Post October LT was correct against Lenin on two issues: The defense of Petrograd -- refusing to abandon it -- in 1919 (?) against encroaching White armies (the only other person who supported Trotsky in this was...Stalin);
His lone opposition to the summer of 1920 offensive against Warsaw where sadly Trotsky was correct and Lenin, and everyone else including his own General Staff of the Red Army were wrong: it was a disaster; LT was completely wrong the trade union question not that it made a huge difference as the trade unions were eviscerated anyway. None of this goes to the issue of Marxist organization however. Despite assertions by others here, the CCCP (Communist Party of the Soviet Union as it finally became known) became increasingly "tight" and centralized going forward from October through the "ban on factions", which WAS more than anything sunk workers democracy for almost every section of the Comintern (1919 onward). There wasn't a single party in the Comintern that modeled itself on the *Bolshevik* party. This all occurred with with the overal destruction of any semblance of workers democracy in society as a whole with decline of the soviets as THE voice of the working class. David -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#39615): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/39615 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/116549413/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/13617172/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
