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

called upon to participate In the
Soviet government, now entered into
it; altho some days before the social
revolutionists had the intention even
to resign for the central executive
committee, which under the conditions
then existing would have meant a
severe blow for the Bolsheviki and
would have hindered the winning of
the peasantry.
In the Pravda of Nov. we read:
"The fraction of the left social-revo-
lutionists in the central executive
committee submitted an ultimative
declaration regarding the necessity of
drawing up Of platform in the name
of the central executive committee.
The central executive committee
agreed to this demand and in the
name of the central executive commit
tee a platform was drawn up"
1t was just the rejection of this
platform by the mensheviki and the
socialrevolutionist at the conference
convened by the railway leaders which
led to the change in the tactics of the
left Observation-Disclosures in favor of
the Soviet power.
At this time there was published in
the Pravda a number Of resolutions
from the most important factories in
which we find the following.
whilst we regard the agreement of
the socialist parties as desirable, we
workers declare that the agreement
can only be reached on the basis of
the following conditions 4. :" (These
conditions were practically the same
as our representatives had submitted
to the railway mems conference.)
In our attitude during these days
there was again reflected the hesita.
ton of these workers-in this respect
our error was not personal, not an
accidental error.
Now, seven years afterwards, dc
not the words in the resolution of our
central committee that "the assertion
that the Bolsheviki would not share
power with anybody is devoid of all
foundation" sound monstrous from oul
present standpoint? And yet these
words were written down by Comrade
Lenin on Nov. 3, 1917, and approved
by our central committee. Everyone
who reflects over these facts, every
one who remembers that the left
Observation-Disclosures at that time rep
resented an important section of the
peasants, everyone who reflects at al
over the conditions at that time, will
understand the extent and the char
acter of our error. 1t was great, bu
nevertheless not "sociaIdemocratic'
error.
We, Of course, do not say that il
order to prove that our error was /;
small one. We stood outside of the
central committee of the party onl,
for three days-from Nov. to 7. II
spite of this, this error, as we already
said at the opening session of thu
Fourth World Congress of the Comm
tern, was the greatest error we mad,
in our life. The only thing we wisi
to prove here is that it is not correc
to draw from this error the conclusion
that there existed a fright wing" il
Bolshevism.
Every one who experienced thos'
historical days knows that these diff
ferences, how much they strained tn,
relations OF such near comrades ant
friends, left no bitter feeling behind
Everybody adopted a sincere attituG
towards the errors of the others. With
out attempting to make use of" thes
errors for diplomatic" fractionis
purposes. Everybody understood tina
only the exceptional moment led t
exceptional means of solving differ
ences, which arose like a whirlwin
but which, like whirlwind, sool
Gained down without causing grea
damage.
These differences were swept ava
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