Their Morals and Ours

Marxists are often attacked for being "amoral", if not immoral, by defenders of the established social order. This collection of writings centered on two essays written in the late 1930s by Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky, disproves these claims. Trotsky takes aim at the morality imposed by the bourgeoisie, exposing the irrationality of universal moral imperatives irrespective of the class divisions that shape people's actions and options, and offers instead a revolutionary paradigm for moral imperatives.

About the author

Leon Trotsky was a key leader of the Russian Revolution. Forced into exile in 1928, Trotsky devoted the rest of his life to fighting the degeneration of the revolution and rise of a new dictatorial regime. Vilified and isolated, he fought an uncompromising battle with the Stalinist bureaucracy, defending the revolutionary and internationalist principles upon which the revolution was based. In 1940, he was murdered by an agent of the Stalinist regime.