In Defence of Marxism

<p>This book is correctly regarded as one of Trotsky's finest classics. It is a product of a sharp polemic within the American trotskyist movement during the period 1939-40. This was a dispute which touched on the very fundamentals of Marxism. It was for this reason that Trotsky himself participated in this struggle in the form of a series of articles and letters that are brought together in this volume.<br /><br />The issues covered concern the essence of Marxist theory and deal with such questions as:</p><ul> <li>The class nature of the Soviet state.</li> <li>The defence of the Soviet Union against imperialist attack.</li> <li>Bolshevik principles of organisation.</li> <li>Dialectical Materialism.</li></ul><p>This book is Trotsky at his best: profound concise and theorectically razor sharp.</p>