Ted Grant Collected Writings Vol. 3: The Aftermath 1945 46 Subject_Dialectical Materialism Could it have been avoided Could it have been avoided Lenin’s patience and his method of putting forward a class perspective on this question is a rich tradition for communists to learn from today examines a fundamental turning point in world history – and in the Trotskyist movement itself and Pierre Frank clung to the perspective of capitalism’s imminent collapse – leading to a series of disastrous theoretical conclusions that sowed the seed of destruction of the Fourth International – Ted stood virtually alone in defending a correct outlook and the genuine method of Marxism