Tag: Socialism

During 1938, Trotsky fabricated what he referred to as the ‘Fourth International’ – through which he called upon his worldwide following to align itself with the Catholic Church and to support any international ‘Fascist’ attack upon the USSR! He also encouraged Soviet citizens to carryout ‘terrorist’ attacks upon the infrastructure of their own country so as to weaken it from the inside and assist this potential invasion! This was just as the USSR (and the International Working-Class) was moving toward its own defeat during the last years of the Spanish Civil War! Trotsky thought that the tide of history was on his side – but just wo-years later he would be ‘dead’ and the Trotskyite cause firmly disempowered! This happened because the capitalist West went to War with Nazi Germany and allied itself with the Soviet Union! After WWII, and the Soviet Union had lost 41 million men, women and children, the capitalist West reverted to its usual policy of demonising the USSR! From the late 1940s in the UK, the incumbent Labour Party requested that the arch-Trotskyite ‘George Orwell’ to compile a list of British intellectuals that he thought were sympathetic to ‘Communism’!