Stalin’s purges destroyed the Soviet theoretical tradition of Marxism.
Evidence
All serious theoretical work ceased in the Soviet Union after collectivization. Trotsky was driven into exile in 1929, and assassinated in 1940; Ryazanov was stripped of his positions in 1931 and died in a labour camp in 1939; Bukharin was silenced in 1929 and shot in 1938; Preobrazhensky was broken by 1930 and perished in jail in 1938. Marxism was largely reduced to a memento in Russia, as Stalin’s rule reached its apogee. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1094
Categorization
Category: Factual Claims
- XREF: This is the institutional death of one branch of Marxism that helps explain why the internationalist vanguard could not respond to Black radical demands.