Your information will also be provided to us when you follow us or otherwise interact with on or via Twitter, when you like and/or join our page on Facebook or interact with us in other ways on or via Facebook. Lenin continues the above quotation as follows; the bourgeois democratic revolution in Russia will: “last but not least carry the revolutionary conflagration into Europe. Many comrades in the Communist Party and Young Communist League will have been confused by Monty Johnstone’s mental gymnastics on the Permanent Revolution. for details on the way our use of cookies affects your personal data. The peasantry could either be used as an instrument of revolution or of reaction. “Why always blame the leaders?” ask the Communist Party “theoreticians” of 1968, echoing the indignant words of the Kautskys, Scheidemanns and Serratis in 1918-20. On the one hand, Johnstone repeats ad nauseam that Lenin regarded the revolution as bourgeois (to no avail, since, everyone except the Stalinist epigones of Lenin, is agreed on this). We cleansed out all that monarchist muck as nobody has ever done before. Here we are confronted by questions of tactics: should we consciously work towards a working-class government in proportion as the development of the revolution brings this stage nearer, or must we at that moment regard political power as a misfortune which the bourgeois revolution is ready to thrust upon the workers, and which it would be better to avoid?” (Results and Prospects, pp. It was at this point that Marx himself first advanced the slogan of “Permanent Revolution”. Steklov says: for this reason and that. Monty Johnstone devotes not a sentence to all this. To exercise these rights, please send a description of the personal information in question using the contact details in section 15 below. Monty Johnstone is wriggling uncomfortably on a hook cast by himself to trap Trotsky! Without the complicity of the Mensheviks and SRs in the Soviets, the Provisional Government could not have lasted even for an hour. Or are they aimed at the “realist philistines”, like Plekhanov, who feared the consequences of the independent movement of the workers? He sees nothing connected with the Cuban Communist Party which supported Batista as a “progressive anti-American force” in the thirties, and which denounced Castro as a “petit-bourgeois adventurer”, of the Iraqi Communist Party which hailed Kassim, as the Great Deliverer, till he began to shoot them down, and drive them underground! Nothing will raise the revolutionary energy of the world proletariat so much, nothing will shorten the path leading to its complete victory to such an extent, as this decisive victory of the revolution that has now started in Russia.” (ibid., p. 57). From late 1922 on, Trotsky made a direct attack on the whole Leninist theory of revolution and Shortly after Lenin's death in 1924, the letter was found and publicized by Trotsky's opponents within the Communist Party to portray him as Lenin's enemy. Precisely in this fact lay the future possibility of the transformation of the bourgeois-democratic revolution to the socialist revolution in Russia. Knowing this, and fearing this, the liberals altogether eschew a militia. for the privacy practices or content of those sites. The theory of the Permanent Revolution is not the complicated, arid theoretical question which Johnstone makes it out to be, but one which sums up the whole experience of the revolutionary movement in Russia of the October Revolution. He also wore glasses and had a wicked goatee, so you know he read books and stuff. Let us examine the three positions and see in what relation they stood to each other. Following in the footsteps of Marx, who had described the bourgeois “democratic party” as “far more dangerous to the workers than the previous liberals”, Lenin explained that the Russian bourgeoisie, far from being an ally of the workers, would inevitably side with the counterrevolution. It is worthless. We may also merge or partner with other organisations and in so doing transfer and/or acquire personal data. Leo Trotzki (russisch Лев Троцкий Lew Trozki, wiss. In the former case, the German workers seized power in a bloodless revolution, only to be sold out by their Social Democratic “leaders”, who, hiding behind the “bourgeois-democratic” nature of the revolution, “voluntarily surrendered” (!) And where, here, is the “leap” from Tsarism to the socialist revolution, which, Comrade Johnstone assures us, constitutes the crux of the theory of permanent revolution? This is a monstrous fact, and it should be frankly and openly admitted and the people should be told that they did not take power because they were unorganised and not conscious enough.” (Lenin, Works, vol. Zum Hauptinhalt wechseln. Copyright 2021 Leaf Group Ltd. / Leaf Group Education, Explore state by state cost analysis of US colleges in an interactive article, Marxists.org: V.I. In Defence of Marxism is committed to safeguarding your privacy. Monty Johnstone, severing the last two lines of this passage, tries to use them as further proof of Trotsky’s hostility to Lenin’s position. The very day after the publication of Lenin’s theses Kamenev wrote an editorial in Pravda under the heading ‘Our Differences’, in which it was emphasised that the theses represented only Lenin’s “personal opinion”. In the early 1920s, Trotsky seemed the heir apparent of Lenin, but he lost out in the struggle of succession after Lenin fell ill in 1922. We use cookies to identify you when you visit our website. Under the pretext of loyalty to the slogan of the “democratic dictatorship of the proletariat and peasantry”, they are everywhere pursuing a policy of class collaboration which is just what Trotsky called it, a “malicious caricature of Menshevism”. Leon Trotsky - Leon Trotsky - Exile and assassination: In January 1928 Trotsky and his principal followers were exiled to remote parts of the Soviet Union, Trotsky himself being assigned to Alma-Ata (now Almaty) in Central Asia. In other words the revolutionary government, in Trotsky’s view, could take no form other than the dictatorship of the proletariat. He created and commanded the Red Army and was a member of the Politburo, which oversaw all other branches of the Soviet government and made all policy decisions. In 1927, he was thrown out of the party. Elsewhere Lenin explains, what would be ABC for any Marxist, that the conditions for a socialist transformation of society were absent in Russia, although they were fully matured in Western Europe. The differences arose from Lenin’s characterisation of the revolutionary-democratic government which would carry through the tasks of the revolution as the “democratic dictatorship of the proletariat and peasantry”. This is expressed very clearly in the Lessons of October: Monty Johnstone quotes (with his customary “conciseness”) from this pamphlet, but he does not explain why it was written, when it was written, or what is in it. Inevitably, the development of the revolution must, at some stage, result in the seizure of power by the workers, supported by a section of the peasantry. a slogan embracing the workers and peasants. Dell Markey is a full-time journalist. Soon after, Stalin exiled Trotsky and, in 1940, had him assassinated. Subsequently it was included by the publishers (Harcourt Brace and Co., 1928) as a supplement to The Real Situation in Russia by Leon Trotsky. Let us see what Trotsky was writing at the same time as Lenin: “This results in the fact that the struggle for the interests of all Russia has fallen to the lot of the only now existing strong class in the country, the industrial proletariat. Ideas that enter the mind under fire remain there securely and for ever. But the revolution in the West can only be a socialist revolution, because of the tremendous development of the productive forces built up under capitalism itself, and the enormous strength of the working class and the labour movement in these countries. The October Revolution marked the socialist stage. We will rely on this ground to process your personal data when it is not practical or appropriate to ask for consent. The work was written in 1923, after the defeat of the revolutionary movement in Germany, largely due to the bungling of Stalin and Zinoviev. The attempted counter-revolutionary coup of Kornilov in August-September 1917, with the support and encouragement of the bourgeoisie, signalised the bankruptcy of the whole rotten system of bourgeois democracy in Russia. This little paragraph which Johnstone “accidentally” left out of the middle of his quotation puts the whole matter in a nutshell. Preview. File: PDF, 7.31 MB. Indeed it did, Comrade Johnstone! “The European workers will then show us ‘how to do it’, and then together with them we shall bring about the socialist revolution.” (Works, vol. It was so good to feel someone so close. The assertion that the theory of permanent revolution consists “essentially” of a “leap” from Tsarism to the socialist revolution, without any intermediate phase is arrant nonsense which proves only that Monty Johnstone has either not bothered to read Trotsky, or else is back to his old “objective, scientific” methods. of the need for implacable opposition towards the bourgeois Provisional Government, and its overthrow by the working class. What class, in Lenin’s view, could lead the bourgeois-democratic revolution? What was the relationship between Leninism and Stalinism? At best, it may bring about a radical redistribution of landed property in favour of the peasantry, establish consistent and full democracy, including the formation of a republic, eradicate all the oppressive features of Asiatic bondage … lay the foundations for a thorough improvement in the conditions of the workers and for a rise in their standard of living, and – last but not least – carry the revolutionary conflagration into Europe.” (Works, vol. This is the crux of Lenin’s prognosis of the coming revolution in Russia: the revolution can only be bourgeois-democratic (not socialist) but, at the same time, because the bourgeoisie is unfit to play a revolutionary role, the revolution can only be carried out by the working class, led by the Social-Democracy, which will rouse the peasant masses in its support. Thus the 1927 Platform of the Left Opposition … reproduces the declaration of Trotsky and his associates to the Communist International on 15 December, 1926: ‘Trotsky has stated to the International that in those questions of principle upon which he disputed with Lenin, Lenin was right – and particularly upon the question of permanent revolution and the peasantry’. Trotsky arrived penniless. Marx and Engels had explained the cowardly, counter-revolutionary role of the German bourgeoisie in 1848 in terms of its fear of the working class movement which stood menacingly behind it in its struggle against feudalism and autocracy. Please refer to our Cookies Policy for details on the way our use of cookies affects your personal data. But the mere general admission of the bourgeois nature of the revolution could not answer the concrete question of which class would lead the revolutionary struggle against autocracy. To this idea of Lenin, Trotsky replied that at no time in history had the peasantry ever been able to play an independent role. Find books Vladimir Lenin and Leon Trotsky were among the earliest and most influential leaders in the 1917 Russian Revolution. One of Trotsky's core beliefs was the concept of permanent revolution. We may transfer and/or store personal data collected from you to and/or at a destination outside the European Economic Area (“EEA”). We will balance your rights and our legitimate interests to ensure that we use your personal information in ways that are not unduly intrusive or unfair in other ways. If he wrote no polemics against the theory of permanent revolution after 1917, if he permitted the publication of Trotsky’s works on this question without comment, and approved a note in the official edition of his Collected Works expressing agreement with this theory, it could only be because, after the issues had been settled by the October Revolution, he was broadly in agreement with Trotsky on this question. In this, we differ from Comrade Johnstone. What was the position of the “Old Bolsheviks” who played such an “important role” in the year 1917? But the question is: how did the workers and peasants come to hand over power “voluntarily”, to the bourgeoisie, which, “as foreseen by Lenin”, was bound to play, and did play, a counter-revolutionary role? When Trotsky was nine, his father sent … [! Most of our interactions with supporters are voluntary and not contractual. It must carry on a ruthless fight against internal reaction, and, to do this it must rouse the socialist workers of the West to its support. But even that was in abeyance: the original intention of the heroes of Russian “democracy” was to create a constitutional monarchy. Trotsky and the Permanent Revolution? 199-200, our emphasis). Monty Johnstone masks his own confusion (and deepens that of his readers!) He argued that the peasantry should be mobilised by the workers in order to carry through the democratic, anti-feudal tasks. Monty Johnstone reproduces this passage, without explaining the context, in order to prove that Lenin continued to defend the idea of the “democratic dictatorship” in 1917. When Lenin fell ill and died, Trotsky was easily outmanoeuvred by Stalin. You may give us your personal data in order to subscribe to a newsletter or publication, when you contact us by phone, email or post, when you sign a petition / statement, and/or when you donate money to us. Their indignant and malicious attacks upon “Trotskyism” and “permanent revolution” were merely the expression of their repudiation of the revolutionary traditions of Bolshevism which conflicted with their material interests. from Tsarism to October, skipping February. The Provisional Government hung in mid-air, deprived of any solid basis of support, other than that which the cowardly readerships of the Mensheviks and SRs were prepared to “voluntarily surrender” to it! Johnstone really scrapes the bottom of the barrel, when he drags up the old slander that Trotsky’s theory ignored the role of the peasantry in the revolution. Only 4 of these are relevant to us: We will ask for your consent to use your information to send you electronic communications such as newsletters and and fundraising emails, and if you ever share sensitive personal information with us. Trotsky let out a savage moan, spurring Lenin to slam into him even harder. Political Revolution Feeling. To these must be added, in the conditions prevailing in 1917, the immediate conclusion of a democratic peace. At no time was any such slogan put forward by Trotsky, who, time and again, both before and after 1905, pointed out the bourgeois democratic nature of the revolution. But once in power, the proletariat will not relinquish it to the bourgeoisie or the petty bourgeoisie. Save for later . We have already shown how Trotsky explained his mistake on the question of the Bolshevik Party. Let Lenin speak for himself: “Thus, at this stage, [after the final victory of the “democratic dictatorship”] the liberal bourgeoisie and the well-to-do peasantry plus partly the middle peasantry organise counter-revolution. The fact is that the proletariat is not organised and class conscious enough. ISBN 13: 9781608467914. The Theory of The Permanent Revolution, Pre–order now: Engels' Origins of the Family, Private Property and the State, New publication of “Reason in Revolt” in Farsi, New edition of Trotsky's autobiography, ‘My Life’ – intro by Alan Woods, Alan Woods' Art and Class Struggle published in Farsi. The Russian proletariat plus the European proletariat organise revolution. als Lew Dawidowitsch Bronstein, russisch Лев Давидович Бронштейн, Transliteration Lev Davidovič Bronštejn in Janowka, Gouvernement Cherson, Russisches Kaiserreich; † 21. However, Trotsky was also known as Lenin's chief subordinate. Q&A session 1989 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUGr5rZSWPo This Policy and any other policies and statements used on our website and in our communications are intended to provide you with a clear and transparent description of how your personal information may be used. Lenin prevailed and peace was established at great cost. When that time comes we shall deal with the question of the socialist dictatorship of the proletariat, and speak of it in greater detail.” (Works, vol. Combining Young Lenin and On Lenin in one volume, this is a fascinating political biography by Lenin’s fellow revolutionary, Leon Trotsky.Trotsky on Lenin brings together two long-out-of-print works in a single volume for the first time, providing an intimate and illuminating portrait of the Bolshevik leader by another of the twentieth century’s greatest revolutionaries. Trotsky played a leading role, together with Lenin, during the 1917 Russian Revolution. 9, p. 86). surrendering its supremacy.” (Cogito, p. 11). Please login to your account first; Need help? Arguing against class collaboration, both Lenin and Trotsky explained that only the working class, in alliance with the peasant masses, could carry out the tasks of the bourgeois-democratic revolution. What lessons have the Communist Party leaders drawn from all this? By a series of twists and turns, Monty Johnstone tries to explain that the Kerensky government represented a realisation of the bourgeois democratic dictatorship, as foreseen by Lenin in 1905. It was in this context that Lenin wrote that: “The Bolshevik slogans and ideas in general have been fully corroborated by history; but concretely, things have turned out differently than could have been anticipated (by anyone): they are more original, more specific, more variegated … ‘The revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat and peasantry’ has already become a reality. Personal data, however provided to us, will be used for the purposes specified in this Policy or in relevant parts of the website. (the bulk of the soldiers were peasants) and the capitalist Provisional Government to which it was voluntarily [!!] In an apogee of exasperation, Monty Johnstone blurts out: “It required the October Revolution, establishing the dictatorship of the proletariat, to carry out those bourgeois democratic tasks which had not been tackled or completed between February and October.” (Cogito, p. 12). The Indonesian comrades, with their “Leninist” policy of a bloc of “workers, peasants, intelligentsia, national bourgeoisie, progressive aristocrats and all patriotic elements” grovelled before the “progressive” dictator Sukarno as a result of which half a million Communists were murdered without resistance. Lenin [Trotsky, Leon] on Amazon.com. Revolutions are always verbose. Most frequently terms . Trotsky criticised this formulation for its vagueness; that it did not make clear which class would exercise the dictatorship. Lenin hammers the point home: “The democratic revolution is bourgeois in nature. 33, p.s 52-3). Provided we are satisfied that you are entitled to see the information requested and we have successfully confirmed your identity, we have 30 days to comply. While there was agreement on the fundamental questions in the struggle against Stalinism – industrialisation, collectivisation, workers’ democracy, internationalism, etc – on other questions Kamenev and Zinoviev still held a different position. In the October Revolution, the proletariat, in alliance with the poor peasants, first solved the basic problems of the bourgeois democratic revolution, then went on, uninterruptedly, to carry out socialist measures. At all events, the only possible outcome of the revolution was either the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie, which would fall into the arms of Tsarist reaction, or the dictatorship of the proletariat, in alliance with the poor peasantry. The provision of your personal data to us is voluntary. Er kombinierte die Fähigkeiten eines Theoretikers mit denen eines Politikers und eines Staatsmannes. Most sources report that Lenin disliked Trotsky, but felt it necessary to work with him. Lenin himself completely discarded the slogan of the “democratic dictatorship” in April, 1917. You can check the personal data we hold about you, and ask us to update it where necessary, by emailing us at webmaster@marxist.com. However, without providing us with your personal data, you will be unable to (as appropriate): contact us; subscribe to our mailing list; subscribe to any of our publications; or receive information about In Defence of Marxism. The slogan of a general distribution, or ‘land and freedom’ is a bourgeois slogan.” (ibid., p. 112). What were the differences between Lenin’s ideas and those of Trotsky’s? “To hold, under the actual conditions of revolution, a position of supporting democracy pushed to its logical conclusion of opposition to socialism as ‘being premature‘, meant, in politics, a shift from the proletarian to a petty bourgeois position. Trotsky himself explains: “In the revolution at the beginning of the twentieth century, the direct objective tasks of which are also bourgeois [our emphasis], there emerges as a near prospect the inevitable, or at least the probable, political domination of the proletariat. Indeed, Comrade Johnstone, Trotsky would not attempt to deny this. 6, p. 34). Aber die beiden hatten im Laufe der Jahre mehrere politische Auseinandersetzungen und Trotzki stoß erst 1917 endgültig zu den Bolschewiki dazu. What was necessary, as Lenin and Trotsky clearly understood, was for the workers and peasants to organise to convert this “dual power” (an abortion which resulted from the sell-out of the Mensheviks and SRs) into real workers’ power. Trotsky met Vladimir Lenin in London in 1902, and Lenin had a great influence on him. One must know how to adapt schemes to facts, rather than repeat words regarding a ‘dictatorship of the proletariat and peasantry’ … in general words which have become meaningless.” (Lenin, Selected Works, vol. Sometimes we will be obliged to process your personal information due to legal obligations which are binding on us. We would ask Monty Johnstone: What was all the preparation of the last period for: What was the point of Lenin’s struggle for “thirteen or fourteen years” to build a “stable disciplined Marxist party” if at the crucial moment all the “old Bolsheviks” failed to rise to the occasion? Lev Davidovich Bronstein (7 November [O.S. Lenin, in keeping with the Bolshevik ideal of vesting power in the hands of a small group of loyal Communists, believed that labor unions were unnecessary and potentially disruptive. ), standing. These were the famous Two Tactics of Social Democracy which Lenin deals with in his pamphlet from which Monty Johnstone quotes, and which he mangles beyond recognition. This must be admitted: material strength is in the hands of the proletariat but the bourgeoisie turned out to be prepared and class conscious. Opportunists of every stripe have always placed the responsibility for defeats at the door of the masses who are allegedly “unready” for socialism. Lenin tried to explain to the “Old Bolsheviks” that the slogan of the “democratic dictatorship” was not some “super-historical formula” to be incanted at every junction, regardless of the actual development of the class struggle. This Privacy Policy does not cover external websites and we are not responsible for the privacy practices or content of those sites. Lenin criticized Trotsky, accusing him of harassing the unions and abandoning his support for the proletariat. What has Monty Johnstone to say about the German revolution of 1918 or the Italian stay-in strikes of 1920? In January 1929 Trotsky was banished from the territory of the Soviet Union. Let us see what Lenin actually did say on the question of the class nature of the “democratic dictatorship”: “But of course it will be a democratic, not a socialist dictatorship. Therein lies the “permanent”, uninterrupted nature of the Russian Revolution. Be asking how and why it came about that Stalin defeated Trotsky in the coalition in... Passing from bourgeois-democratic tasks to socialist measures against Lenin, Comrade Johnstone the Civil war the. 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