When the leadership of the International Marxist Tendency was confronted with my doubts in February 2020, I was recommended to read two texts to win me back to the ‘correct position’ – Marcel Liebman’s Leninism Under Lenin and Victor Serge’s Year One of the Russian Revolution. I was told that if I still had differences … Read more
For decades, Trotskyists have denied that the degeneration of the USSR has anything to do with Bolshevik ideology. Most of us realise that the seed of Stalinism was in Bolshevism from the very beginning. Trotskyists prefer to blame the difficult conditions specific to ‘backward’ Russia. It was the ‘objective conditions’ of this uncivilised, peasant nation … Read more
There are a great many things that can be said about Lenin, but it would take up several posts. In this particular post, I will instead offer a couple of quotes that give us an insight into Lenin’s lack of ‘dialectical foresight’ – foresight which even people at the time had! Before and after the … Read more