The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-07


the Communists .. :"
Finally the Sixth World Congress
of the Communist International thus
estimated Trotskyism:
'The Trotsky group has de-
generated to the standpoint of
Menshevism in its attitude on
program, political and organiza-
tional questions and has, object
lively, become transformed into
an organ of struggle against
the Soviet power
"The Congress considers it
superfluous to discuss with
enemies of the Comintern the
counter-revolutionary political
content of the Trotskyist plat
form, after the combined men,
bership of all Communist Par
ties has repeatedly and most
emphatically rejected the stand
point Of the Opposition"
Trotskyism as an theology distinct
from Leninism has its history. Some
times it appeared as a more or less
open ally of Menshevism, but in the
main it appeared under the mask of
ultra-left phrases. The first Trot-
skyist outbreak after Lenin's death
was a "Leftist" deviation. In Ger
many, in Italy, in the Soviet Union
it attracted towards the close of this
first stage of development the adj
herence of ultra-leftist groups ruth
Fisher, Bordiga, and remnants of
the Workers Opposition). But in
the later and last stage of its evolu-
ton, Trotskyism arrived thru the
very logic of it's being in the core
always opportunistic in its theology
to outright opportunistic, half So
cial-democratic, near Menshevik con-
illusions. Immediately before and
soon after its expulsion, the Trotsky-
ist group become a tool of the So
cial democracy, the rallying center
of all opportunist elements in the
Comintern and an openly counter
revolutionary factor which object
lively renders help to overthrow the
Soviet government and aims at the
destruction of the Comintern.
This is the history of the trans
formation of Trotskyism from
"Leftist" theology fright deeds and
Left phrases) to an outright oppor-
tunistic, counter-revolutionary sys-
TEN. But, of course, only the me-
chemically minded can think that
Trotskyism cannot occupy here and
there even today in certain given
situations, or in a given country, a
Leftist position. Such is for exam
pie the case today in the Soviet
Union. Trotskyism advocates today
in Soviet Russia a program of over
industrialization which was correctly
characterized by Comrade Stain in
his October 18th speech before the
Plenum of the Moscow Committee
as a Left deviation in contrast to
the platform of the outright oppor-
tunists who advocate a platform of
the slowing down of industrializa-
ton. But this concrete, single, ultra
left position of Trotskyism does not
and cannot change the general
characterization of Trotskyism on
an international scale, or as an in
ternational phenomenon, as a coun-
ter-revolutionary tool of social-dem-
ocracy, as a Menshevik flag of all
Right elements as stated by Com
rade Stain and Bukharin, by the
Convention of the Communist Party
of the Soviet Union and the World
Congress of the Comintern.
But in the face of all these char
acterizations, the Opposition within
the Party still persists in arguing
falsely that Trotskyism is a Left
deviation today in the United States
and that the policy of the Central
Executive Committee on Trotskyism
is in conflict with that of the Com
intern. The Opposition in its Deem
DEtb 1HlIu OLdlCtllGIl uGGldIGS.
"In the present struggle
against both the Right danger
and against Trotskyism, the
minority proposes that the Par
ty shall follow the line laid
down by the Communist Inter
national. The line adopted by
the majority of the Central
Committee of our Party and en-
bodied in its statement is con-
trary to the Comintern on this
question :"
This is the point of view of q
the minority on the question. 1t
is not the point of view of the
Central Executive Committee
which makes Trotskyism the
main danger in the Party and 4
obscures and weakens the strug- &
gle against the Right deviations
and the Right danger"
If the Central Executive Com
mittec has a different line on the
Trotsky question than the C. I. has
as the Opposition maintains, then
why did the Comintern only few
days ago November 30th) call upon
the C. E. C. "to mobilize the whole
Party" against Trotskyism? And if
there was the slightest grain of
! truth in the Opposition's charge that
the Central Executive Committee
was conducting weak fight against