Leon Trotsky

In Defense of Marxism

(1939/1940)

First Published: Leon Trotsky, In Defense of Marxism, New York 1942.
Reprinted: Leon Trotsky, In Defence of Marxism, London 1966.

• A Letter to James P. Cannon (September 12, 1939)
   
• The USSR in War (September 25, 1939)
   
• A Letter to Sherman Stanley (October 8, 1939)
   
• Again and Once More Again on the Nature of the USSR (October 18, 1939)
   
• The Referendum and Democratic Centralism (October 21, 1939)
   
• A Letter to Sherman Stanley (October 22, 1939)
   
• A Letter to James P. Cannon (October 28, 1939)
   
• A Letter to Max Shachtman (November 6, 1939)
   
• A Letter to James P. Cannon (December 15, 1939)
   
• A Petty-Bourgeois Opposition in the Socialist Workers Party (December 15, 1939)
   
• A Letter to John G. Wright (December 19, 1939)
   
• A Letter to Max Shachtman (December 20, 1939)
   
• Four Letters to the National Committee Majority:

• (December 26, 1939)
• (December 27, 1939)
• (January 3, 1940)
• (January 4, 1940)
   

• A Letter to Joseph Hansen (January 5, 1940)
   
• An Open Letter to Comrade Burnham (January 7, 1940)
   
• A Letter to James P. Cannon (January 9, 1940)
   
• A Letter to Farrell Dobbs (January 10, 1940)
   
• A Letter to John G. Wright (January 13, 1940)
   
• A Letter to James P. Cannon (January 16, 1940)
   
• A Letter to William F. Warde (January 16, 1940)
   
• A Letter to Joseph Hansen (January 18, 1940)
   
• From a Scratch – To the Danger of Gangrene (January 24, 1940)

• Part 1
• Part 2
   

• A Letter to Martin Abern (January 29, 1940)
   
• Two Letters to Albert Goldman:

• (February 10, 1940)
• (February 19, 1940)
   

• Back to the Party (February 21, 1940)
   
• “Science and Style” (February 23, 1940)
   
• A Letter to James P. Cannon (February 27, 1940)
   
• A Letter to Joseph Hansen (February 29, 1940)
   
• Three Letters to Farrell Dobbs:

• (March 4, 1940)
• (April 4, 1940)
• (April 16, 1940)
   

• Petty-Bourgeois Moralists and the Proletarian Party (April 23, 1940)
   
• Balance Sheet of the Finnish Events (April 25, 1940)
   
• A Letter to James P. Cannon (May 28, 1940)
   
• A Letter to Albert Goldman (June 5, 1940)
   
• On the “Workers” Party (August 7, 1940)
   
• A Letter to Albert Goldman (August 9, 1940)
   
• A Letter to Chris Andrews (August 17, 1940)
   

Last updated on: 12.4.2007