The Defence of Terrorism, originally written in 1920 on a military train during the Russian Civil War, represents one of Trotskys most wideranging and original contributions to the debates that dominated the 1920s and 30s. Trotskys intention is "far away from any thought of defending terrorism in general". Rather, he seeks to promote an historical justification for the Revolution, by demonstrating that history has set up the revolutionary violence of the progressive class against the conservative violence of the outworn classes. The argument is developed in response to the influential Marxist intellectual Karl Kautsky, who refuted Trotskys militarisation of labour and Lenins wholesale rejection of a bloodless revolution. The introduction, written for the second edition of 1935, presents Trotskys reflections on the similarities between Kautsky and the burgeoning British Labour Party specifically, it recapitulates Trotskys belief that revolution conducted according to the norms of Parliamentarianism is no revolution at all.

Binding: Paperback;190 pages; Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd; Classification: HBJD; Weight: 376 g; Dimensions: 138 x 217 x 14

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