The original neoconservatives were Trotskyites. While they abandoned Marxism, they never fully abandoned some of the ideas of Trotsky.

Trotsky seems to have split from Stalin over Stalin’s theory of socialism in one country in favor of Trotsky’s theory of permanent revolution.

This led to Trotsky being exiled from the Soviet Union. He spent his remaining years hating the USSR and Stalin, until Stalin had Trotsky assassinated in 1940.

Some of Trotsky’s disciples denounced Trotsky and went on to create neoconservatism. While the neocons may have rejected Marxism and Trotsky, they did not abandon all of Trotsky’s ideas.

The neocons seem to have carried with them Trotsky’s idea of permanent revolution as well has his hatred for the USSR.

James Burnham, a disaffected Trotskyite and who is regarded by many as the father of neoconservatism, formed his ideas in three books, The Managerial Revolution, The Machiavellians: Defenders of Freedom, and Struggle for the World.

Paul Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Gould write, “In 1943 he put it all to use in a memo for the U.S. Office of Strategic Services (the OSS) in which his Trotskyist anti-Stalinism would find its way into the agency’s thinking. And in his 1947 book, “The Struggle for the World,” Burnham expanded his confrontational/adversarial dialectic toward the Soviet Union into a permanent, apocalyptic policy of endless war.”

In addition to endless wars, the neocons hatred for the USSR continued on into hating the Russian Republic.

The 1990s were terrible for Russia. Western elites came into Russia and wrecked havoc in the country. They created massive inflation, poverty, and set up the system whereby the oligarchs gained control of the former USSR’s industries. Western elites wanted control of Russia’s resources

When Mr. Putin come to power in 2000, he told the oligarchs they could keep their money but they had to stay out of politics. Those oligarchs who meddled in Russian politics ended up serving time in prison.

When western elites realized that President Putin was a different type of person who was not playing their game, they turned on him. They began demonizing him, comparing him to Hitler.