Download or read book Trotsky and Fatalistic Marxism written by Geoff Hodgson and published by Spokesman Books. This book was released on 1975 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Trotsky s Marxism written by Duncan Hallas and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book In Defence of Marxism written by Leon Trotsky and published by Wellred Books. This book was released on 2020-10-01 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Trotsky s Marxism and Other Essays written by Duncan Hallas and published by Haymarket Press. This book was released on 2003-09-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Trotsky written by Ernest Mandel and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2017-11-10 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Leon Trotsky s Theory of Revolution written by John Molyneux and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book US Trotskyism 1928 1965 Part I Emergence written by Paul Le Blanc and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-11-20 with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Trotsky and the Problem of Soviet Bureaucracy written by Thomas M. Twiss and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2014-05-08 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Trotsky Trotskyism and the Transition to Socialism written by Peter Beilharz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-11-19 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Results and Prospects written by Leon Trotsky and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-11-22 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In response to criticism from Soviet politician Karl Radek, Leon Trotsky wrote the essay "The Permanent Revolution". Following Trotsky's expulsion from the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1927, The Left Opposition released the text in Russian. This was written following the death of Vladimir Lenin, which started a power struggle among the Communist Party of the Soviet Union's military, bureaucratic, and legislative branches. General Secretary Joseph Stalin created a political partnership with Trotsky opponents Lev Kamenev, Zinnoviev, and Nikolai Bukharin inside The Politburo and The Central Committee. Stalin's bloc followed an isolationist ideology known as Socialism in One Country, which prioritized economic growth above global upheaval.
Download or read book In Defence of Marxism written by Leon Trotsky and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Social and Political Thought of Leon Trotsky written by Baruch Knei-Paz and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first comprehensive exposition and critical analysis of Trotsky's social and political ideas. Eschewing the polemics which have characterized so much of the literature on Trotsky, but not abandoning the critical approach, the author shows that Trotsky's was the most far-reaching and original of theoretical attempts to deal with the relationship between Marxism and the Social-Democratic movement on the one hand and backwardness and the problems of pre-industrial or underdeveloped society on the other. The author also deals in detail with the problem of why Trotsky, once a violent opponent of Bolshevism, later became one of its most ardent supporters and, indeed, leaders. This book is, therefore, as much a study of the Russian Revolution as of the ideas of one man. [Back cover].
Download or read book The Heritage We Defend written by David North and published by Mehring Books. This book was released on 1988 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Indispensable reading for all those seeking a serious analysis of the central political problems confronting the working class in the latter half of the twentieth century and today. This Marxist polemic reviews the political and theoretical disputes inside the Fourth International, the international Marxist movement founded by Leon Trotsky in 1938, and gives a detailed objective assessment of the political contribution and evolution of James P. Cannon, Trotsky's most important cothinker in the US Based on extensive research, with detailed references to original documents and programmatic statements from the archives of the Trotskyist movement..
Download or read book 100 Years of Permanent Revolution written by Bill Dunn and published by Pluto Press (UK). This book was released on 2006-05-20 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leading Marxist thinkers re-evaluate Trotsky's key theories -- an ideal introduction for students.
Download or read book In Defense of Marxism against the Petty bourgeois Opposition written by Leon Trotsky and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Permanent Revolution Results and Prospects written by Leon Trotsky and published by Red Letter Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published: Moscow; New York: Progress Publishers/ Militant Publishing Association, 1931.
Download or read book In Defense of Marxism written by Leon Trotsky and published by New York : Pathfinder Press. This book was released on 1973 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
