the attainment of socialism.

For any additional reading, I would suggest some of the following pieces.

http://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1927/opposition/index.htm
http://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1931/tpr/index.htm
http://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1936/revbet/index.htm

http://www.marxists.org/archive/grant/1944/08/trotsky.htm