Breton and Picasso Your clarification was in order and I thank for that Breton was indeed a Trotskyist and a bitter enemy of Stalin As you said this helps to explain his remark to Picasso I would make one correction Breton was a Trotskyist From the Wikipedia website In France 10 of the electorate voted in 2002 for parties calling themselves Trotskyist my emphasis I don t think the Trotskyite spelling occurs anywhere this Wikipedia page Trotskyist is used throughout and establishes it as the accepted spelling The same wiki site says Today in the English language an advocate of Trotsky s ideas is usually called a Trotskyist while Trotskyism s opponents usually refer to them pejoratively as a Trotskyite or Trot 5 In the same way one is a Stalinist not a Stalinite whether one likes or dislikes Stalin Advocate or not let s not use any terms that have a desparaging tone I know you didn t mean it as such I used Trotskyite myself for many years Let s use Trotskyist if only for the sake of consistency Mysweetoldetc