The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-02-21

with government positions 1.-TWO Peo-
pies Commissaries, I. N. Smirnov
and Byeloborodov) until the time of
the XIV. Party Congress, until time
when Opposition openly committed
actions hostile to the Soviets illegal,
anti-Party printing, street demonstra-
tons, organizations of the illegal Red
Cross with the participation of A.
Joffe, even for the support of anti
Soviet and anti-Party activity. Who
ever reads through Joffe's letter at
tentively must say that the Party had
no right to repose further confidence
in people that could act in such way
towards the Party.
In one of the illegal publications
("Material for Discussion" of Novem-
Der oath, 1920, the Trotskyites at
tempt to "explain Joffe's complaint
that even the Opposition had not given
him any occupation in keeping with
his Importance. Joffe's friends kept
him away from open (but not from
secret2 J. W and active opposi-
tional work, fearing that as penalty,
he would be prevented from going
abroad for a longer cure, without
which his work would necessarily be
short-lived.
A curious explanation. Usually the
Opposition complained, both in the
Executive Committee of the Commun-
list International and in the Party, of
the contrary fact, they complained
that they were sent abroad. 1t is
easy to see how miserable, how hypo-
critical this explanation" is. AS, a
matter of fact, Joffe was so i'll from
the effects of morphinism, that Meth
err the Party nor the Opposition could
entrust him with any important tasks.
"In the face of death men do not
lie." What "truths" Joffe pro-
claimed in regard to himself and the
Central Committee of the Communist
Party of the Soviet Union, we have
seen. For such truths" we can find
a justification only if we disregard
the fact that the letter was expressly
written to be exploited against the
Party. The entire morale of Joffe
was so undermined by the illegal ex-
lstence of the Trotsky group that he
was even capable of proclaiming ~
heard with my own ears how Lenin
admitted that You and not he was
right in 1906" In the face of death
men do not tell lies. II have never
doubted" writes Joffe to L. Trotsky
that the way pointed out by you was
the right way, and you know that
have been going the same way as you
for more than 20 years, since the be-
ginning of the permanent revolution"
When and where did Joffe hear
Lenin say that even in 1905 not he,
Lenin, and the Bolshevik Party, but
Trotsky with his theory of the "per-
manent revolution" was right, a the
DRY which Lenin was wont to call
l"disgustingly left?" Was this not
Authorization of morphinist suffer-
ing from nightmare? If in 1905 not
Lenin bpt Trotsky was in the right,
then Trotsky was also right in the
following years, and the Bolshevist
Party were wrong. Joffe never
doubted the correctness of the way
pointed out by L. Trotsky," not even
when Trotsky formed the August
bloc, not when at the time of the i'm
perialist war he wavered between the
Bolshevists and the Menshevists, nor
yet at the time of Brest, nor in the
trade union discussions. The Bolshe-
visit Party, however, not only doubted,
and Lenin not only doubted, that this
way was right; but in whole series
of literary productions they most en-
phatically condemned Trotskyism,
both in 1905 and in the following
years.
The Real Purpose.
What purpose was this calumnia-
tion of Lenin intended to serve? Why
was he represented as having affirm