The party was meant to just be the organizer of the workers, not the ruler. The degeneration took off only after Lenin's death and the 4th Congress of the Comintern, which was dominated by Troika. that's why Mayakovsky was a devout Bolshevik until Stalinzation advanced and started scrapping several progressive conquests of October, leading to his suicide at the refusal to prop up the Stalinist degeneracy.

Also Lenin was, for instance, not a big fan of the many experimental artistic movements that flourished after the Revolution, but did not suppress them, unlike Stalin.

He also regretted banning other parties (but which was necessitated by every single one of them taking up arms against Sovnarkom) and before his death wanted to offer Trotsky a post of Commisar of Internal Affairs in a desperate bid to curtail the bureaucracy, but Trotsky, unfortunately, refused.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Lenin betrayed the revolution. You mention the banning of the political parties. While it's true that they "took up arms against Sovnarkom", you're leaving out the part where Lenin used Sovnarkom to coup the newly elected government because his party didn't win.

Again, Lenin was flat out wrong. But I don't think he ever actually cared about Russia ever reaching the true Marxist communist utopia. Lenin cared about power first and foremost.

He built up that dictatorship, and then handed it over to a monster.

[–] pkill 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1938/01/kronstadt.htm

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm not sure what your point is, the Kronstadt rebellion was the final fight of the Civil War that Lenin kicked off in 1917.

Nothing that happened in 1921 changes the brutality of Lenin or his cronies from years prior.

And some apologist writing ten years later is even less convincing.

[–] pkill 1 points 3 weeks ago

Trotsky some apologist the historical ignorance of anarchists is unbelievable