In Defense of Marxism: Against the petty-bourgeois opposition in the Socialist Workers Party

by Leon Trotsky

2021-01-10 10:33:33

Writing in 1939-40, Leon Trotsky replies to those in the revolutionary workers movement who were beating a retreat from defense of the degenerated Soviet workers state in face of looming imperialist assault. He describes how the rising pressures of b... Read more
Writing in 1939-40, Leon Trotsky replies to those in the revolutionary workers movement who were beating a retreat from defense of the degenerated Soviet workers state in face of looming imperialist assault. He describes how the rising pressures of bourgeois patriotism in the middle classes during the buildup toward U.S. entry into World War II were finding an echo even inside the communist movement. And he explains why only a party that fights to bring growing numbers of workers into its ranks and leadership can steer a steady revolutionary course.

Introductions by George Novack and Joseph Hansen, appendices by James Burnham: Science and Style: A Reply to Comrade Trotsky, Letter of Resignation from Workers Party. Notes, glossary, index. 
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File size8.5 X 5.5 X 0.68 in
Print pages372
PublisherPathfinder Press
Publication date January 1, 2004
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780873487894
Leon Trotsky (1879–1940) was a key leader of the Russian Revolution. Forced into exile in 1928, Trotsky devoted the rest of his life to fighting the degeneration of the revolution and rise of a new ...

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