The workers need to know only one thing - socialism. That seems to be Tom's motto. It should be painfully obvious really. History presents us with a choice between revolutionary democratic communism from below and state socialism from above. It is sad, therefore, that comrades like Delargy crudely counterpose democracy under capitalism and socialism.
Communists recognise that socialism is an historical break, or leap.
But we also emphasise that without the struggle for the fullest possible democracy, proletarian revolution will be nothing but a lifeless abstraction. But not for Tom. In his jumbled-up account democracy becomes a danger to be guarded against. Revolutionary democracy equals Kautskyism, intone our left Trotskyists. A democratic republic is and must be a counterrevolutionary demand.