Trotsky in 1935:
(1/) The very sequence of the Internationals has its own internal logic, which coincides with the historic rise of the proletariat. The First International advanced the scientific program of the proletarian revolution, but it fell because it lacked a mass base.
(1/) The very sequence of the Internationals has its own internal logic, which coincides with the historic rise of the proletariat. The First International advanced the scientific program of the proletarian revolution, but it fell because it lacked a mass base.
(2/) The Second International dragged from the darkness, educated and mobilized millions of workers, but in the decisive hour it found itself betrayed by the parliamentary and the trade union bureaucracy corrupted by rising capitalism.
(3/) The Third International set for the first time the example of the victorious proletarian revolution, but it found itself ground between the millstones of the bureaucracy in the isolated Soviet State and the reformist bureaucracy of the West.
(4/)Today, under conditions of decisive capitalist collapse, the 4th intl, standing on the shoulders of its predecessors, enriched by the experience of their victories&defeats, will mobilize the toilers of West&East for the victorious assault upon the strongholds of wrld capital.
