The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-02-10

ideas continued. Trotsky continued
his anti-party policy. Lenin supple
! mented his characterization In June,
1911, Lenin writes as follows (XI-2. p.
1927:
'All Bolsheviki must now gather
more closely together, strengthen
their fraction, determine their party
line with greater accuracy and clarity,
collect all scattered forces, and take
up the fight for the R. S. d. L. P.
(Russian social democratic labor
| party purged of the supporters of
bourgeois influence upon the proletar-
| lat"
And he Immediately adds:
such people as Trotsky, with his
puffed-up phrases on the R. S. d. L. p,
with his kowtowing to the liquidators
who have nothing whatever in COM
mon with the R. S. D. L. p, are now
the disease of the age In reality
they are the bearers of capitulation
to the liquidators, who are anxious to
form labor party on Stolipin's lines"
After the lapse of a new months
Lenin wrote as follows in a special cir
cular addressed ito all party organiza-
tions, groups, and circles:
Let us merely mention one feature
the most characteristic, and general
one, in the utterances of Trotsky's
little group: In the question of tac1
tics and of differences of opinion on
principles within the party, Trotsky's
arsenal can only supply weapons
against the left wing of the party. It
need not be said that such a policy is
grist to the mill of the adherents of
the 'Golos' (the menshevist newspa-
per, the Voice. and to all the other
various degrees of opportunists." (XI-
2, PIP. 3S5-33S.)
Trotsky continued his policy, and
Lenin continued his Characterization
THE real liquidators conceal them
selves behind their phraseology, and
make every endeavor to Illustrate the
work being done by the anti-liquidat-
ors, that is. the Bolsheviki.
FTrotsky, and the Trotskyists and op-
portunists like him, are more harmful
than all the liquidators, for the con-
WINGED liquidators state their views
openly, and it is easy for the workers
to recognize the errors of these views.
But Trotsky and those similar to him
deceive the workers, conceal the evil,
and make it impossible to expose and
remedy it. Everyone who supports
lTrotsky's group supports the policy of
lies and deception of the workers, the
policy concealing liqiudatory aims.
I E1rl1 1ihnrfx Of 60 De-
ressov & Co. in Russia, and the cloth
ing of their actions in revolutionary
phrases for abroad-this is the essen
tial character of Trotsky's policy"
(XI-2, PIP. S59-S6O.)
This Characterization: the disguise
of right actions in left pseudo-revolu-
tionary phrases, was for Lenin the dis
tinguishing feature of Trotskyism, re-
peating itself from year to year in diff
ferent and progressive forms. And
Lenin was never weary of pointing
out this feature to the party as the
most important and characteristic,
and at the same time most danger
GUS feature of Trotskyism. A few
months after writing the characterize
ton here quoted, Lenin wrote as fol-
lows on Trotsky:
"One trifie has been overlooked by
this poor hero of phraseology: A So
cial democrat lin our present termin-
ology a Communist) is not a revolu-
Zionist unless he recognizes the harm
fulness of anti-revolutionary pseudo
socialism in a given country at a Civ
en- time, that is, unless he is able to
recognize that liquidatory and Otso-
visit aims are harmful in Russia, and
unless he knows now to combat sim
liar unsocial democratic tendencies"
few months after this December,
1910 Lenin wrote:
"Trotsky calls himself an adherent
OF the party principles, but on the
basis Of almost total disregard of the
Russian party central, which was
called into existence by the over
whelming majority of the Russian So
cial democratic organization.
The revolutionary phrase serves to
conceal the tendency Of liquidators
and to throw sand into the eyes OF
the workers. II is not possible
to discuss essentials with Trotsky,
for he has no views. II is only pos
sible to contend with convinced LIQUID
ators and Otsovists: but we do not
care to enter into discussion with a
man who plays at concealing the err
rors OF either group; we merely ex-
pose him as diplomatist OF the mean
est description" (XII-2. pp. 446-44S.)
II is not difficult to prophesy that
these party historical documents here
quoted will presently be explained
away in the most convenient and
philistine manner. by references to:
Anger. heat of the contest, accidental
collisions, etc. thus consider Il
to be my duty though dlsagreeable
one-since Comrade Trotsky has now
forced the party to occupy itself with
the history OF the relations between
Trotskyism and Bolshevism-to fol-
low Lenin's utterdnces, and the char
acterization made by Lenin OF the re-
lations between the party and Trot.
slyism, not only for a single year,
not only with regard to any single
question, but systematically during