The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-20
How One Should Not Write The History Of October

Trotsky. But to say that the StandpOin.
Of Trotsky proved to be correct is false
It proved to be incorrect. and tho fur
Their development has proved it's in
correctness. The peculiarity Of Com
rade Trotsky's attitude consists pre-
cisely in the fact that he wished to
skip stage which could not be skip
ped. Gle forgot one tribe, the pea
santry.)
ut is not sufficient to be a revolu-
tionary and follower of socialism or
Communist in general wrote Com
rade Lenin. "One must understand
how to find at any moment the par
ticular link in the chain which one
must seize with all his force in order
to hold the entire chain and to prepare
sure transition to the following
link" COLLECTED works Volume is,
Page 1881
1t is precisely this which the slo-
gan Of Comrade Trotsky failed to give
lie has "disregarded" that special link
Of the chain which should have been
grasped with all force, he has under
estimated the role Of the peasantry
and thereby practically isolated him
self from the workers.
Magnificent, catching, intoxicating
slogans, which have no basis-that is
he nature of the revolutionary
phrase" Oenin Is. Page 1907
1t does not follow from the fact
hat after many years, and after we
have passed over a certain stage, the
socialist revolution has set in, that
,omrade Trotsky is right. Such an
sssertion would contradict the facts
md would be based upon a misunder-
landing of the nature Of the tactics
If Bolshevism, of its, il one may so
say. political methodology which unites
persistent march forward to the
great aim with an austere soberness,
which rejects all preiudices and all
superficiality in ifs estimate of every
concrete situation. Here also Com
rade Trotgky is in the wrong. Here
also his book entirely misIeads the
reader. Not to mention the fact that
Comrade Trotsky remains silent as to
how his permanent" uItra-left phrase
was welded to an extremely right
policy and bitter struggle against the
Boishevik Party.
The Lessons of October and the Com
munist international.
One Of the practical foundations up
on which the Preface" Of Trotsky is
based is the endeavor, to put it mild
ly, to dispute" the policy Of the E. C.
c. I. He sets out to take revenge for
the discussion he lost in 1928 and
thereby to oppose, not only the line of
the C. c., but also the policy of the
Comintern as a whole. For this pur-
pose he las distorted the meaning of
the most important epochs of the class
struggle of the proIetariat in Ger
many and in Bulgaria. In this he hints
that the mistakes of several comrades
in 1917 caused the failure of the Com
munists in Germany and in Bulgaria
In 1873. The structure OF this idea
is very simple when we strip off the
husk of words. XYz erred in the Rus
sian October. xYZ now leads the Com
munist International. The Comintern
has lost the battles. a, b. C. 1t fol
lows that XYZ are responsible for
this, as they are carrying on their
traditions Of the Russian October.
Briefly stated, that is the meaning Of
the long effusion.
The frame of this completely ridicu-
lous syllogism has concrete content.
It is therefore necessary critically to
illuminate this content, whereupon the
whole complicated construction Of
Comrade Trotsky will collapse.
Point I. Bulgaria.
Comrade Trotsky writes:
I'm the past year we had two
severe defeats in Bulgaria. First
the party, owing to doctrinaire and
fafaiiafic considerations v,,;coad a