Download or read book Trotskyism in the United States written by Paul Le Blanc and published by Haymarket Books. This book was released on 2016-12-01 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the new edition of this definitive work on the history of the revolutionary socialist current in the United States that came to be identified as "American Trotskyism," Paul Le Blanc offers fresh reflections on this history for scholars and activists in the twenty-first century. Includes a preface written especially for the new edition of this distinctive work. Paul Le Blanc is a professor of History at La Roche College and author of Choice Award–winning book A Freedom Budget for All Americans.
Download or read book U S Trotskyism 1928 1965 Part III Resurgence written by Paul Le Blanc and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-12-24 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This last of three documentary volumes, U.S. Trotskyism 1928-1965. Part III: Resurgence, spans 1954 to 1965, and includes 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 s Theory of Permanent Revolution written by Doug Lorimer and published by Resistance Books. This book was released on 1998 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book On Trotskyism written by Kostas Mavrakis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-02-04 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trotsky--brilliant publicist, enthusiastic speaker, organizer of the Red Army, eminent member of the Bolshevik Party during the first years of the Russian Revolution--has often been depicted as a romantic figure by biographers. Kostas Mavrakis does not see him in this light. Mavrakis submits Trotsky, his thought and work to a severe but fair critical examination. Among the issues reassessed by this controversial scholar are Trotsky's incapacity for concrete analysis, the 'economism' he shares with Stalin, his concepts of 'permanent revoluation' as compared with those of Lenin and Mao, his views and those of Stalin, on the Chinese Revolution, the fundamental traits of Trotskyism and of the different trotskyist organizations.
Download or read book Trotsky Trotskyism and the Transition to Socialism written by Peter Beilharz and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1987 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written from a critical socialist standpoint, this book provides an analysis of Trotskyism which argues that it is increasingly irrelevant as a means of achieving socialism.
Download or read book The Revolution Betrayed written by Leon Trotsky and published by Wellred Books. This book was released on 2015-10-01 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Revolution Betrayed is one of the most important Marxist texts of all time. It is the only serious Marxist analysis of what happened to the Russian Revolution after the death of Lenin. In this book, Trotsky provided a brilliant and profound analysis of Stalinism, which has never been improved upon, let alone superseded. With a delay of 60 years, it was completely vindicated by history. Without a thorough knowledge of this work, it is impossible to understand the reasons for the collapse of the Soviet Union and the events since then in Russia and on a world scale. This remarkable work predicted the fate of the USSR down to the last detail. In the period of so-called market reform, Russia experienced the biggest collapse in world economic history. Just in the first five years alone, the economy contracted by a staggering sixty percent. Such a drop is unprecedented in economic history. It was like a catastrophic defeat in war. The collapse of the USSR has led to social disintegration. The elements of barbarism have all reappeared. Poverty, beggary, drunkenness, drug addiction, prostitution, crime, epidemics have spread to an unparalleled degree. Sections of the youth are affected by lumpenisation. At the same time, the mafia capitalists have accrued massive wealth by plundering the former nationalised industries as well as the rich sources of oil and other resources. The bureaucratic degeneration of the Soviet Union and its eventual fall must be carefully studied, if we are to be able to answer the questions of the workers and youth. And the best explanation that can be found is in the pages of this wonderful classic of Marxism. Only the restoration of a nationalised planned economy can create the conditions for a revival of Russia’s colossal productive potential. But this cannot mean a return to the old Stalinist regime. Only a regime of real workers’ democracy, along the lines of October 1917, can provide Russia with a way out of the present impasse. As Trotsky points out in a most graphic and profound passage from The Revolution Betrayed, a nationalised planned economy needs democracy as the human body needs oxygen.
Download or read book Leon Trotsky and the Politics of Economic Isolation written by Richard B. Day and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1973 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A highly original and controversial examination of events in Soviet Russia from 1917 to 1927 in which Professor Day challenges both the standard Trotskyite and Stalinist interpretations of the period. At the same time he rejects the traditional emphasis on Trotsky's concept of Permanent Revolution and argues that a Marxist theorist is essential. Professor Day concentrates upon the economic implications of revolutionary Russia's isolation from Europe. How to build socialism - in a backward, war-ravaged society, without aid from the West: this problem lay behind many of the most important political conflicts of Soviet Russia's formative years.
Download or read book International Trotskyism 1929 1985 written by Robert Jackson Alexander and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 1146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a work of encyclopedic scope, International Trotskyism, 1929-1985 is sure to become the definitive reference work on a movement that has had a significant impact on the political culture of countries in every part of the world for more than half a century. Renowned scholar Robert J. Alexander has amassed, from disparate sources, an unprecedented amount of primary and secondary material to provide a documentary history of the origins, development, and nature of the Trotskyist movement around the world. Drawing on interviews and correspondence with Trotskyists, newspaper reports and pamphlets, historical writings including the annotated writings of Trotsky in both English and French, historical memoirs of Trotskyist leaders, and documents of the Fourth International, Alexander recounts the history of the movement since Trotsky's exile from the Soviet Union in 1929. Organized alphabetically in a double-column, country-by-country format this book charts the formation and growth of Trotskyism in more than sixty-five countries, providing biographic information about its most influential leaders, detailed accounts of Trotsky's personal involvement in the development of the movement in each country, and thorough reports of its various factions and splits. Multiple chapters are reserved for countries where the movement was more active or fully developed and various chapters are organized around crucial thematic issues, such as the Fourth International. The chapters are followed by extensive name, organization, publication, and subject indexes, which provide optimal access to the wealth of information contained in the main body of the work.
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 U S Trotskyism 1928 1965 Part II Endurance written by Paul Le Blanc and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-11-26 with total page 844 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second of three documentary volumes U.S. Trotskyism 1928-1965. Part II: Endurance, spans 1941 to 1956, 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 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 Trotskyism written by Fouad Sabry and published by One Billion Knowledgeable. This book was released on 2024-08-14 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the essence of Trotskyism with "Trotskyism," a key addition to the Political Science series. This book offers a comprehensive look into Trotskyism's revolutionary ideas, historical significance, and current relevance. Ideal for scholars, students, and those intrigued by this powerful ideology, it delivers critical insights into Trotskyism’s influence on political thought. 1-Trotskyism: Core principles and revolutionary critiques of traditional Marxism. 2-Leon Trotsky: Trotsky’s life, role in the Russian Revolution, and Marxist theories. 3-Leninism: Comparisons between Leninism and Trotskyism. 4-Fourth International: Trotsky’s global socialist revolution goals. 5-Bolshevism: Trotsky's support and criticism of Bolshevik strategies. 6-Revolutionary Socialist League (U.S.): The impact of American Trotskyism on U.S. politics. 7-Communism: Trotskyism within the broader revolutionary context. 8-Ideology of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union: Trotskyism vs. Soviet ideology. 9-Marxist Schools of Thought: Trotskyism’s interactions with various Marxist theories. 10-Third Camp: The alternative to capitalism and Stalinism in Trotskyist thought. 11-State Socialism: Trotskyism’s critique and vision for democratic socialism. 12-Revolutionary Socialism: The principles and implications of Trotsky’s socialism. 13-Degenerated Workers' State: Trotskyist critique of Stalinist regimes. 14-Dictatorship of the Proletariat: Trotsky’s views on advancing socialism. 15-Vanguardism: Impact of Trotskyist vanguardism on revolutionary strategy. 16-Socialism in One Country: Trotsky’s opposition to Stalin’s policies. 17-Socialist State: Trotsky’s vision of a socialist state. 18-United Front: The united front tactic in Trotskyist alliances. 19-Proletarian Internationalism: The centrality of internationalism in Trotskyism. 20-Permanent Revolution: The significance of Trotsky’s permanent revolution theory. 21-Foundations of Leninism: How Leninism influenced Trotsky’s theories. This book is an invaluable resource for understanding Trotskyism and its profound impact on revolutionary politics.
Download or read book Trotskyism written by Alex Callinicos and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paper reprint. First published in hardcover in 1987, this volume comprises the best of Gibson's work throughout his 30 year career. 10.5x15 Callinicos (politics, U. of York, UK) traces the intellectual history of the movement, first examining its origins in Trotsky's own thought, and then exploring the crisis into which the Trotskyist Fourth International was thrown at the end of WWII, when its founder's predictions were apparently refuted by the strength and stability of both Western capitalism and Stalinism. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book Trotsky written by Robert Service and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This illuminating portrait of Leon Trotsky sets the record straight on the common misconceptions about the man and his legacy. Completing his masterful trilogy on the founding figures of the Soviet Union, Service delivers an authoritative biography.
Download or read book Leninism or trotskyism written by G. E. Zinoviev and published by Рипол Классик. This book was released on 1925 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 Leon Trotsky written by Joshua Rubenstein and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2011-10-15 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born Lev Davidovich Bronstein in southern Ukraine, Trotsky was both a world-class intellectual and a man capable of the most narrow-minded ideological dogmatism. He was an effective military strategist and an adept diplomat, who staked the fate of the Bolshevik revolution on the meager foundation of a Europe-wide Communist upheaval. He was a master politician who played his cards badly in the momentous struggle for power against Stalin in the 1920s. And he was an assimilated, indifferent Jew who was among the first to foresee that Hitler's triumph would mean disaster for his fellow European Jews, and that Stalin would attempt to forge an alliance with Hitler if Soviet overtures to the Western democracies failed. Here, Trotsky emerges as a brilliant and brilliantly flawed man. Rubenstein offers us a Trotsky who is mentally acute and impatient with others, one of the finest students of contemporary politics who refused to engage in the nitty-gritty of party organization in the 1920s, when Stalin was maneuvering, inexorably, toward Trotsky's own political oblivion. As Joshua Rubenstein writes in his preface, "Leon Trotsky haunts our historical memory. A preeminent revolutionary figure and a masterful writer, Trotsky led an upheaval that helped to define the contours of twentieth-century politics." In this lucid and judicious evocation of Trotsky's life, Joshua Rubenstein gives us an interpretation for the twenty-first century.
