The concept [of democratic-centralism] seems to have gained prominence
during Zinoviev’s stewardship of the early Comintern (the Third
International) between 1919 and 1923, when it was a feature of attempts
to pressurise foreign affiliated parties to ‘Bolshevise’. It then
acquired much greater significance in the context of Stalinist
degeneration, eventually becoming a mechanism of Stalinist
counter-revolution inside Russia, and a way of controlling foreign
communist parties. In the light of this, it seems highly anomalous that
democratic-centralism should also have become a feature of the
Trotskyist tradition.
https://www.timetomutiny.org/post/3-trotsky-s-theory-of-the-party
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