The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-02-10
Continued from last issue)
May, 1910.

dIdIAOu VI Inc bOlSuSNlhly Inc uudl
mental and organizatory withdrawal
of the Bolsheviki from the supporters
Of bourgeois influence upon the prole-
tariat, from the menshevist liquidat-
ors headed by Martov and Axelrod,
and from the "Otsovists," led by the
subsequent renegade, Alexinsky. Len
in writes Complete works, XI.-2, PIP.
40 to $50:
"The representatives of the two ex-
IRENE tendencies, both of which are
subject to bourgeois theology, and
both Of which are equally hostile to
the party, agree with one another in
their contest against the Bolsheviki.
The resolution proposed by
Trotsky differs in form only from the
illusions of Axelrod and Alexinsky. Its
terms are exceedingly cautious and
aim at expressing 'super-fractionaI
! justice. But what is its actual i'm
port? The 'Bolshevist leaders are
to blame for everything phil
osophy of history does not differ in
any way from that of Axelrod and
Alexinsky. :"
ut is not difficult to see," continues
Lenin, how the empty, hollow phrases
Of Trotsky's resolution serve for the
defense Of the same standpoint as
that adopted by Axelrod and Co., and
Alexinsky and Co. Here lies the great
and abysmal difference between the
conciliatory pose of Trotsky and Co.,
in reality the most faithful servants
of the liquidators and Otsovists, and
forming the more dangerous evil for
the party that they are skilled at con-
cealing their true character behind
clever and artificial phrases, and be-
hind apparently anti-fractional and
pro-party declarations, and between
that really party standpoint which
stands for the purging of the party
from all liquidators and Otsovists"
The irreconcilable struggle for the
principles of Bolshevism continued.
All the enemies of Bolshevism joined
hands and attacked the Bolsheviki,
the party, and it's central authorities,
Lenin, dealing with the significance
of this struggle and Trotsky's part in
it, wrote as follows at the end of 1910
(XI.-2, PIP. 1872, 1873, 1870:
''Martov's article and Trotsky's res
olution are backed up by certain prac-
tical actions directed against the
party Martov's article is merely a
literary form clothing the campaign
undertaken by the mensheviki for the
purpose Of causing schism in our c. C.
Trotsky's resolution pursues the same
menshevist aims: the destruction of
the central authorities (of the Boil
shevikD so hated by the liquidators,
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party as an organization. 1t is not suf-
ficient merely to expose these anti
party actions on the part of the mem
sheviki and Trotsky; they must be
combatted."
You will see, comrades, that many
things have happened in our party
and many of the things which may ap-
pear new to our younger comrades
are by no means so new to older ones,
or to the younger comrades who have
studied Lenin's works attentively
There is nothing new under the sun"
Lenin continues:
1--WE therefore declare, on behalf of
the whole party, that Trotsky is car
rying on an anti-party policy, that he
is undermining the legality of the
/ POI ~ anu On a pain VI du-
venture and schism. Comrade
! Trotsky preserves silence on this in
contestable truth (about the anti
party groups) because the real aims
of his policy cannot stand the truth
These real aims are: an anti-party
bloc. Such a bloc is being supported
and organized by Trotsky. It
goes without saying that Trotsky sup
ports this bloc, for the anti-party ele-
ments here get everything they re-
quire: liberty for their fractions, glor-
! ificatiOn and concealment of their ac-
I tivity, skillful advocacy defending
them before the working class 1t is
precisely from the standpoint of fun
damental principles that we have to
regard this bloc as adventurism in the
exactest meaning of the word. Trot-
sky does not venture to assert that he
finds in the mensheviki, in the Otsol
visits, real Marxists, real defenders
of the established principles of social
democracy. But it is just this neces-
sity of continual lodging which is
characteristic of the adventurer. The
bloc formed by Trotsky with Potres-
SOW and the group around the vperjod
! (Forward) is Just an adventure
judged from the viewpoint of funda-
mental principles This assertion is
no less important from the standpoint
of the tasks of party politics. The
experience of year has shown
that in reality II is precisely the Pot
ressov group, precisely the Vperjod
set who incorporate the influence ex-
ercised by the bourgeoisie on the pro-
letariat. Thirdly and finally.
Trotsky's policy is an adventure in an
organizatory sense
1911.
The struggle for the party and its