Re: [Marxism] Challenge to Lenin & Trotsky experts

[Alan Bradley <alanb1000@xxxxxxxxx>]

I wrote:
> Incidentally, it might be worth reviewing some of
> Marx's own writings on parties and revolutions and
> stuff. Try "Critique of the Gotha Programme", "The
> Civil War in France", "The Role of Force in History"
> (by Engels, not Marx) and anything else that looks
> interesting.

In fact, I think you find a real bridge to Lenin and
Trotsky in the later parts of "The Civil War in
France". "Critique of the Gotha Programme" doesn't
seem particularly relevant, after having a quick skim
over it again.

Lenin and Trotsky's great role was to ensure that the
Russian Revolution didn't go the same way as the Paris
Commune. The steps they took were, to a large extent,
the steps the Commune should have taken, and didn't.

The great tragedy was that the Soviets themselves
effectively failed to survive the Civil War.

Alan Bradley

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