The First World War: A Marxist Analysis of the Great Slaughter FORMAT:PAPERBACK Under the most difficult and

Under the most difficult and dangerous conditions

Leon Trotsky’s work In Defense of October is the title of a speech delivered to a meeting of Social Democratic students in Copenhagen to explain the genesis and importance of the Russian Revolution

Basing himself on the research of anthropologist Lewis Henry Morgan

in defense of the ruling class

The First World War: A Marxist Analysis of the Great Slaughter FORMAT:PAPERBACK Under the most difficult andWhat passing bells for those who die as cattle? Only the monstrous anger of the guns." Wilfred Owen, Anthem for Doomed Youth On 28 June 1914, two pistol shots shattered the peace of a sunny afternoon in Sarajevo. Those shots reverberated around Europe and shattered the peace of the whole world. This was the beginning of the Great Slaughter. Could it have been avoided? Alan Woods uses the method of Marxism to answer this question. He explains that,