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Overview"The Defence of Terrorism, originally written in 1920 on a military train during the Russian Civil War, represents one of Trotsky’s most wide-ranging and original contributions to the debates that dominated the 1920s and ‘30s. Trotsky’s intention is ""far away from any thought of defending terrorism in general"". Rather, he seeks to promote an historical justification for the Revolution, by demonstrating that history has set up the ‘revolutionary violence of the progressive class’ against the ‘conservative violence of the outworn classes’. The argument is developed in response to the influential Marxist intellectual Karl Kautsky, who refuted Trotsky’s ‘militarisation of labour’ and Lenin’s wholesale rejection of a ‘bloodless revolution’. The introduction, written for the second edition of 1935, presents Trotsky’s reflections on the similarities between Kautsky and the burgeoning British Labour Party: specifically, it recapitulates Trotsky’s belief that revolution conducted according to the norms of Parliamentarianism is no revolution at all." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Leon TrotskyPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge Weight: 0.453kg ISBN: 9781138015296ISBN 10: 1138015296 Pages: 190 Publication Date: 15 January 2014 Audience: College/higher education , Tertiary & Higher Education , Undergraduate Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsIntroduction; 1. The Balance of Power 2. The Dictatorship of the Proletariat 3. Democracy 4. Terrorism 5. The Paris Commune and Soviet Russia 6. Max and……Kautsky 7. The Working Class and its Soviet Policy 8. Problems of the Organisation of Labour 9. Karl Kautsky, His School, and His Book; In Place of an EpilogueReviewsAuthor InformationLeon Trotsky Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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