About the Book: In Defence of Marxism
This book is correctly regarded as one of Trotsky's finest classics. It is a
product of a sharp polemic within the American Trotskyist movement in the period
1939-40. This was a dispute that touches the very fundamentals of Marxism. It
was for this reason that Trotsky himself participated in this struggle in the
form of a series of articles and letters that are brought together in this
volume.