AUDIOBOOK (Part one): My Life: An Attempt at an Autobiography by Leon Trotsky

TEXT: Leon Trotsky: My Life (1930) (MARXISTS.ORG)

YOUTUBE	MARXISTS.ORG
00:00	Foreword
16:53	Preface to the Norwegian Edition (1935)
26:15	I. Yanovka
01:24:28	II. Our Neighbors and My First School
01:57:42	III. Odessa: My Family and My School
02:39:10	IV. Books and Early Conflicts
03:23:54	V. Country and Town
03:56:24	VI. The Break
04:19:31	VII. My First Revolutionary Organization
04:43:33	VIII. My First Prisons
05:05:10	IX. My First Exile
05:26:26	X. My First Escape
05:43:26	XI. An Immigrant for the First Time
06:01:10	XII. The Party Congress and the Split
06:35:07	XIII. The Return to Russia
06:56:54	XIV. The Year 1905
07:24:39	XV. Trial, Exile, Escape
07:58:17	XVI. My Second Foreign Exile: German Socialism
08:39:08	XVII. Preparing for a New Revolution
09:07:47	XVIII. The Beginning of the War
09:28:31	XIX. Paris and Zimmerwald
09:49:03	XX. My Expulsion from France
10:01:39	XXI. Through Spain
10:29:08	XXII. New York
10:50:01	XXIII. In A Concentration Camp
11:05:20	XXIV. In Petrograd
11:32:56	XXV. Concerning Slanderers

>Leon Trotsky, who understood the danger of fascism and war more than anyone else and mobilised the working class in opposition to them, wrote one year prior to the invasion of the Soviet Union, “The sole feature of fascism which is not counterfeit is its will to power, subjugation and plunder. Fascism is a chemically pure distillation of the culture of imperialism… This German epileptic with a calculating machine in his skull and unlimited power in his hands did not fall from the sky or come up out of hell: he is nothing but the personification of all the destructive forces of imperialism. Just as Genghis Khan and Tamerlane appeared to the weaker pastoral peoples as destroying scourges of God, whereas in reality they did nothing but express the need of all the pastoral tribes for more pasture land and the plunder of settled areas, so Hitler, rocking the old colonial powers to their foundations, does nothing but give a more finished expression to the imperialist will to power. Through Hitler, world capitalism, driven to desperation by its own impasse, has begun to press a razor sharp dagger into its own bowels.”

>Already during the First World War, German imperialism sought to subordinate Europe to its interests, and failed. It now attempted this for a second time.

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ORIGINAL

Manifesto of the Fourth International on Imperialist War and the Imperialist War —1940

Imperialist War And The Proletarian World Revolution

Adopted by the Emergency Conference of the Fourth International

May 19-26, 1940