On being, and not being, a Trotskyist

Three experiences inform this piece of writing: words Mike Kidron told an interviewer in 1964 (“not Trotskyist but Trotskyist-derived”), a piece a friend of mine Colin wrote last year (“how did these revolutionary socialists become so similar to the Stalinists of their youth?”), and words another lefty spoke to me an event last weekend (“I […]