In Defence of Marxism

312 Pages. ISBN: 978-1-913026-03-5

This book is correctly regarded as one of Trotsky‘s finest classics. It is a product of a sharp polemic within the American Trotskyist movement during the period 1939-40. This was a dispute which touched on the very fundamentals of Marxism. It was for this reason that Trotsky himself participated in this struggle in the form of a series of articles and letters that are brought together in this volume.

The issues covered concern the essence of Marxist theory and deal with such questions as:

• The class nature of the Soviet state.
• The defence of the Soviet Union against imperialist attack.
• Bolshevik principles of organisation.
• Dialectical Materialism.