Tue 28, November 2006 @ 19:05
The nature of transitional demands
In codifying a set of transitional demands into a programme Trotsky finally resolved the ‘programme question’ at the level of method. The TP marked the successful resolution of the programmatic problems that originated with the Erfurt Programme of 1891.
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Tue 28, November 2006 @ 19:00
The first two congresses of the Comintern were characterised by the elaboration of clear revolutionary policies designed to draw a distinct line between communism and reformism. But the issues on which the parties of the Comintern were defining themselves were the fundamental questions of revolution—for soviets, for the dictatorship of the proletariat. The immediate task was to seize power in post-war Europe.
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Wed 09, August 2006 @ 12:54
Forty-nine years ago the Fourth International (FI) was founded. In the year approaching the 50th anniversary the self proclaimed inheritors of Trotskyism will dust off their copies of the FI’ s founding document. They will adopt their ritual postures toward Trotsky’s Transitional Programme, affirming its validity in one way or other. Then they will return the programme to its shelf and carry on with the systematic negation of its method and principles that has characterised their practice for more than three decades, writes Mark H.
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Sun 06, August 2006 @ 18:05
The Transitional Programme fifty years on
Permanent Revolution No. 7, Spring 1988
Half a century has passed since the Transitional Programme (TP)1 of Leon Trotsky was written. In those fifty years much has occurred that Trotsky’s programme neither foresaw nor prepared for. Trotsky’s perspectives were based on the premise that ‘Mankind’s productive forces stagnate’.2
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