Oh please Louis, you are just trying to shoe-horn into this an excuse to prove Trotsky didn't drop the ball here. He even says it more clearly in the anthology you uploaded!
Moreover, Permanent Revolution has taken a course very different from that which Trotsky had predicted. In accordance with the tradition of classical Marxism, he expected its next acts to be played out in the “advanced and civilized” countries of the West. Readers of this anthology will see for themselves how large Germany, France, Britain (and the United States) loomed in his revolutionary expectations and how urgent was the immediacy of the hopes he placed on them. Instead, the underdeveloped and backward East has become the main theatre of revolution. It is not that Trotsky overlooked the East’s potentialities—far from it—but he saw these as being secondary to the potentialities of the West, which in his eyes were to the end—decisive. This fault of perspective (if this is the right term here) is closely connected with the Marxist assessment of the role of the industrial working class in modern society, an assessment summed up in the famous epigram that “the revolution will either be the work of the workers or it will not be at all.” Yet not one of the social upheavals of the last two decades has been strictly “the work of the workers.” -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#7942): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/7942 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/82013043/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
