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Dados vol. 34 n. 1 Rio de Janeiro 1991

Trotsky e Seu Lugar: Considerações no Cinquentenário da Sua Morte

Mendonça, Carlos Eduardo Rebello de

Resumo

Some fundamental empirical questions in Trotsky's works are examined With the purpose of identifying the bases of the controversy between two rival viewpoints: Should Marxism be viewed as an analysis of the development of productive forces or as an analysis of class struggle? This opposition reflects a still older dispute - the one between dialectical and historical materialism. Trotsky reconciles the two by viewing class struggle as a contingent process, whose chief tool of analysis is historical materialism, understood as political praxis.

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