However, Leftist academicians and historians don't want to claim that the inevitable end of every Leftist revolution is despotism.
The CPSU certainly did know that this was a possibility, which is why they went down so hard on Trotsky (as a proto-Napoleon) while ignoring the bureaucrat Stalin. Of course, that still led to a despotism.
The CPSU certainly did know that this was a possibility, which is why they went down so hard on Trotsky (as a proto-Napoleon) while ignoring the bureaucrat Stalin. Of course, that still led to a despotism.