The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-20

lists as heritage OF the past. But IN
order to reduce it the 'Meshrajonzy'
must cease their separate exist
ence." page 66)s
Comrade Trotsky already therefore,
when he advocated uniting with the
Bolsheviki, condemned Bolshevist sec
tarianism as bad inheritance Of the
wicked past.
But do we repudiate this heritage
Not in the least, for this so-called sec
-arianism was, as a matter Of fact
the method of the creation of o
party, that is the organizatory b.
principle of Bolshevism. And when
Comrade Trotsky writes on Page &.
Of his preface: That he has recog
nized his great -organizatory" ii
takes, and on page &C justifes the
charge Of sectarianism directed
against pre-revolutionary Bolshevisri,
this means that he has not yet drawn
all the consequences and all the teach
ings from the history of our party. He
can, however, not do this if he consi-
ders the birthday of the party to be
the day Of its union with the Mesh
rajonzy," or even the glorious October
days, in which Comrade Trotsky, not
without birth pangs, was himself born
Bolshevik.
4. Fight against the zimmerwalc
left. Finally, there must be mention
cd the attitude of Comrade Trotsky O
world SCALE" Comrade Trotsky
who conducted the fight against chau
vinists, social patriots, etc., was scorn-
full towards the Zimmerwald left. Fl
regarded them likewise as sectarians
as Bolsheyist within, quite unadap.
ed for the conditions abroad. Alread
in America, where, as Comrade Ii
ner assures us. Comrade Tretsky anti
cipated the latter standpoint of Com.
rade Lenin, he conducted an active
| fight against solidarizing with the Zim.
merwald left. Trotsky could not ap.
prove this split" from the thinner
waid centrists. The comrades who
were entrusted with the editing of
1877" did not take any trouble to illu.
inmate for the international proIe-
tariat this part of our party history
which is quite as important for the in
ternational as the question Of civil
war, of defeatism, etc.; for here there
is no less at stake than the choice be.
tween the Second and the Third Inter.
national.
5. The conception of "permanent'
revolution. Comrade Trotsky has, as
is proved, not only Participated" Len.
ms later standpoint, but he proveo
himself to be right in one of the most
essential points of our revolutionary
theory and at the same time of our
revolutionary strategy, and that is, II
the question of permanent" revolt
ton. Comrade Trotsky writes concern,
ing this as follows:
"Lenin, Immediately before 1905.
gave expression to the UNIQUE char
acter Of the Russian revolution in
the formula Of the democratic die
tatorship of the proletariat and the
peasantry. This formula, as the later.
development showed, could merely.
be of Importance, as a stage to the
socialist dictatorship of the proIe-
tariat, supported by the peasantry."
| page I'D
What can be the meaning of that
In 1905 there was a fight Of the Boil
sheviki, who issued the slogan "dic.
tatorship of the proletariat and the
peasantry," on the one hand and the
Trotsky-Parvus group. whose slogan
was Down with the car and up with
a labor government" on the othor
hand and finally with the Poles, at the
head Of whom stood Rosa Nuremberg
who issued the formula: "the prolc.
tariat supported by the peasantry."
Whose standpoint proved to be cor.
rect?
Comrade Trotsky evades giving a
definite and detailed repiv m fhie