‘Is the Time Ripe for the Slogan: “The United States of Europe?”‘ by Leon Trotsky from International Press Correspondence, Vol. 23 No. 50. 12 July 12, 1923.

‘Is the Time Ripe for the Slogan: “The United States of Europe?”‘ by Leon Trotsky from International Press Correspondence, Vol. 23 No. 50. 12 July 12, 1923.

With the French invasion of the Ruhr in early 1923 Europe saw a new conflict less than five years after “The War to End All Wars”; the Versailles peace was shaken and Germany again stood at revolution. Trotsky’s article, first published in Pravda, engages what was an international discussion on the slogan in that context. […]