Trotskyism

The theory of Marxism as advocated by Leon Trotsky. Trotsky identified himself as an orthodox Marxist and Bolshevik-Leninist, and supported founding a vanguard party of the proletariat, proletarian internationalism, and a dictatorship of the proletariat based on working class self-emancipation and mass democracy.

The Permanent Revolution & Results and Prospects
The Revolution Betrayed
Fascism: What It Is and How to Fight It
The Transitional Program for Socialist Revolution
In Defense of Marxism: The Social & Political Contradictions of the Soviet Union
History of the Russian Revolution
I Want to Believe: Posadism, UFOs and Apocalypse Communism
The Struggle Against Fascism in Germany
Trotskyism after Trotsky: The origins of the international socialists
October: The Story of the Russian Revolution
The Prophet Armed: Trotsky, 1879-1921
The Lessons of October
The German Revolution, 1917-1923 (Historical Materialism)
World Revolution 1917-1936: The Rise and Fall of the Communist International
Lenin's Final Fight: Speeches and Writings, 1922-23
Authoritarian Drift in the United States by G. Scott GrahamAntunites Unite by Terry BirdgenawThe Rise and Fall of Antocracy by Terry BirdgenawThe Integrity Gap by Stephen M. Fry Ph.D.Empire of Resentment by Lawrence Rosenthal
Liberalism & Fascism - Capitalism
28 books — 10 voters
The Lacuna by Barbara KingsolverGalápagos by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.The End of the World News by Anthony BurgessThe Man Who Loved Dogs by Leonardo PaduraThe Great Prince Died by Bernard Wolfe
Trotsky in Fiction
10 books — 1 voter

I Love My Doctor, But... by Lawrence W. GoldPerestroika by Harpal BrarAnother View of Stalin by Ludo MartensEconomic Problems of Socialism in the U.S.S.R. by Joseph StalinSoviet Democracy by Pat  Sloan
The Stalin Society
14 books — 8 voters
Authoritarian Drift in the United States by G. Scott GrahamThe Collapse of the Weimar Republic by David AbrahamAlla and the Piano – The Russian Tragedy 1912 to 1924 by Morten KvistgaardPrejudice, Racism, and Tribalism by Anthony M. D'AgostinoThe Right-Wing Social-Democrats Today by Otto Wille Kuusinen
Social Democracy - Capitalism
15 books — 7 voters

Perestroika by Harpal BrarUSSR by Ludo MartensTROTSKYISM IN THE SERVICE OF THE CIA AGAINST THE SOCIALIST CO... by Ludo MartensRevisionism and the Demise of the USSR by Harpal Brar
Marxism - Trotskyism
4 books — 1 voter

Victor Serge
He who does not cry out the truth when he knows the truth becomes the accomplice of the liars and falsifiers.
Victor Serge, From Lenin to Stalin

Christopher Hitchens
I have been taunted on various platforms recently for becoming a neo-conservative, and have been the object of some fascinating web-site and blog stuff, from the isolationist Right as well as from the peaceniks, who both argue in a semi-literate way that neo-conservativism is Trotskyism and 'permanent revolution' reborn. Sometimes, you have to comb an overt anti-Semitism out of this propaganda before you can even read it straight. And I can guarantee you that none of these characters has any id ...more
Christopher Hitchens, Christopher Hitchens and His Critics: Terror, Iraq, and the Left

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