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| | Neo Trotskyism aka Neoconservatism |
 | | Trotsky fought a lonely battle against Stalinism but his struggle was too often impaired by the abstraction of his political ideas. | | | When the Bolsheviks won a majority in the Petrograd soviet (council) of workers’ and soldiers’ deputies, Trotsky was elected its president and in that capacity headed the organisation of the insurrection of November 7 (October 25 in the tsarist calendar). | | | A leading figure in the Russian Social-Democratic Labour Party from the time of its second congress in 1903, after joining the Bolsheviks in July 1917, Trotsky rapidly became one of its central leaders. |
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http://www.softpanorama.org/Skeptics/neo_trotkyism.shtml
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| | Preface to Trotskyism or Leninism by Harpal Brar |
| | Lenin and Trotsky both fought against the imperialist war, and both attended the gathering of antiwar socialists held in Zimmerwald Switzerland in September 1915." (pp. | | | This talk about Trotsky's special role is a legend that is being spread by obliging 'Party' gossips. | | | "The Trotskyites are vigorously spreading rumours that Trotsky inspired and was the sole leader of the October uprising. |
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http://www.mltranslations.org/Britain/trotvslenin.htm
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| | History of British Trotskyism - Introduction |
| | Ted Grant became the chief theoretician of British Trotskyism during the Second World War, and was responsible for writing all the main political documents of the tendency. | | | He was also a member of the Executive Committee of the Fourth International, and had his expulsion ratified at the Third World Congress on the motion of Ernest Mandel (Germaine). | | | It constituted a decisive step forward in the development of Trotskyism in Britain. |
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http://www.marxist.com/hbt/introduction.html
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| | MBEAW: Trotsky & Trotskyism |
| | Daniels, Robert V. Trotsky, Stalin, and Socialism (Boulder: Westview, 1991). | | | Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin: The Intelligentsia and Power (NY: Columbia, 1990). | | | The Life and Death of Trotsky (NY: McGraw-Hill, 1977). |
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http://www.mbeaw.org/resources/left/trotskyism.php
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| | Afghanistan and Pseudo-Trotskyism |
| | In every case the Fourth International will know how to distinguish where and when the Red Army is acting solely as an instrument of the Bonapartist reaction and where it defends the social basis of the USSR. | | | Its majority, led by Ernest Mandel, attempted to mimic Trotsky's position on Poland as closely as possible. | | | His latter-day misinterpreters defend it in the name of moderation and stability. |
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http://www.lrp-cofi.org/PR/AfghanistanSV9.html
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| | ETOL: Books on Trotskyism |
| | Mandel, Ernest, Trotsky as Alternative, New York 1995. | | | Knei-Paz, Baruch, The Social and Political Thought of Leon Trotsky, O.U.P. Krasso, Nicholas, Trotsky: The Great Debate Renewed, St. Louis 1972. | | | Wolfenstein, E.V., The Revolutionary Personality: Lenin, Trotsky, Gandhi, Princeton 1967. |
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http://www.marxists.org.uk/history/etol/books
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| | ESR March 22, 2004 Neoconservatives and Trotskyism - Page 2 |
| | See Leon Trotsky, Writings: 1939-40 (New York: Pathfinder, 1973), pp.142-143. | | | 2 Jeet Heer, "Trotsky's Ghost Wandering the White House", National Post, June 7, 2003; Jim Lobe, "What is a neo-conservative anyway?", Asia Times Online, August 13, 2003, http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Front_Page/EH13Aa01.html, (August 14, 2003). | | | In his book, Dorrien argues for the centrality of James Burnham, who in the 1930s was a leading intellectual and leader of the American Trotskyists, as an ideological precursor of the neoconservatives. |
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http://www.enterstageright.com/archive/articles/0304/0304neocontrotp2.htm
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| | ISR issue 21 Trotskyism reassessed |
| | Traditional Trotskyism, that of Trotsky himself, became partially irrelevant in the same way that Lenin& "democratic dictatorship of the proletariat and peasantry" became irrelevant in 1917. | | | Second of all, planning is not a criterion for judging the nature of the state because the question is who is being planned and who is doing the planning…. | | | Some of Trotsky’s own formulations (though not his practice) lent some color to this deviation. |
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http://www.isreview.org/issues/21/trotskyism_reassessed.shtml
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| | Trotskyism -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | After Lenin's death he fell out with Stalin. | | | Trotsky, owing to his record and his charismatic qualities, was the obvious candidate in the eyes of the party rank and file, but jealousy among his colleagues on the Politburo prompted them to combine against him. | | | When Lenin was stricken with his first cerebral hemorrhage in May 1922, the question of eventual succession to the leadership of Russia became urgent. |
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http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9073512
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| | Global DOCUMENT index |
| | The British Cabinet discusses the Trotskyists &; secret wartime Cabinet report (with 2 appendices), introduced by Ted Crawford | | | The Socialist Opposition to the American Bourgeoisie, by James P. Cannon, 1951, from Trotskyism in the United States, Paul Le Blanc. | | | The Case of Leon Trotsky: Report of Hearings on the Charges Made Against Him in the Moscow Trials – Held April 10 to 17, 1937, John Dewey, Chairman. |
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http://www.marxists.org.uk/history/etol/document
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| | Trotskyism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Trotsky considered himself a Bolshevik-Leninist, arguing for the establishment of a vanguard party. | | | Before his assassination, however, in 1938, Trotsky and the organisations that supported his outlook established the Fourth International. | | | Trotsky later developed the theory that the Russian workers' state had become a "bureaucratically degenerated workers' state". |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trotskyism
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| | Trotskyism |
| | Trotsky, The Workers' State, Thermidor and Bonapartism, http://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/works/1935/1935-bon.htm | | | Trotsky argued that this bureaucracy was not a ruling class. | | | This would have serious consequences - on both the Trotskyist movement's theory and practice - later on. |
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http://www.geocities.com/anita_job/trotskyism.html
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| | Review of Wald-LeBlanc book on American Trotskyism (by L. Proyect) |
| | Review of Alan Wald and Paul LeBlanc's "Trotskyism in the United States" | | | "Leninism in the United States and the Decline of American Trotskyism" by Paul Le Blanc defends the position that the noble "Cannon Tradition" was eroded by Jack Barnes. | | | In the essay "Trotskyism in the United States: The First Fifty Years", Le Blanc provides an overview of the history of the SWP until the early 1980s, its heroic period according to him. |
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http://www.columbia.edu/~lnp3/mydocs/american_left/leblanc_wald_review.htm
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| | Oliver Kamm: Trotsky, Trotskyism and the Jews |
| | After 1967, Trotskyism typically denounced the Jewish state as racist, colonialist and oppressive, and attacked the very notion of Jewish national claims. | | | It's not altogether surprising that Trotsky was blind to the anti-Semitism of Stalin because it wasn't really visible until long after Trotsky died (the campaign against Jewish communist leaders in the late 1940s and early 1950s and the "doctors' plot" farrago that would have ended in a pogrom had Stalin not died). | | | For example, the SWP's house academic, Professor Alex Callinicos of York University, maintains that Israel is a 'racist expansionist state' and calls for its destruction under the guise of a venerable and instantly recognisable euphemism: |
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http://oliverkamm.typepad.com/blog/2003/09/trotsky_trotsky.html
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| | Amazon.com: The History of American Trotskyism: Report of a Participant: Books: James P. Cannon |
| | A founding leader of the Socialist Workers Party, Cannon served as SWP national secretary until 1953, and was national chairman emeritus at his death in 1974. | | | The History Of American Trotskyism: 1928 To 1938 is Cannon's eye-witness story of a decade of effort to build a viable third party in the United States modeled on the Bolshevik leadership of the Russian revolution. | | | The History Of American Trotskyism is instructive reading for anyone interested in today's national political dialogues regarding the development of third parties, as well as those seeking a clearer history of the events and personalities of those early years of the American communist political movement. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0873488148?v=glance
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| | Socialism: Theory and Practice - Trotskyism |
| | Trotsky was a realist and felt that socialism needed to be advanced in new ways since ‘Marxism had failed in the First International and eventually devolved into Bolshevism, which led into his hated Stalinism’ (5). | | | An agent of Stalin assassinated Trotsky in 1940; his dream of a second proletarian revolution against Stalin was still unfulfilled. | | | Most Russian Trotskyites were thrown out of the USSR or killed during Stalin’s many purges but still hoped to one day return to reform the USSR that they now viewed as a ‘deformed workers’ state’. |
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http://www.the-wood.org/socialism/trotskyism.htm
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| | Trotskyism |
| | This was in direct opposition to the Stalinist view that socialism should be built and consolidated within individual countries. | | | An advocate of world revolution, as opposed to Stalin& ‘socialism in one country,’ Trotsky was exiled by Stalin in 1929 and was murdered in Mexico in 1940. | | | Trotsky came to prominence as one of the main organizers of the October Revolution of 1917. |
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http://www.tiscali.co.uk/reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0019587.html
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| | The Lubitz TrotskyanaNet - Homepage - Welcome! |
| | TrotskyanaNet went online on August 21, 2004, just 64 years after Trotsky’s assassination, and some 125 years after his birth. | | | biographical essays on the Trotsky sculptors Duncan Ferguson and Clare Sheridan | | | a feature about one of Trotsky’s most eminent editorial endeavours during his final exile — the Biulleten’ Oppozitsii, being one of the main sources with regard to Trotsky research. |
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http://www.trotskyana.net
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| | Trotskyism |
| | Trotsky argued that Stalinism represented a conservative betrayal of the Russian Revolution that Lenin and he had led in October 1917, a revolution based on the idea that socialism could only come from below, through the independent activity of the working class, and depended on the global overthrow of capitalism. | | | The fiftieth anniversary of his death takes place in the aftermath of a wave of popular revolutions that overturned the regimes established by Stalin in Eastern Europe. | | | Alex Callinicos traces the intellectual history of this movement, and then exploring the crisis into which the Trotskyist Fourth International was thrown at the end of the Second World War, when its founder’s predictions were apparently refuted by the strength and stability of both Western capitalism and Stalinism. |
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http://www.upress.umn.edu/Books/C/callinicos_trotskyism.html
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| | Reflections on the decline of American Trotskyism |
| | All of the sectarian baggage the SWP had been carrying since the death of Trotsky, would have been discarded. | | | I remember the 1976 election campaign was absolutely on pitch in terms of what was happening in the country and it got a very good response, qualitatively superior to those that came before, despite it being a period of relatively little mass movement activity. | | | Whatever your criticisms may be, Marcy succeeded where Cochran failed, and his followers still are a central force in the mass movement. |
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http://www.marxmail.org/archives/July99/reflections_on_the_decline_of_am.htm
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| | Thompson + Lewis: Revolution Unfinished? (1977) |
| | This pamphlet is a spirit of debate that we hope can lead to a long term process of unity. | | | Transcribed and marked up by Einde O’Callaghan for the Encyclopaedia of Trotskyism On-Line (ETOL). | | | Trotsky and the degeneration of the Russian Revolution |
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http://marxists.anu.edu.au/history/etol/critiques/bigflame
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| | Ho: A Debate Between Trotskyism and Centrism |
| | This clarification between the program of Trotskyism and centrism is done as a small but necessary facet of the overall revolutionary struggle. | | | Yet whilst the best militants in the reformist camp move to the left to Maoism and to Trotskyism, CMI advocate that they must not do so and that they must return to a position of support of the bourgeois revolution and continue to suffer the stranglehold of the BCN casteists. | | | If Prachandra can be convinced of a consistent revolutionary path by Trotskyism then we will have a victory in the cities as well as the country – we would have our revolution. |
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http://www.workersaction.org/Ho.html
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| | The Old Man |
| | I think of them at the end, Keynes with his peerage, Trotsky with an icepick in his skull. | | | The one is of J. Keynes, the other of Leon Trotsky. | | | But the reissue of a majestic biography reveals him as he always was—a prophetic moralist |
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http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/prem/200407/hitchens
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| | History of British Trotskyism Postcript [Section 1] |
| | They were chasing a phantom left wing that didn't exist, while hiding their "Trotskyism" and dressing themselves in the clothes of left reformism. | | | The Healyites - as Ted predicted - "joined the Labour Party at the wrong time, and would inevitably leave the Labour Party at the wrong time." Within the Labour Party, the Healy group had no idea of how to work and was simply pursuing an opportunist policy. | | | Even worse, they had the false idea of "building the left" in alliance with a layer of the left reformists. |
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http://www.marxist.com/hbt/p-1.html
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| | REDS - Die Roten: Trotskyism |
| | Dave Renton: Bread and Freedom – British Soldiers and Egyptian Trotskyism | | | Reg Groves: The Balham Group – How British Trotskyism Began |
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http://www.marxists.de/trotism
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