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This video shows the potential of a radicalization of the middle class but also their limitations at this stage. She is correct about Trotsky's key role in the Russian Revolution which came out of his understanding of Permanent Revolution. The video is very bad at the end in separating Trotsky from theory and practice in his fight against Stalinism. What this Historian said about the Russian Revolution excellently combined Trotsky's theory and practice of the Russian Revolution. Trotsky had the correct strategy and tactics in fighting Stalinism but was defeated for objective reasons coming out the of defeat of many revolutions aboard. This Historian shows the contradictions of a layer of the middle class radicalizing, with some of the best elements looking to Trotsky. Due to the crisis of leadership a lot of these middle class elements have not come fully over to Trotskyism. If the Trotskyist movement can be reconstructed to lead successful mass struggles Triotskyism can contradict this Historian's analysis that Trotsky's main legacy is academic. _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
