The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-01-10
Bolshevism or Irotskyism?

peace), nobody mentioned single
word regarding these differences.
Nobody reproached us regarding
this error, altho it so happened that
l, on behalf of the central committee,
had to fight energetically against
Comrade Trotsky and the Jeffrey and
its is clear that the party, under the
fresh impression Of the differences,
would have attacked the guilty ones
if they had estimated this guilt as
Comrade Trotsky does now.
Comrade Trotsky now says in the
Lessons OF October" seven years
after these events, that our attitude
to the question of the Brest peace
was one of capitulation. What did
Trotsky himself say on this Seventh
Party Congress some weeks after the
October differences:
Before the last journey to Brest-
Litovsk we discussed during the whole
time the question of our further
tactics. And there was only one vote
in the central committee in favor of
Immediately signing the peace: that
of Zinoviev. eve assert that there
was not only one one vote, but also
Lenin, Stain and Sverdlov said the
same thing; Comrade Kamenev was
arrested in Finland, G. ~ What he
said was, from his standpoint, quite
correct: | was fully in agreement with
h i'm To fhoR
only render worse the peace condi-
tons, and that they must be signed at
once" minutes of the seventh party
conference, page 49,
If the proposal to sign the Brest
peace was "capitulation, then Com
rade Lenin was "capitulator." CAS-
matter of fact, the tactics of Trotsky
at that time would have led to the
downfall of the revolution, i. e., to an
actual capituIation.) II Comrade
Trotsky himself spoke in the above
mentioned way as to this affair, who
can give credit to his present ultra
polemic remarks? Is it not evident
that all this has been discovered after
wards?
AT the. Seventh Party Congress the
debates turned upon quite other ques-
tons. It was Comrade Trotsky this
time who submitted a declaration re-
garding his resignationa from all re-
sponsible posts. minutes, pages
147-14S.) Against Trotsky and against
the left" Communists, there was
directed the resolution of Lenin and
Zinoviev minutes, page 81, and as
regards resignation from the central
committee in general, Comrade Lenin
said the following words:
Il also found myself in a similar
situation in the central committee
when the proposal was adopted not
to sign the peace, and / kept silent
without closing my eyes to the fact
that l could not take over RESPONSE
bility for this. Every member of the
central committee is free to repudiate
responsibility without resigning from
the central committee and without
creating a scandal. It is, Of course,
permissible under certain conditions,
and is sometime even unavoidable;
but whether that was necessary Just
now. with this organization OF the
Soviet power which enables US to
control insofar as we do not lose con-
tact with the masses, there can only
exist one opinion"
At the Seventh Party Congress
Comrade Trotsky, who at that time
had only been six months in our party,
provoked the FIRST Trotsky crisis.
Since that time. unfortunately, these
crises occur periodically.
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