In
Honor Of The “Old Man”- On The 76th Anniversary Of The Death Of Leon
Trotsky
Markin comment:
Every year at this time we honor the
memory of the great Russian revolutionary leader, Leon Trotsky, a man who not
only was able theoretically to articulate the arc of the Russian Revolution of
1917 (the theory of permanent revolution) but personally led the defend of that
revolution against world imperialism and its internal Russian White Guard
agents. Oh yes, and also wrote a million pro-communist articles, did a little
turn at literary criticism, acted in various Soviet official capacities, led
the Communist International, led the opposition first in Russia and then
internationally to the Stalinist degeneration of that revolution, and created a
new revolutionary international (the Fourth International) to rally the
demoralized international working class movement in the face of Hitlerite
reaction. To speak nothing of hunting, fishing, raising rabbits, collecting cacti
and chasing Frida Kahlo around Mexico (oops, on that last one). In short, as I
have characterized him before, the closest that this sorry old world has come
to producing a complete communist man within the borders of bourgeois society
(except that last thing, that skirt-chasing thing, although maybe not). All
honor to his memory. Forward to new Octobers!
Usually on this anniversary I place a selection of Trotsky’s
writings on various subjects in this space. This year, having found a site that
has material related to his family life, the effect of his murder on that
family, and other more personal details of his life I am placing that material on
the site during this period in his
honor. The “forward to new Octobers” still goes, though.
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