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 httpenwikipediaorgwikiTrotskyism  In France  of the electorate voted in  for parties calling themselves Trotskyist my emphasis I dont 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 Trotskys ideas is usually called a Trotskyist while Trotskyisms opponents usually refer to them pejoratively as a Trotskyite or Trot In the same way one is a Stalinist not a Stalinite whether one likes or dislikes Stalin   Advocate or not lets not use any terms that have a desparaging tone I know you didnt mean it as such I used Trotskyite myself for many years Lets use Trotskyist if only for the sake of consistencyMysweetoldetc