The big question is how many Communists and workers killed in the revolt had been at the receiving end of weapons and training supplied to the German army by Trotskys Red Army?
Moreover, the nature of any such revolution is what counts. The Left Opposition would have encourage revolutions which followed (to re-quote the Platform of the Opposition) the “Leninist principle” (“inviolable for every Bolshevik”) that “the dictatorship of the proletariat is and can be realised only through the dictatorship of the party.” It would have opposed workers’ self-management in favour of nationalisation and one-man management. In other words, the influence of the Left Opposition would have been as detrimental to the global workers’ movement and other revolutions as Stalin’s was (or, for that matter, Lenin’s) although, of course, in a different way. Generalising Lenin’s state capitalism would not have resulted in socialism, no matter how many revolutions in the west the Left Opposition encouraged. Finally, the fate of the “Left Opposition” should be noted. As befell the previous oppositions, the party machine was used against it. Ironically, the Stalinists began by using the
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