The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-02-14

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ried out the instructions of the party
strictly and accurately, leaning with
the other members of the party on
the totality of common political exper-
fence in the party and on the whole
party mass organization, and carrying
but this or that task or command of
the party. At this time Comrade Trot-
skS~s deeds were splendid, and added
many brilliant pages to his own his
tory and that of the party. But since
Comrade Trotsky has come forward
as individualist, believing that he and
not the party is in the right in the fun
damental questions of revolution, and
that Leninism must be improved by
Trotskyism, we are obliged to see that
other aspect of Comrade Trotsky
which shows him to be no Bolshevik.
Four Attempts Made by comrade
Trotsky at Improving the Party
The party remembers four occasions
upon which Comrade Trotsky has
tried to instruct the party, and to
force upon it his own Trotskyist de-
viations. The first occasion was few
months after Comrade Trotsky en-
tered the party. 1t was at the time
of Brest Litovsk The party is ade-
quately and accurately informed as to
Comrade Trotsky's attitude at that
time. He underestimated the role
played by the peasantry, and covered
this over by revolutionary phrase
ology. This was theroad to the defeat
of the proletariat and the revolution.
If we recollect the evidence brought
at this time against Comrade Trotsky
by Comrade Lenin, we see that Com
rade Lenin brought no other evidence
than the substantiation with which he
had rejected Comrade Trotsky's gen.
eral attitude during the course of the
preceding decade.
Comrade Lenin reproached him with
two political sins: Lack, of cOmprehen-
sion for the relations between prole-
tariat and peasantry, and liability to
be carried away by apparently left,
apparently revolutionary phrases.
These two errors, typical of Comrade
Trotsky whilst outside of our party,
were repeated by him within 1t.
Then came the civil war, the epoch
of war communism Comrade Trotsky
executed the task allotted to him. His
participation in the direction of the
general policy OF the party was less
han before. But now the revolution
cached fresh turning point. The
citations between the classes shifted.
The party anticipated, in the form of a
discussion on trade unions, the ques-
ion submitted a few weeks later at
Kronstadt; the question of the tran
sition from war communism to the
new economic policy. What was Com
rade Lenin seeking for at that time
He was seeking new forms for an al
lance between the proletariat and the
peasantry, new forms for leading the
working masses by means of gaining
their convinced adherence rather than
by force. To what did comrade Trot-
sky look for salvation at that time? He
advised us to tighten the screws of
war communism. This was again and
and again an underestimate of the
peasantry, the liability to be carried
away by externals, by methods of
pressure" and administration from
above"
And Comrade Trotskys further at
tempts-even during Comrade Lenin's
lifetime-the question of the plan"
according to his peculiar conception,
his formula" on the dictatorship
of industry" were not these again at
temps to force petty bourgeois elemen-
tarity upon us from above with bonds
Of iron, did they not once more show
that lack OF comprehension of those
concrete conditions under which it is
alone possible to realize a dictator
ship in an agrarian country with I'M
dermined industries at a time when
the international revolution is retar-
ded?
Beneath Comrade Trotsky's effective
formula we can here easily distin-
guish the feelings inevitably involved
by his original theory: On the one
hand despair. pessimism, disbelief.
and on the other hand exaggerated
hopes in the methods of supreme adj
ministration Ga term of Lenin's). in
the competent subsection of economic
difficulties from above.
The last discussion is still fresh in
our memories. Il gave the party a
graphic survey of the totally of Com
rade Trotsky's errors, as dealt with
above. But II also showed with spe-
cial clearness another error, another
feature Of Trotskyism, and one far
from being new. This is the attempt
TO undermine and weaken the main
frame work OF the dictatorship, the