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Title: Writings of Leon Trotsky, 1932 by Leon Trotsky, George Breitman, Iain Fraser ISBN: 0-87348-227-1 Publisher: Pathfinder Press Pub. Date: March, 1973 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $65.00

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Average Customer Rating: 5 (4 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: Taking hold of history
Comment: In 1932 Trotsky receives the first inklings of Stalinist threats to murder him, faces threats from Fascists in Turkey, in France. He warns of the catastrophe that is coming in Germany because of the sectarian madness of the Stalinized Communist party. Trotsky finds time to urge on revolutionary communists from Poland to China, from New York to Moscow to fight for principled, Marxist politics. The strength of these pages is not simply what Trotsky records or how incisive his analyses are, but his cold-blooded, rational insistence that the only way out is for the workers of the world to take power out of the hands of the capitalists and the only way forward is to build an international party of real communists to do this.

Rating: 5
Summary: Challenge of 30s--and today
Comment: In this book, Trotsky aimed to shake vanguard workers out of their routines, to awaken them to both the dangers and possibilities of what lay ahead in the thirties. These articles point to the danger of Hitler, the threat of war emerging from the weakness of capitalism, and the counter-revolutionary character of Stalinism. His article on 'Proletarian' literature refutes the idea that workers could create our own culture without reshaping society. Trotsky underscores the revolutionary potential of U.S. workers and Black workers in particular. You will recognize, under the surface of today's events, the same great challenges that Trotsky described in 1932.

Rating: 5
Summary: Trotsky's writings: analysis that educates and inspires
Comment: Here are some 80 short, incisive articles, letters and interviews: a week-by-week commentary and analysis of world events and the challenges facing working-class movements from one of the great revolutionaries, Leon Trotsky. A central leader of the Russian Revolution, though exiled by Stalin in the late 1920s, Trotsky writes with enduring confidence in the capacity of workers to learn, organize and fight.

The economic collapse of the Great Depression; the rise of mass fascist movements; the drive of the Britain, Germany, Japan and the United States towards world war; leadership challenges facing working people, especially with the rise of Stalinism and the subordination of once-revolutionary Communist Parties to the conservative policies of Moscow's bureaucrats-- it's all here, with facts and clear, sharp analysis.

In reading these pages, I was constantly drawn to make comparisons with the opening of the 21st century, from the rise of Le Pen in France and fascist movements in the U.S., the growing use of military force by Washington, and the spreading resistance of working people looking for a way out of the crisis we face. The big difference, of course, is the recent collapse of the Stalinist regimes and the myth that Moscow of the 1930s represented a revolutionary way forward.

These writings are be an invaluable aid in understanding society today and figuring out what needs to be done next. The book includes fifty pages of notes that help a reader today understand the events and persons Trotsky discusses.