Lenin certainly thought defeatism or defencism in an imperialist war was a defining question – even a split issue. But, I did have time to research your website and found it quite illuminating and correct. Indeed, he says that Trotsky’s struggle “helped preserve and expand on the Marxist tradition – tradition meaning the ideas, strategy, and tactics that guide the actions of revolutionary socialists… That is above all else Trotskyism’s enduring value.”. Trotsky--brilliant publicist, enthusiastic speaker, organizer of the Red Army, eminent member of the Bolshevik Party during the first years of the Russian Revolution--has often been depicted as a romantic figure by biographers.Kostas Mavrakis does not see him in this light. Trotskyism was to become the primary theoretical target of Stalinism Truly baffling…, **** The ones I have had contact with — and there have been several — have been strongly anti-Trotsky. That represents progress for American socialism in the highest degree, for in the last analysis the programme decides everything. There isn’t much left of WW in LA since most of them left to form PSL. In fact it is no wonder that Pham Binh acknowledges Duncan Hallas (SWP ideologue) as the originator of many of his criticisms. Clearly what Cannon is saying is that for the revolutionary organisation its strategy for taking power (its programme) – whether it is adequate to the task or not – will indeed decide everything. I find it creepy at best that you would in anyway support this kind of brutal repression, torture and mass murder even if in the guise of rooting out all opposition. In his speech titled “On Lenin’s Final Struggle against Bureaucratization” He quotes Lenin saying, “Vladimir Ilyich writes about our state machine that it is neither more nor less than very similar to the Tsarist state machine, anointed, as they say, colored in the Soviet style, but if you examine it, it is the same old bureaucratic machine.” Trotsky hoped and saw as Lenin did that the Party itself could hold off this bureaucratization, and develop a new state machinery in coordination with the Soviets which would fed information for the formulation of the plan after the end of the NEP. In what context does Cannon say that “in the last analysis the programme decides everything”? Criticism of the post-1924 leadership of the Soviet Union, analysis of its features; after 1933 also support for political revolution in the Soviet Union and in what Trotskyists term the deformed workers' states. The resolutions But because the POUM was a centrist party – with a courageous, subjectively revolutionary membership – the Stalinists and the bourgeois parties were determined to crush it, and they did. I know, of course, that they have a Trotskyist history. That leads me to think that the rank and file may not have a uniformly strong understanding of Trotsky’s historical role. Instead it was a way for Stalin himself to consolidate power and use it for his own purposes, not the people or the Soviets as originally intended. It was named for its ideologist and leader, L. D. Trotsky (real surname Bronshtein, 1879–1940). Common sense military strategy says that first accumulate the conquered area and then make a stronghold there and advance for next front. One can say that that is hardly worse than the so-called “communists” of the Gus Hall outright modern revisionist type and that may be true but it is merely true. Truly baffling… they did not isolate themselves – but they did not abandon their criticism of the POUM. Stalin took the party from a revolutionary organization to a bureaucratic one. Criticism of Trotskyism in favour of ML Question I found this website and it contains a lot of quotations from Lenin, Stalin, and Trotsky trying to show that ML is superior to Trotskyism. In the USA the three most serious diseases confronted by Communists are Modern Revisionism, Trotskyism and Anarchism. The Trotskyist Opposition Before and Now I. These replaced (not formally but actually) the sections of the 1903 programme that were based on the Russian Revolution being a bourgeois revolution, they inserted the lessons of 1905 and February 1917: the struggle for power centred on a republic of workers soviets not a democratic republic, the smashing of the capitalist state, the spreading of the revolution internationally in the context of imperialist war, the armed insurrection, etc. The question of Trotsky is not merely a historical question. This includes a critique of Trotskyism, asserting that its failure to create mass parties or lead revolutions is primarily due to the elevation of programme above all else. Nin’s entry into the Catalan Popular Front involved him inthe task of holding back the workers’ revolution to bourgeois limits. Similarly the Bolivian Trotskyists of the POR played a leading part in founding the powerful miners’ union and COB trade union centre in 1946 – drafting its programme, the Pulacayo Theses. I think if they were really very Trotskyist, that would be very unlikely for them. If it is weak or false then the working class will suffer defeat. But Trotskyism is a serious disease. Leaving aside for the moment the fact that the SWP were part of the Fourth International, which had had 10,000 members in the Soviet Gulag fighting by hunger strikes the totalitarian regime of Stalin, and that the debate occurred at the onset of a world war, in which the side that the working class should take was supremely relevant to US workers, this shows Pham Binh’s extreme national centeredness. Andy Yorke Wed, 27/06/2012 - 15:44. Many supplementary texts are provided as well. It can only happen if a revolutionary party has already created deep roots in the class. Of course, nothing is politically monolithic, and any reasonably sizable organization has a political process and political struggle going on within it. Trotsky, although incorrect on the peasant question, did recognize the potential devastating effect of Stalin’s brutal rule. The creative labour of the French Revolution is well known — it abolished feudalism and the monarchy. Mine has been limited to those in Los Angeles with whom I have had contact. Do not these two phenomena look very, very similar? Let em say that I do agree with your critique of the modern movement. There is no substitute for understanding history and for that reason I explained the history of Trotsky et al in those chapters 13 through 16 of our book The ABC’s of Communism, Bolshevism 2012 (http://www.abcsofcommunism.info. When the Bay of Pigs was taking place, the gusanos kept urging Kennedy to send in U.S. troops in addition to the mercenaries. Pham Binh is to be congratulated for taking the toughest example that he could come up with for his own argument, but it actually destroys rather than reinforces his position. Try again later. Trotskyists are criticalof Stalinismas they oppose Joseph Stalin's theory of socialism in one countryin favor of Trotsky's theory of permanent revolution. The purges were certainly an overreaction to the threat in many respects, but they were an error of the left, not the right. “Our international work began only in 1929 – and not on virgin territory, but on territory saturated with old and powerful organisations, and with new, confused, and often treacherous organisations that claimed adherence to our principles… The real issue is the question of programme, of the historical orientation of the tendency. However, throughout the 1950s the practice of the LSSP was increasingly limited to elections and trade unionism. In short they re-elaborated the Bolshevik programme, which in any case had been added to by programmatic resolutions of the congresses in 1905, 1906, 1907 and 1912. Search google for his “The Fewer Outsiders the Better” article. And I agree with you that Stalin’s purges were against all opposition, but not opposition to the Soviets for which they had belonged, but to the Stalinist faction of the Party. Trotskyism has been criticised from various directions. “The SWP’s 1939-40 debate over whether or not to defend the Soviet Union would have been relevant and important if SWP members were organising in the Soviet Union and had to figure out what to do with Stalin’s police state on the one side and the prospect of Nazi invasion and occupation on the other, a daunting challenge to say the least. That leaves the peasant question. Vladimir Lenin and Trotsky were close both ideologically and personally during the Russian Revolution and its … I would love to hear your comments. From Leninism to Trotskyism VII. In the midst of a new historic crisis of capitalism, revolutionaries would do well to heed this advice, rather than uncritically support parties like Syriza because they have enough support to be “decisive”. A Critic of Trotskyism. It has been incorporated into the Marxist-Leninist Study Guide as well. There are significant political reasons that Trotskyism has failed to ever lead a successful revolution. Well done on that useful collection comrades. It was a struggle to defend the clean banner of Lenin against the growing bureaucratic reaction within the Soviet state and party. Rather the party, like the Bolsheviks in 1917, turns its key elements into popular slogans: “all power to the soviets”, “Bread peace and land”, “Workers control of production”, etc. Are these criticisms valid? **** ( Log Out /  The Opposition’s “Platform” III. I found this website and it contains a lot of quotations from Lenin, Stalin, and Trotsky trying to show that ML is superior to Trotskyism. Although wrong on the peasant question, this is where Trotsky was correct. The African American Marxist–Leninist Harry Haywood, who spent much time in the Soviet Union during the 1920s and 1930s, stated that although he had been somewhat interested in Trotsky’s ideas when he was youn… Trotskyism is as much destructive and damaging as Capitalism is. that Trotskyism is an anti-Marxist, opportunist trend, show its subversive activities against the Communist Party and expose its ties with the opportunist leaders of the Second International and with revisionist, anti-Soviet trends and groups in the workers’ parties of different countries. Change ), You are commenting using your Facebook account. Surely the question of whether you adopt a defencist or a neutral position in a war is of some importance for a political organisation? Furthermore, Trotskyism is a criticism of Marxism-Leninism, it is a fundamental characteristic of Trotskyism as such. What it does not excuse is continued sectarianism in the 1970s and 1980s or today. Trotskyists also criticize the bureaucracythat developed in the Soviet Union under Stalin. So… I am sure neither party is perfect, but it seems to me that both of them have largely, if not completely, shucked off their Trotskyist past. ****. Although Interesting I am baffled by the Stalinism rampant on this site, and especially in this section. Some Marxists who oppose Trotskyism regard it as being in the service of the right because, in their view, it is not an effective route to socialism. Change ), You are commenting using your Twitter account. However, they seem to me much more focused on Socialist Worker and their monthly rather than building revolution. Post was not sent - check your email addresses! When opposed to Stalinism, Trotskyists place emphasis in their objective of eliminating Stalinist bureaucratic rule; in opposition to Social Democracy, Trotskyists advance the cause of militant workers revolution. As Karl Marx said, “So long as the sects are (historically) justified, the working class is not yet ripe for an independent historic movement.”(Marx to Bolte Nov 1871) The tying of the working class to the bourgeoisie, whether through the US Democrats, the Peronists, European social democracy or Anglo-Saxon Labourism, explains in large measure the sect like existence of all subjectively revolutionary trends. “The entire edifice of Leninism at the present time is built on lies and falsification and bears within itself the poisonous elements of its own decay” – Leon Trotsky, letter to Chkheidze, 1913. The POR lacked neither influence nor revolutionary experience. An analysis of the 1930s in the Soviet Union which sees the problems as arising from bureaucracy is, I think, not very convincing. ( Log Out /  (18)(19) (20) This isn’t too say that there are not legitimate criticisms to be made of the communist tradition. But in both cases they have very little grasp of theory among members and apparently just hang onto whatever they have thought over the years which certainly includes the idea that Trotsky was good and Stalin bad – not that this constitutes much of a grasp of history let alone theory and they are not open to discussing anything with persons such as myself so I guess that pretty much leaves it up to observers. This is a very minor criticism, not least because in the face of continuous recycling of the old myths by today’s Trotskyites the author’s arguments still hold true. The terrorist nature of Trotskyism in the Soviet Union, and its subsequent rout culminating in the Moscow Trials, is … ... Generally, folk are easy prey for the cult of martyrs, which disables them from studied criticism of ideas and deeds. Treating the programme as primary instead of secondary and subordinate to the material, living movement of working people led to issues that have plagued the Trotskyist movement from its inception until today.”. There is a tendency among people who recognize the mistakes of the Soviet Union or the Comintern to assume that, if Stalin was wrong, Trotsky was therefore right. Trotskyism definition, the form of Communism advocated by Leon Trotsky, based on an immediate, worldwide revolution by the proletariat. It’s time for a hard line here, whatever that turns out to be. This assumption of course doesn’t hold up to scrutiny. This can be seen, for example, in the tendency of the Spartacists, despite all their criticisms of the trade union bureaucrats, to regard them as the natural leaders … The Unfinished Revolution,” the account of the International Brigade soldier and scholar of the Spanish Civil War Arthur Landis. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Trotskyism has historically represented a blindness to the depth and danger of revisionism, which lead Trotsky and leads modern Trotskyists to favor unprincipled unity between revolutionaries and reformists. Clearly some other factor is at work condemning groups to marginality besides a supposed obsession with programme or too strict a “democratic centralist regime” – which Pham Binh adds later on as a cause of the Trotskyists’ impotence. Critics have argued that since the founders of neo-conservatism included ex-Trotskyists, Trotskyist traits continue to characterize neo-conservative ideologies and practices. Although, I didn’t think I would live to see the class struggle reach its contemporary position so maybe I will live to see the inevitable civil war. The theoretical sources of Trotskyism are mechanical materialism in philosophy and voluntarism and schematism in … Recently released to the internet is “Spain! Far from overestimating programme they ignored it. Perhaps you should put up there Fidel’s speech to the closing session of the tricontinental in 1966, where he chides the Trotskyists thoroughly – as there are some thoroughly unscrupulous Trots who try and claim socialist Cuba for their own accord – http://lanic.utexas.edu/la/cb/cuba/castro/1966/19660216. Trotskyism allegation. But since all his tactics in the 1930s were designed to help his followers gain roots in the working class, the charge that Trotsky thought the correct programme alone was enough to lead revolutions to victory falls to the ground. What Trotsky has proposed can be called as “overnight worldwide revolution”. It is split into two great camps. Since the 1960s they have scarcely mentioned programme. In contrast, to my understanding neither the WWP nor the PSL has launched any major public criticism of any leading world revolutionary in at least the last twenty years. But demarcation on the question of the Marxist programme must precede unity… in order for that unity to be honest and long lasting.”. It’s an ideology that’s created lot’s of division in Marxism just like Capitalism has creation lot’s of division in society. In his short biography of Leon Trotsky, Paul Le Blanc, a longtime scholar and Trotskyist activist, emphasizes “the aspects of unoriginality in Trotsky’s thought,” notably, but not exclusively, his “vaunted theory of permanent revolution, his analysis of Stalinism, [and] his prescriptions for defeating Hitler.”. Though becoming mass parties was their overriding objective, their adaptation to Bevanism in Britain, to Stalinism in France and Italy, to Maoism in Asia, and to Peronism, Castroism or Guevarism in Latin America brought them no breakthroughs. The main texts here are (1) M.J. Olgin’s outstanding study of Trotskyism which deals well with the political differences between Bolshevism and Trotskyism, (2) an article by Nadezhda Krupskaya (the wife of Lenin) on Trotsky’s distortions of the history of the October Revolution, and (3) an eyewitness account by Harry Haywood, the great African American Communist leader, of Trotsky’s ideological defeat by Stalin. It is impossible to estimate the damage caused to the international communist movement by that perfidious caitiff called Trotsky. If indeed these “ideas, strategy and tactics” (otherwise known as a programme) are of “enduring value” one wonders why Pham Binh – whose central theme is the Trotskyists’ obsession with programme – does not explain how what was so valuable before 1940 became worthless and dangerous thereafter. The SWP (which shook off their Trotskist past and rejected permanent revolution in the 1960 after the Cuban, Nicaraguan, Gernandan and other Latin American revolutions) is little less than a voice for the Cuban CP in America and is incredibly fetished with itself. Trotskyists are critical of Stalinism, as they oppose the idea of Socialism in One Country. “It is the duty of the Party to bury Trotskyism as an ideological trend.” – Joseph Stalin. Dear Professor: Thank you for your perspective. In the First World War he fought – against Trotsky amongst others – to demand a break not only from the openly chauvinist socialists who supported their own ruling class, but also from those like Karl Kautsky who would not go beyond a pacifist position. Soviet arms also made possible the Battle of Cuito Cuanavale. And in this same article Lenin remarked of Trotskyism ‘All that glitter is not gold. But what in their present outlook makes them Trotskyists? “The main difficulty with Trotskyist organisations, groups, and parties is that they have been unable to become mass parties like the Bolsheviks or even influential within the workers’ movement of any country during any period in the past 70-80 years. Here is a megaupload link to the PDF file. Change ). They were aimed at the opposition, in all its forms: The Trotskyists, the Zinovievites, and the old whites who had been reintegrated into society. Thank you for posting the link to M.J. Olgin’s book on Trotskyism. Indeed far from the post-war Trotskyists being obsessed with purity of programme, after 1948-51 their main weakness was its relegation of The Transitional Programme of 1938 to the status of an holy relic, and its replacement in practice with the politics of various social democratic, Stalinist, or left nationalist forces. I would be interested in your opinion of the work I have done in Chapters one through ten of the book at http://www.abcsofcommunism.info. In 1935, Marxist–Leninist Moissaye J. Olgin argued that Trotskyism was "the enemy of the working class" and "should be shunned by anybody who has sympathy for the revolutionary movement of the exploited and oppressed the world over." He concedes the fact that the US Trotskyists had significant influence in the revival of US trade unionism in the 1930s and in the anti-Vietnam War movement of the 1960s. There is plenty of Trotskyism there that is for sure. But liquidation of the Troskyist disease should be a high priority. Of course they should not have simply clung to the 1938 document; they should have regularly updated the programme to meet new challenges. Criticism. But this can only happen if the revolutionary vanguard has won the class to the goals, tactics and methods of organisation contained in its programme. However, the Stalinists under Ho Chi Minh were murderous foes of the Trotskyists and had behind them a superpower: the Soviet Union. I have to ask what Trots have in their tendency to form factions and the ML’s view of factionalism and open discourse? Rob Sewell examines the origins of Trotskyism in Britai. please permit me to suggest that you include this book among your anti-Trot reading material.Soviet Policy and its Critics by JR Campbell.It is an extraodinary little book which shows how Trotsky’s writings as well as actions confused the left into unwittingly supporting fascism.I strongly recommend it. The Crisis of Capitalist Globalisation and the Socialist Solution. Some Minor Questions II. Furthermore, I see the mention of critiques of Stalin begin shut down as revisionist or “counter-revolutionary.” I have read Lenin’s Marxism and Revisionism and I think it counter acts Marx when he said in the Manifesto, “do not set up any sectarian principles of their own by which to shape and mold the proletarian revolution.” The the tactics and understanding of the movement should be taken as it happens, not as if discovered by Marx at one period and applicable to all others. Comparing the websites like the Unrepentant Marxist (Proyect) or Planet Anarchy with the sites of the Trotskyist “sects” does not indicate the advantage lies with our critics. Dear Comrades, There really was such an opposition, of course, and it really did plot a coup. And it applies to groups in Italy in the 1970s and elsewhere that were as plural, broad and without a programme as Pham Binh could wish. While you are at it you might want to take a look at a real world website devoted to the class struggle in South America. Actually, the Soviet Union made enormous strides in the 1930s in industrialization and even in living standards. I have dealt with the question of Trotskyism extensively in chapters 13 through 16 of the new book The ABC’s of Communism, Bolshevism 2011. This relates to one of Stalin’s main criticisms of Trotsky, namely that Trotskyism meant forceful attacks on all the world’s leading revolutionaries. But objective economic and geo-strategic conditions also played a huge role in preventing the Trotskyists from building mass parties. **** What about the various communist parties around the world that deliberately suppressed working class militancy? Here I deal with the man and his real story in the historical context of the Bolshevik Revolution and the subsequent construction of Socialism in the USSR until his death in 1940. III. To help clearify these important points for the international communist movement, The Marxist-Leninist has put together this reading guide. Since Pham Binh’s ideas played an important part in the recent split from Workers Power in the UK and have become fashionable amongst sections of the left, Andy Yorke replies. However, the criticisms made by the Trotskyists and crypto-Trotskyists are, even when they happen to be correct, part of a reactionary package that must be rejected as a whole. See more. Or are they taken out of context? Trotskyism has been criticised from various directions. Furthermore in their doctrinal papers they always refer to Trotsky as a great revolutionary when in fact he was and is the Anti-Christ of the international Marxist movement, if you will. Atheism is a criticism of religion, it is a fundamental characteristic of atheism as such. Dear Professor: I have been to the meetings of both these outfits in Los Angeles and it is part and parcel of their entire presentation that Trotsky was right about everything and Stalin wrong about anything. Support for the strategy of permanent revolution, in opposition to the two-stage theory of his opponents. Frankly I don’t see any reason for either so-called “party” to exist if their were sincere people amongst them (other than the typical duped students who come and go like the seasons.) Insofar as it has assimilated the experience of the past, in this and other countries, and incorporated their lessons in its programme, it is better prepared to understand its tasks. Imagine what would have happened if, in 1941, when the Germans invaded the Soviet Union, it had been the same rural country it was in 1929. An error has occurred; the feed is probably down. Pham Binh completely misses the source of post-war Trotskyism’s failure to develop mass parties. Should Trotsky have put unity with Nin and the Spanish POUM above the question of programme? Furthermore when you listen to their leaders talk they always start off with Sam Marcy did this and Sam Marcy did that. You can also found a recently posted old news article about the Dewey Commission from the journalist Carleton Beals. Let me know what you think about that. Instead, trotskism howling for starting war in all fronts together and basically meaning defeat at the end, that’s why defeatist anarchist. In the 1930s Trotsky countered critics who pointed to the slow growth and setbacks suffered by the International Communist League (ICL) as signs of inherent weakness, bringing the debate back to the question of programme”. Cannon, no more than Trotsky, Lenin or Marx, would not have contrasted the class struggle to programme. Trotskyism, a Marxist ideology based on the theory of permanent revolution first expounded by Leon Trotsky (1879–1940), one of the leading theoreticians of the Russian Bolshevik Party and a leader in the Russian Revolution. Trotsky was not a counter-revolutionary. Both of them support the DPRK, for instance, and Sam Marcy, from the beginning, differed from other Trotskyists on this point. Rather than putting unity above political clarity and organisational effectiveness, Trotsky rightly made programme the precondition of unity: “Unity is an excellent thing. At the same time, only a small proportion of time, effort, and resources go to leading and organising militant struggles for tangible gains like rent control or a living wage.”
Is this so? Here it is because the pressure from the ruling capitalist classes is intense and these three erroneous doctrines are a kind of “Pandering” to the US rulers: “we are the good communists the others are bad communists.” These types don’t realize that as far as the caps are concerned there are no good communists and they will kill them all when they get the chance – if we don’t get them first. In the imperialist heartlands outside of Italy and France, not just Trotskyism but Marxism was reduced to an isolated and often a persecuted minority. If Trotskyism is counter-revolutionary, what do people here at ML make of the bureaucratization of the Soviet Union? Then they bloodily repressed the workers’ committees and slaughtered the Trotskyists. (Granted the Hall modern revisionists with their terrible politics made the FBI takeover of the CPUSA easy as the two lines are indistinguishable but that is neither here nor there). 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