Commences Monday 22 August, 7:00 pm and then every second Monday until 6 February
How do we change the world? For anyone searching for an answer, this discussion circle is a must! Discover the essential writings on workers’ power, internationalism and social transformation by Marxist revolutionary Leon Trotsky. Participate in a lively exploration of the relevance of these ideas to global rebellion today. A new re-issue of the book is available for purchase for $24 from Solidarity Salon.
Dinner served at 6:30 pm for an $8 donation.
Solidarity Salon, 580 Sydney Road, Brunswick.
Sponsored by the Freedom Socialist Party, www.socialism.com/melbourne
For more information or to the purchase the book: phone 03 9388 0062 or email freedom.socialist.party@ozemail.com.au
Everyone welcome!
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Trotsky meant peasants not massacred fast enough
Trotsky's admirers, who even today persist in seeing him as some sort of liberal democrat; or, if not as that, then as a true champion of the working class; or anyway, and at the very worst, as one of those large-hearted Old Bolsheviks who might have made the Soviet Union some kind of successfully egalitarian society had they prevailed. But when it became clear that the vast crime called the collectivization of agriculture would involve a massacre of the peasantry, Trotsky's only criticism was that Stalin's campaign was not sufficiently "militarized." He meant that the peasants weren't being massacred fast enough.
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/clives_lives/2007/04/leo...
Maybe we can look at Hitler and Participate in a lively exploration of the relevance of these ideas to global rebellion today.