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I am a Trot. To me" Trotskyism" represents the continuing development of revolutionary Marxism....
Those in the Trotskyist tradition, such as Ted Grant, have offered the best explanation of Third World Left Bonapartist regimes such as Syria, Libya, etc.
With respect, I do not see how Ted Grant is "in the Trotskyist tradition." He walked out of the international movement a long time ago, and the characteristic stance of his tendency, everlasting, permanent entrism, with zero exit strategy, is foreign to Trotskyism, which, concerning entrism, counsels, "Get in, recruit everyone you can, then get out." I have not found any place where Trotsky indicates that revolutionaries should spend their entire careers building the imperialist, pro-war, pro-banning orders British Labour Party of Blair and Brown, which is Grant's proudest achievement.
As far as Bonapartism is concerned, the Grantists deny that Chávez is a Bonapartist, which is surely incorrect. Chávez' entire politics is mediating between classes, and, after what?, nearly a decade and a half in power, Chávez' "Bolivarian revolution" has left the Venezuelan bourgeois state entirely unscathed, which makes Chávez
not a revolutionary at all, but merely a typical
caudillo, and a very successful Bonapartist, since, in a period of mass activism, the workers and their allies have, under Chávez' leadership,
not overthrown bourgeois rule.