Their Morals and Ours
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"Their Morals and Ours" is a 1938 political essay by Leon Trotsky that defends revolutionary socialist ethics against bourgeois morality and critiques Stalinism.
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| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
book
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political essay → |
| author |
Leon Trotsky
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| countryOfOrigin |
Mexico
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| criticizes |
Menshevism
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Stalinism → bourgeois morality → social democracy → |
| defends |
Bolshevism
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October Revolution → proletarian revolution → revolutionary socialism → |
| genre |
Marxist literature
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political theory → |
| hasPart |
analysis of class basis of morality
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critique of liberalism → critique of pacifism → defense of revolutionary terror under specific conditions → discussion of ends and means in politics → |
| historicalContext |
approach of World War II
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interwar period → rise of Stalinism → |
| influencedBy |
Friedrich Engels
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Karl Marx → Vladimir Lenin → |
| keyConcept |
bourgeois hypocrisy
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class character of morality → ends and means → historical materialism → proletarian morality → revolutionary duty → |
| language |
Russian
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| mainSubject |
Fourth International
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Marxism → Russian Revolution → Stalinism → bourgeois morality → class struggle → dialectical materialism → ethics in politics → proletarian dictatorship → revolutionary ethics → revolutionary violence → socialist morality → |
| originalPublicationYear |
1938
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| philosophicalTradition |
Marxism
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Trotskyism → |
| publicationContext |
exile of Leon Trotsky
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| writtenBy |
Leon Trotsky
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Referenced by (1)
| Subject (surface form when different) | Predicate |
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Leon Trotsky
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