I am an ordinary passive observer of the state of affairs on the Marxist left, to which I still belong. Knowing something about the history of the Bolshevik Party and the Leninist principles of how the Bolshevik Party was organized, and related to the Communist Party of Yugoslavia which followed similar principles, when we talk about the organizational model and how it led to a successful revolution "I have concluded that the Leninist model was designed for revolutionary conditions" one somehow forgets that that party (and what is also important for Yugoslavia) operated in illegal conditions, when that party was banned and for a long time, not only in that period of revolutionary conditions, and adapted its organization to such a way of working. Is such a way of organization suitable at all in developed capitalist countries where parties can act freely? Another question is whether a Leninist way of organizing led to a lack of democratic decision-making in all countries where such a party came to power. Without democracy, there is no socialism. We should have learned that from Rosa Luxemburg.
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