Eh, I would have said more that it was Lenin and Trotsky’s dream. Don’t forget that the EU was the brainchild of Lenin and Trotsky if this is to be believed:
THE [European ]UNION CAN MAKE A VITAL CONTRIBUTION to the reform of the international economic architecture and to the establishment of a mechanism for collective governance.
From: Commission of the European Communities
Brussels 9.2.2000 [COM (2000) 154 final]
Communication from the Commission to the European Parliament, The Council, The Economic and Social Committee and the Committee of the Regions:
STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES 2000-2005
“SHAPING THE NEW EUROPE”
Writing in The Spectator (London) of 5th February 2000 John Laughland stated that “The West is now on the verge of achieving that of which Lenin and Trotsky dreamed in 1917. For the point is not to replace nation states with a European or world superstate. It is instead to achieve the old Marxist dream of abolishing statehood altogether”
The thesis of the state socialist is that no line may be drawn between private and public affairs which the state may not cross at will; that omnipotence of legislation is the first postulate of all just political theory.Not to mention, the USSR itself was part of Germany’s plot to get Russia out of the war in 1917. One may think of people such as Lenin and Trotsky as German-minded in that case.
— “Socialism and Democracy”, 1887