By: Anonymous

Anonymous
Sun, 06 Nov 2011 17:38:06 +0000

Trotsky's Original Theorectical Contributions
I would say the best of Trotsky's legacy is probably in his concepts of permanent revolution and combined and uneven development- absolutely essential, I think, for all radicals today attempting to understand the nature of development, and how to succesfully propose a systemic alternative on a world scale, let alone actually create one. Michael Lowy's book 'Politics of Combined and Uneven development' probably best explains the concepts. After that, his anti-fascist writings and strategies have a lot to offer us today. His writings on art and literature are pretty kick ass. Probably the most uniquely different and seperate in topics from the rest of his writings is collected in the volume 'Problems of Everyday Life' directed towards life in Revolutionary/post revolutionary Russia.