NDLI: Leon Trotsky’s Contribution to the Marxist Theory of History

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Author	Blackledge, Paul
Copyright Year	2006
Abstract	Trotsky’s contribution to historical materialism has been subject to two broadly defined critical assessments. Detractors have tended to dismiss his interpretation of Marxism as a form of productive force determinism, while admirers have tended to defend his Marxism as a voluntarist negation of the same. In this essay I argue that both of these opinions share an equally caricatured interpretation of Second International Marxism against which Trotsky is compared. By contrast, I argue that Trotsky’s Marxism can best be understood as a powerful application and deepening of the strongest elements of Second International methodology to a novel set of problems. Thus, against Trotsky’s admirers, I locate his Marxism as both emerging out of, in addition to breaking with, Second International Marxism; while, against his critics, I argue that it was precisely the strengths of this earlier interpretation of Marxism that informed Trotsky’s powerful contributions to historical materialism: his concept of combined and uneven development and his discussion of the role of individual agents within the Marxist interpretation of history.
Starting Page	1
Ending Page	31
Page Count	31
File Format	PDF
ISSN	09259392
Journal	Studies in East European Thought
Volume Number	58
Issue Number	1
e-ISSN	15730948
Language	English
Publisher	Kluwer Academic Publishers
Publisher Date	2006-01-01
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Leon Trotsky historical materialism Marxism historiography Philosophy Political Philosophy History Political Science
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Philosophy Law Cultural Studies Literature and Literary Theory

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