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The Twilight of World Trotskyism (Hardcover)
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The Twilight of World Trotskyism (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Studies in Radical History and Politics
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The Twilight of World Trotskyism analyzes the reasons behind the
historic failure of the Trotskyist movement around the world. The
book begins this assessment by briefly recapitulating the origins
of Trotskyism, as a political current within the communist
movement, and elaborating its major elements, before describing the
historical development of Trotskyism in the four countries where it
has sunk the deepest roots and which house the clear majority of
the world's Fourth Internationals: Argentina, Britain, France and
the USA. It then proceeds to map the current state of the global
Trotskyist movement. Whatever their current size and status,
Trotskyist organizations aspire to become mass political parties
and lead revolutionary seizures of power. It is therefore
appropriate to examine them through the metrics applied to
mainstream parties, namely organization, membership and political
influence. The author looks at the dynamics of the Trotskyist
movement, focusing in particular on the supposedly harmful effects
of the communist movement before then turning to examine the role
of Trotskyist organizations in the many revolutionary situations
that have appeared since the 1920s and in the various 'cycles of
protest' that have occurred in the latter half of the 20th century
and the early years of the 21st century. The final section examines
the two success stories frequently cited in Trotskyist literature,
namely the cases of Bolivia and Sri Lanka. The book concludes by
setting out and examining a wide variety of explanations for the
chronic and sustained weaknesses of the Trotskyist movement,
including its flawed appraisals of contemporary politics and
economics, ultra-radical programmes and policies, failures in
understanding the dynamics of protest and the baleful legacy of
Soviet communism. It is argued that these weaknesses are rooted in
Trotskyist doctrine and are therefore integral, not peripheral,
features of world Trotskyism. This volume will be essential reading
for activists and scholars interested in the transnational history
and politics of the radical left.
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