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“In a word, if in the pacific and ‘organic’ period (before the war) one could still live on the revenue from a few ready-made abstractions, in our time each new event forcefully brings home the most important law of the dialectic: The truth is always concrete.” — Trotsky

The inter-war years were a time of deep crisis, class struggle and revolutionary opportunities.

The economic crisis produced a crisis of democracy itself. The ruling class, with nothing to offer, ran out of means to keep the workers at bay. As Trotsky explained, under the intensity of the class struggle and international conflict, “the fuses of democracy blow out”.

What followed was a succession of Bonapartist regimes — i.e. military-police dictatorships — each paving the way for Hitler.

Featuring articles from Leon Trotsky written during the bitter struggles of the German and French working class in the 1930s, providing a Marxist understanding of the crisis, the rise of Bonapartism and Fascism, and the need for the working class to rise to power.

Also included is Ted Grant’s analysis after World War 2 on the rise of Mussolini and the Britisk Blackshirts, the capitalist backing of these gangs and how workers could mobilise to smash them.

Wellred Books, 2025
Sprog: Engelsk
Paperback, 382 sider