For Trotsky, “a coalition government” of workers and peasants parties could only lead to the victory of the revolution if the latter followed the leadership of the proletariat in moving towards the smashing of the bourgeois state apparatus, that is, if they were not bourgeois peasant parties but peasant “parties” or “groups” that were satellites of the proletariat.
Imbes na magpakahusay sa pagtuturo ng syentipikong sosyalismo sa masa ng sambayan, ang Partido ay nalulong sa paglalako ng "pambansang demokrasya", ang sarili nating bersyon ng pambansang kapitalismo.