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Sam Bornstein
Sam Bornstein (1920 - 1990) was a British Trotskyist historian and activist. Bornstein was a member of the ILP Guild of Youth, but eventually moved towards Trotskyist ideas and joined the Workers' International League (1937), Workers International League, helping to build their branch in Stepney. With Al Richardson (historian), Al Richardson, published three books on the history of Trotskyism in United Kingdom, Britain through their "Socialist Platform" publishing house. In 1988 they founded the journal ''Revolutionary History'', dedicated to the history of the anti-Stalinist left. Publications * * * References External links Obituary by Sam Levy 1920 births 1990 deaths British Trotskyists British Marxist historians Revolutionary Communist Party (UK, 1944) members British Marxists Historians of communism {{UK-historian-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trotskyist
Trotskyism is the political ideology and branch of Marxism developed by Ukrainian-Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky and some other members of the Left Opposition and Fourth International. Trotsky self-identified as an orthodox Marxist, a revolutionary Marxist, and Bolshevik– Leninist, a follower of Marx, Engels, and 3L: Vladimir Lenin, Karl Liebknecht, and Rosa Luxemburg. He supported founding a vanguard party of the proletariat, proletarian internationalism, and a dictatorship of the proletariat (as opposed to the " dictatorship of the bourgeoisie", which Marxists argue defines capitalism) based on working-class self-emancipation and mass democracy. Trotskyists are critical of Stalinism as they oppose Joseph Stalin's theory of socialism in one country in favour of Trotsky's theory of permanent revolution. Trotskyists criticize the bureaucracy and anti-democratic current developed in the Soviet Union under Stalin. Vladimir Lenin and Trotsky, despite their ideologi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
