Clearly the oblique reference to dual power did not come from me. Tom's theory of revolutionary democracy is certainly Kautskyism. It is so easy for any Marxist to shoot this nonsense down in flames. We do not even need quotes from Lenin. There can be no such thing as pure, non-class democracy.
Every state is the dictatorship of a ruling class, even the most democratic.
This includes the former bureaucratic USSR, which was also a class dictatorship. There is no such thing as a constitutionally stable 'dual power' situation. Unfortunately the Delargy method of polemic is worse even than his theory of revolutionary democracy. His idea of a good debate is to invent this nonsense and attribute it, without any evidence whatsoever, to his opponents. If he, or indeed any of the Trotskyite economists, want to have a serious debate, they have to argue with and expose what is wrong with what we revolutionary democrats actually say.