The Third International After Lenin

Excerpt from The Third International After Lenin <p>This book then was yet another effort, and Trotsky's last from within the ussr, to arrest the malignant growth of Stalinism. But already by 1928 the bureaucracy had con solidated its caste position on a base Of social and economic privileges. The pretense of political discussion in which it had been forced to engage earlier was no longer necessary. It now could, and did, proceed by expulsions, imprisonments and repressions. <p>Thus, as James P. Cannon relates in his introduction to the 1929 edition of this work (see appendix) and at greater length in The History of American Trotskyism (pp. 48 Trotsky's document received Short Shrift at the Sixth World Congress. Through some slip up in the technical machinery the document reached the committee on program. Cannon, a delegate Of the American cp, was by chance assigned to this committee. There he came across sections of the docu ment and was convinced by Trotsky's arguments which had been concealed from the foreign cps. Though the appara tus ordered the recall of all copies of the critical document, Cannon managed to smuggle one out upon his return to the United States. <p>About the Publisher <p>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com <p>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.