In Defence of Marxism

In Defence of Marxism

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Writing in 1939-40, Leon Trotsky replies to those in the revolutionary workers movement who were beating a retreat from defense of the Soviet Union in face of looming imperialist assault. He describes how the rising pressures of bourgeois patriotism in the middle classes during Washington’s buildup to enter the spreading imperialist war in Europe 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.

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This book is the record of Trotsky’s struggle against the petit-bourgeois opposition in the Socialist Workers’ Party (USA) in 1939. It concerns the class nature of the Soviet state and the fundamentals of Marxism.

In this last major struggle of Trotsky’s life, he carries forward the fight for Bolshevism in the Fourth International against the revisionist representatives of bourgeois class interests. His defence of dialectical materialism against the pragmatist outlook of the American radical intelligentsia is an indispensable part of the heritage of Trotskyism, the Marxism of today.

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Weight 332 g
Dimensions 21 × 14 × 2 cm