CC: But Trotsky was merely being a good orthodox Marxist: he believed there was a Marxist revolutionary theory and that that theory could dictate the correct tactics regardless of special local circumstances
^^^^^ CB: Guessing the original "orthodox" Marxists, M and E, would have been more like Lenin than Trotsky on this issue. So, actually, Lenin is the orthodox Marxist in this comparison. M and E's attitude to the US Civil War might have some evidence of this.