The Sliding Scale of Wages As the First Transitional Demand
Leon, Trotsky. “Sliding Scale of Wages and Sliding Scale of Hours” in The Transitional Programme. 1938. http://www.marxist.net/trotsky/programme/p2frame.htm?wages.htm In 1938, Trotsky outlines his vision of the transitional program, which would meet the minimum demands already held by the workers with the call for socialist revolution that would overthrow the bourgeoisie, instead of searching for ways to appease them. Due to historical peculiarity, and knowing that we could choose any of the minimal demands in existence to work with, the first transitional demand he outlines turns out to be as he calls it the, “Sliding scale of wages....