ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

Leon Trotsky and the Politics of Economic Isolation

Okay, little one, let's talk about Leon Trotsky, who was a man who lived a long time ago and had ideas about how countries should work together or apart.

You see, countries are like families, and sometimes families work better when they stay away from other families, and sometimes they work better when they share things and help each other out.

Leon Trotsky believed that when countries stay away from each other economically, it can lead to problems like poverty and wars. He wanted countries to work together and trade with each other, so they could all have better lives.

But not everyone agreed with him. Some people thought that their own country should come first, even if it meant not trading with other countries. Trotsky disagreed, and thought that everyone should work together and be equal.

Overall, he wanted a world where countries didn't isolate themselves economically and were able to work together to make things better for everyone.