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I became a Trotskyite in 1896. Later I worked with Lenin on Iskra in 1902. I broke with Lenin, whom I characterized as "the leader of the reactionary wing," the next year over the nature of the revolutionary party (i.e., Lenin's What Is To Be Done?) and aligned myself with the Menshevik faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party. I broke with the Mensheviks in 1904 and tried during the next decade to reunite the factions of the RSDLP but was opposed by Lenin and Stalin. In the 1905 revolution, I was the leader of the St. Petersburg Soviet and developed the theory of Permanent Revolution. In 1915 I wrote the Zimmerwald manifesto against the war but strongly opposed Lenin's revolutionary defeatism.

In 1917 Lenin was talking some shit and called me a "wavering" "social patriot" to Kollantai. I joined the Bolshevik Party late that summer after Lenin refused to follow my "advice" that he turn himself into the pigs and it became painfully clear to me that the Bolsheviks were about to seize countrywide state power. I was elected to its central committee. Finally, my ass-kissing factionalism was beginning to pay off!!! Shortly thereafter I helped take credit for organizing the October Revolution which I'd opposed just a few months earlier.

My first government post in the R.S.F.S.R. was as commissar of foreign affairs. Immediately, on my first mission to sign a peace treaty with Germany, I refused to follow Lenin's simple instructions which resulted in my country being forced to grant even more concessions to the Kaiser. In 1918 I became commissar of war, wore a uniform and gave a few speeches. It became eminently clear that I didn't know shit about military strategy while Stalin and Voroshilov led it to many victories during the civil war and imperialist intervention.

In 1923 I formed the "Left" Opposition thus proving Lenin's characterization of me as an "unrepentant factionalist." For the ensuing decade I battled the vast majority of the Party and was rejected time and time again. I was expelled from the Communist Party and the Comintern, and exiled to Turkey in 1927. In 1933 I gave up my efforts to reform the Comintern and called for the creation of a new International. I viewed my work on behalf of the Fourth International as the most important of my life. Just Google "Fourth International" to see how much we've accomplished since!

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