The Fourth International and the Postwar Trotskyist Tendencies: A World History of the Trotskyist Movement
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The last attempt to offer an overview of the history of Trotskyism (Robert J. Alexander’s International Trotskyism 1929-1985)1 is more than a quarter of a century old, and its alphabetical arrangement and inordinate size make it difficult to consult. Partisan histories (such as Pierre Frank’s and Francois Moreau’s, written from the point of view of the United Secretariat of the Fourth International) are mostly biased. Valuable contributions, such as Al Richardson and Sam Bornstein’s volumes on the history of British Trotskyism (of which the key second volume was not consulted by Alexander), are not as widely read as they should be, because they were cast in a national framework. The current project will provide an outline of the world Trotskyist movement, chronologically arranged, that will take into account the major additions to the field since the writing of Alexander’s work.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.013 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".