Leon Trotsky: What Next (1932) (original) (raw)

What Next?

Vital Questions for the German Proletariat

(January 1932)

Transcribed for the Trotsky Internet Archive in 1998. This essay on Germany by Trotsky was first published in 1932. It was written originally in Russian and then translated immediately into German for distribution by German Left Oppositionists. Each section is footnoted by the author.

• Introduction
• 1. The Social Democracy
• 2. Democracy and Fascism
• 3. Bureaucratic Ultimatism
• 4. Stalinist Zigzags on the Question of the United Front
• 5. An Historical Review of the ... United Front
• 6. Lessons of the Russian Experience
• 7. Lessons Of The Italian Experience
• 8. Through the United Front – To the Soviets as the Highest Organs of the United Front
• 9. The SAP (Socialist Workers Party of Germany)
• 10. Centrism “in General” and Centrism of the Stalinist Bureaucracy
• 11. The Contradictions Between the Economic Successes of the USSR and the Bureaucratization of the Regime
• 12. The Brandlerites (KPO) and the Stalinist Bureaucracy
• 13. Strike Strategy
• 14. Workers’ Control and Collaboration with the USSR
• 15. Is the Situation Hopeless?
• Conclusions

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