Ok so I have been some kind of Marxist for a long time now, I started as an unbranded communist, then anarchist, then Marxist Leninist,now Trotskyist. I have repeatedly been told by ML's that Trotskyism is bad and I've been told by Trotskyists that ML is bad. However, both sides don't really give me a concrete difference between the two other than preferring Stalin over Trotsky or vice versa. Lately I have come to assume that the difference is that Trotskyism is less centralized and allows for more democracy in the party. Is this true? What are the differences anyway? I'm starting to think that I'm just a ML that thinks more poorly of Stalin than most and which doesn't think the USSR after Stalin was inherently revisionist. Please be kind to me I'm genuinely trying to learn.