Topic summary
In Defence of Marxism (book)
- Our Political Tasks
- Our Revolution
- 1905
- The Permanent Revolution and Results and Prospects
- Terrorism and Communism
- Trotsky's Military Writings
- Literature and Revolution
- Problems of Everyday Life
- New Course
- Lessons of October
- Towards Socialism or Capitalism?
- Leon Trotsky on China
- My Life
- The Permanent Revolution
- History of the Russian Revolution
- The Revolution Betrayed
- The Stalin School of Falsification
- Their Morals and Ours
- The Transitional Program
- Stalin
- Writings of Leon Trotsky
- The Spanish Revolution, 1931-1939
- The Struggle Against Fascism in Germany
- In Defence of Marxism
In Defence of Marxism is a posthumous collection of philosophical texts written by Russian revolutionary, Leon Trotsky, between 1939-40. In a series of polemical articles, Trotsky examines issues related to the class nature of the Soviet state, the philosophy of dialectical materialism and party factions in the American Socialist Workers Party.
These polemics were written due to the criticisms raised by a number of heterogeneous factions in the Trotskyist movement which included figures such as James Burnham, Max Shachtman and Martin Abern. These groups posed moral criticisms on the defence of the Soviet Union in regards to the Finnish War and increasingly rejected the theoretical basis of materialist dialectics for a socialist movement.