Leon Trotsky's last book: Stalin

Alan Woods, editor of In Defence of Marxism, discusses the latest release of the most complete edition of Leon Trotsky's "Stalin" ever released. The video is recorded at Leon Trotsky's house, where he was assassinated and which is today the Leon Trotsky Museum in Mexico.

[SagesseNoir]

Stalin, I've heard, decided when he learned of Trotsky's intention to write this book, that this was the last straw. Trotsky had to go.

[albertchristophe]

Great book as all Trotsky’s books. What a style!

[SagesseNoir]

So, Alan Woods is speaking from Mexico.

[MMircea]

I doubt the USSR would have had a better fate, or a more "morally acceptable" path had Trotsky succeded Lenin. He understood fascism better than Stalin, but was incapable of understanding the Russian Empire's legacy and how it should be transformed.

[SagesseNoir]

But Trotsky and Lenin didn't lead the revolution to overthrow the Czar. That had been done BEFORE October Revolution led by them. Trotsky and Lenin overthrew Kerensky, not the Czar..

[mekoeneko]

The price for the hardback is very high.

[elliottdiaz]

Whaddya think folks? Sean Penn as Trotsky?

[alexandraadams]

stalin was a petty man, dancing on the grave of a giant

[SagesseNoir]

While I must be mindful that Trotsky and Stalin were enemies, and this must affect his perspective, I must read that book. I find that even when I disagree with Trotsky I seem to find myself debating with a brilliant mind, and a masterful prose stylist.  I expect that it will be incisive work of analysis and accomplished literary work.

[elliottdiaz]

How about Isaac Deutscher's three volume work: The Prophet Armed, Unarmed and Outcast?

I finished the first book. Are the following two worth while?

[kxkxkxkx]

Stalin Putin no difference... The KGB Chekists have ruled Russia for over a century ☝️ and they still do

[dallaskenn]

For some reason I can't trust Alan Woods' assessment here.

[faustinaegoian]

I read he hated the people 🙄👀and himself...I wish people would STOP calling these thugs great. What is great about killing innocent people. They are

[SeattlePioneer]

Trotsky imagined that he coached Lenin, but it was the other way around. Once Lenin was effectively out of the way, Trotsky never accomplished a damn thing.

By contrast, Stalin built himself a dictatorship within the dictatorship of the Communist Party, and used it to utterly dominate the party.

Trotsky campaigned for waging socialism on the peasant economy of Russia, why Stalin opposed that Stalin exiled Trotsky. As soon as that was accomplished, Stalin began his war to Sovietize the peasants of Russia, carrying that through against enormous opposition.

Stalin was a bloody dictator, and he set the standard for bloody dictators. But he had the drive and ability to accomplish his purposes while Trotsky was a loser without Lenin.

[engin]

long live workers' revolutions! I have that book, but not hard cover!

[brownlettuce]

A. Wood is delusional. Free market capitalism is the only thing that has solved problems of scarcity.