The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-03-01
'IATAKOv ADMITS
TROTzKY ERRORS;
PROMISES CHANGE
Declares Others Would
Gladly Return
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should advocate the necessity of
creating a legal or illegal Party to
pursue the struggle for the dictator
ship of the proletariat and Commun-
ism.
No Thermidor.
"But as political premises do not
exist for such solution, the ques-
ton of the creation of a second party
is in my opinion harmful and GRIM
inal. In rejecting the idea of a sec
ond party I likewise reject any kind
\ of intermediary solution, such as the
organization of this or that form Of
political movement outside the Party
limits, not under the Party control
and leadership and running counter to
the Party's will. Such intermediary
solutions must inevitably grow either
into decisions to create another Party
or decision to liquidate all special po-
litical organizations and return to the
All-Union Communist Party.
"The second reply to the question.
what next?' is no reply at all for
Bolshevik, but means an evasion
of the question and refusal to par
ticipate in the political struggle Of
the working class.
"Hence only the third answer is
the right one, that is return to the
ranks of the All-Union Communist
Party to participate in the Commun-
list struggle and Party work.
Three indispensable Conditions.
Making such an answer, I neces-
sarily intend to observe the three in
dispensable conditions of joining the
Party. %. Not to resume the fac
tional struggle and to participate in
the common work and struggle of the
Party; ~. | do not question that
the decision, of the supreme organs Of
the Party is binding and my political
status corresponds to any member of
the ALI Union Communist Party; (3).
/ do not question that the Comintern
and its sections, particularly the All
Union Communist Party, are the only
united political organization of Com
munists for carrying out feminist
policies, that the Soviet power in the
u. S. S. R. is the organization of the
dictatorship of the proletariat whose
defense and consolidation is one of
the most important duties of the Com
munists both in the U. S. S. r. and
abroad, and that in the u. S. S. R. the
Soviet state and the trade unions
under the guidance of the All-Union
Communist Party are building So
cialism. This initial estimation de-
termines the fundamental line of con-
duct After such an estimation con-
troversies over this or that question
which are inevitable in a living party
cannot go beyond the limits of dis
cussions between Party members.
Workers and Peasants Alliance.
"Under the concrete conditions of
the struggle Of the dictatorship of the
proletariat for existence and develop
ment in the U. S. S. R., it is necessary
to recognize as the basic law of de-
velopment in the given stage, the
principle of alliance between. the
workers and peasants which is also an
indispensable condition of affiliation
to the All-Union Communist Party. |
entertain no doubts on this question |
/ had doubts lest the policy of ALI
ance between the workers and peas
ants might become policy of ignor-
ing the class differences in the vii !
lagos which would undoubtedly pre-
sent serious danger to the dictator
ship of the proletariat However, |
am now clear that in this respect Z |
was mistaken.
81 do not now consider it right to |
defend the opposition platform of the |
third of September which the opposi-
ton used as it's main weapon in the |
struggle against the Central Com
mittee of the ALL Union Communist |
Party.
Rejects Trotskyist Credo.
1T goes without saying that | re-
ject the directions of the Trotskyist |
center which were published in the |
Pravda of January Is.
81 quite agree with the criticism |
passed on them by Zinoviev and Ka-
menev in their letter to the Pravda |
of January 27.
I'm view of all these considerations,
consider it necessary and permits
sible to request the Central Control
ling Commission to restore to me my
rights as member of the All-Union
Communist Party, believing that the
comrades who participated with me
in the opposition struggle and now
share my viewpoint may likewise be
restored to their rights as Party |
members"