Part 5 of the Summer 2012 Platypus Affiliated Society Primary Reading Group Lecture Series: Trotsky and Trotskyism. Recorded on 14 July, 2012 at The New School, New York.
Audio Recording
Week 4 Readings
* recommended / * supplemental reading
* Trotsky, “Stalinism and Bolshevism” (1937)
* Trotsky, The Death Agony of Capitalism and the Tasks of the Fourth International (1938)
Trotsky, “Trade unions in the epoch of imperialist decay” (1940)
Trotsky, The Revolution Betrayed (1936)
Trotsky, In Defense of Marxism (1939/40), especially “Letter to James Cannon” (September 12, 1939)
Trotsky, “Art and politics on our epoch” (1938)
Mary McCarthy, “My Confession” (1954)