RussiaLeon Trotsky was a Marxist revolutionary who helped lead the 1917 October Revolution and organized the Red Army. Exiled after opposing Stalin, he argued for permanent international revolution and criticized Soviet bureaucracy until his assassination in Mexico.
In the 12 Axes register, Leon Trotsky leans hardest on Internationalism – Nationalism: Internationalism 95%; the register median is balanced 50%.
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Where Leon Trotsky sits on each of the twelve axes, in four categories. The label is our estimate; the line under it says why.
Centralized
Supported centralized party state
Oligarchy
Backed party dictatorship while in power
Authoritarian
Defended revolutionary terror
World Government
Permanent world revolution
Military-Focused
Organized and led the Red Army
Polyculturalist
Internationalist, opposed national chauvinism
Communist
Abolition of private ownership
Planned Economy
Advocated central planning and industrialization
Protectionist
State-controlled foreign trade
Antitheist
Marxist atheist
Revolutionary
Revolutionary in culture and society
Accelerationist
Praised science and industrial technique
Set against the median of all 124 figures in the register.
Democratic – Autocratic
On Democratic – Autocratic, Leon Trotsky is at Autocratic 83%. The register median is Democratic 68%.
Federal – Unitary
On Federal – Unitary, Leon Trotsky is at Unitary 83%, almost the register median of Unitary 68%.
Closeness is 100 minus the root-mean-square distance on all twelve axes.
Sources: en.wikipedia.org · www.britannica.com
Portrait: Rijksmuseum, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons, cropped and resized.
The tiers on this page are our estimates from public positions and policies. They are not an official statement by the person or the government concerned. Two independent passes scored every axis and a third settled the differences. How the register works. Found a mistake? Write to [email protected].
