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==Why has Trotskyism failed?==  

==Why has Trotskyism failed?==  

There are many reasons for the failure of Trotskist groups. Within the left-wing movement, they were unable to overcome a strong current of loyalty to the USSR. This was because the USSR, as the first "workers' state", was seen as an institution to be protected, not attacked. Also, the USSR, (and, by extension, other orthodox Communist parties) gained great prestige from its role in [[Second World War]] and the defeat of [[Adolf Hitler]]). What Trotskyists stood for was fluctuating and obscure, and then only clear thing about their ideology was that it was not Stalinism.  

There are many reasons for the failure of Trotskist groups. Within the left-wing movement, they were unable to overcome a strong current of loyalty to the USSR. This was because the USSR, as the first "workers' state", was seen as an institution to be protected, not attacked. Also, the USSR, (and, by extension, other orthodox Communist parties) gained great prestige from its role in [[Second World War]] (and the defeat of [[Adolf Hitler]]). What Trotskyists stood for was fluctuating and obscure, and then only clear thing about their ideology was that it was not Stalinism.  

Trotskyist parties were, and are, extremely prone to schisms and violent sectarian feuding, splitting their small numbers of adherents into even tinier groups, which devote most of their energies to internecine feuding over minuscule differences in doctrine. Even the governing body, the Fourth International, split into warring factions.  

Trotskyist parties were, and are, extremely prone to schisms and violent sectarian feuding, splitting their small numbers of adherents into even tinier groups, which devote most of their energies to internecine feuding over minuscule differences in doctrine. Even the governing body, the Fourth International, split into warring factions.