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>From what I've read, the term 'Trotskyite' has almost always been used in a pejorative manner, going right back to the 1930s, whereas 'Trotskyist' has been used in a hostile, friendly and non-committal manner. For example, my copy of the report of the first Moscow Trial, printed in Moscow, is called The Case of the Trotskyite-Zinovievite Terrorist Centre. (The Russian wording on the fly-leaf reads (if my amateur transliteration is right) 'Delu Trotskistsko-Zinov'evskogo Terroristicheskogo Tsentra'.) However, a couple of copies of the Rajani Palme Dutt's Labour Monthly from that period I have at hand refer to 'Trotskyists' when applauding the Moscow Trials. So the two terms were used more or less interchangeably during the time of the Moscow Trials in a pejorative manner. The term 'Stalinite' was used occasionally in the 1930s in a hostile way, but it never caught on in Britain (I can't say about other Anglophone places). The Weekly Worker, the paper of the reconstituted Communist Party of Great Britain, has lately revived it for some esoteric reason known only to its editors, but I've not seen it used anywhere else. As for later ones, most people referred to 'Titoites' whatever their feelings towards them, and 'Maoists' is pretty much universal as far as I know. Paul F ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: [email protected] Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
