Main ideas Ted Grant

ted grant described himself marxist, leninist , trotskyist. in ideas, 1 can recognise strong emphasis on following issues:

so-called socialist states born after second world war defined grant deformed workers states , i.e. proletarian bonapartist regimes. denies qualitative difference between stalin s ussr , such countries. in particular, grant attempted work trotsky s theory of soviet union degenerated workers state. grant foresaw likelihood, in 1945–1991 world situation, of establishment of new bureaucratised workers states in backward countries, on basis of left-wing military coups , peasant guerrilla wars. according grant, variants between such regimes have minor importance , clashes counterposing leaderships instrumental in supporting interests of conflicting bureaucracies. differently trotskyist groups, ted grant believed burma , syria, though leaders not delivering communistic speeches, included in same category when had planned economy. these countries, supported classic trotsky s demand: workers political revolution aimed @ restoring or establishing workers democracy while preserving economic planning, asked workers wing of hungarian revolution of 1956.
heavily stressed importance of united front tactics worked out third international in 1920s , renewed version of entrist tactics trotsky advised of followers adopt in 1930s. according grant, trotskyist groups joining large left-wing parties , important unions practical implementation of united front in difficult conditions trotskyists had face after 1945, when fourth international far being gathering banner workers , leftist youth. in particular since late 1950s, ted grant developed original concept of entrism (which described being different concept classic entryism , opposing vision michel pablo s deep entrism or entrism sui generis ): revolutionists should have worked inside, outside , around mass organisations workers begin move through own traditional mass organisations , therefore outside workers movement, there s nothing . stance resulted in grantist groups on world scale leaving fourth international after 1965, since grant considered other fourth internationalists having degenerated sects under influence of ideas of petty bourgeoisie (guerrillaism, left-wing nationalism, studentism, third-worldism, feminism etc.).




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