On 8/12/20 12:53 PM, Andrew Stewart wrote:
https://www.prometheusjournal.org/2020/08/08/transitional-programme-a-transition-to-nowhere/
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This article is crap. There is not a single citation of Leon Trotsky's
Transitional Program, only characterizations. For example, it states:
"The idea that a small vanguard party, without any mass basis in the
working class, will be able to arise victorious out of a revolutionary
crisis is laughable."
Yes, it is laughable but Leon Trotsky never said anything like that.
It is useful to study Lenin's polemics that are permeated by citations.
For example, from "The Proletarian Revolution and the Renegade Kautsky":
The fundamental question that Kautskydiscusses in his pamphlet
<https://www.marxists.org/archive/kautsky/1918/dictprole/index.htm>is
that of the very essence of proletarian revolution, namely, the
dictatorship of the proletariat. This is a question that is of the
greatest importance for all countries, especially for the advanced ones,
especially for those at war, and especially at the present time. One may
say without fear of exaggeration that this is the key problem of the
entire proletarian class struggle. It is, therefore, necessary to pay
particular attention to it .
Kautsky formulates the question as follows: “The contrast between the
two socialist trends” (i.e., the Bolsheviks and non-Bolsheviks) “is the
contrast between two radically different methods: the/dictatorial/and
the/democratic/” (p. 3).
Let us point out, in passing, that when calling the non-Bolsheviks in
Russia, i.e., the Mensheviks and Socialist-Revolutionaries, socialists,
Kautsky was guided by their/name/, that is, by a word, and not by
the/actual place/they occupy in the struggle between the proletariat and
the bourgeoisie. What a wonderful understanding and application of
Marxism! But more of this later.
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