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Trotsky Reconsidered: Claude Lefort's Perspective
Garvey, John
http://insurgentnotes.com/2013/03/trotsky-reconsidered-claude-leforts-perspective/Date Written: 2013-03-11 Publisher: Insurgent Notes Year Published: 2013 Resource Type: Article Cx Number: CX14939 In spite of all the ink spilled that says the opposite, Trotsky may have been closer to Stalin than he was to Lenin. That’s the argument made by Claude Lefort (one of the leading members of Socialisme ou Barbarisme) in a 1948 essay, “The Contradiction of Trotsky.” He criticizes Trotsky for having over and over again pursued a conciliationist approach towards Stalin and failing to uphold what Lefort claims would have been Lenin’s positions if he had still been alive. Subject Headings |