Trotsky's New Course - North London AWL branch meeting
Red Rose, 127 Seven Sisters Road, near Finsbury Park tube (Picc/Victoria)
North London's AWL branch meetings are open to all. At the moment we are doing a series on the life and work of Leon Trotsky. This week the focus is on The Soviet Union after the Revolution and 'The New Course.'
“The struggle against the bureaucratism of the state apparatus is an exceptionally important but prolonged task, one that runs more or less parallel to our other fundamental tasks: economic reconstruction and the elevation of the cultural level of the masses. The most important historical instrument for the accomplishment of all these tasks is the party. Naturally, not even the party can tear itself away from the social and cultural conditions of the country. But as the voluntary organization of the vanguard, of the best, the most active and the most conscious elements of the working class, it is able to preserve itself much better than can the state apparatus from the tendencies of bureaucratism. For that, it must see the danger clearly and combat it without let up.”
Reading: The New Course (1923) -
http://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1923/newcourse/index.htm.
Short Reading: Chapter 1: the question of party generations.
For more info contact David Broder - 07828 844695/davidthetrot@googlemail.com