Trotskyism
Bolshevism and Stalinism - Paul Mattick
Mattick analyses "the superficiality of the ideological differences between Stalinism and Trotskyism" and why "Trotsky's own past and theories", with his role in the construction of the Russian regime, "condemned 'Trotskyism' to remain a mere collecting agency for unsuccessful Bolsheviks".
Article source: The Council Communist Archive - www.kurasje.org
The largest collection of Mattick's work is at the Paul Mattick homepage - http://www.home.no/mattick/
'Bolshevism and Stalinism' was originally published in Politics Vol. 4 - no. 2 - Mar/Apr 1947.
Stalinism’s loyal opposition - The counter-revolutionary politics of Trotsky
This article was originally written to refute lies about the history of 20th century revolutionary movements peddled by the Trotskyists of the Spartacus League.
This article was originally written to refute lies about the history of 20th century revolutionary movements peddled by the comically obnoxious Trotskyoids of the Spartacus League, in their newspaper Workers Vanguard (sic).
Listen, Marxist! - Murray Bookchin
Murray Bookchin's best-known leaflet, Listen, Marxist! was aimed predominantly at students influenced by the Maoist Progressive Labor Party which was heavily (and highly destructive) active in the mass Students for a Democratic Society movement in 1960s and 70s America. His criticisms of "Marxism" and Marxist terminology are not applicable to Marxism as a whole, but some do apply to the crude politics of the PLP. Despite this significant shortcoming, we reproduce the document here due to its importance in terms of the left and libertarian left in the US
Trotskyism: Product and agent of counterrevolution
The ICG traces the counter-revolutionary trajectory of Trotskyism.
Why Leninism is not Red Fascism - Appendix to Contra State and Revolution
Chris Wright discusses the roots of Leninism in Social Democracy and attempts to deal with some of the more simplistic criticisms levelled against it.
APPENDIX: Why Leninism is Not 'Red Fascism
Militancy - Highest stage of Alienation
A critique of the role of the political militant, it's misery and arrogance.
Since the occupation movement of May '68, we have seen a whole collection of small organisations which claim to follow Trotskyism, Maoism or anarchism, developing to the left of the Communist Party and the C.G.T [1].
What was the USSR (Part IV)? Towards a Theory of the Deformation of Value
The fourth and final article in Aufheben's series on the USSR, dealing with the Trotskyist analysis of the USSR as a "degenerated workers' state".
So our saga on the nature of the USSR draws to a close.
Third Worldism or Socialism
Originally published by Solidarity in their pamphlet "Ceylon: the JVP Uprising".
online version by http://www.af-north.org/
Third Worldism or Socialism
Various theories have been put forward as to why the left, in advanced capitalist countries, should support national liberation struggles.
