" if there is hope it lies in the proles ! " Many years after his assassination in Mexico 1940 Leon Trotsky remains an unsullied revolutionary character

Many years after his assassination in Mexico 1940 Leon Trotsky remains an unsullied revolutionary character. None of his voluminous writing suggest that he ever had a personal agenda apart from world socialist revolution. Even his Jewish background did not influence his thinking about toxic " petty bourgeois " patriotism and crackpot imperialist nation states . He would probably have a very negative -but balanced -view of Zionism today . If he was condemned by middle class moralists as the " Red Army Butcher ", he could defend himself by explaining the morality of a little something called the INTERNATIONAL CLASS STRUGGLE. Trotsky also wrote extensively on the errors of " individual terrorism " . Read his essays " Their Morals and Ours " and " Against Individual Terrorism ". Trotsky's " The Revolution Betrayed " is must reading for any politically literate socialist . It does seem to this INDEPENDENT democratic socialist that Marxist theory entered a long period of pathetic stagnation after Leon Trotsky's death. Just about ALL of the Marxist vanguard parties still around have degenerated into grotesque personality cults- actually a force for LEFT totalitarianism. Self-confident parties are not afraid of democratic debate , of the FREE SPEECH , FREE THOUGHT tradition of Western Civilization. Still one agrees with George Orwell's character in " 1984 " : Winston Smith enters this THOUGHT CRIME into his not so secret diary : " IF THERE IS HOPE IT LIES IN THE PROLES ! " Image: In Defense of Marxism by Trotsky, Leon - 1981 GOOGLE.COM Image: In Defense of Marxism by Trotsky, Leon - 1981 Found on Google from www.biblio.com