Trotsky for beginners

Name: Trotsky for beginners
ISBN: 9780394738857

Ali, Tariq

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Tariq Ali focuses almost exclusively on Trotsky's political life, leaving his personal life and even his military career during the civil war as no more than an afterthought. The aim of this political biography is to show that, for the most part, Trotsky and Lenin had similar theories of revolution, differing occasionally but generally converging in the end. Trotsky was politically aggressive, meaning he believed that therevolutionary struggle must be pushed aggressively forward, and that compromise with the bourgeoisie, whether revolutionary or reformist, must be avoided whenever possible, in favor of working class revolution. He also believed in the necessity of democratic action: open and unconstrained debate prior to making decisions, combined with party discipline in carrying out the agreed plan. In this, he and Lenin were of the same mind, until the necessities of war made democratic practice untenable. In the aftermath, though, Trotsky believed that democracy was essential, but by then it was too late: Stalin had consolidated power, and democracy became merely a means of identifying enemies to be liquidated.

种类:

Biography & Autobiography - Historical

年:

2017

语言:

english

ISBN 10:

0394738853

ISBN 13:

9780394738857

文件:

PDF, 33.30 MB