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Capitalist Democracy

"You are lulled to sleep with the fiction of civic equality and political rights,but you are deprived of the possibility of realizing those rights.Conditional and shadowy legal equality has been transformed into the convicts'
chain with which each of you is fastened to the chariot of capitalism"

From "Terrorism and Communism" by Leon Trotsky

LEON TROTSKY (From Marxist Internet Archives : follow links, print & Read for free ).

 NB. Trotsky wrote profusely and only his most important work is displayed here.


1906: Results and Prospects
(book) Significant work!1907: The Year 1905 (book) [Click Here for PDF version 1 megabyte in size] Significant work!1914: War and the International (book) [Click Here for PDF version – 500k] Significant work!
1918: Trotsky’s Military Writings, Volume 1
(collection of articles, essays & lectures) Significant work!
1919: Trotsky’ Military Writings, Volume 2
(collection of articles, essays & lectures) Significant work!

1920: Trotsky’ Military Writings, Volume 3 (collection of articles, essays & lectures)  Significant work!
1920: Terrorism and Communism: An Answer to Karl Kautsky  Significant work!
1921: Trotsky’ Military Writings, Volume 4 (collection of articles, essays & lectures) Significant work!
1921: Summary Speech at the Eleventh Party Conference
1921: Flood-tide
1922: Between Red and White
(essay) Significant work!
1922: Trotsky’ Military Writings, Volume 5 (collection of articles, essays & lectures) Significant work!
1923: The New Course
(essay)  Significant work!
1924: The Lessons of October (essay - 182k-multi-part)  [Click Here for PDF version] Significant work!
1924: First Five Years of the Communist International Volume I Significant work!
1924: First Five Years of the Communist International Volume II Significant work!
1925: Where Is Britain Going? [book] Significant work!
1927: Platform of the Opposition [Click Here for PDF version] Significant work!
1928: The Third International After Lenin (A Draft Criticism of the Communist International)Click Here for PDF version] Significant work! [thesis] [
1930: The History of the Russian Revolution
Significant work! (book)

1930: The Turn in the Communist International and the Situation in Germany Significant work!

1930: My Life (autobiography) [Click Here for PDF version – 3.5 megbytes big!] Significant work!
1931: Germany, the Key to the International Situation Significant work!
1931: The Permanent Revolution (book) Significant work!
1932: What Next? Vital Questions for the German Proletariat
Significant work!
1932: The Only Road Significant work!
1932: Prinkipo Letter, 1932 (letter)  
1932: In Defense of October (Speech in Copenhagen, Denmark – 65.9K) Significant work!
1932: Problems of the Chinese Revolution (collection of articles) Significant work!
1932: What Next? – Vital Questions for the German Proletariat (pamphlet – 330k in 3 parts) Significant work!
1933: It Is Necessary to Build Communist Parties and an International Anew Significant work!
1934: A Program of Action for France (38K) Significant work!
1934: War and the Fourth International (87K) Significant work!
1936: The Revolution Betrayed (book)  Significant work!
1936: Whither France? Significant work!
1937: The Case of Leon Trotsky Significant work!
1937: The Stalin School of Falsification (book)[Click Here for PDF version] Significant work!
1938: The Transitional Program for Socialist Revolution (Pamphlet – 116K in 3 parts)  [Click Here for PDF version] Significant work!
1938: Their Morals and Ours (essay)  Significant work!

From The Last Letters of Leon Trotsky:
1940: On Japan’s Plans for Expansion
1942: In Defense of Marxism
(collection of articles, letters) [Click here for PDF version – 602k] Significant work!
1944: Fascism (pamphlet first published in 1944)












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