`  == 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. `