IMGpapers 1980–83

Newspapers of the International Marxist Group and its forerunners, 1980–83

Trotsky-no let-up in struggle against the bureaucracy

Socialist Challenge No. 132, 31 January 1980 · pp. 10-11 of the scan · 232 words

The scan: sc-n132-jan-31-1980.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

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page 10 of the scan

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Socialist Challenge 31 January 1980 Pageo rally. (National Tess Gill tional class struggle... 'MISTAKES on the question of defence of the USSR most frequently flow from an incorrect understanding of the methods of "defence". Defence of the USSR does not at all mean rapprochement with the Kremlin bureaucracy, the acceptance of its politics, or a conciliation with the polities of her allies. In this question, atin all others, we remain completely on the ground of the interna•We must formulate our slogans in such a way that workers see clearly just what we are defending in the USSR (state property and planned economy), world proletarian revolution.' and against whom we are conducting a ruthless struggle (the parasitie bureaucracy and its Comintern). We must not lose sight for a single moment of the fact that the question of overthrowing the Soviet bureaucracy is for us subordinate to the question of preserving state property in the means of production in the USSR; that the question of preserving state property in the means of production in the USSR is subordinate for us to the question of the (Leon Trotsky, In Defence of Marxism, 1939)

page 11 of the scan

mild compared with the other things that the KGB

← Why we defend the Soviet Union Against imperialistSakharov removed from the limelight →

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