1917 - revolution for freedom & equality: Workers' Liberty 3/11

What is Trotskyism?

By Max Shachtman Our criticism of Trotsky’s later theory of the “workers’ state” introduces into it an indispensable correction. Far from “demolishing” Trotskyism, it eliminates from it a distorting element of contradiction and restores its essential inner harmony and continuity. The writer considers himself a follower of Trotsky, as of Lenin before him, and of Marx and Engels in the earlier generation. Such has been the intellectual havoc wrought in the revolutionary movement by the manners and standards of Stalinism, that “follower” has come to mean serf, worshipper, or parrot. We have no...

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