TROTSKY APPEARS IN ARABIC
Two works by Leon Trotsky, The Permanent Revolution and Balance and Perspectives, have been translated into Arabic for the first time and issued in a single volume.* The translator, Bachaar %L. Trotsky: The Permanent Revolution -- Balance and Perspectives, translated by Bachaar Abou Sabraa,. Politics and Society collec= tion. Darettalia, Beyrut, Lebanon.
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Abou Sabraa, has included a short biography of Trotsky as well as an introduction by Isaac Deutscher under the title, The Age of Permanent Revolution,"
The translation ‘isa good one, which says much for the .translator's understanding of Trotsky's fundamental ideas, Arabic being notoriously weak in Marxist terminology. It is to be hoped that — Sabraa will continue his efforts in this field so that other works ~ by Trotsky as well as by Marx, Engels and Lenin will finally see the light of day in Arabic.
' The book should find a waiting audience, for Trotsky" s con= cept of the permanent revolution, a concept first enunciated by Marx midway in the last century, is of burning actuality in the Arabic world of today where the revolutionary process that will eventually end in socialism, as foreseen by Trotsky, has already begun in many countries.
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