For the most part its his connection to the Trotskyist tendencies, who as a general rule have a reputation of being disruptive and rude at protests and other organized events when peddling their newspapers, trying to turn every moment into a recruitment opportunity rather than focusing on the events purpose.
Trot tendencies also tend to refuse support or only have the very most critical support for socialist projects out in the world, a lot of times they will also support the destabilizing of those countries through supporting some "true" left movement to rise up from below and cleanse the stalinist taint from the country and state. Trotsky himself advocated for this towards the Soviet Union which is one reason people dislike him personally.
Trotsky also attempted to use anti-soviet and anticommunist events in the US as an advertising opportunity, consenting to appear before the Dies committee of the HUAC to speak against the soviet union and stalinism while promoting real socialism instead, for which they ultimately said "No lmao why would we let you do that" but its remained a stain on Trotsky that many people cite as a reason to hate him.
Theres also some other detail stuff in his letters and shit that people point to but usually in combination with the bigger stuff, people accuse him of collaboration with foreign and particularly fascist powers against the USSR, for which while there isnt concrete evidence of, there also is apparently both partially censored and fully missing letters in the archive kept by his family.
Also some Trotskyist orgs will really put him on a pedestal and make constant disparaging comparisons between him and Stalin for example, just constant petty shit like calling Stalin uneducated, a bad writer, not prominent enough in the Bolshevik party before the revolution etc, comparet to Trotsky.
And this will color peoples perception of Trotsky himself, wether or not they find him personally arrogant in this manner.
people accuse him of collaboration with foreign and particularly fascist powers against the USSR, for which while there isnt concrete evidence of,
There is at least solid evidence in his letters that he worked with the Opposition Bloc just as he was accused of, which included reactionary cliques, but that was a domestic group.
For the most part its his connection to the Trotskyist tendencies, who as a general rule have a reputation of being disruptive and rude at protests and other organized events when peddling their newspapers, trying to turn every moment into a recruitment opportunity rather than focusing on the events purpose.
Trot tendencies also tend to refuse support or only have the very most critical support for socialist projects out in the world, a lot of times they will also support the destabilizing of those countries through supporting some "true" left movement to rise up from below and cleanse the stalinist taint from the country and state. Trotsky himself advocated for this towards the Soviet Union which is one reason people dislike him personally.
Trotsky also attempted to use anti-soviet and anticommunist events in the US as an advertising opportunity, consenting to appear before the Dies committee of the HUAC to speak against the soviet union and stalinism while promoting real socialism instead, for which they ultimately said "No lmao why would we let you do that" but its remained a stain on Trotsky that many people cite as a reason to hate him.
Theres also some other detail stuff in his letters and shit that people point to but usually in combination with the bigger stuff, people accuse him of collaboration with foreign and particularly fascist powers against the USSR, for which while there isnt concrete evidence of, there also is apparently both partially censored and fully missing letters in the archive kept by his family.
Also some Trotskyist orgs will really put him on a pedestal and make constant disparaging comparisons between him and Stalin for example, just constant petty shit like calling Stalin uneducated, a bad writer, not prominent enough in the Bolshevik party before the revolution etc, comparet to Trotsky.
And this will color peoples perception of Trotsky himself, wether or not they find him personally arrogant in this manner.
There is at least solid evidence in his letters that he worked with the Opposition Bloc just as he was accused of, which included reactionary cliques, but that was a domestic group.