{"product_id":"2940014743044","title":"LEON TROTSKY COLLECTED WORKS (Special NOOK Edition) Classics of Socialist Thought [Inspiration for Che Gueverra, Occupy Wall Street, We Are The 99%, and Other Social Justice Movements] LEON TROTSKY","description":"LEON TROTSKY COLLECTED WORKS (Special NOOK Edition) \u003cbr\u003eClassics of Socialist Thought \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[Inspiration for Che Gueverra, Occupy Wall Street, We Are The 99%, and Other Social Justice Movements] LEON TROTSKY\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEXCERPT\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn order to guarantee the triumph of their interests in big questions, the ruling classes are constrained to make concessions on secondary questions, naturally only so long as these concessions are reconciled in the bookkeeping. During the epoch of capitalistic upsurge especially in the last few decades before the World War these concessions, at least in relation to the top layers of the proletariat, were of a completely genuine nature. Industry at that time expanded almost uninterruptedly. The prosperity of the civilized nations, partially, too, that of the toiling masses increased. Democracy appeared solid. Workers’ organizations grew. At the same time reformist tendencies deepened. The relations between the classes softened, at least outwardly. Thus certain elementary moral precepts in social relations were established along with the norms of democracy and the habits of class collaboration. The impression was created of an ever more free, more just, and more humane society. The rising line of progress seemed infinite to “common sense.’\u003cbr\u003eInstead, however, war broke out with a train of convulsions, crises, catastrophes, epidemics, and bestiality. The economic life of mankind landed in an impasse. The class antagonisms became sharp and naked. The safety valves of democracy began to explode one after the other. The elementary moral precepts seemed even more fragile than the democratic institutions and reformist illusions. Mendacity, slander, bribery, venality, coercion, murder grew to unprecedented dimensions. To a stunned simpleton all these vexations seem a temporary result of war. Actually they are manifestations of imperialist decline. The decay of capitalism denotes the decay of contemporary society with its right and its morals.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSELECTED TABLE OF CONTENTS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTABLE OF CONTENTS\u003cbr\u003eTHE YEAR\u003cbr\u003eTHE WAR AND THE INTERNATIONAL\u003cbr\u003eOUR REVOLUTION\u003cbr\u003eFROM OCTOBER TO BREST-LITOVSK\u003cbr\u003eTERRORISM AND COMMUNISM\u003cbr\u003eTHE MILITARY WRITINGS OF LEON TROTSKY\u003cbr\u003eTHE FIRST FIVE YEARS OF THE COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL\u003cbr\u003eTHE NEW COURSE\u003cbr\u003eLITERATURE AND REVOLUTION\u003cbr\u003eTHE LESSONS OF OCTOBER\u003cbr\u003eTHE HISTORY OF THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION\u003cbr\u003eMY LIFE\u003cbr\u003eIN DEFENCE OF OCTOBER\u003cbr\u003eTHE REVOLUTION BETRAYED  WHAT IS THE SOVIET UNION AND WHERE IS IT GOING?\u003cbr\u003eTHE STALIN SCHOOL OF FALSIFICATION\u003cbr\u003eTHEIR MORALS AND OURS\u003cbr\u003eTHE TRANSITIONAL PROGRAM FOR SOCIALIST REVOLUTION\u003cbr\u003eFASCISM WHAT IT IS AND HOW TO FIGHT IT\u003cbr\u003ePROBLEMS OF THE CHINESE REVOLUTION","brand":"Occupy Wall Street | We Are The 99% Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47147805638896,"sku":"2940014743044","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940014743044_p0.jpg?v=1763615099","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940014743044","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}