The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-08-16
The Workers Party TrOtSkyS Declaration and Easnans Lies


that Comrade Trotsky's reply to this
vile book is 50 indefinite, SO little cate
gorical, so almost ambiguous. 1t is
the more surprised at this that East.
man, In an attempt to impart more
weight and prestige to his dirty work
refers, like the people of the "Prole-
tartan Revolution" to his friendship
with Trotsky and a number Of his ad-
herents, and to conversations which
he has held with them And more
than this: He represents Comrade
Trotsky as the victim Of a band Of
slandereds, who prosecute him and en-
deayor to crush him to the earth.
Comrade Trotsky ascribes no politi-
cal value to the work. He says ex-
pressly:
"Eastman's book is bare of any po.
litical value. The writer approaches
the events Of the inner life Of our
party without a serious political cri-
terion, In purely psychological man.
ner, and thus effects subjective arbi
trariness in the estimates, substantial.
lions, and conclusions"
The Central Committee of the Com
munist Party Of France is however OF
the contrary opinion, and considers
this book. written by a man profess
ing to be a member Of the Communist
Party of America, whilst in reality he
left the ranks of the Communist In
ternational long ago, at a time when
all that is counter-revolutinora in
the world has been striving to form
an alliance against the Union of So
Wet Republics, to be a political work
of the first water.
The bourgeois press has for its part
we'll comprehended the far-reachine
utility OF this book for its purposes.
THE tone adopted by Trotsky in ad
4 dressing Eastman is not the tone
suitable with reference to a counter
revolutionary enemy of the type OF
the author of the book: Since Len.
ms Death" It is the tone customar
lily employed in discussion between
friends. Comrade Trotsky states
further: ~.
"An attentive perusal of Eastman's
pamphlet would doubtless afford me
further opportunity of pointing out
other inaccuracies, other errors and
misrepresentation
This leads to the assumption that
many other things in the book are &C
curate and true.
In another place Trotsky says:
"In this case a revolutionary would
only have the right to write politically
as Eastman does. If he were to op
pose another party to ours"
Thus Comrade Trotsky admits thai
a revolutionary might write as East
man has written. Consequently he re
CARDS him IS revolutionary. HI
only denies him to write as he does
because he does not supplement the
representations Of his book by a pro
posal to substitute the Communis
Party of Russia by another party.
! 1t would thus seem that Conrad,
Trotsky indicates that under presen
circumstances a revolutionary part
and revolutionary international car
exist outside of the Communist Part!
and the Communist International. /
seems as if he reproaches Eastman
for having written his book, befor,
this revolutionary party was formed
The Central Committee Of the Com
munist Party of France consider
such a declaration to be extremel,
dangerous, for it places tool in tn
hands Of those anxious to disintegrat
the Communist movement.
The Central Committee of the Com
munist Party Of France considers TIL
ambiguity of Comrade Trotsky's repl,
to be, even more dangerous than East
mans book itself.
THE Communist Party of Franc
4 has asked Comrade Trotsky. thru
its delegation to the Enlarged Execu
tive and thru it's representative i
the E. c. c. l., If he declares himsel
at one with the people of the "Pro
letarian Revolution" who resembl
Eastman in making use of his nam
and his alleged friendship for the pul
pose of columniating and discreditin
the Communist Party Of Russia, tn
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.