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Revolutionary Marxism in Spain, 1930-1937 examines the impact of Trotsky's political thought upon those Spanish communists who dissented from the 'general line' laid down by Moscow. Using Spanish sources it sets out the position of the POUM and engages with scholarly debates around its role in the Spanish Popular Front, Civil War and Revolution.

Recent debates over Leon Trotsky's idea of 'uneven and combined development' (U&CD) have focused on its potential in the field of International Relations, but they have not established the source of this potential. Does it derive from the philosophical premises of dialectics? The present article argues that the idea of U&CD in fact involves an innovation as fundamental for Marxist dialectics as for other branches of social theory. And it also argues that in formulating this innovation, Trotsky provided a general solution to some of the most basic problems in social and international thought. The argument is set out in three parts. The first part reconstructs Trotsky's own account of dialectical premises and their implications for social explanation. The second shows how the concept of U&CD departs from this, in ways that presuppose the tacit addition of a further ontological premise. Finally, part three analyses the locus classicus of the concept -- the opening chapter of Trotsky's History of the Russian Revolution -- showing how it is this additional premise which underpins the central achievement of the idea: its incorporation of 'the international' into a theory of history. Adapted from the source document.

AbstractRecent debates over Leon Trotsky's idea of 'uneven and combined development' (U&CD) have focused on its potential in the field of International Relations, but they have not established the source of this potential. Does it derive from the philosophical premises of dialectics? The present article argues that the idea of U&CD in fact involves an innovation as fundamental for Marxist dialectics as for other branches of social theory. And it also argues that in formulating this innovation, Trotsky provided a general solution to some of the most basic problems in social and international thought. The argument is set out in three parts. The first part reconstructs Trotsky's own account of dialectical premises and their implications for social explanation. The second shows how the concept of U&CD departs from this, in ways that presuppose the tacit addition of a further ontological premise. Finally, part three analyses the locus classicus of the concept – the opening chapter of Trotsky's History of the Russian Revolution – showing how it is this additional premise which underpins the central achievement of the idea: its incorporation of 'the international' into a theory of history.

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The collective memory of the left has obscured the significance of the Hungarian revolution. A contrast can be found in the readiness of leftists to remember the Czech experience. Essentially, Czechoslovakia underwent a reform, while Hungary underwent a revolution; this accounts for the difference. Neither Maoists nor Trotskyites have been able to conceive of a new system of domination in which the bureaucratic class & the communist party dominate society; at most they are able to accuse the Soviets of restoring bourgeois ideology. In fact, the Hungarian revolution was a revolution against totalitarianism; the Trotskyites at least supported this revolution even without understanding it, while the Maoists have consistently supported the crushing of Hungary. It was a profound shock that a revolution could occur against the USSR, one which made it essentially impossible for anyone to grasp that a revolution was occurring. The destruction of this revolution by the USSR destroyed the myth of the proletarian state. In the Hungarian revolution, what was sought was the destruction of state ownership of the means of production, without return to private property & bourgeois democracy. The aim rather was liberty & truth, embodied in government by workers' councils. This is outside the vision of leftists preoccupied with centers of power, & so has not been well understood. W. H. Stoddard.

En la presente tesis doctoral se analiza, desde tres prácticas políticas específicas (la prensa, el militante, el internacionalismo y la sociabilidad transnacional), la conformación y el desenvolvimiento político de las organizaciones que durante el lapso temporal, 1929-1976, se autodenominaron trotskistas en México. El trotskismo se entiende aquí como una tendencia política cuya matriz se encuentra en el marxismo y el comunismo soviético leninista. Se concibe aquí al trokismo como un movimiento revolucionario que, junto con su figura insigne León Trosky, pugnó por la revolución de la dirigencia soviética dominante y por la instauración del socialismo a escala mundial.