User:Seth Nimbosa/Templates/Trotskyist tree

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This is an example of how a Trotskyist tree could look like, with forks and remergings, etc.

                                                                                 OCi (de facto 1967)
                                                                               /   (official 1971)
         |      international Committee ---- SWP Revolutionary Tendency, SLL, PCi
         |           /                  \       (Worker's League)------(WRP)-------dwindling iC,
         |           |                   |                                 Socialist Equality Parties
         |           |                   |
4i --- 1940s ----- 1953 --------------- 1962 --- uSec,reunified 4i -- renamed 2003 ---  ? 2009

these are the groups that collectively form the Fourth International, please include others i missed

not unlike the controversy of the one true Church, where the Anglo-Catholic Tradition does not deny the apostolic succesion in the Roman Catholic Church, but has its own tradition that was derived from it; nevertheless, the Roman Catholic Church remains the mother Church from which all other non-Eastern Christian organizations in Europe are derived from or split from

and even the Catholic Church shares a common origin with the Eastern Churches, both orthodox and non-orthodox

collectively, they all share the same claim to be part of the the "one" true Church of Christ on Earth, and none of them can exclude all the rest

by analogy, the Fourth Int'l shares common origin with the 3rd Int'l but also represents a break from it, much like how the R.Catholic Church relates to the Eastern Churches, but along the way schisms and apostasies and repudiations and "revivals" occured in the Fourth Int'l, much like in R.C.C, which gave rise to the many organizations we know today are derived from it

in much the same way as the R.Catholic Church is the surviving organization of the original mother Church of all Western Christianity, the reunified Fourth Int'l is the surviving org. of the original mother movement we call the Fourth Int'l, there is continuity and unbroken succession of leadership, though dogmas and ideologies and practices may have changed along its path