1. If the party were to attempt to unify all the intellectuals and workers in favor of revolution, then it would have to include some people with different arguments and resolve their differences through discussion and votes. If it opposed this position, it could not continue to exist as a Leninist party according to Lenin’s What is to Be Done?

2. If the party were to include various positions from the different factions within the leadership according to a proportional system, then different opinions would enter into the executive committees. If they opposed proportional representation, then they would support a factional dictatorship in opposition to the Declaration of the 46, the founding document of the Left Opposition led by Trotsky. They could not then exist as a Trotskyist movement.

3. If the party bureaucracy expanded the committees, then it would be in their own interests to stack the committees with those who strictly adhere to the incumbent committee-member’s own positions. In that way, an expansion of the committees would not lead directly to the inclusion of representative factions.

4. If Party Congresses decide the occupancy of the committee positions, those invited to participate will have a vote. The invitations to congresses and unappealable suspensions of memberships could then function to preclude any challenge to a factional dictatorship.

5. A commitment to the representation of the revolutionary working class entails the production of committees that accurately reflect the membership, readership, and the positions in general of the working class in revolutionary struggle. Without this commitment, middle-class and ruling class agents, not necessarily agents of the state, could interfere with the proper functioning of the party and effectively sabotage the revolution as a whole.

6. The Dictatorship of the Proletariat, the end goal of Marxist revolution, will include a state composed of governing bodies answerable to the working class. Only a firm commitment to democracy, referred to in the days of Lenin and Trotsky as Social Democracy, could effectively bring the workers into power. This means that the leaders and the followers must elevate the principle of Democracy to a large degree.

7. As Trotsky discovered, the working class cannot wait forever for the bureaucracy to accept its positions. It must stake out its own positions and defend them through an independent organization. As a corollary, every independent organization of the working class in revolutionary opposition to the government must have access and representation to the revolutionary party. This effectively retraces Lenin’s struggle for the unification of the Social Democracy across Russia on a higher plane;