If I were to offer Brand himself any advice, it would be this: Given that you take pride in questioning everything, then question the alternatives that are being set before you. Before accepting those who so casually dismiss socialism, carry out some independent study, including such works as Trotsky’s My Life, The History of the Russian Revolution and The Revolution Betrayed, beginning—I would strongly suggest—with a careful study of David North’s The Russian Revolution and the Unfinished Twentieth Century. Anyone seeking a way forward today must address the fundamental question posed in that politically unfinished century, “Was there an alternative to Stalinism?” An answer can only be provided by a familiarity with the historic struggle to defend socialist internationalism waged by Trotsky. Whether Brand chooses to do so, or continues along the intellectual dead end path he is presently travelling, is a matter of conjecture. What is certain is that many of those who have embraced him for his critical stand will not be satisfied with the confused economic nostrums and religiosity presented in his Revolution—and will seek a more substantial answer to the crisis facing humanity
Posted on: Wed, 03 Dec 2014 11:30:02 +0000
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