Trotsky himself considered the USSR a "degenerated workers state", and spent a good amount of his life advocating and working for itts overthrow, notably with the western powers. Trot groups followed this pattern.

They also hilariously think that lenin's testament meant that trotsky should've become king, not realizing that he lost that crucial vote to Stalin, and communists don't appoint successors like monarchs.

That's why nearly trot groups end up being leader/domination/sex cults.

You'll get good answers on the history of trotskyism over on lemmygrad.

Also watch that video. It's from a pakistani communist and former trot, who has extensive organizing history with trotskyist parties.

I think you're conflating Trotskyism, thought based on the works of Trotsky, with Trots. Regardless of what Trotsky wrote and believed, Trots generally oppose AES and are generally defined by that and bringing up Stalin and Stalinists to bash at every opportunity, even when it doesn't have anything to do with the topic at hand.

EDIT: Also I swear to god they fucking read What is to Be Done and come to the conclusion "We gotta start a newspaper in 2024!"

If you have your legos and somebody hasn't gotten their legos yet, you can't wait until they get their legos to start yours. You could wait, if there wasn't the urgency presented by the global lego-stealing superpower, but since we have to run an extremely tight schedule here, the best move is to build your legos ASAP and then help others with theirs once you have the knowledge and resources provided by building your own. You can combine them into one big lego world later when the heat is off, and you can also combine them partially as is expedient.

There's a reason the West was scared of "Domino theory" and not simultaneous worldwide socialist revolution.

Building just one didn't work for the USSR, but with careful building practices, it has been going alright for China, Vietnam, and the DPRK, with varying degrees of alright

The USSR's overthrow is not evidence that proletarian states / fortresses aren't the best vehicle to proceed towards socialism. The fact that the west had to devote so many resources to defeat it and so many other socialist attempts, but are still failing at stopping it's growth in other states, and consider AES the greatest threat, is a testament to it's correctness.

Not to mention the fact that the USSR still uplifted hundreds of millions of people out of hunger and poverty, something that certainly wouldn't have been possible had they followed trotsky's advice of "acheving communism through external and constant warfare" rather than building up your industrial base.

Trotsky's alternative was essentially to make permanent war on Europe, since he was dogmatic about adhering to marx's wrong prediction that, capitalism can only break in it's birthplaces. Lenin corrected this by showing that capitalism breaks at the weakest links in the chain, and the feudal -> socialist transition was far more common than capitalist -> socialist in the 20th century.

I suggest watching the video I linked above.

Yeah I'm not an expert on the Trotsky-stalin split (still reading about it) but that meme doesn't seem like a fair characterization of either side.