Their Morals and Ours

In his 1936 pamphlet Their Morals and Ours, Trotsky attempted to steer a course between Stalinist and bourgeois moralities. Answering rhetorically the question of whether "lies and worse" are compatible with a “healthy socialist movement” (raised ironically enough by some "small and politically completely insignificant grouping"), the great man states that to:

1936: Their Morals and Ours: "...“lie and worse” are an inseparable part of the class struggle even in its most elementary form. It remains to be added that the very conception of truth and lie was born of social contradictions."

It has been fun to watch the trots (on all sides of the Sheridan trial) cling not only to bourgeois conceptions of sexual 'morality' (the 'fragrant wife', 'thou shalt not swing') but even to the whole bourgeois conception of 'truth' - as so eloquently and forcefully debunked by the sainted Trotsky himself in this seminal work which is surely taught to every cadre of the 57 varieties at an early stage of their development.

Indeed Colin Fox candidly and probably unwisely, even naively, revealed as much in evidence when - under oath to tell 'the truth' - he claimed he would lie (possibly even under oath) in certain circumstances (see Scotsman.com News - Scottish Socialist Party - I would have backed swing club 'lie' says SSP leader for Scotsman court report).