Re: searching for someone

["red-rebel" <red-rebel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Perhaps this is all silly, but "Trotskyite", to clarify, is the deragatory
> term coined by Stalinists during the time of Stalin. In other words, using
> the term Trotskyite is to make yourself a clear opponent of the followers
of
> Trotsky and/or the fourth international (whichever Fourth International
that
> might be this week). "Trot", on the other hand, I have often used and have
> never found it to be insulting. I am not a "Trot", never have been, but
have
> steered clear of "Trotskyite" for just the sectarian reasons referred to
by
> Jim.
>
> Macdonald
>

I would say that calling trotskyites, "trots" is a deliberate insult.
"Trots" is a slang word for diarrhoea, a condition it could be argued many
"trots" suffer from the verbal affliction of!

James.