While the context in which the book has been written has long since passed, and its defense of democracy within the SWP ultimately unsuccessful, the writings they assembled-essentially illuminating quotes and statements, arranged by subject, from the Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky-remains important for those trying to build revolutionary organizations. With dissenting members being harassed and discussion of the shift almost nonexistent, these three committed revolutionaries set out to assemble a document which would put forward not just a defense of inner party democracy, but to begin to distill the lessons on building organization assembled by Leon Trotsky throughout his decades as a revolutionary. The authors, Diane Feeley, Paul Le Blanc, and Thomas Twiss were writing in response to the erosion of democracy within the organization and the swing towards complete adoption of the models of social change and revolution being put forward in Castro’s Cuba. ![]() Leon Trotsky and the Organizational Principles of the Revolutionary Party was originally written during an internal crisis in the American Socialist Workers Party (SWP).
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