The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-01-24
Continued from last Saturday,
III.
Was There a Right Wing in the Boil
sheVist Party?

with the real history of Bolshevism
will. without hesitation, give the fol-
lowing answer: There was none and
there could be none.
There could be no right wing boz
cause the feminist fundamental prin-
ciples of the structure of the Bolshe-
visit party excluded every possibility
OF right and of a left wing.
There could be no right wing be-
cause the first split between Bolshe-
Wiki and mensheviki had already TAX
en- place in 1903 on the eve Of the
first revolution of 1905.
Comrade Lenin wrote regarding the
Italian socialist party that even its
first splitting from the extreme chau-
vinists which took place some years
before the world war-that even this
superficial split which was far from
being complete, helped it in the first
period Of the imperialist war, in the
year 1914, to adopt more commend
able standpoint than the standpoint
of those social democratic parties who
up to the year of 1917, and even later
remained united. Every one who has
read the articles of Comrade Lenin
from the years 1914-1915 on German
social democracy ('Against the
Stream") will remember how passion
ately Lenin advocates the splitting of
the German social democracy, what
great hopes he placed on this split
how he explained the complete col
lapse Of German social democracy
among other things as being due to
the belated split between the left
and right wings.
"The type of the socialist parties
of the epoch of the Second Interna
tional was the party which tolerated
opportunism in its midst, which dur
ing the ten years of the period Of
peace continually grew in numbers
but which hid itself and adapted it.
self to the revolutionary workers from
whom it took over it's Marxist term
inology and avoided every clear dc
inition OF principle. This type out.
lived its time.
Gin Italy the party was an exception
for the enoch of the Second Interna-
tional; the opportunists with Bisso-
lati at the head we're expelled from
the party. The result Of this crisis
was excellent We, in no way,
idealize the Italian socialist party and
do not guarantee that it will prove to
remain firm in the event of Italy CON
ing into the war. We are not speak
ing of the future of this party, We
are speaking now only of the pres
emit. We affirm the indisputable fact
that the workers of the majority OF
the European countries were deceived
by the ficticious unity of the oppor-
tunists with the revolutionaries and
that Italy is a happy exception-a
country where at the present moment
there is no such deception. That
which for the Second International
was a fortunate exception, must and
will be a rule for the Third lnterna-
tional. The proletariat will always
so long as capitalism exists be in
contact with the ELECTROMAGNETIC. 1t
Is uQWlS6, SOIu6ItiuSS " ISJSCC q tChi
porary alliance with them, but to
unite with them. to be united with
the opportunists can at present only
be defended by the enemies Of the
proletariat in the present epoch"
C"Against the Stream" p. 36)
Whoever thinks over these words
will understand why in party which
was formed by Comrade Lenin in the
fight against the mensheviki and
against Trotsky there could exist no
right wing.
"Our Russian party has long since
broken with the opportunist groups
and elements The dead weight
Of opportunism was not able to drag
down our party into the deep. And
this circumstances rendered it pos
sibIe-as the split OF the italian party
to fulfil its revolutionary duty"
So wrote Lenin in Socialism and
War" (Second chapter.)
Comrade Trotsky must understand
al thsa and them he will undorqtand