What was the Bolsheviks’ conception of the 1917 revolution?
Click here for the series on The Roots of Bolshevism of which this article is part By Sean Matgamna [An Introduction to "Trotsky's 3 Conceptions...". Both were published in Socialist Organiser at the time of the collapse of Stalinist Russia.] The erstwhile rulers of the Stalinist system — which they said was the realisation of socialism — are now working openly for the restoration of capitalism. So are most of those they rule, and in the first place the working class. The people trapped inside the Stalinist system have been kept for decades in political, economic and intellectual slavery to...