Prefatory Note from the Authors (2010) . iii Introductory Note by George Breitman . vi Leon Trotsky and the Organizational Principles of the Revolutionary Party . 1 I. The Revolutionary Party: Its Function and Consequent Norms . 2 II. The Challenge of the Left Opposition . 6 1.

Function of Democracy in Democratic Centralism . 9 a) The Responsibility of the Ranks . 9 b) How the Party Builds Itself . 10 c) The Responsibility of the Leadership . 12 2. The Bureaucratic Mode of Functioning . 13 a) What Were the Objective Reasons for the Rise of the Bureaucracy? . 14 b) How the Bureaucratic Apparatus Functioned .

17 3. Inner-Party Groups and Party Norms . 22 4. The Program to Restore Party Democracy . 23 III. Toward the World Party of Socialist Revolution . 27 1. The Integrity of the Revolutionary Program .

28 2. Functions of Party Democracy . 30 3. Stressing Centralism . 33 4. The Crisis of the French Section . 37 a) Principled Politics . 38 b) Democratic Centralism .

39 c) Party Building and Responsibilities of Leadership . 40 d) The Turn to Workers and Mass Struggles . 42 5. Crises of the American Section . 43 a) Averting an unprincipled Split . 43 b) Against Freelancing . 48 c) The Sectarian Opposition .