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Letter to the National Council of Labour Colleges, March 10, 1933
| Author(s) | Leon Trotsky |
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| Written | 10 March 1933 |
To the National Council of Labour Colleges
London, England
Dear Comrades:
You propose to me to express my views concerning the Karl Marx exhibition arranged by you and by which you intend to make a big âboostâ for Marx and Marxism. It is not necessary to emphasize how near to me is every step which is capable of strengthening the influence of the ideas of Marxism in England where stand at the head of the working class movement reactionaries of the types of Henderson and Clynes, who to the crown of their heads are filled with bourgeois prejudices and ecclesiastical superstitions. But to my great sorrow I note that your prospectus, which you have been so kind to send to me, begins with a highbrow citation from H. de Man, an author who accomplished a retrograde evolution from the opportunist semi-Marxism to eclecticism and idealism and opened the doors wide to religious mystics. In the spheres of philosophy, sociology, and history H. de Man stands, in the best case, on the level of the âTrue Socialistsâ of the first half of the latter century. However, Marxism began its historical road with the ruthless chastisement of the moralizing philistinism. To put Marx under the shield of H. de Man is not much better than to put Darwin under the shield of the Archbishop of Canterbury. That is the reason why I must, with great regret, abstain from sending my greetings to the address of your exhibition.
I remain yours in the spirit of true and not falsified Marxism,
L. Trotsky