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This section should not neglect personal animosities, which prompted the 1938 split in the British 'Revolutionary Socialist League', triggered by rumours that one member had embezzled the funds of a South African Trotskyist group, and the ceaseless conflicts prompted by the thuggish figure of [[Gerry Healy]], a long-time British Trotskyist leader, and others of his kind. Nor should the stands taken by opposing sides in these conflicts be seen as immutable. Again to use a British example, in the late 1940s [[Ted Short]], a leader of the British [[Revolutionary Communist Party]], was in favour of the RCP remaining an 'open' party, while [[Gerry Healy]] sought to take the RCP into the [[Labour Party]] as a secret Trotskyist faction. By the 1970s, Short was leading the entrist [[Militant Tendency]] within the Labour Party, while Healy was the leader of the 'open' Workers' Revolutionary Party.
This section should not neglect personal animosities, which prompted the 1938 split in the British 'Revolutionary Socialist League', triggered by rumours that one member had embezzled the funds of a South African Trotskyist group, and the ceaseless conflicts prompted by the thuggish figure of [[Gerry Healy]], a long-time British Trotskyist leader, and others of his kind. Nor should the stands taken by opposing sides in these conflicts be seen as immutable. Again to use a British example, in the late 1940s [[Ted Short]], a leader of the British [[Revolutionary Communist Party]], was in favour of the RCP remaining an 'open' party, while [[Gerry Healy]] sought to take the RCP into the [[Labour Party]] as a secret Trotskyist faction. By the 1970s, Short was leading the entrist [[Militant Tendency]] within the Labour Party, while Healy was the leader of the 'open' Workers' Revolutionary Party.
==References==
==Links to conservatism==
A number of Americans who had briefly been Trotsyites as youth rejected the left and became intellectual leaders of conservatism. They include [[James Burnham]] (1905–1987), [[Saul Bellow]] (1915-2005), [[Irving Kristol]] (b. 1920), [[Gertrude Himmelfarb]] (b. 1922), and [[Seymour Martin Lipset]] (1922-2006). However it is not true that they dominated the [[neoconservative]] movement.
==Bibliography==
==Bibliography==
* Alexander, Robert J. ed. ''International Trotskyism, 1929-1985: A Documented Analysis of the Movement.'' (1991) 1128 pp covering activities in every country [http://www.questia.com/read/27804413?title=International%20Trotskyism%2c%201929-1985%3a%20A%20Documented%20Analysis%20of%20the%20Movement online edition]
* Alexander, Robert J. ed. ''International Trotskyism, 1929-1985: A Documented Analysis of the Movement.'' (1991) 1128 pp covering activities in every country [http://www.questia.com/read/27804413?title=International%20Trotskyism%2c%201929-1985%3a%20A%20Documented%20Analysis%20of%20the%20Movement online edition]
* Cox, Michael. "Trotsky and His Interpreters; Or, Will the Real Leon Trotsky Please Stand Up?" ''Russian Review'' 1992 51(1): 84-102. online in [[EBSCO]]
* Cox, Michael. "Trotsky and His Interpreters; Or, Will the Real Leon Trotsky Please Stand Up?" ''Russian Review'' 1992 51(1): 84-102. online in [[EBSCO]]
* King, William F. "Neoconservatives and 'Trotskyism'" ''American Communist History'' 2004 3(2): 247-26. online in [[EBSCO]]
* King, William F. "Neoconservatives and 'Trotskyism'" ''American Communist History'' 2004 3(2): 247-26. online in [[EBSCO]]
* Wald, Alan. ''The New York Intellectuals: The Rise and Decline of the Anti-Stalinist Left'' (1987)
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