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proletarian revolutionary, Trotzky is
the classical" type of the intellectual
eyoIutionary. The latter has Of course
certain strong features, he succeeded
sometimes in combining with the pro-
letarian mass, but that which forms
the nature of his political activity is
the intellectual revolutionarism.
We give below compressed polit-
ical description of the life of Trotzky-
ism which possesses the authority of
coming from the pen of Lenin:
Gle, Trotzky, was in the year 1903
Z menshevik, left this party in 1904,
returned to the menshevih in 1905
and paraded round with ultra-revolu-
tionary phrases. In 1906 he again
abandoned this party; at the end OF
1906 he. again defended the election
alliance with the cadets and in the
spring of 1907 he stated at the London
conference that the difference between
him and Rosa Luxembourg rather con-
stituted a difference of individual
shades Of opinion than difference OF
political tendency. Today Trotzky
borrows some ideas from the one
fraction and tomorrow from the other
and therefore considers himself as a
man standing above both fractions"
(Lenin's Collected Works, Volume XII.
Part ii, Page 308-309.)
Never in a single serious question
of Marxism has Trotzky had firm
opinion ,Es always squeezes himself in
4 division between this or that differ
ences of opinion and always runs from
one side to the other. At present he
is in the company of the Bund' and
Of the liquidators."
Thus wrote Lenin in an article in
the revue Enlightenment" published
in 1914.
However well meant the intentions
of NARROW and Trotzky may be sub
iecsively they support by their toler-
ance Russian Imperialism"
ihus wrote Lenin in the Social
demokrat" No. 1, October, 1916.
Lei us compare the literary sign
POSTS Of oolsheyism with those in
Gicating the road Of development of
T'rotzkyism. These are the following
books of Comrade Trotzky: sour Pol
itical Tasks" (1903}, "Our Revolution"
(is05-1906), then his collaboration to
the liquidatory Journal "Nssha Sa-
ria" Tour DAWN, then a bright mo-
Iinent-the book over Kautsky 1919)
which was followed by the New
Course" and The Lessons of Oc.
tober" (1923-1924l. The retrog1ade
of Comrade Trotzky finds
particular sharp expression in the two
last named works.
What was the book: Our political
tasks? This book which appeared with
IA dedication of the menshevist Pat
riarch p. A. Axelrod, was the most
Vulgar menshevist book which the his
tory of menshevist literature has ever
known. In this book Comrade Trotzky
came to the conclusion OF a liberal
labor policy.
And what was the book: Our Revo.
luton" the most left of the books of
Trotzky In the first epoch. In this
book (see also his book "19O5') there
was laid down the notorious theory
of the permanent revolution" which
Comrade Trotzky is now attempting
to impose upon bolshevism. This
theory was regarded by Comrade
Lenin and all the Bolsheviki as a
variety of mensheyism. Not everv-
body will remeber that in this 'left"
book in which Comrade TTotzky to a
certain extent defended the work
ers" revolution against the boIshevik
idea Of democratic dictatorship OF
the proletariat and the peasantry,
Trotzly wrote:
But how far can the socialist pol
icy Of the working class go under the
economic conditions of Russian One
may say one thing with certainty: it
will much rather encounter political