Four pillars of Trotskyism | IMGpapers 1976

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E REMAINS PROLETARIAN REVOLUTIONS IN THE WEST. In the developed capitalist countries there is only one way to get rid of capitalism: the mass mobilisation of the working class to overthrow the existing statepower and substitute in its place a workers state based on proletarian democracy. Socialist revolutions are the only way to prevent a reversion to barbarism.

POLITICAL REVOLUTIONS IN THE EAST. In the countries where capitalism no longer exists a bureaucracy has usurped political power. It preserves itself by a combination of coercion and a complete monopoly of politics and the means of information. Only the overthrow of this bureaucracy and the establishment of socialist democracy can lead to the development of socialism. Thus a political revolution is vital. •SOROLTTKON 3. PERMANENT REVOLUTION IN THE 'THIRD WORLD'. In the 'third world' countries the strength of imperialism has meant that they will always remain dependent states unless there is a social revolution. Only such a revolution can guarantee real national independence, radical agrarian reform, and accomplish the tasks which in the West were carried out by the bourgeoisie. go, with eleven of my companions, waste the kindgom of the Franks. 4. PROLETARIAN INTERNATIONALISM MEANS BUILDING AN dered, we destroyed the corn, the INTERNATIONAL. The processes of world revolution are intertwined and șe of man.' the other fruits produced by the interrelated. The completion of socialism cannot be envisaged within national r in the Thirties, Trotsky became boundaries. Revolutionary parties have, from the very start, to be built on an to Zinoviev at his trial: 'My international scale, with an international programme and a revolutionary hevism became transformed into in, and through Trotskyism strategy for all parts of the world. The Fourth International founded by cism. Trotskyism is a variety of Trotsky in 1938 remains the only nucleus of revolutionaries organised on a Zinovievism is a variety of world scale.

Socialist Challenge 8 November 1979 Page 9

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