With the class struggle heating up everywhere, and with a new generation of communists preparing for battle, now is the time to arm ourselves with the hard-won lessons of the past. For that reason, we are republishing Lenin and Trotsky: What They Really Stood For by Alan Woods and Ted Grant; a Marxist classic which uncovers the real legacy of Bolshevism, against decades of slanders and distortions by the Stalinists.
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Nope.
I’ve been seeing people natter on about Trotsky and ‘the real’ Marxism since I was a kid.
It no longer matters.
The world they lived in is gone, and rehashing their struggles does nothing for people today.
If you want to learn lessons, study Mamdani and AOC. Look at how they won elections and how they are working in the system right now.
The past belongs in the schoolroom.
