Author: | Sean Matgamna | ISBN: | 9781909639331 |
Publisher: | Workers' Liberty | Publication: | December 18, 2015 |
Imprint: | Language: | English |
Author: | Sean Matgamna |
ISBN: | 9781909639331 |
Publisher: | Workers' Liberty |
Publication: | December 18, 2015 |
Imprint: | |
Language: | English |
This book traces the decisive political divisions within the broadly-defined Trotskyist movement by presenting key texts from both sides of the political debate as it happened. The book's overall thesis, argued in the introduction to the printed edition, which is separately published as an ebook, is that by the late 1940s there were two Trotskyisms. They had separated, fundamentally, through their different responses to events neither "side" expected: the transition of the Stalinist USSR from unstable, beleaguered semi-outlaw state to a continent-bestriding world power.
This book traces the decisive political divisions within the broadly-defined Trotskyist movement by presenting key texts from both sides of the political debate as it happened. The book's overall thesis, argued in the introduction to the printed edition, which is separately published as an ebook, is that by the late 1940s there were two Trotskyisms. They had separated, fundamentally, through their different responses to events neither "side" expected: the transition of the Stalinist USSR from unstable, beleaguered semi-outlaw state to a continent-bestriding world power.