; Trotskyism vs. Stalinism

* Trotskyism vs. Revisionism Volume 1: The Fight Against Pabloism In The Fourth International ( 1974 ) ISBN 0-902030-54-X, this volume contains documents from the period leading up to the 1953 split in the Fourth International and includes James P Cannon's Open Letter.

* Trotskyism vs. Revisionism Volume 2: The Split In The Fourth International ( 1974 ) ISBN 0-902030-55-8, this volume contains documents from the 1953 split in the Fourth International.

* Trotskyism vs. Revisionism Volume 3: The Socialist Workers Party's Road back to Pabloism ( 1974 ) ISBN 0-902030-56-6, this volume contains documents from the struggle within the International Committee against the turn by the most of its sections towards reunification with the International Secretariat.

* Trotskyism vs. Revisionism Volume 4: The International Committee Against Liquidationism ( 1974 ) ISBN 0-902030-57-4, this volume contains documents from the 1963 reunification of most of the ICFI with the United Secretariat.

* Trotskyism vs. Revisionism Volume 6: The Organisation Communiste Internationaliste Breaks with Trotskyism ( 1975 ) ISBN 0-902030-73-6, this volume contains documents relating to the 1971 split by the French Organization Communiste Internationaliste ( OCI ) with the ICFI.

* Trotskyism vs. Revisionism Volume 7: The Fourth International and the Renegade Wohlforth ( 1984 ), this volume contains documents from the political struggle waged within the Workers League against Tim Wohlforth, who deserted his post as national secretary in 1973.

* Marxism vs. ultraleftism: the record of Healy's break with Trotskyism by Ernest Germain ( introduction ) New York: National Education Dept., Socialist Workers Party 1974

In the first week of July 1937 Orwell arrived back at Wallington ; on 13 July 1937 a deposition was presented to the Tribunal for Espionage & High Treason, Valencia, charging the Orwells with ' rabid Trotskyism ', and being agents of the POUM.

Among Stalin's contributions to Communist theoretical literature were " Dialectical and Historical Materialism ," " Marxism and the National Question ", " Trotskyism or Leninism ", and " The Principles of Leninism.

Many labor unions and workers ' parties worldwide were also influenced by Marxist ideas, while various theoretical variants, such as Leninism, Stalinism, Trotskyism, and Maoism, were developed from them.

These tendencies include Leninism, Stalinism, Trotskyism, Maoism, Luxemburgism, and libertarian Marxism.

Trotsky's ideas formed the basis of Trotskyism, a major school of Marxist thought that is opposed to the theories of Stalinism.

Early currents of libertarian Marxism, known as left communism, emerged in opposition to Marxism – Leninism and its derivatives, such as Stalinism, Maoism, and Trotskyism.

In post – Revolutionary Russia, Stalinism ( Socialism in one country ) and Trotskyism ( Permanent world revolution ) were the principal philosophies of Communism that claimed legitimate ideological descent from Leninism ' thus, within the Communist Party, each ideological faction denied the political legitimacy of the opposing faction.

Trotskyism ideologically predominated the political platform of the Left Opposition, which demanded the restoration of soviet democracy, the expansion of democratic centralism in the Communist Party, national industrialisation, international permanent revolution, and socialist internationalism.

Opposition to Stalin by Trotsky led to a dissident Bolshevik ideology called Trotskyism that was repressed under Stalin's rule.

Like the British New Left, they recognized problems in the communism of the Soviet Union, but unlike the British New Left, they did not turn to Trotskyism or social democracy.

Orthodox Trotskyism uses the term caste rather than class, because they saw the Soviet Union as a degenerated workers ' state, not a new class society.

After Lenin's death in 1924, Leninism branched into multiple ( sometimes opposing ) interpretations, including Trotskyism, Stalinism, and Maoism.

The Left Opposition in the Soviet Union gave rise to Trotskyism which was to remain isolated and insignificant for another fifty years, except in Sri Lanka, where Trotskyism gained the majority and the pro-Moscow wing was expelled from the Communist Party.

In foreign affairs the distinction between Trotskyism and Stalinism was even sharper.

** The Soviet Union executes 31 people for alleged Trotskyism.

The Conference, held in January 1924 just before Lenin's death, denounced Trotsky and Trotskyism.

Soon Ching-kuo was an enthusiastic student of Communist ideology, particularly Trotskyism ; though following the Great Purge, Joseph Stalin privately met with him and ordered him to publicly denounce Trotskyism.

Trotskyism is the theory of Marxism as advocated by Leon Trotsky.

In contemporary English language, an advocate of Trotsky's ideas is often called a " Trotskyist "; a Trotskyist can be called a " Trotskyite " or " Trot ", especially by a critic of Trotskyism.

American Trotskyist leader James P. Cannon, in his 1942 book History of American Trotskyism, wrote that " Trotskyism is not a new movement, a new doctrine, but the restoration, the revival of genuine Marxism as it was expounded and practiced in the Russian revolution and in the early days of the Communist International.

Trotskyism Versus Revisionism: A Documentary History ( multivolume work, now out of print )

* Also of interest is volume 5 number 4 of Spring 1995 of the journal Revolutionary History: " Through Fascism, War and Revolution: Trotskyism and Left Communism in Italy ".

Hence the group included supporters of Trotskyism, like Judith Merril and others who would have been deemed far left for the era ( Frederik Pohl became a member of the Communist Party in 1936, but later quit in 1939 ).

up to the outbreak of the February revolution and for a time after Trotskyism did not mean the idea that it was impossible to build a socialist society within the national boundaries of Russia ( which " possibility " was never expressed by anybody up to 1924 and hardly came into anybody ’ s head ).

In 1935, a Marxist-Leninist named Moissaye J. Olgin published a book entitled Trotskyism: Counter-Revolution in Disguise in which he put forward the idea that Trotskyism was " the enemy of the working class " and that it " should be shunned by anybody who has sympathy for the revolutionary movement of the exploited and oppressed the world over.

Even after the Soviet repudiation of Stalin and de-stalinization, Trotskyism continued to be regarded as politically discredited and there was very little renewed support for Trotskyist ideas, particularly when it came to those already committed to another form of communism.

This tendency had moved further away from the " orthodox Trotskyism " of the SWP, which made for an uncomfortable presence.

As they regard both sides of the 1953 split in the Fourth International to have affirmed this stance, which they regard as a fundamental breach with Leninism and Trotskyism, and as they believe all the major forces having emerged from the Fourth International to be implementing this false ' processist ' methodology today, they call for a new Fifth International to be built by the working class forces fighting neoliberalism worldwide, including from the workers ' trade unions, parties and other forces participating in the World Social Forum and analogous continental formations like the Asian and European Social Forums.

A more current term for Left Shachtmanism is Third-Camp Trotskyism, the Third Camp being differentiated from capitalism and Stalinism.

Schwartz encountered serious problems trying to enter the United States to receive his medal, because of his sympathy for Trotskyism but was ultimately successful.

Schwartz ultimately rejected Trotskyism for democratic socialism.

* The Struggle for Marxism in the United States: A History of American Trotskyism Tim Wohlforth Labor Publications, 1971.

He attended the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens from 1937 until 1938 when, during the Fascist Metaxas dictatorship, he was arrested for purported Trotskyism.

The Left Opposition in the Soviet Union gave rise to Trotskyism which was to remain isolated and insignificant for another fifty years, except in Sri Lanka where Trotskyism gained the majority and the pro-Moscow wing was expelled from the Communist Party.

The Congress did not attempt to present the ICFI as ' the Fourth International ', rather it positioned the IC as a force that defended what it saw as the political continuity of Trotskyism and called for the ' rebuilding and reconstruction of the Fourth International '.

They point out the existence of significant communist opposition to the totalitarian " communist states " of the 20th century ( including, for example, Trotskyism ), and argue that, if they were to abandon the term communism, it would only serve to further obscure the history of that opposition.

As they regard both sides of the 1953 split in the Fourth International to have affirmed this stance, which they regard as a fundamental breach with Leninism and Trotskyism, and as they believe all the major forces having emerged from the Fourth International to be implementing this false ' processist ' methodology today, they call for a new Fifth International to be built by the working class forces fighting neoliberalism worldwide, including from the workers ' trade unions, parties and other forces participating in the World Social Forum and analogous continental formations like the Asian and European Social Forums.

At this point they adopted a revolutionary defeatist position on the war and condemned Trotskyism for its critical defence of Russia ( which was seen by Trotskyists as a degenerated workers ' state ).

In Liverpool, the militant tradition to which Taaffe refers was can be traced to a founder member of the Communist Party ( Albert Houghton ) who had " long battled with the Stalinists " forming a basis for Trotskyism in Liverpool before the Second World War.

* Leninism or Trotskyism by Joseph Stalin, Lev Kamenev and Grigory Zinovyev Chicago: Published for the Workers Party of America by the Daily Worker Pub.