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“Communists” crying over dead occupation soldiers and fascists, equating fascists to those who resist genocide
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"Ultra" is a big blanket term that usually just means any alleged "communist" who explicitly rejects all successful socialist movements as failures for one reason or another. As a result, it can seem like they have completely incoherent and contradictory beliefs because there are a lot of types of ultra. Basically anyone who declares AES as invalid or revisionist is usually an ultra, and anyone who rejects materialism in favour of idealism. Pretty much anytime someone claims to be the "one true leftist" they're an ultra.
n00b question, but are Trots ultras?
Some Trots are, but even traditionally sharply critical trots like Cliffites (who will call AES "State Capitalism") will at least pay lip service to critical support. In practice....they're often too far on the critical and too short on the support for that to hold
That said a lot of groups traditionally considered "ultra" like Councilcoms, Left-Maoists of the "Little Deng" type, even some An Syns have supported AES while also being sharply critical. It's Mostly Bordigists and Gonzalists and individual groups that have gone to the "Bad Crazy".
Trotsky himself was kinda all over the place with praxis from opportunist to ultra in different times, and various trot orgs are often doing the same. Not always, but often.
I think some would call them that, though it depends a little bit on the individual group. I would lump most trots in with ultras personally, as they tend to do all the usual ultra things like spending more time denouncing AES than working on overthrowing capital, and trots especially seem to more frequently abandon their ideals as they get older, becoming "how I left the left" sorts of conservatives.