Trotskyism or Leninism?

Harpal Brar delivers a 45-minute presentation on the theory and practice of Trotsky and ‘Trotskyites’, followed by Q&A at the CPGB-ML’s Party Study School, November 2011.

One of the myths perpetrated by the Trotskyites, with not inconsiderable help from the imperialist bourgeoisie, is that Leninism and Trotskyism are synonymous, that Trotsky was, after Lenin, the most brilliant and greatest Bolshevik (some even implying that Lenin was a great Trotskyist); that Trotsky was the true inheritor of Leninism and a worthy successor to Lenin, but was, alas, deprived of his rightful place by the cunning manoeuvres of a third-class mediocrity and oriental despot to boot, ie, Joseph Stalin.

This anti-communist myth, repeated ad nauseam decade after decade in truly Goebbelsian fashion, has acquired the force of a public prejudice. Anyone with the least knowledge of the subject cannot but be aware of the total falsity of this myth.

It is the aim of this video presentation, (like the book – see link below) to expose this myth and lay bare the truly reactionary, counter-revolutionary, essence of the petty-bourgeois ideology of Trotskyism, which is as irreconcilably hostile to Marxism Leninism as is the bourgeoisie to the proletariat – notwithstanding its pseudo-Marxist, ultra-‘left’ and ultra-‘revolutionary’ terminology.

Trotskyism met with dismal failure both during Lenin’s time and after his death, and it failed “because”, to use Stalin’s words, “the leading group of the opposition proved to be a group of petty-bourgeois intellectuals divorced from life, divorced from the revolution, divorced from the party, from the working class”.

This, and not any personal factor, explains the total rout of the Trotskyite opposition by the Bolshevik Party.
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A CPGB-ML Party School production
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RELATED READING

1. Lies concerning the history of the Soviet Union, by Mario Susa:
http://www.stalinsociety.org.uk/lies.html

2. Trotskyism or Leninism (book), by Harpal Brar:
http://www.cpgb-ml.org/index.php?secName=books&subName=display&bookId=7

Preface on-line:
trotvslenin.htm

Table of Contents:
http://www.mltranslations.org/Britain/brartoc.htm

Buy the book:
mailto:books@cpgb-ml.org

3. Lenin on the slogan “for a united states of Europe”
http://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1915/aug/23.htm

4. Lenin: The Military Programme of the Proletarian Revolution
http://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1916/miliprog/index.htm

5. Trotsky’s “United States of Europe” article:
http://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1923/06/europe.htm

6. JV Stalin: Trotskyism or Leninism (Article):
http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1924/trotskyism.htm

7. Grover Furr’s website (Khruhschev Lied – Links to buy)
http://chss.montclair.edu/english/furr/

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RELATED VIDEO PRESENTATIONS
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http://www.youtube.com/user/ProletarianCPGBML?feature=mhee#p/c/CAA06B450C2198B7/0/0GgbG4x1cSY

Spanish Civil War:

Comintern and China:
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Khruhschevite Revisionism and the collapse of the USSR:
http://www.youtube.com/user/ProletarianCPGBML?feature=mhee#p/c/C17F6326B0AD2497/0/Ht1v2W4mSAE

Britain’s Road to Socialism:

Revolution in Britain:

Join the Struggle:

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