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 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 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trotskyism,  ""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. "