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Trotsky spread abroad even more
ISLANDERS than before against the Boil
shevik leaders of the proletarian adj
vance then beginning. Comrade Len
in characterized Trotskys writings at
that time as "deceiving and mislead-
ing the whole working class" With
regard to an article written by Trot-
sky for the German workers, Lenin
wrote that it represented "such a
copilation of unconsidered self-praise
and sententious lies that there can be
no debut but that the liquidatory com
mission to write this article was
placed in competent hands" Qbid. p.
93.)
But perhaps Comrade Trotsky was
only in agreement with the enemies
of the Bolsheviki as far as the Boil
sheviki organization was concerned
perhaps there was still some differ
ence between him and the mensheviki,
the servants of the liberals, in ques-
tions referring to the tasks, the aims
and the tactics of the rising proletar-
ian movement, in questions referring
to the tasks, aims and tactics of the
new revolution? Let us ask Lenin
again:
"Trotsky abused the conference in
every key, and assured the good peo-
pie that the struggle for the right Of
/ combination was the basis of the
| events on the Lena and their after
effects that this demand stands and
will continue to stand as central point
of the revolutionary mobilization of
the proletariat.' Scarcely had a week
passed away, and these miserable
phrases, ground out of the same ma
chine which supplies the liquidators
with their phrases, were blown away
like dust"
1T is only the liberal chatterboxes
and the liberal labor politicians" con-
| tinues Lenin, "who are capable of
placing the right of combination in
the center of the revolutionary mobil-
ization.'"
Lenin then compares the policy pur-
sued by the liquidators and by Com
rade Trotsky with the revolutionary
Bolshevist policy of the Petersburg
proletariat:
"The proletariat of Petersburg"
writes Lenin, "has grasped that the
new revolutionary struggle is not to
be carried on for the sake of one sim
gle right (the right of combination.
L. K.), but for the liberty of the whole
people. The proletariat of Peters
burg has grasped that the evil must
be attacked at its center, at it's source,
that the whole system of czarist re-
dictionary Russia must be destroyed.
The proletariat of Petersburg has
grasped that it is a piece of ridicul-
Gus stupidity to make this demand for
the right of combination. There
is no greater lie than the liberal in
vention, repeated by the liquidators
and Immediately afterwards by Trot-
sky, that the struggle for the right of
combination lay at the root of the
tragedy on the Lena, and of the
mighty echoes awakened by this
event all over the country" (Compl.
works, Kill, PIP. 1873, 1861
The difference is very obvious be-
tween the Bolshevist conception of
fundamental tasks and that of the
mensheviki and Comrade Trotsky. But
Lenin explains again and again the
counter-revolutionary trend of Com
rade Trotsky's conception of these
tasks.
Trotsky followed Axelrod. He found
himself superior to the "uncultured,"
"barbaric," "sectarian," "Asiatic" Boil
sheviki in that he, Trotsky, is "Eu-
ropean," and fights beneath the tao
teal flag of European social demo-
crazy" But what is the meaning Of this
conformation of "Europeanism" and
European tactics" with Bolshevism?
II means one thing only: remuneration
Of the fulfillment of the immediate
revolutionary tasks in the Russia of
the car and the great landowners,
and all for the sake of the parliament
airy tactics of the European socialists.
"This famous 'Europeanization, ="
writes Lenin. lis being talked about
by Dan and Martov. Trotsky and Lev
itsky, and by the other liquidators, in
every possible key. II is one OF the
main rivets securing their opportun-
ism. Their opportunism lies in the
fact that the moment which they
choose for imparting a European
parliamentary propaganda character
TO the party is precisely the moment
when the party is not faced by Europ-
can tasks, but by an immediate strug-
gle on the spot. Their idea is thus
TO avoid the task Of revolution, and to
substitute revolutionary tactics by par
liamentary tactics"
The little word "Europeanism," on
the lips Of the liqiudators and Trotsky
during the period between 1910 and
1914. further supplemented by the lit.
tie word "barbarism" (of the Bolshe.
viki), served TO conceal the renun-
citation OF the revolutionary tasks and
revolutionary tactics of the proletar-
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