Brief Discussion of Dissident Marxist Litterature

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A Dissident Marxist (Trotsky/Nin/Orwell/Cliff/Solzhenitsyn) Reading List:

The Revolution Betrayed (1936)
https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1936/revbet/

Fascism: What is it and How to Fight it (1931-1933)
https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/works/1944/1944-fas.htm

The Stalin School of Falsification (1937)
https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1937/ssf/

The Transitional Program: (1938)
https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1938/tp/

Discussions with Trotsky about the Transitional Program: (1938)
https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1938/tp/tpdiscuss.htm

Manifesto of the Fourth International: (1940)
https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1940/05/letter03.htm

Manifesto of the Fourth International on the Dissolution of the Comintern: (1943)
https://www.marxists.org/history/etol/document/fi/1938-1949/ww/1943-ww04.htm

1984 / Animal Farm (George Orwell)
*The premise of George Orwell in writing '1984' was the theory of "Bureaucratic Collectivism" popular among Left Communits to define Stalins's USSR.

1984 (1949): https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40961427-1984
Animal Farm (1945): https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/170448.Animal_Farm

Gulag Archipelago (Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, 1973)
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/70561.The_Gulag_Archipelago_1918_1956

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Revisionist Trotskyism:

Tony Cliff: "State Capitalism in Russia" (1955)
https://www.marxists.org/archive/cliff/works/1955/statecap/

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Andres Nin Internet Archive:
https://www.marxists.org/archive/nin/index.htm

The Fascist Danger and the Need for a United Front of the Proletariat
(November 1931)
https://www.marxists.org/archive/nin/1931/11/danger.htm

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Left (Marxist-Leninist) Anti-Trotskyism:

SKP ( A Radical Left Swedish Communist Party)
https://skp.se
https://skp.se/english/

DEN MODERNA TROTSKISMENS KARAKTÄR
https://skp.se/bokforlaget-fram/butik/den-moderna-trotskismens-karaktar/
(https://archive.org/details/contemporarytrotskyismbasmanov)

Contemporary Trotskyism: Its Counter-Revolutionary Nature: (Basmanov)
https://archive.org/details/contemporarytrotskyismbasmanov

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Josip Broz Tito
Trotskyism and Its Helpers
https://www.marxists.org/archive/tito/1939/x01/x01.htm

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Marta Harnecker

Cuba: Dictadura o Democracia (1975)
https://www.rebelion.org/docs/89860.pdf

Cuba: Dictatorship or Democracy
https://www.biblio.com/book/cuba-dictatorship-democracy-harnecker-marta/d/1420314504