You missed my point Mark. Yes, the 10th Party Congress about the same time as the Kronstadt rebellion. My point is that neither the Workers Opposition nor the DCs had any sympathy for them despite similarities between what the Kronstadters were fighting for and the WO/DCs were advocating. Yes, both the WO/DCs were IN the Communist Party (no longer called Bolsheviks) and the Ksronstadters even included some of the Bolshevik Red Army cells, were basically outside the CP.
I think the ban on factions, supported by Trotsky, was a mistake. The key thing, I think, in the telling of the program of the Kronstadt rebellion was over the monopoly of politics over the working class that was key, especially in hindsight. At the 10 Congress, Trotsky in one of his speeches, noted that it would be "insane" (his term) to advocate ending this monopoly. The historical question is how did it get this way? From soviet democracy (of which there many issues in and of itself, another thread for sure) to one party state and the fusion of the party and state. I think this is important to discuss because of an issue I learned from scanning the 5 volumes of Trotsky's military writings for the MIA. David -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#34556): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/34556 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/109913252/21656 -=-=- 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]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
