Neal Ascherson has a brilliant essay on Trotsky and his relevance today (or otherwise) not entirely camouflaged as a piece on Issac Deutscher's republished three-part Trotsky biography in the
London Review of Books (click
here). Jack Straw, who recommended the Deutscher trilogy along with Lenin's
Left-Wing Communism in the bizarre letter he sent to the
Independent last week (click
here), should read it as a matter of urgency, as indeed should all defenders of the contemporary relevance of Leninism -- not least the crew at
New Left Review, who republished the Deutscher trilogy but whose
raison d'etre Ascherson pretty much destroys.
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