Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - A Amurka, Dwight Macdonald ya rabu da Trotsky kuma ya bar Jam'iyyar Trotskyist Socialist Workers ta hanyar tayar da batun batun Kronstadt
, wanda Trotsky a matsayin shugaban Red Soviet Red Army da sauran Bolsheviks suka yi mummunan zalunci. Daga nan sai ya koma ga tsarin mulkin demokra] iyya da anarchism. Irin wannan zargi game da rawar da Trotsky ya taka a kan abubuwan da suka faru a kusa da tawaye na Kronstadt ya taso ne daga ɗan adawa na Lithuanian-American Emma Goldman. A cikin labarinta "Trotsky Protests Too Much", ta ce: "Na yarda, mulkin kama karya a ƙarƙashin mulkin Stalin ya zama abin ban tsoro. Wannan, duk da haka, ba ya rage laifin Leon Trotsky a matsayin ɗaya daga cikin 'yan wasan kwaikwayo a wasan kwaikwayo na juyin juya hali wanda Kronstadt ta kasance ɗaya daga cikin wuraren da aka zubar da jini". Trotsky ya kare ayyukan Red Army a cikin labarinsa "Hue da Cry a kan Kronstadt".