Tag: Trotsky
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Leon Trotsky on organisational problems
The following are translations of excerpts from Trois points c’est tout by Fred Zeller (1912-2003). Zeller, who, at the time, was the secretary of the Seine (Paris) Young Socialists and a sympathiser of the Trotskyist movement in the mid-1930s, visited Trotsky in Norway at the end of October 1935. This was at the time when…
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Trotsky on the Communist Manifesto
Written in 1847 by Marx and Engels, the Communist Manifesto retains an astonishing vitality today. We publish below an article by Trotsky written in 1937, during the intense crisis of capitalism before WW2, on the occasion of the Manifesto’s 90th anniversary. Capitalism has again entered deep crisis. Today these texts have acquired more relevance than…
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Trotsky: Marxism in our time
Written in 1939 as an introduction to an abridgement of Karl Marx’s book Capital, Trotsky’s “Marxism in Our Time” offers a brilliant summary of Marx’s epoch-making discoveries. Using contemporary examples, Trotsky demonstrates how Marx’s analysis of capitalism in its youthful vigour is as valid now, in its period of terminal decline. Like today, when Trotsky…
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In memory of Leon Trotsky
On 21 August 1940 – 85 years ago today – Leon Trotsky died following an attack by a GPU assassin, on the orders of Stalin, the day before. This article by Alan Woods, commemorating Trotsky, was originally published in the year 2000. We share it today in memory of a revolutionary titan whose work and…