Ismail
28th April 2015, 02:01
https://archive.org/details/QuiteRightMrTrotsky
I scanned it since... it exists. The author was a member of the New Communist Party, which was a "hardline" split from the CPGB in the late 70s over the latter's drifting towards Eurocommunism. I figure the book has some slight interest as a look into British Trot politics back in the day, including brief histories of the various groups and critiques of their policies.
Plus it's amusing. Case in point, the opening words:
"Trotsky was another degenerate. At the age of eight he was already a great collector of pornographic pictures."
(Richard Wurmbrand, "Was Karl Marx a Satanist?")
"The Congress reveals an important aspect of Trotsky's character and sense of politics: his deep dislike of factionalism of any kind."
(Tariq Ali, "Trotsky for Beginners.")
Neither of these quotations will appear in the body of this work as they are both too silly. Mr. Ali's, however, is the sillier of the two, because he knows better.He later wrote a book on Czechoslovakia, which I've since put online: https://archive.org/details/CzechoslovakiaBelieveItOrNot
I scanned it since... it exists. The author was a member of the New Communist Party, which was a "hardline" split from the CPGB in the late 70s over the latter's drifting towards Eurocommunism. I figure the book has some slight interest as a look into British Trot politics back in the day, including brief histories of the various groups and critiques of their policies.
Plus it's amusing. Case in point, the opening words:
"Trotsky was another degenerate. At the age of eight he was already a great collector of pornographic pictures."
(Richard Wurmbrand, "Was Karl Marx a Satanist?")
"The Congress reveals an important aspect of Trotsky's character and sense of politics: his deep dislike of factionalism of any kind."
(Tariq Ali, "Trotsky for Beginners.")
Neither of these quotations will appear in the body of this work as they are both too silly. Mr. Ali's, however, is the sillier of the two, because he knows better.He later wrote a book on Czechoslovakia, which I've since put online: https://archive.org/details/CzechoslovakiaBelieveItOrNot