The History of Philosophy: A Marxist Perspective Trotsky on the eve of the

on the eve of the first Russian Revolution

Trotsky's narrative moves from his childhood to his education in the "universities" of Tsarist prisons

"Here everything is still in full swing

the Spanish workers and peasants began to seize the factories and the land

Drawing on a mass of carefully assembled material from his personal archives and many other sources

The History of Philosophy: A Marxist Perspective Trotsky on the eve of theAlan Woods outlines the development of philosophy from the ancient Greeks, all the way through to Marx and Engels who brought together the best of previous thinking to produce the Marxist philosophical outlook, which looks at the real material world, not as a static immovable reality, but one that is constantly changing and moving according to laws that can be discovered. It is this method which allows Marxists to look at how things were, how they