Williams, Ian. "An Ex-Maoist Looks at an Ex-Troskyist: on Irving Howe's LEON TROTSKY." LOGOS 6.3 (2007)

A quarter of a century after Howe's biography, six decades after Trotsky's death, and ten years after the curtain came down finally on the Bolshevik experiment, things can be seen in a different light. Trotsky's role "on the stage of modern history" has shrunk into perspective. He lost the arguments in the Soviet Union: capitalism did not collapse catastrophically, the industrial proletariat in the world did not move to revolution. The reformers and social democrats he despised built societies that, even after Thatcherism and the Third Way, still offer workers and other citizens more in the way of prosperity, freedom, civil, political and social rights, than any other societies that have existed on the face of the earth. . . . Read the rest here: http://www.logosjournal.com/issue_6.3/williams.htm