Was Leon Trotsky the Adolf Hitler of Communism?

…permanent revolution first expounded by Leon Trotsky (1879–1940), one of the leading theoreticians of the Russian Bolshevik Party and a leader in the Russian .... read more

Hardly. Leon Trotsky, often called the "Prince of Pamphleteers" was no Hitler. No one who coined the slogan "No Tsar, but a workers' government"; would aspire to be a Hitler. read more

Hitler might not have come in power at all. Trotsky was quite pro-active about using the army to spread communism, and advocated land-grabbing Poland (and was so obsessed with it that he actually praised Stalin for grabbing the Kresy a few months before he got whacked) and militarily invading Germany. read more

Leon Trotsky, byname of Lev Davidovich Bronshtein, (born November 7 [October 26, Old Style], 1879, Yanovka, Ukraine, Russian Empire—died August 21, 1940, Coyoacán, Mexico), communist theorist and agitator, a leader in Russia’s October Revolution in 1917, and later commissar of foreign affairs and of war in the Soviet Union (1917–24). read more