Re: [Marxism] Re: Deutscher's trilogy reviewed.

["Nestor Gorojovsky" <nestorgoro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Respuesta a: [Marxism] Re: Deutscher's trilogy reviewed.
Remitido por: Carlos Eduardo Rebello
Fecha: Sábado 27 de Noviembre de 2004 
Hora: 10:25
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> Led astray by his
> quite normal- at the time- post-Stalin "Thaw" illusions, Deutscher
> almost ignored this Trotsky except as a tragic figure. Therefore the
> all-pressing need for a reassessment of the later Trotsky, who could
> function as a bridge linking the Leninist past with today's needs.

I fully agree with Carlos in that the most important Trotsky for our 
times is the "Outcast".  

As to Deutscher's focus on the "Tragic" character of LDT's last 
years, I would add that it is not only attributable to his hopes in a 
socialist "thaw", but also to a more central fact, that Deutscher 
never came to consider the October Revolution as the first stage of 
the general rebellion of the semicolonial countries (which in part it 
was: please remember, for instance, the weight of W. European capital 
in Russian industry by WWI).  He considered it from a quite strictly 
European point of view, as the coronation of the process of 
revolutions that had been triggered in England, during the 17th 
Century, and was now coming to an end with a new wave.

When reading the trilogy, I always have a (maybe mistaken) sense that 
Deutscher was still wondering "why didn't Western Europe answer to 
the call from Moscow and left them alone instead?", as if this were 
his most important concern.


Néstor Miguel Gorojovsky
nestorgoro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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