In Defence of Marxism

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In Defense of Marxism may refer to:

• In Defense of Marxism: The Social and Political Contradictions of the Soviet Union on the Eve of World War II, a collection of essays written in 1939 and 1940 by Leon Trotsky in defense of his analysis of the Soviet Union as a degenerated workers state and in response to arguments by Max Shachtman and James Burnham that the bureaucracy in the USSR had become a new class (see also bureaucratic collectivism).

• Bulletin in Defense of Marxism (BIDOM), a periodical published by Frank Lovell, George Breitman, Paul LeBlanc and other former members of the US Socialist Workers Party who organized themselves as the Fourth Internationalist Tendency in the early 1980s. After the FIT's dissolution in 1996, a number of former BIDOM editorial board members and contributors began a new publication, Labor Standard.

• The name of the publication of supporters of the international Trotskyist Opposition in Britain.

• A website operated by the International Marxist Tendency.

• A common title for polemical articles written by members of the Trotskyist movement, usually aimed either at non-Trotskyists or at Trotskyists deemed to have strayed from Trotskyist orthodoxy.

• "in Defense of Marxism", a Book by Iraj Azarin criticising Mansoor Hekmat and his ideas.