All power to the soviets!

>all power to the soviets!
>lmao just kidding here have this centralized dictatorship
What did he mean by this?

>dictator says he's not a dictator
>installed as dictator
>lol I'm a dictator

Communism

>Kills dissidents left and right while openly advocating for terrorism and slave labor
>Ugh, Stalin is such an authoritarian guise
What did he mean by this?

He meant exactly the same as politicians in Revolutionary France. Adapting to circumstances and reality of things.

he meant that the soviets should be free to elect the Bolsheviks or die

>organize elections
>get raped
>"woah, I was just kidding guys"
really good "adaptation" right there

>organize elections
There were no even remotely general or democratic elections in February Republic. Communists only cared about them to get publicity: as their public and fundamental position was that the Soviets, Workers, Peasants and Soldiers councils, were the only legitimate power structure. They were elected representatives too, and the Bolsheviks attained complete control in those just before they launched their Revolution.

>We're gonna be called "The Soviet Union"
>Ok now dissolve all the soviets lol

Fucking Trotsky

>never accomplish anything except gassing peasants to death and getting encircled by the Poles
>for decades after your death people claim you're a military genius that would have saved the Soviet Union from the Germans
Trotskyism was a mistake