Thursday, June 11, 2009

The Revolution Betrayed by Leon Trotsky

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Written in 1936 and published the following year, this brilliant and profound evaluation of Stalinism from the Marxist standpoint prophesied the collapse of the Soviet Union. Trotsky employs facts, figures, and statistics to show how Stalinist policies rejected the enormous productive potential of the nationalized planned economy engendered by the October Revolution.

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  1. There is no working link.

    -Sucheta.

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  2. Funny how he also predicted that Bolshevism was so entrenched in the USSR that the only way it could ever collapse would involve a massive bloody civil war.

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