trotsky quote on the british labour/socialist movement

[ed miliband]

can anyone link me trotsky's quote on the bourgeois nature of british socialism? i can't remember the exact details but he mentions the early influence of methodism and charities or something along those lines

cheers in advance

[Dave B]

There is the following material and I think there is other stuff as well, but it is enough to start from and link your way around I think?

Leon Trotsky’s Writings on Britain Volume 2 Problems of the British Revolution

CHAPTER III The General Strike (May 1926)


http://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/britain/probs/ch05.htm

Leon Trotsky’s Writings on Britain Volume 1 Excerpts from His Writings
The Labour Movement 1906-1924


http://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/britain/v1/ch03.htm


Where is Britain Going? (1925)


http://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/britain/wibg/index.htm

Can't remember anything about methodism?

But I have not read all of Trotskys' stuff, who has.


But that kind of thing was in Thompsons history of the English working class thing


Anti trotskyist

[ed miliband]

cheers man!

i'm not a trotskyist either but you know what they say about stopped clocks