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Hero as Pariah: Trotsky’s Struggle Against Stalinism
Author(s)
Dibyajit Mukherjee
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DOI:10.17265/2328-2134/2020.09.003
Affiliation(s)
Prabhat Kumar College, West Bengal, India
ABSTRACT
Leon Trotsky’s contribution to the Marxist position in
philosophy and his role in the Russian Revolution of October 1917 had been
politically maneuvered, tampered with, fabricated and covered by a muck heap of
Stalinist slander. By Stalinism, I am referring to the narrative which was born
from the bureaucratic degeneration of the Soviet Union, after the failure of
working class to consolidate and capture state power in Hungary, Germany, Italy
and other western countries which was materially in an advanced position than
early 20th Century Russia. It was also the political ideology which
was born as a result of civil far, famine, pandemic and the invasion of the
newly formed Russian worker’s state by more than fifteen foreign countries with
colonial objectives. Trotsky’s role in creating the Red Army, which was a
different to that of a standing army and supporters of Trotsky in the Left
Opposition were not only vilified and charged with false accusations but
violently purged. In this paper I have highlighted how Stalinism marked a
revolution against the revolution of 1917 and how Trotsky continuously
struggled against the bureaucratic despotism over the working class in post
1917 Russia.
KEYWORDS
bureaucracy, Stalinism, privileged caste, permanent revolution, Trotsky
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