Trotskyism is anti-Marxist

The Twilight of Trotskyism (part 1):  (Detroit/Seattle Workers' Voice email list, November 23 2020)

Critiquing Dan La Botz on why some left-wing groups recoil from the mass uprisings against tyranny and impoverishment:  it is not a matter of confusion over a new situation but a sign of the long-standing crisis in the left (Detroit/Seattle Workers' Voice email list, November 8, 2019)

Despite the theorizing of the Trotskyist Spark, the environmental movement is not a dead end.   (Detroit/Seattle Workers' Voice email list, October 2, 2019)

From "Mary Scully replies to leftists who denounce the movement in Hong Kong": We differ with Scully on one issue, though. She identifies those who oppose the Hong Kong as simply Stalinists. But it is not just Stalinists who oppose the movement. Some Trotskyists do as well, such as the International Communist League (Spartacists), who write sickening things like "Hong Kong: No to Counterrevolutionary Rampage" (Workers Vanguard No. 1160), and denounce the movement as "anti-communist". Another example is the Workers World Party, which has a Trotskyist background, which repeatedly denounces the demonstrators, such as in the demagogic August 16 article "Follow the money behind Hong Kong protests". (Detroit/Seattle Workers' Voice email list, September 10, 2019).


Khiyana: Daesh, the Left, and the Unmaking of the Syrian Revolution Reviewing a book about the betrayal by much of the established left, including many would-be anti-imperialists, of the democratic uprising in Syria (DWV email list, July 5, 2016). It is a collection of writings by different authors, and it is one of the few books on the left where one author admits that it's not just Stalinism, but Trotskyist "permanent revolution" that is bankrupt with respect to the Syrian uprising and other democratic struggles. See pp. 11-15 in Assad an-Nar's article "Socialism and the Democratic Wager".


On the actual history of Ethiopian resistance to Italian invasion and occupation as opposed to Trotsky's glorification of Haile Selassie: Part 2 of "The sad story of Leon Trotsky and Haile Selassie" (DWV email list, September 8, 2015)


The sad story of Leon Trotsky and Haile Selassie (pt 1) (DWV email list, August 31, 2015)


Syria and the illusions of the "permanent revolution": Reply to "red rave". (DWV email list, October 2, 2016)

A new assessment of an old trend:
Trotskyism as the equally evil twin of Stalinism
(on the theoretical bankruptcy of Trotskyism, which lies behind its inability
to deal with new world developments, such as the changing face of world imperialism,
the global wave of democratizations, or the environmental crisis)
by Joseph Green
(CV #49, vol. 20, #1, August 20, 2014)

Trotskyism and Stalinism as twins: Article of October 1, 2013 on the theoretical bankruptcy of Trotskyism, which lies behind its inability to deal with new world developments, such as the changing face of world imperialism, the global wave of democratizations, or the environmental crisis.

"Permanent revolution and the Arab spring" in
Solidarity with the Syrian uprising and the Arab Spring
by Joseph Green
(Issue #47, vol 18, #1, Sep. 12, 2012)

Against left-wing doubts about the democratic movements in Syria and Libya
(includes discussion of the stands of several Trotskyist groups)
by Joseph Green
(Issue #46, vol 17, #1, Nov. 15, 2011)

70 YEARS LATER: Trotsky's failed legacy
(Issue #45, vol 16, #2, Nov. 17, 2010)

AGAINST BOTH IMPERIALISM AND FUNDAMENTALISM!
(Issue #42, vol. 14 , #2, Aug. 20, 2008)
CVO vs. FSP (the Trotskyist Freedom Socialist Party)

ANTI-IMPERIALISM AND THE INTERNAL STRUGGLE IN IRAQ:
* Freedom Socialist Party continues to support exploiters and oppressors of the Iraqi masses
by Frank Arango
* For your reference: Partitioning of Iraq - a U.S. 'Solution' that would spell disaster for region, by Megan Cornish (FSP)
(Issue #41, vol. 14 , #1, Feb. 20, 2008)

WHAT FORCES ARE DRIVING THE IRAQI CIVIL WAR and what this means
for the anti-occupation struggle -- a critique of the views of the Trotskyist FSP
(Issue #38, vol. 12, #2, July 27, 2006)


HIDDEN HISTORY OF THE COMMUNIST MOVEMENT:
ANTI-MILITARISM AND THE 'ARMED NATION'
(more against the pro-draft stand of the Trotskyist LRP, 105K)
by Joseph Green
(Issue #37, vol. 12, #1, Feb. 2006)

SWEDISH MARXIST-LENINISTS DENOUNCE THE RIGHTISM BEHIND TROTSKYISM'S LEFT PHRASES
(Issues #35, 36 and 37).
On the history of the Swedish Marxist-Leninist movement
and the bankruptcy of Trotskyism (parts one, two, and three)
by the comrades of the former FRP of Sweden
including statement on the dissolution of the FRP (October 4, 2004) and
the evaluation document of the history of the FRP. (291K). The link given here is to the entire document, while it appeared in three parts in CV #36.

THE POLEMIC CONTINUES:
LRP PERSISTS IN DENOUNCING THE ANTI-MILITARIST STRUGGLE
(CV Issue #36, vol. 11, #2, March 15, 2005).


WHAT SHOULD AND WHAT SHOULDN'T BE LEARNED FROM THE 1934 MINNEAPOLIS TRUCKERS' STRIKE (CV Issue #36, vol. 11, #2, September 10, 2005).

  • Building a strike movement (a critical evaluation of Harry DeBoer's pamphlet How to Win Strikes: Lessons from the 1934 Minneapolis Truckers' Strike, pointing out the aftermath of the struggle and other aspects of the history that DeBoers glosses over, 36K) by Pete Brown


WWP and the Million Worker March organization: the following four articles from CV #36 (vol. 11, #2, September 2005),  aren't mainly about the WWP, but they do deal with  such WWP stands as denial that there is such a thing as a labor bureaucrat, and promotion of liberal Democrats:

And  two more articles that elaborate about particular issues about building the workers' movement that arose in discussion in MWM-Detroit:


MORE ABOUT THE ANTI-MARXIST NATURE OF TROTSKYISM
(Issue #35, vol. 11, #1, March 15, 2005)

  • An outline of Trotskyism's anti-Marxist theories -- part four (conclusion, 153K)
    On Trotsky's entryism, factionalism, and sectarianism, on his denial of the existence of working class trends in literature, and on dialectics
    by Joseph Green
  • On the history of the Swedish Marxist-Leninist movement,
    and the bankruptcy of Trotskyism (part one), by the comrades of the former FRP of Sweden
    including statement on the dissolution of the FRP (October 4, 2004) and
    the evaluation document of the history of the FRP. (291K). The link given here is to the entire document, while CV #35 contains only the first half of the document.

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ABOUT THE ANTI-MARXIST NATURE OF TROTSKYISM - part 3
On Trotsky's fantasies, non-partyism, and cult of pure administration
(Issue #34, vol. 10, #2, August 25, 2004)


MORE ABOUT THE EMPTY THEORETICAL BASIS OF TROTSKYISM
(Issue #33, vol. 10, #1, March 25, 2004)

TROTSKYIST LRP OPPOSES THE ANTI-DRAFT STRUGGLE
(Issue #33, vol. 10, #1, March 25, 2004)


ABOUT THE ANTI-MARXIST-LENINIST NATURE OF TROTSKYISM
(Issue #32, vol. 9, #2, October 8, 2003)

Correspondence: 70K

* Back to the classics of Marxism-Leninism by the League for the Revolutionary Party of Sweden (FRP)

* Remarks on the resolution of the FRP by Joseph Green

* Additional remarks by the FRP

MORE ON TROTSKYISM AND THE ANTI-WAR MOVEMENT:

  • Anti-war slogans in light of the outcome of the war
    which deals with the questions of the fight on two fronts (against both foreign imperialism and local tyranny), the question of the UN, and the fiasco of "military but not political support" for the Hussein regime, by Joseph Green (26K)
  • Trotskyist LRP opposes draft resistance denounces the LRP for supporting the reintroduction of the draft, by Tim Hall (17K)
    (Issue #31, vol. 9, #1, May 20, 2003)

THE DEBATE ON THE "DEFEND IRAQ" SLOGAN
Defend the Iraqi masses, not the Hussein regime. From the controversy today as well as articles from the 1991 gulf War

A CRITIQUE OF THE BASIC IDEAS OF TROTSKYISM:
An outline of Trotskyism's anti-Marxist theories (part one) by Joseph Green (107K)
(Issue #30, vol. 8, #3, Dec. 15, 2002)

AGAINST TROTSKYIST "MILITARY SUPPORT"
FOR REACTIONARY REGIMES:
The third side, the Iraqi masses: Opposing both sides in the war crisis
by Joseph Green (21K)
(Issue #30, vol. 8, #3, Dec. 15, 2002)

THE SOCIALIST DEBATE ON THE TALIBAN (Part two):
More on Trotskyist negation of the Leninist view of anti-imperialism

THE SOCIALIST DEBATE ON THE TALIBAN --
Trotskyism slips on the supposed anti-imperialism of the Taliban: (53K)
(Issue #28, vol. 8, #1, January 9, 2002)

  • Introduction by Joseph Green
  • Sectarian propagandism by Bob Pitt (who, in the name of anti-imperialism, opposes denouncing both sides in the US-Taliban war )
  • Neither Taliban nor imperialism by Ian Donovan

TROTSKYISM VS. RIGHT TO THE SELF-DETERMINATION: How some Trotskyists deny national rights for Kosovar Albanians/The right to self-determination and opposing Milosevic and NATO, by Mark, Detroit (114K)
(Issue #21, vol. 5, #2, Aug. 15, 1999)

ON WALTER DAUM'S THE LIFE AND DEATH OF STALINISM: Competition among Soviet enterprises and ministries, and the collapse of the Soviet Union by Joseph Green (98K)
(Issue #19, vol. 4, #4, December 8, 1998)

Does the existence of nationalized industry prove that
the capitalist law of value has been abolished?
PREOBRAZHENSKY--ideologist of state capitalism (Part 2), by Joseph Green (185K)
(Issue #18, vol. 4, #3, August 1, 1998)

Does the existence of nationalized industry prove that a country is socialist?:
PREOBRAZHENSKY--ideologist of state capitalism (Part 1), by Joseph Green (111K)
(Issue #17, vol. 4, #2, April 20, 1998)

From the correspondence page:
Questions on the "deformed workers' state", NEP and state capitalism
(and also against the De Leonist SLP) by Mark, Detroit(15K)
(Issue #17, vol. 4, #2, April 20, 1998)

How the SWP whitewashes the Castro regime by Mark, Detroit (29K)
Excerpts from two SWP articles on Cuba (29K)
(Issue #11, Vol. 2. #6, Dec. 15, 1996)

No spark in the Spark:
--Against their prettification of labor bureaucrat sell-outs by Tim, Detroit
The recent bombing in Iraq and the controversies over
anti-war work in the Persian Gulf War
On the Spartacist League and the `defend Iraq' slogan:
-- Building an anti-imperialist movement or
putting hopes in Hussein's military (Feb. 1991)
(Issue #10, Vol. 2, #5, Oct. 1, 1996)

Union bureaucrats establish "Labor Party" (including criticism of such Trotskyist
groups as Socialist Action, Spark, and Bulletin) by Pete Brown (24K)
Correspondence: the Fifth International in non-Trotskyist clothing
(Issue #9, Vol. 2, #4, Aug. 1, 1996)

The trade unions, the errors of the Trotskyist "transitional program",
-- and the zigzags of the Los Angeles Workers' Voice by Mark, Detroit
Marxism and the right of nations to self-determination by Joseph Green
(Issue #7, Vol. 2, #2, March 15, 1996)

'Left' daydreams about the labor bureaucrats
(on Workers World Party and the Trotskyist League) by Mark, Detroit
(Issue #5, Vol. 1, #5, Nov. 15, 1995)

Detroit newspaper strike -- reformist left kneels before union bureaucrats
(including the Militant, Workers' World, the Spark) by Mark, Detroit
(Issue #4, Vol. 1, #4, Sept. 15, 1995)

Oleg & Pete Brown on Spark's workplace organizing
Debate over El Machete and Zapatista strategy
(Issue #1, Vol. 1, #1, April 15, 1995)

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