Right Opposition policies encouraging kulaks and NEPmen to "get rich" were seen by Right Opposition supporters as encouraging kulaks and NEPmen to "grow into" socialism. Their policy was closely identified with the New Economic Policy (NEP), with former left communist Bukharin slowly moving to the right of the Bolshevik Party and becoming a strong supporter of the NEP starting in 1921. It was asserted that they represented the influence of the peasantry and the danger of capitalist restoration. The right tendency was identified with the supporters of Nikolai Bukharin and Rykov. The tendency led by Joseph Stalin was described as being in the centre, based on the state and party bureaucracy, tending to shift alliances between the left and the right.
Trotsky argued that his tendency, the Left Opposition, represented the internationalist traditions of the working class. These were described by Leon Trotsky as left, right and centre tendencies, each based on a specific class or caste.
The struggle for power in the Soviet Union after the death of Vladimir Lenin saw the development of three major tendencies within the Communist Party. 3 Foundation of the International Communist Opposition.
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