title: "Also available at MarxistBooks.com" book: "Ted Grant Selected Works, Vol. 1: Stalinism and the Class Nature of the Soviet Union" author: "Ted Grant" chapter: 7 date_generated: 2026-07-17 type: wellred-chapter-digest source_epub: "Ted-USA.epub" source: wellred
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Core Argument¶
This is not a chapter but a promotional appendix, likely the closing pages of a book or periodical. It functions as an advertisement for the publisher’s catalogue and a fundraising appeal for Socialist Revolution magazine, rather than advancing any substantive argument. The core purpose is to sell two titles by Ted Grant — The Permanent Revolutionary and Russia: From Revolution to Counterrevolution — and to solicit donations to the Wellred Press Fund.
The first book is described as a biography and theoretical defence of Grant’s role in British Trotskyism. It claims Grant became the leading theoretician of the Trotskyist movement within a decade of arriving in Britain from South Africa in 1934. The promotional copy emphasises his battle to defend Trotsky’s ideas after the Second World War and his contributions to Marxist theory, particularly around the launch of the Fourth International. No specific debates or opponents are named, but the implication is that Grant fought against revisionist currents within the post-war left.
The second book, Russia: From Revolution to Counterrevolution, is presented as a comprehensive Marxist analysis of the Soviet Union’s trajectory from 1917 to its collapse. The key claim is that the Russian Revolution changed the course of world history and that Stalinism represented a political counterrevolution, not a continuation of Bolshevism. This situates the text firmly within the Trotskyist tradition of analysing the USSR as a degenerated workers’ state, opposed both to Stalinist apologetics and to bourgeois anti-communist narratives.
The final section appeals for financial support by asserting that Marxism is undergoing a dramatic revival due to the turbulence of the present epoch. It promises that Socialist Revolution offers not merely news but a revolutionary, working-class solution to the world crisis of capitalism. The polemical target is implicit: mainstream media and reformist politics, which are accused of failing to provide either adequate analysis or a genuine alternative. The tone is urgent and confident, positioning the publisher as the vehicle for a Marxist intervention into a world on the brink of historic events.