On The 95th Anniversary Year Of The Founding Of The Communist International (1919)-From The Pen Of Leon Trotsky-"The Third International After Lenin"

 

 

Link below to the Leon Trotsky Internet Archives for an online copy of the document mentioned in the headline.

http://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1928/3rd/index.htm

 

Markin comment:

After the struggle inside the Russian Communist Party in the mid-1920s around internal party democracy and the economics of the transition period the Leon Trotsky-led Left Opposition (and later the International Left Opposition) concentrated on Communist International policies. And chief among them was the contour and fate of the Second Chinese Revolution of 1925-27. While Leon Trotsky was not around to write about the successful revolution of 1949 he did write many polemics on that second revolution and how, in the end, it like in Russian would have to follow the path that he outlined in his Theory Of Permanent Revolution in order to be successful. In the event, although successful, it never developed those soviet-type forms that would have eased the transition to socialism. Moreover for a number of historic reasons having to do with the defeat of the second revolution the Chinese working-class never was a central political factor in that victory. This material is still very helpful in sorting things out, and readable.