Contrarianism: I'm against it!

"In ninety cases out of a hundred the workers actually place a minus
sign where the bourgeoisie places a plus sign. In ten cases however they
are forced to fix the same sign as the bourgeoisie but with their own
seal, in which is expressed their mistrust of the bourgeoisie. The
policy of the proletariat is not at all automatically derived from the
policy of the bourgeoisie, bearing only the opposite sign – this would
make every sectarian a master strategist; no, the revolutionary party
must each time orient itself independently in the internal as well as
the external situation, arriving at those decisions which correspond
best to the interests of the proletariat. This rule applies just as much
to the war period as to the period of peace."

full: http://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1938/05/think.htm