[22] Trotsky, Our Political Tasks, part 2. He went on, describing Lenin’s Bolshevism as a system of “the Party organization ‘substituting’ itself for the Party, the Central Committee substituting itself for the Party organization, and finally the dictator substituting himself for the Central Committee.”
[24] Thatcher, Leon Trotsky and World War One, 57–75; Thatcher, Trotsky, 75.
[25] Why create splits, he argued, when their group was so small to start with? He recalled joking upon seeing the thirty-eight delegates arrive at the 1915 Zimmerwald conference that after fifty years of organizing, “It was still possible to seat all the internationalists in four coaches.” Trotsky, My Life, 249.
[31] Notably, Trotsky had not given a single speech or written a single article in the country. According to Trotsky, Spanish authorities said simply, “Your ideas are too advanced for Spain.” Thatcher, Leon Trotsky and World War One, 193.
[32] See letter to M. Uritzky, November 24, 1916. British Archives, KV 2/502. “At Cadiz, [Spain] they wanted to put me straight onto a steamer starting for Havana. . . . I protested . . . & then there came from Madrid permission for me to be left at Cadiz until the first steamer sailed for New York.”
[33] Letter to M. Uritzky, November 24, 1916. British Archives, KV 2/502.
[34] See Spence, “Hidden Agendas”; Thatcher Leon Trotsky and World War One, 191–94; documents in British Archives, KV2/502, and Trotsky, Vingt Lettres.