A leading adviser to Gianfranco Fini, the post-fascist leader whose party is allied to Mr Berlusconi's, said The Economist spoke for "Trotskyite minorities".
As a youth he was arrested as a Trotskyite.
Veterans of TUC congresses have come to expect the conference entrance to be thronged with international solidarity campaigns and Trotskyite news vendors.
You can see that in a situation like this it makes little sense to think of oneself as a Trotskyite.
For some of Lorlene's older Trotskyite friends, it was simpler still.
On the night, only two people at my college stayed up till the end of the election coverage; your blogger and a Trotskyite, grimly convinced that the revolution had come closer because of Thatcher's victory.
With three Trotskyite candidates and a collection of other fringe candidates in the running too, Mr Sarkozy and Ms Royal have little room for error.
He promised to reach out to Democratic, libertarian, vegetarian and even Trotskyite voters.
In the BBC, which is sometimes said to combine a Stalinist lust for central control with a Trotskyite taste for permanent revolution, such an approach should be refreshing.
Mr Jospin was for years a Trotskyite, dedicated, like Genoa's extremists, to the overthrow of global capitalism.
The trouble is that, with Mr Sarkozy energising the right, this is not enough to quicken the electorate's pulse.Into the left's emotional void has stormed Jean-Luc Mélenchon, a former Socialist senator and one-time Trotskyite who is now running for president, backed by the Communists.
