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Title: Military Writings by Leon Trotsky, John G. Wright, K. Radek ISBN: 0-87348-029-5 Publisher: Pathfinder Press Pub. Date: September, 1969 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $18.95

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Average Customer Rating: 5 (3 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: A Gem for Workers
Comment: This book is a witty gem with great relevance for today. Trotsky points out that the military practice that defended the Russian Revolution against imperialist invasion was based on a political orientation-one that we can understand and fight for today, the workers and farmers alliance. He brilliantly defends this alliance against the ultralefts who unknowingly threatened it with their foolishness. He also debunks the so-called science of the reactionary stuffed shirts-like those military figures we see briefing the press today with their talk about smart bombs and surgically precise warfare. Read it, as a worker who wants to clarify your thinking about war.

Rating: 5
Summary: war and politics, politics and war from a practical manual
Comment: This book is a selection of the best of Trotsky's many writings, speeches, and debates on the military strategy that won the Russian civil war and defeated not only the Russian counterrevolutionaries, but 21 different capitalist nations including the USA that sent troops to aid them. Some of these writings come from the public debates in the leaders of the Soviet Government with other political parties or within the leadership of the Communist Party. All of them illustrate the triumphant strategy of advancing politics, the politics of the liberation and empowerment of working people, oppressed nationalities, and peasants as the key to military victory. This should be read for the battles of the future.

Rating: 5
Summary: The art of politics and war
Comment: This is a fascinating collection of articles and speeches by Leon Trotsky, one of the central leaders of the 1917 Russian revolution. Trotsky was assigned to organize and lead the new Red Army that defended revolutionary Russia (later the Soviet Union) from foreign capitalist intervention and counterrevolutionary civil war from 1918-1923.

Here, Trotsky takes up questions about political and military strategy and tactics posed in wide-ranging debates that went on in the Bolshevik Party and Red Army at that time. He provides though-provoking analysis of the shifting relations among the major world powers in the early 1900s, especially under the impact of WWI and the Russian Revolution, and the necessary decisions made at different points by the leaders of the Soviet workers and peasants.

Best of all, this is a detailed example of the Marxist method of orienting oneself in face of changing circumstances and figuring out what to do next, the art of politics as well as war. Trotsky stresses that this cannot be done by hasty generalizations or simplifications, or by finding and just applying a few general principles. It takes hard work, careful attention to facts and details, and accurate assessment of the relations between different social classes, starting on a world scale.

Workers today can learn a lot from this rich experience!