Their Morals and Ours: The Class Foundations of Moral Practice

Leon Trotsky, John Dewey, George Novack

ISBN 10: 0873483197 / ISBN 13: 9780873483193

Published by Pathfinder Press, 1973

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Pathfinder New York 1973 8vo 112 pages. moderate rubbing and light creasing to wraps. previous owner long gift inscription to ffep. binding tight.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Their Morals and Ours: The Class Foundations of Moral Practice
• Publisher: Pathfinder Press
• Publication Date: 1973
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0873483197
• ISBN 13: 9780873483193
• Binding: paperback
• Edition: 5th or later Edition
• Condition: Good

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Synopsis

Participating in the revolutionary workers movement “with open eyes and an intense will, only this can give the highest moral satisfaction to a thinking being,” Trotsky writes. He explains how morality is rooted in the interests of contending social classes. With a reply by the pragmatist philosopher John Dewey.

About the Authors

Leon Trotsky (1879–1940) was part of the central leadership forged by Bolshevik party leader V.I. Lenin that organized the revolutionary conquest of power by workers and peasants in Russia in October 1917. Trotsky commanded the Red Army, was a founding leader of the Communist International, and of communists in the Soviet Union and worldwide who fought to continue Lenin’s proletarian internationalist course. He continued that struggle from exile after being deported in 1929. Trotsky was murdered in Mexico in 1940 by Stalin’s secret police.

Since the early 1930s Pathfinder and its predecessors have translated, published, and kept in print Trotsky’s principal works. These include:
The Third International after Lenin (1996)
In Defense of Marxism (1995)
History of the Russian Revolution (1980)
The Revolution Betrayed (1972)
The First Five Years of the Communist International (two volumes, 1972)
Writings of Leon Trotsky, 1929–40 (14 volumes, 1972–79)

John Dewey (1859–1952) – Educator, author, and proponent of the philosophical school of pragmatism. A prominent political commentator, he was a standard-bearer of liberalism in the first half of the twentieth century.

Widely respected for his personal integrity, Dewey served as chairman of the 1937 Commission of Inquiry into the Charges Made against Leon Trotsky in the Moscow Trials. In a major blow to Stalin’s frame-up, the Dewey Commission investigated and rejected the frame-up charges. Dewey’s writings include:

Their Morals and Ours (1973, contributor)
The Case of Leon Trotsky (1937, contributor)
Not Guilty: Findings of the 1937 Commission Chaired by John Dewey Investigating the Charges against Leon Trotsky in the Moscow Trials (1938, contributor)