We do not confine our analysis to “highly selective, potted” quotations, torn from their contexts, because we are sure that all serious Young Communist League and Communist Party members, and all thinking members of the Labour movement generally, want to know the truth about these questions.
In this, we differ from Comrade Johnstone. He evidently considers that the average Young Communist Leaguer is “not interested” in the ideological struggles of the formative years of Bolshevism. Monty Johnstone devotes not a sentence to all this. We have already seen the importance of the ideas in the debates in Russian Marxism before 1914. These theories were first advanced in 1904-5, and received a striking confirmation on the basis of the revolutionary experiences of 1905. Monty Johnstone devotes no fewer than eight pages of his work (about a quarter of the whole) to an “exposure” of Trotsky’s theory of the permanent revolution, to which he counterposes Lenin’s idea of the “democratic dictatorship of the proletariat and the peasantry”.
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