Ted Grant  The Iberian Revolution  Marxism and the historical
development of the international situation  Written: May 1975
Markup: Emil 2006   Due to the throwing back of Marxism by the
betrayals of reformism and Stalinism, the genuine Marxists were
reduced to a tiny handful. Trotsky could truly claim that like
Marx he sowed dragons but reaped not fleas but harmful microbes.
Since the Second World War the cliques of Hansen and the SWP,
Mandel, Pablo, Healy, Maitain, and Lambert have been completely
incapable of orienting and re-orienting to the development of
events. Revolution, which is the crucial test for
revolutionaries, has found them wanting. Thus they showed
themselves completely incapable of understanding the events in
Greece in 1944, the development of Stalinist states in Eastern
Europe, the revolution in China and Cuba, the transformation of
Syria and Burma and the French movement of 1968. Now as could be
expected they have not an iota of comprehension of the
development of the revolution in Ethiop