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Trotsky's Heresy
....having being expelled from the party in 1927, Trotsky and his followers were first internally exiled to Kazakh SSR in mid 1928. However, he was deported from the Soviet Union altogether in late 1928. After which he first settled in Turkey before leaving for Norway and eventually Mexico.
In exile he penned his most famous work: "Revolution betrayed" (published 1937), in which he accused nearly every member of the Bolshevik leadership (other than himself and Lenin) of not having followed the ideals of Marxist-Leninism. He called the Soviet Union of the post-Stalin era a "deformed worker's state" in which real power has being taken from the workers and the "true" revolutionaries and put into the hands of a "neo-bourgeois class" and "bureaucratic caste". He referred to the defeat and exile of the left-opposition (including himself) as a "Soviet thermidor" in which the original ideals of Socialism were betrayed.
While he spoke ill of almost every leading Communist, he reserved special fire for Nikolai Bukharin: the man who provided much of the ideological underpinning for Soviet policies of the 1920s-1930s. Calling him a "Capitalist-Roader" and a "reactionary in Marxist clothing". He laments "Socialism in one country" [1] rather than World revolution was the official foreign policy of the USSR and accused Bukharin of "burying the revolution" for it. He further predicted that the capitalism was going to be restored in the USSR unless a "third revolution" [2] by the working class topples the current leadership and restores a "true worker's state". The following quotes demonstrates Trotsky's vision....
-High School History AP Textbook, Republic of Scotland, 2006.
[1] Socialism in one country actually originated as a joint Bukharin-Stalin idea in 1924
[2] After the February and October revolutions of course
....having being expelled from the party in 1927, Trotsky and his followers were first internally exiled to Kazakh SSR in mid 1928. However, he was deported from the Soviet Union altogether in late 1928. After which he first settled in Turkey before leaving for Norway and eventually Mexico.
In exile he penned his most famous work: "Revolution betrayed" (published 1937), in which he accused nearly every member of the Bolshevik leadership (other than himself and Lenin) of not having followed the ideals of Marxist-Leninism. He called the Soviet Union of the post-Stalin era a "deformed worker's state" in which real power has being taken from the workers and the "true" revolutionaries and put into the hands of a "neo-bourgeois class" and "bureaucratic caste". He referred to the defeat and exile of the left-opposition (including himself) as a "Soviet thermidor" in which the original ideals of Socialism were betrayed.
While he spoke ill of almost every leading Communist, he reserved special fire for Nikolai Bukharin: the man who provided much of the ideological underpinning for Soviet policies of the 1920s-1930s. Calling him a "Capitalist-Roader" and a "reactionary in Marxist clothing". He laments "Socialism in one country" [1] rather than World revolution was the official foreign policy of the USSR and accused Bukharin of "burying the revolution" for it. He further predicted that the capitalism was going to be restored in the USSR unless a "third revolution" [2] by the working class topples the current leadership and restores a "true worker's state". The following quotes demonstrates Trotsky's vision....
-High School History AP Textbook, Republic of Scotland, 2006.
[1] Socialism in one country actually originated as a joint Bukharin-Stalin idea in 1924
[2] After the February and October revolutions of course
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