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[[Joseph Stalin]] had an opposing viewpoint. Stalin's thesis on socialism in one country, launched in 1926, brought Trotsky into conflict with the Bolshevik leadership, eager to exploit his real and alleged divergences from Marxism-Leninism.  Trotsky broke with Stalin by 1928 and was expelled from Russia. Before he was murdered at Stalin's command in 1940 Trotsky preached "permanent revolution" as a rallying cry for the anti-capitalist far left.  His ideas caused considerable disruption in the Communist movement. In China [[Mao Zedong]] adapted Trotsky's ideas to his need to base a revolution on he peasantry.

[[Joseph Stalin]] had an opposing viewpoint. Stalin's thesis on socialism in one country, launched in 1926, brought Trotsky into conflict with the Bolshevik leadership, eager to exploit his real and alleged divergences from Marxism-Leninism.  Trotsky broke with Stalin by 1928 and was expelled from Russia. Before he was murdered at Stalin's command in 1940 Trotsky preached "permanent revolution" as a rallying cry for the anti-capitalist far left.  His ideas caused considerable disruption in the Communist movement. In China [[Mao Zedong]] adapted Trotsky's ideas to his need to base a revolution on he peasantry.

[[Paleoconservative]] historians in recent years have alleged that [[Neoconservative]] believe in the Trotskyite Permanent Revolution because most of them came out of the Trotskyite cause in the 1930s. That is false.  There are four fundamental flaws in the paleoconservatives' attack: most of the neoconservatives were never Trotskyites; none of them ever subscribed to the right-wing Socialism of Max Shachtman; the assertion that neoconservatives subscribe to 'inverted Trotskyism' is misleading; and neoconservatives advocate democratic globalism, not permanent revolution.<ref>See King (2005) </ref>  Thus very few neoconservatives ever were Trotskyites, and even those discarded permanent Revolution when they rejected all forms of Communism.<ref> [[Irving Kristol]] for a while was a Trotskyite. As he noted, "I’ve been a neo-something: a neo-Marxist, a neo-Trotskyist, a neo-liberal, a neo-conservative and, in religion, always a neo-orthodox, even while I was a neo-Trotskyist and a neo-Marxist."</ref>

[[Paleoconservative]] historians in recent years have alleged that [[Neoconservatives]] believe in the Trotskyite Permanent Revolution because most of them came out of the Trotskyite cause in the 1930s. That is false.  There are four fundamental flaws in the paleoconservatives' attack: most of the neoconservatives were never Trotskyites; none of them ever subscribed to the right-wing Socialism of Max Shachtman; the assertion that neoconservatives subscribe to 'inverted Trotskyism' is misleading; and neoconservatives advocate democratic globalism, not permanent revolution.<ref>See King (2005) </ref>  Thus very few neoconservatives ever were Trotskyites, and even those discarded permanent Revolution when they rejected all forms of Communism.<ref> [[Irving Kristol]] for a while was a Trotskyite. As he noted, "I’ve been a neo-something: a neo-Marxist, a neo-Trotskyist, a neo-liberal, a neo-conservative and, in religion, always a neo-orthodox, even while I was a neo-Trotskyist and a neo-Marxist."</ref>

==Further reading==

==Further reading==

* King, William F. "Neoconservatives and 'Trotskyism'." ''American Communist History'' 2004 3(2): 247-266

* King, William F. "Neoconservatives and 'Trotskyism'." ''American Communist History'' 2004 3(2): 247-266