[But his consistent struggle for the principles of…]
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But his consistent struggle for the principles of Marxism and the continuity of Lenin's fight for international revolution continued to attract the best and most tenacious fighters, and laid the basis for the formation of the Fourth International in 1938.
Trotskyism is therefore the general term for the system of ideas and the wealth of practical experience that today forms the continuity of revolutionary Marxism • and the October Lenin's particular achievement was in taking the theoretical positions of Marx and Engels and wedding them to a particular form of the Bolshevik party, organised on a professional, centralised basis, and capable of the analysis and the sharp tactical turns necessary in the long struggles prior October Revolution.
Lenin's basic positions on the party spelled out in the key 1902 book What is To Be Dc ne? are summed up in the re trospective account presentec in Left Wing Communism, an Infantile Disorder (1920).