Also I know where you are coming from. Unfortunately Trotsky was anti-Marxist and opportunist in his analysis of the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union had degenerated due to objective material conditions and he was calling for political revolution when there were no conditions for it. His analysis was anti-materialist. I agree with the rest of the analysis he makes but not on the part of political revolution.
comrade I know all this. I am a Marxist Leninist that doesn't mean that I support Stalin.
"They were class conciliationists ...." The Mensheviks were indeed in favour of class concilliation, but this was also true of many Stalinist leaders including Stalin himself who, in the case of the Chinese revolution, argued that the Chinese communists should enter the KMT and give up their political independence on the grounds that the bourgeois tasks had not been completed in China and so the only effective course of action for Chinese communists was to subordiante their own political activity to the national bourgeoisie. This eventually resulted in the defeat of the Chinese communist movement - how can you defend this, as a self-described "marxist leninist"?
