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Anv serious attempt to develop a Marxist analysis of British and internanonal bonnes today must unerciore necessarily study Marx, Engels, Lenin, Trotsky, Luxemburg, Gramsci and the other great Marxist writers. Not to do so is to ignore the most powerful intellectual resources available.

Nothing could make that clearer today than studying the question of the whether in its home burcauclacy grown variant of Kinnock, Golding, Hammond and Co, or in its international variant of Gorbachev Deng Xiaoping. Because in his analysis of the bureaucracy Trotsky made one of his most fundamental characteristic contributions to MarxIsm - — one that is of direct relevance to developing politics today.

For Trotsky, as with Lenin, the fundamental feature of the modern world was rule by the imperialist system. Imperialism, dominates the world. As Trotsky wrote in The Third International After Lenin:

the population of the country.

state indirectly, termediary bureaucracy: ° tries, is precisely Lne MOS bureaucratism Willis, precisely in the traae unions.

and Germany.

organisation of especially in England.

bureaucracy,

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Socialist Áction 24 April 1987