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Since this was printed, eight long years have passed. Trotsky has lived here and there in Europe, always kindling the flame of "Trotskyism" which is after all Communism. Today Trotsky is in Mexico- the ideal country for an assassination- and Stalin continues to disappoint the many Stalinists who continue to clamor for his extermination-but why should Stalin have Trotsky done away with...
Trotsky & Trotskyism, Lev Davidovich Bronstein was born 57 years ago in the Ukraine of peasant parents so prosperous that today in Russia they would be exterminated as kulaks. At only 19, this brilliant little Jew was already in the custody of Tsarist police as a revolutionist of mark. Bronstein's various escapes from Siberia were always theatrically brilliant, in contrast to the methodical escapes at the same period of Djhugashvili who is now called Stalin. Bronstein, when Tsarist Russia finally got too hot for him, escaped on a forged passport in which he whimsically gave himself the name...
...headlines and dispatches which, from the outbreak of the Bolshevist revolution in 1917 to the expulsion from Russia of Trotsky in 1929 made his name a household word in even land and stamped Bolshevism for all time with the trademark of "Lenin & Trotsky," but not everyone today could define Trotskyism...
Trotsky urged the industrialization oi Russia, and that was "Trotskyism" until he had been kicked out and it became Stalinism. Trotsky urged regimentation oi the Russian peasantry by the Dictatorship of the Proletariat, the peasants to be uprooted from their little holdings and forced onto vast collective farms with tractor; replacing horses and Moscow able at any moment to shut off the gasoline if the peasants got obstreperous. That too was "Trotskyism," bitterly denounced by Stalin until, Trotsky having been ousted, it became and is today Stalinism...
...major premise of "Trotskyism" that Communism cannot be successful in a single country unless it simultaneously is fomented in all countries anc they become presently Communist. On this point, the acts of Stalin show his theory now to be that a success can be made oi Communism in one single country, namely the Soviet Union, and that the bulk of its funds should be devoted to achieving success there at this time, not scattered to sow Communism in other countries. These two points of view are generally accepted today as representing "Trotskyism," on the one hand, and Stalinism...