https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1920/lwc/ch09.htm

1920- Lenin publishes Left Wing Communism: An Infantile Disorder

1921- Sylvia Pankhurst declares the formation of the Fourth International

1922- Lenin suffers first of 3 debilitating strokes, followed by the last, fourth lethal stroke.

1923- Labor wins general election, bringing to power the first Labor Prime Minister, Ramsey Macdonald, in January of 1924.

1924- Lenin suffers his final lethal stroke.

1924- “Zinoviev Letter”, a forgery published four days before the general election, produces a victory for the conservatives after 10 months of Labor Party rule.

Lenin, like Plekhanov, was inseparable from his politics. His political death, which became necessary as he denied his own theory to the British Working Class, became his cultural and biological death as well. Trotsky survived by becoming a cultural icon, but politically he would float slowly and aimlessly towards Pankhurst’s position, only to arrive too late, when fascist dictatorship had already had years to prepare the next World War. Pankhurst survived both, but in isolation, depending on her connections to the Queen of Ethiopia and her support for African independence. Her suffering in isolation should appear as large as some of history’s greatest battles, when the fate of the entire world is at stake and many observe with almost unbearable anxiety.

It is one thing to argue the wrong way as leader of a newspaper or a party and quite another to argue as the dictator of large country. The former could allow more lee-way as people are free to choose their party or newspaper as individuals. As leader of a state, Lenin would have done far better for his cause and himself had he allowed for a factional democracy according to the demands of the Left Opposition. People cannot simply choose another state without moving to a new country, which would be impossible in every sense for the entire Russian working class. The Russian working class could not betray the British working class since they needed an international revolution, especially including the wealthy imperialist countries like Great Britain, to break the imperialist blockade of their socialist economy.