>>2755271Because trotskyists are moral opportunists who have never managed to accomplish anything politically. Trotsky initially had indeed some good points : it was true that the USSR was degenerating, that it had mostly kept the revolution within its borders, and that it was dogmatic etc.
However, by the 1950s, why did this dogmatic position still survive ? It doesn't make sense to argue against Stalinism in the late 1950s and onwards when by then most marxist-leninists had rejected it, with only a minority of them calling themselves anti-revisionnists.
So why is there still at least 4 trostkyist parties in practically every country that exists ? It just doesn't make sense for them to exist in the 21st century. The only valid reason is that it's mostly larp, exactly as how anti-revisionnists also larp as if it were the early 1950s.
As for ideas specific to Trotsky, permanent revolution is frankly not a good concept because any revolution is going to be determined by the local conditions by which it takes place, and it shouldn't apply to arbitrary criterias of universality. Beyond that, the man himself was not exactly a saint and super democratic, in contrast to how his supporters usually paint him (i.e. Kronstadt rebellion)