Trotskyism [SEP] named after
Trotskyism
Trotskyism is the theory of Marxism as advocated by the Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky. Trotsky identified as an orthodox Marxist and Bolshevik–Leninist. He supported founding a vanguard party of the proletariat, proletarian internationalism and a dictatorship of the proletariat based on working class self-emancipation and mass democracy. Trotskyists are critical of Stalinism as they oppose Joseph Stalin's theory of socialism in one country in favor of Trotsky's theory of permanent revolution. Trotskyists also criticize the bureaucracy that developed in the Soviet Union under Stalin.
Vladimir
Karsner's journalistic career took him to Philadelphia, where he joined the staff of the "Philadelphia Ledger," and to New York City, where he worked for the "New York Tribune" and the "New York Post."
In 1911 Karsner married the Romanian-born socialist Rose Greenberg (1889–1968). The pair had a daughter, Walta Karsner, named after radical poet Walt Whitman. Following the dissolution of their marriage, Rose Karsner married James P. Cannon, regarded as the founder of American Trotskyism, while