The Prophet Unarmed, first published in 1959, is the second volume of Isaac Deutscher's extraordinary Trotsky trilogy, which the Guardian has said 'will rank among the great political biographies of our time.' It is a self-contained account, drawing for the first time on Trotsky's archives in Harvard, of the great struggle between Stalin and Trotsky that followed the end of the...
The Prophet Unarmed, first published in 1959, is the second volume of Isaac Deutscher's extraordinary Trotsky trilogy, which the Guardian has said 'will rank among the great political biographies of our time.' It is a self-contained account, drawing for the first time on Trotsky's archives in Harvard, of the great struggle between Stalin and Trotsky that followed the end of the civil war in 1921 and the death of Lenin. From the story of Trotsky's fierce opposition to Stalin's policies emerges a dazzling portrait gallery of important Soviet leaders with, at its center, Trotsky, the man of ideas, the Marxist philosopher and literary critic. The book provides an original assessment of the defeat that led to his expulsion from the Communist Party, his exile, and his banishment from Russia in 1929.
Society as a whole had lost all transparency. No social class was free to express its will. The will of any class is therefore unknown. The rulers and the political theorists had to guess it, only to be more and more often taught by events that they had guessed wrongly... On all sides, cleavages arose or reappeared between what men thought (of themselves and others), what they willed and what they did-cleavages between the 'objective' and 'subjective' aspects of political activity. Nothing was now more difficult to define than who was the foe and who was the friend of the revolution. Both the ruling group and the Opposition moved in the dark, fighting against real dangers and against apparitions, and chasing one another and one another's shadows. They ceased to s one another as they were a... (查看原文)
Shortly before the opening of the proceedings Solz, conversing with one of Trotsky's associates and trying to show him how pernicious was the Opposition's role, said: 'What does this lead to? You know the history of the French Revolution-and to what this led: to arrests and to the guillotine.''Is it your intention then to guillotine us?' the Oppositionist asked, to which Solz replied: 'Don't you think that Robespierre was sorry for Danton when he sent him to the guillotine? And then Robespierre had to go himself...Do you think he was not sorry? Indeed he was, yet he had to do it...' Judges and defendants alike saw the giant and bloody blade above their heads, but as if gripped by fatality they were unable to avert what was coming; and each, hesitantly to even tremblingly, went on doing wha... (查看原文)
4 有用 MaverickAdam 2019-07-16 16:40:04
和第一部相比，第二部的托洛茨基明显不再是一个能够尽情燃烧自我的英雄。他成为了一个个矛盾的综合体，甚至是整个布尔什维克革命的悖论的化身，只能在漫长的九年里小心翼翼地与这些矛盾相纠葛，直到他们终于将他拖进深渊。如果一开始他对官僚主义和党国融合的攻击和工人反对派相比只是隔靴搔痒，甚至难免被一些人斥为虚伪，那他在最后争取党内自由和工人民主时，对布尔什维克党的团结、纪律、甚至官僚机器所抱有的不切实际的期望则... 和第一部相比，第二部的托洛茨基明显不再是一个能够尽情燃烧自我的英雄。他成为了一个个矛盾的综合体，甚至是整个布尔什维克革命的悖论的化身，只能在漫长的九年里小心翼翼地与这些矛盾相纠葛，直到他们终于将他拖进深渊。如果一开始他对官僚主义和党国融合的攻击和工人反对派相比只是隔靴搔痒，甚至难免被一些人斥为虚伪，那他在最后争取党内自由和工人民主时，对布尔什维克党的团结、纪律、甚至官僚机器所抱有的不切实际的期望则证明了他的真诚，也证明了他的可悲。正如多伊彻所说，他和大多数布尔什维克一样，都在建立革命权威和实现自由理想的矛盾中纠葛着，就算两者随着时代变迁此消彼长，也不会出现一边倒的情况。他们拼命为旧世界挖好了坑，却还没等到他的死亡，便被斯大林踢下了坑。而不相信后者的斯大林，则自此把一个失衡的年代引向了修罗之路 (展开)
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最后一张章对十五大后联共布内外三派博弈的铺陈简直无懈可击！“革命后的漫漫长夜”定律不但适用于人民也反作用于统治集团自身。
0 有用 Banshee 2022-05-14 17:13:54
最后一张章对十五大后联共布内外三派博弈的铺陈简直无懈可击！“革命后的漫漫长夜”定律不但适用于人民也反作用于统治集团自身。
4 有用 MaverickAdam 2019-07-16 16:40:04
和第一部相比，第二部的托洛茨基明显不再是一个能够尽情燃烧自我的英雄。他成为了一个个矛盾的综合体，甚至是整个布尔什维克革命的悖论的化身，只能在漫长的九年里小心翼翼地与这些矛盾相纠葛，直到他们终于将他拖进深渊。如果一开始他对官僚主义和党国融合的攻击和工人反对派相比只是隔靴搔痒，甚至难免被一些人斥为虚伪，那他在最后争取党内自由和工人民主时，对布尔什维克党的团结、纪律、甚至官僚机器所抱有的不切实际的期望则... 和第一部相比，第二部的托洛茨基明显不再是一个能够尽情燃烧自我的英雄。他成为了一个个矛盾的综合体，甚至是整个布尔什维克革命的悖论的化身，只能在漫长的九年里小心翼翼地与这些矛盾相纠葛，直到他们终于将他拖进深渊。如果一开始他对官僚主义和党国融合的攻击和工人反对派相比只是隔靴搔痒，甚至难免被一些人斥为虚伪，那他在最后争取党内自由和工人民主时，对布尔什维克党的团结、纪律、甚至官僚机器所抱有的不切实际的期望则证明了他的真诚，也证明了他的可悲。正如多伊彻所说，他和大多数布尔什维克一样，都在建立革命权威和实现自由理想的矛盾中纠葛着，就算两者随着时代变迁此消彼长，也不会出现一边倒的情况。他们拼命为旧世界挖好了坑，却还没等到他的死亡，便被斯大林踢下了坑。而不相信后者的斯大林，则自此把一个失衡的年代引向了修罗之路 (展开)