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Leon Trotsky

Soviet revolutionary and founder of the Red Army

Helped lead the 1917 October Revolution and built the Red Army, then lost a power struggle with Stalin. He was exiled and assassinated in Mexico in 1940.

Leon Trotsky sits in the left-authoritarian part of the Caucus economy and liberty compass: strongly state-led and strongly authoritarian. The clearest positions are strongly state-led on economy, strongly globalist on nation and strongly secular on religion.

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Where Leon Trotsky sits on ten dimensions

Each scale runs from one pole to the other, and the dot shows the overall tendency of this person's record and public life. These are simplified estimates and open to debate.

💰EconomyStrongly state-led
State-ledFree market
⚖️Liberty and authorityStrongly authoritarian
LibertarianAuthoritarian
🎭CultureStrongly progressive
ProgressiveTraditional
🌍NationStrongly globalist
GlobalistNationalist
🌱EnvironmentStrongly growth-first
Growth-firstNature-first
🤖TechnologyStrongly tech-optimist
Tech-cautiousTech-optimist
🕊️War and peaceLeaning strength-first
Peace-firstStrength-first
🏛️InstitutionsStrongly anti-establishment
Anti-establishmentInstitutional
🙏ReligionStrongly secular
SecularReligious
🛡️InterventionismStrongly interventionist
Non-interventionistInterventionist

People most like Leon Trotsky

Vladimir Lenin Head of the Soviet government, 1917 to 192499%Karl Marx German philosopher and economist, 1818 to 188396%Che Guevara Argentine-born Marxist revolutionary, 1928 to 196795%Kwame Nkrumah Leader of Ghana, 1957 to 196692%Antonio Gramsci Italian Marxist thinker, 1891 to 193784%Mao Zedong Chairman of the Communist Party of China, 1943 to 197678%Frantz Fanon Martinique-born psychiatrist and revolutionary, 1925 to 196178%Ho Chi Minh President of North Vietnam, 1945 to 196973%

People furthest from Leon Trotsky

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Political views closest to Leon Trotsky

TrotskyismA Marxist current that backs world revolution and workers' democracy and opposes…99%Marxism-LeninismAims at a classless society through revolution and a single party ruling on behalf of…97%Council communismArgues that workers' councils should run society directly and rejects both vanguard…81%MaoismA Marxist-Leninist current built on peasant-based revolution and mass mobilization under…80%

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Percentages show how close two profiles are across all ten dimensions. Including a person here is for study and comparison, not approval. Portrait: Rijksmuseum, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons; see all photo credits.