After being ousted by the Communist Party via vote, Trot was seen being escorted in Fascist Italy as a guest of the state. Then, he was assassinated about a week before he could testify in front of the HUAC, we don’t know what he was planning to say to them but it’s assumable that he might have sold out Soviet spies or informants within the US. His theories are great, but towards the end he had a shift into anti-sovietism, which in turn gives anti-communists a lot of leverage to split leftist parties. So, disliking Trotsky the man isn’t against left unity, but discounting his theories sectarianistly is.
IMO Trot was an opportunist even before the revolution. We can see this with him backing the Menshevik during the Social Democrat Party days, and we can see this with him adopting other people’s theories without updating them. So him turning against the Union isn’t all that surprising, nor was the party turning against him.
After being ousted by the Communist Party via vote, Trot was seen being escorted in Fascist Italy as a guest of the state. Then, he was assassinated about a week before he could testify in front of the HUAC, we don’t know what he was planning to say to them but it’s assumable that he might have sold out Soviet spies or informants within the US. His theories are great, but towards the end he had a shift into anti-sovietism, which in turn gives anti-communists a lot of leverage to split leftist parties. So, disliking Trotsky the man isn’t against left unity, but discounting his theories sectarianistly is.
IMO Trot was an opportunist even before the revolution. We can see this with him backing the Menshevik during the Social Democrat Party days, and we can see this with him adopting other people’s theories without updating them. So him turning against the Union isn’t all that surprising, nor was the party turning against him.