Trotsky and Fatalistic Marxism
Author | : Geoff Hodgson |
Publisher | : Spokesman Books |
Total Pages | : 96 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Geoff Hodgson |
Publisher | : Spokesman Books |
Total Pages | : 96 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Duncan Hallas |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 136 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Leon Trotsky |
Publisher | : Wellred Books |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2020-10-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : |
This book is correctly regarded as one of Trotsky's finest classics. It is a product of a sharp polemic within the American Trotskyist movement during the period 1939-40. This was a dispute which touched on the very fundamentals of Marxism. It was for this reason that Trotsky himself participated in this struggle in the form of a series of articles and letters that are brought together in this volume. The issues covered concern the essence of Marxist theory and deal with such questions as: * The class nature of the Soviet state. * The defence of the Soviet Union against imperialist attack. * Bolshevik principles of organisation. * Dialectical Materialism. This book is Trotsky at his best: profound, concise and theoretically razor sharp.
Author | : Duncan Hallas |
Publisher | : Haymarket Press |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2003-09-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781931859035 |
In this introduction to the politics of Leon Trotsky, British activist Duncan Hallas analyzes his thinking and its relevance for today in clear, sharp prose. Includes essential writings by Hallas about the development of Trotskyism after Trotsky's assassination in 1940.
Author | : John Molyneux |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Paul Le Blanc |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 716 |
Release | : 2017-11-20 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9004356983 |
This first of three documentary volumes U.S. Trotskyism 1928-1965. Part I: Emergence, spans 1928 to 1940, with a rich selection of primary sources on labor and social struggles, intellectual history, and the revolutionary impact of Leon Trotsky’s perspectives on U.S. socialism.
Author | : Peter Beilharz |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 230 |
Release | : 2019-11-19 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1000706516 |
First published in 1987. Trotskyists have long dominated the revolutionary tradition on the Western left. Written from a critical socialist standpoint, this book provides an analysis of Trotskyism and argues that Trotskyism is increasingly irrelevant as a means of achieving socialism. It argues that, as the realisation grows that the revolutionary tradition and the authoritarianism which necessarily result from it are wrong, the importance of the problem of the transition to socialism increases. It argues that on this point Trotskyism is weak; that Trotskyism's proposals for socialist transition are largely rhetorical; and that its democratic impulse is weak. It supports this argument by showing that Trotsky’s philosophy of history, implicit in his writings, which the author characterises as evolutionary and necessitarian, coupled with a failure to grasp the moral basis of the socialist case, has a disabling effect on Trotsky's account of the transition to socialism and on his explanation of Stalinism. Moreover, it argues that Trotsky's intellectual and political heirs have been unable to escape from the contradictions inherent in his thought.
Author | : Ernest Mandel |
Publisher | : Verso Books |
Total Pages | : 173 |
Release | : 2017-11-10 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1788731964 |
Leon Trotsky was the most important contributor to the development of revolutionary Marxism this century, after Lenin. As exiled militant or Soviet statesman, party organizer or public orator, as political analyst, soldier or commentator on cultural trends, he was centrally involved in the world-historic upheavals of his time and foremost among the interpreters of their significance for socialism. Yet the fate of his achievement was dramatically discrepant from Lenin's. At the latter's death in 1924, his revolutionary authority was at its zenith. In the Soviet Union his writings were consecrated as repository of a finished dogma, 'Leninism'. Abroad, his thought was interpreted in way much closer to its own original spirit by Georg Lukcs, whose remarkable Lenin sought to elicit its unity and actuality for a later revolutionary generation. In polar contrast, factional assault, official disgrace and proscription, anathema and slander, were the conditions of Trotsky's later life and activity-until his assassination in 1940-and the unvarying background of any reaffirmation of his heritage for decades afterwards. Systematic publication of his writings was beyond the means of his political followers-whose internal discussions of his ides were supplemented only by the attentions of liberal (where not reactionary) academics. In the last decade, however, with the resurgence of the political formations associated with his name, Trotsky's political role and ideas have again become topics of vigorous debate among socialists. Ernest Mandel's book makes possible a necessary extension of this debate by providing the first ever synthetic account of the development of Trotsky's Marxism in its successive encounters with the key problems and crises of the epoch. The Russian revolution and the theme of uneven development, the construction of revolutionary parties, the struggle against fascism and imperialism at large, the nature of Stalinism and the prospect of a full socialist democracy, are all discussed in a compact study that makes a fitting and long overdue counterpart to Lukcs's historic study of fifty years ago.
Author | : Thomas M. Twiss |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 514 |
Release | : 2014-05-08 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9004269533 |
During the twentieth century the problem of post-revolutionary bureaucracy emerged as the most pressing theoretical and political concern confronting Marxism. No one contributed more to the discussion of this question than Leon Trotsky. In Trotsky and the Problem of Soviet Bureaucracy, Thomas M. Twiss traces the development of Trotsky’s thinking on this issue from the first years after the Bolshevik Revolution through the Moscow Trials of the 1930s. Throughout, he examines how Trotsky’s perception of events influenced his theoretical understanding of the problem, and how Trotsky’s theory reciprocally shaped his analysis of political developments. Additionally, Twiss notes both strengths and weaknesses of Trotsky’s theoretical perspective at each stage in its development.
Author | : Leon Trotsky |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 1966 |
Genre | : Communism |
ISBN | : |