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1 online resource (145 p.) |
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Routledge Studies in Radical History and Politics Ser |
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Routledge Studies in Radical History and Politics Ser
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| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Abbreviations -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- 1. The Origins and Content of Trotskyism -- Permanent revolution -- The united front -- Transitional demands -- The revolutionary vanguard party -- The Fourth International -- Rank and file organization against the trade union bureaucracy -- Stalinism and the workers' state -- Revolution and the dictatorship of the proletariat -- The imperialist epoch -- Conclusions |
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2. A Brief Account of the Four Main Centres of World Trotskyism: Argentina, Britain, France and the USA -- Argentina -- Britain -- France -- USA -- Conclusions -- 3. The Current State of World Trotskyism -- Membership and organization -- Trotskyist Fourth Internationals -- Trotskyist political influence and support -- Other evidence on political influence -- Conclusions -- 4. The Dynamics of World Trotskyism -- The baleful influence of Stalinism? -- Cycles of protest and (the absence of) Trotskyist party growth and influence -- Trotskyist-led social movements |
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The Bolivian and Sri Lankan success stories? -- Conclusions -- 5. Explaining the Marginality of World Trotskyism -- Reforms are no longer possible -- the choice is 'socialism or barbarism'! -- Party and electoral programmes: We demand everything! -- Parliamentary elections decide nothing -- Failure to grasp the relationship between class struggle and class consciousness -- The conflation of protest, rebellion and revolution -- 'If only there had been a mass revolutionary party ...': Lamentation replaces analysis -- Let's build a new, mass, anti-capitalist workers party! |
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The spectres of Lenin and Stalin, or the unattractiveness of Bolshevism -- Orthodox and radical Trotskyism: Ideological certitude, electoral delusion and millenarian fantasy -- 6. The Twilight of World Trotskyism -- Appendix: Trotskyist Organizations in Argentina, Britain, France and the USA (April 2022) -- References -- Index |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
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Communism -- History.
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Socialism -- History
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Communist parties -- History
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Communism
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Communist parties
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Socialism
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| Genre/Form |
History
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781000816457 |
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1000816451 |
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