Description: The lessons for socialists from the 20th century
The Fate of the Russian Revolution Volume 2. The two Trotskyisms confront Stalinism was published in September 2015.
By Paul Buhle Review first published in “Socialism and Democracy” # 70, http://sdonline.org Not so many decades ago, Susan Sontag pronounced Communism to be “Successful Fascism,” presumably a system that would endure in the East Bloc for generations if not centuries. Back in the 1950s, in her cold war classic “The Origins of Totalitarianism”, […]
By Gemma Short Steve Bloom has written an interesting and thoughtful review of The Two Trotskyisms confront Stalinism (here). It is interesting to hear from someone who identifies with the Cannon tradition where they feel that tradition went wrong. There is one point in Bloom’s review which is not expanded upon much. Bloom describes it […]