Harpal Brar
Harpal Brar delivers a 45-minute presentation on the theory and practice of Trotsky and 'Trotskyites', followed by Q&A at the CPGB-ML's Party Study School, November 2011.
One of the myths perpetrated by the Trotskyites, with not inconsiderable help from the imperialist bourgeoisie, is that Leninism and Trotskyism are synonymous, that Trotsky was, after Lenin, the most brilliant and greatest Bolshevik (some even implying that Lenin was a great Trotskyist); that Trotsky was the true inheritor of Leninism and a worthy successor to Lenin, but was, alas, deprived of his rightful place by the cunning manoeuvres of a third-class mediocrity and oriental despot to boot, ie, Joseph Stalin.
This anti-communist myth, repeated ad nauseam decade after decade in truly Goebbelsian fashion, has acquired the force of a public prejudice. Anyone with the least knowledge of the subject cannot but be aware of the total falsity of this myth.
It is the aim of this video presentation, (like the book -- see link below) to expose this myth and lay bare the truly reactionary, counter-revolutionary, essence of the petty-bourgeois ideology of Trotskyism, which is as irreconcilably hostile to Marxism Leninism as is the bourgeoisie to the proletariat -- notwithstanding its pseudo-Marxist, ultra-'left' and ultra-'revolutionary' terminology.
Trotskyism met with dismal failure both during Lenin's time and after his death, and it failed "because", to use Stalin's words, "the leading group of the opposition proved to be a group of petty-bourgeois intellectuals divorced from life, divorced from the revolution, divorced from the party, from the working class". This, and not any personal factor, explains the total rout of the Trotskyite opposition by the Bolshevik Party.
A CPGB-ML Party School production
RELATED READING:
1. Lies concerning the history of the Soviet Union, by Mario Susa: http://www.stalinsociety.org.uk/lies....
2. Trotskyism or Leninism (book), by Harpal Brar: http://www.cpgb-ml.org/index.php?secN...
ABOUT THE AUTHOR / SOURCEHarpal Brar is an internationally known Marxist scholar and social activist. Born in India, Brar has resided much of his adult life in Britain, where he still resides, and where he founded the Communist Party of Great Britain (M-L).
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It’s a real struggle (for me, at least) in order to find out what happened in the former socialist countries of Eastern Europe after 1989.
Why are interviews such as
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udPlVclWpBI
(Joti Brar and Josef Skála) never shown here ?
And, in spite of their being from the „genuine Left”, in spite of their acknowledging the socioeconomic disaster they’ve gone through, the situation of their schools is ”a bridge too far” even for them to discuss/mention. One could only guess it’s disastrous, but that’s small change, on the scale of importance!