The Importance of Trotskyite Socialism at the Present Time

Authors

  • Ji Giles Ungpakorn Faculty of Arts Silpakorn University

Keywords:

Trotskyite Socialism, Socialism

Abstract

Stalinism and Maoism originated from the failure of the 1928 Russian Revolution. Therefore those societies who called themselves “Communist”, the term acquainted to us from the time of Stalin, were merely the dictatorship of “State Capitalismand not the real Marxist. They are examples of the failure of “Socialism from-Above" They can only be pseudo-socialism because in the real socialism or democracy, rights and liberty must come from the struggle of the mass themselves not by being granted from the above. 

This article aims at raising the importance of Trotskyite socialism, which is “Socialism-from-Below”. This kind of socialism, contrary to socialism from the above, accepts the importance of the revolution to wither away of Capitalism. It also aims to establish the proletariat state, in which the democratic control system of the state and economic planning for production based on the demand of the citizen are required. 

Marxism is the ideology crystalized from the ideas and the struggles of human beings in the past in order to transform the present world. Now amongst the continuous crisis of world capitalism, the imperialist war, and the faith crisis in liberalism, many people around the world consider Marxist thoughts as an alternative to hegemonize the anti-capitalism movement. Trotskyite Marxism can give the way out of these crises. In Thailand, the. group under this thought has tried to bring back the classical Marxism, once distorted by the Stalinist, the Maoist and The Communist Party of Thailand, the groups which were now collapsed. – Editorial Staff.

References

Serge, V. 1967. Memoirs of a revolutionary 1901-1941. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

The Economist. 2002. Marx after Communism. December 21, 2002.: 17.

Tarrow, S. 1999. Power in movement. Social movements and contentious politics. U.K.: Cambridge University Press.

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Published

2003-12-02

How to Cite

Ungpakorn , J. G. . (2003). The Importance of Trotskyite Socialism at the Present Time . Journal of the Faculty of Arts, Silpakorn University, 26(2), 13–39. Retrieved from https://so04.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/jasu/article/view/250791