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Trotsky had some good points, and some terrible points, both theoretically and personally.
Trotksyism has essentially been a western-friendly form of Marxism-Leninism that tries to be what Marxism-Leninism is, but with no party discipline and no support for Actually Existing Socialism. Trotskyist orgs relentlessly bash socialist countries, and split over and over again. They haven't really done much of anything.
I have seen this a lot. Like there are no currently succesful socialist countries. Are they just waiting for world revoluton?
But I also don't want to be yet another leftist that believes there theory is the best and everyone could just end leftist fighting if they became a [insert my prefered leftist theory]
You can't end leftist infighting by hoping for everyone to become the same kind of leftist, especially because different tendencies are often influenced by the given class character of a country. It's why agrarian communists are more likely to be Maoists, like what's found in the Naxalites, whereas western communists tend to be Trots. Marxism-Leninism is found everywhere, because it's the tendency that has most been tested in real life.
I agree.