REDS – Die Roten > Trotskyism | Trotzkismus
Alex Callinicos, Trotskyism.
First published 1990 by Open University Press, Buckingham.
Copyright © A.T. Callinicos 1990.
Transcribed by Michael Gavin.
Marked up by Einde O’Callaghan for REDS – Die Roten.
Preface & Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
1 Origins
1.1 Permanent revolution
1.2 The critique of Stalinism
1.3 Revolutionary prospects
2 Crisis
2.1 Refuted conjectures
2.2 Conventionalist stratagems
3 Orthodoxies
3.1 Uncritical positivism and uncritical idealism
3.2 The big battalions
3.3 Into the watch-tower: Deutscher and Anderson
4 Heresies
4.1 Max Shachtman and the evil empire
4.2 C.L.R. James and the virtues of spontaneity
4.3 Cornelius Castoriadis and the triumph of the will
5 Reorientations
5.1 Tony Cliff and the theory of state capitalism
5.2 A progressive problem-shift?
5.3 The experience of defeat
Bibliography
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