Even though I share your dislike of Lenin, Trotsky, and the like, this is a pretty unfair statement. I don't see, for instance, that much that separates Lenin and Chomsky on these questions. Trotsky et al.'s ideals, or whatever you want to call them, weren't what you say they were, and even if they were, ideology doesn't matter. What matters is what happened when their revolution won. What matters isn't whether Trotsky was a jerk but what Stalin's gulags and executions--which were just the political version of Lenin's and Trotsky's economic gulags, forced collectivization and Taylorism in the factories--say about the vicissitudes of maintaining a statist revolution.