Workers' Liberty 3/0: The history of Bolshevism
Did the Bolsheviks Create Stalinism? Trotsky's 1904 "Prophecy" and Lenin's "Substitutionism"
Submitted on 30 September, 2007 - 23:03
By Max Shachtman
The organisation of the party will take the place of the party; the Central Committee will take the place of the organisation; and finally the dictator will take the place of the Central Committee.
Leon Trotsky, 1904
Predictions like this, Trotsky's, in a polemic written in 1904, have often been used to “explain” Stalinism as a logical continuation of Bolshevism.
