Trotsky's Greatest Asset

Trotsky's greatest asset, by far, was his popular appeal. His oratory soared above everyone and made him a great champion of the people. The troika refused his resignation and refused to allow him to go to germany. So instead he sent a fiery internal memo on october eighth that opened his new period as leader of an amorphous and purposely ill defined opposition to the troica. He said functionaries were being appointed from on high who just mindlessly carry out orders. And one need not struggle too hard to see trotsky's turn from defender of labor armies and one party dictatorship to more open, democratic decision making coincides with him being pushed off the topmost