The ideas of Lenin and Trotsky are without doubt the most distorted and slandered ideas in history. For more than eighty years, they have been subjected to an onslaught from the apologists of capitalism, who have attempted to present their ideas – Bolshevism – as both totalitarian and Utopian. An entire industry was developed in an attempt to equate the crimes of Stalinism with the regime of workers’ democracy that existed under Lenin and Trotsky. On the other hand, ever since the invention of ‘Trotskyism’ in 1924, the Stalinist bureaucracy has, systematically falsified the real relationship between these two leaders of the October revolution. Originally written as a reply to Monty Johnstone, a leading theoretician of the British Communist Party, it systematically demolishes all the arguments used to discredit Trotsky’s ideas and his role in the Bolshevik Party. This book uncovers the real ideas of Lenin and Trotsky.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Alan Woods
Alan Woods, born in Swansea in 1944, is a graduate of Sussex University where he studied slavonic languages. He joined teh Labour Party at the age of 16, where he was won to the ideas of Marxism. Over the past 30 years he has published many articles on Marxism. He co-authored with Ted Grant Reason in Revolt (1995), and Bolshevism: the road to revolution of the Marxist magazine Socialist Appeal, and the increasingly popular Website in Defence of Marxism (www.marxist.com)
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Ted Grant
Ted Grant immigrated to Britain from South Africa in 1934, where he joined the Independent Labor Party, and subsequently the Labor Party. In 1938 he helped to found the Workers International League, which later fused to form the Revolutionary Communist Party. Since then, he has played a leading role in the Trotskyism movement, and is regarded as the principal theoretician of Trotskyism in Britain and internationally. His selected writings, entitled The Unbroken Thread, Published in 1989
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