Presents a re-evaluation of two key Marxist theories: uneven and combined development, and permanent revolution. This book aims to show how Trotsky's theories are useful for understanding the modern globalised economy, dominated by US imperialism. Providing an introduction to Trosky's thinking, it is useful for students of political theory.

One hundred years on from their first appearance in Leon Trotsky's "Results and Prospects", this is a critical re-evaluation of two key Marxist theories: uneven and combined development, and permanent revolution. It brings together a formidable array of Marxist intellectuals from across the world, including Daniel Bensaid, Michael Lowy, Hillel Ticktin and Patrick Bond. Marx saw societies progressing through distinct historical stages - feudal, bourgeois and communist. Trotsky advanced this model by considering how countries at different stages of development influence each other. Developed countries colonise less developed countries and exploit their people and resources. Elsewhere, even as many were kept in poverty, the influence of foreign capital and state-led industrialisation produced novel economic forms and prospects for political alliances and change. The contributors show how, 100 years on from its original publication, Trotsky's theories are hugely useful for understanding today's globalised economy, dominated by US imperialism. The book makes an ideal introduction to Trosky's thinking, and is ideal for students of political theory and development economics.

Preface - Sieva Volkov
Introduction - Hugo Radice (Leeds University) and Bill Dunn (University of Sydney)
Before Uneven and Combined Development: Theoretical Forerunners and Social Preconditions - Neil Davidson
The Geneology of an Idea: Combined and Uneven Development in the Debates amongst the Russian Populists - Sam Ashman (Birmingham University)
Subversive Dialectics: Trotsky's Marxism in Results and Prospects - Michael Lowy
Enemies and friends: paradoxes Trotsky's interpreters - Paul Blackledge (Leeds Metropolitan University)
The Peculiar and the General in Trotsky's theory - Gilbert Achcar (University of Paris)
Trotsky, Serge and the soviets - Suzi Weissman (St. Mary's College, California)
The Baggage of Exodus - Daniel Bensaid (University of Paris)
Trotsky's concept of decline and the evolution of capitalism - Hillel Ticktin (University of Glasgow)
Combined and Uneven Development and the Politics of Irish Transnationalism - Michael Hanagan (Vasser College, New York)
Labour's Role in Combined and Uneven Development - Andrew Herod (Georgia University)
Combined and Uneven development applied to South Africa - Patrick Bond (University of KwaZulu Natal)
Combined and Uneven Development as a Strategic Concept in Contemporary Political Economy - Bill Dunn (University of Sydney)
The Reinvention of Populism: Islamist Responses to Capitalist Development in the Contemporary Maghreb - Alejandro Colas (Birkbeck College, University of London)
Socialist Strategy and the Workers' Party in Brazil - Joao Machado (Catholic University of Sao Paulo)
Combined and Uneven Development Today: Reflections on the South African Experience - Peter Alexander (University of Johannesburg).