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Author:   Paul Le Blanc ,  Paul Le Blanc (La Roche College) ,  Thomas Twiss ,  George Breitman
Publisher:   Haymarket Books
Imprint:   Haymarket Books
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.00cm , Length: 21.00cm
Weight:   0.169kg
ISBN:  

9781608463961

ISBN 10:   1608463966
Pages:   114
Publication Date:   04 November 2014
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Prefatory Note from the Authors (2010) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . iii Introductory Note by George Breitman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vi Leon Trotsky and the Organizational Principles of the Revolutionary Party . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 I. The Revolutionary Party: Its Function and Consequent Norms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 II. The Challenge of the Left Opposition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 1. Function of Democracy in Democratic Centralism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 a) The Responsibility of the Ranks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 b) How the Party Builds Itself . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 c) The Responsibility of the Leadership . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 2. The Bureaucratic Mode of Functioning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 a) What Were the Objective Reasons for the Rise of the Bureaucracy? . . . . . . . . . . . 14 b) How the Bureaucratic Apparatus Functioned . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 3. Inner-Party Groups and Party Norms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 4. The Program to Restore Party Democracy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 III. Toward the World Party of Socialist Revolution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 1. The Integrity of the Revolutionary Program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 2. Functions of Party Democracy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 3. Stressing Centralism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 4. The Crisis of the French Section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 a) Principled Politics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 b) Democratic Centralism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 c) Party Building and Responsibilities of Leadership . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 d) The Turn to Workers and Mass Struggles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 5. Crises of the American Section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 a) Averting an unprincipled Split . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 b) Against Freelancing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 c) The Sectarian Opposition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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The collection is a knock-out rebuttal to those who claim that there was continuity between the first few years of the Russian revolution and the Stalinist regime. -Counterfire

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Paul Le Blanc is author of a number of widely-read studies, including Lenin and the Revolutionary Party, and Marx, Lenin and the Revolutionary Experience. With Michael Yates he has written the widely-acclaimed A Freedom Budget for All Americans. He has co-edited a selection of Leon Trotsky's Writings in Exile.

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