The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-12-13
New Moves Toward Unity" of the
Renegades

renowned, and crudely repeating in public the
maneuver made privately by Bucharin during
the period of the vi World Congress, when he
offered an alliance with Zinoviev and Kan
anew against the Central Committee and il III
policies.
Cannon has already responded to the over
ture The ranks of the Lovestone group, he
says on December 7th. belong to the Lenin-
list Opposition" And if the ranks belong there,
surely some way will be found to bring the
leader also, especially as all franks" of the
renegades are so thin!
Many obstacles still remain to the final
amalgamation. First, there is still division
of labor between the two groups; their fol-
lowers not all ripe for such move, and
many of them will be disillusioned by it, fall
away, and some will even return to the Party.
But the logic of politics is memorable and
pushes them along this path reentlessly. And
from purely practical considerations they are
already balancing off the possible loss in fol-
lowing with the advantages of unified drec-
ton and a single organ for their common pro-
gram.
Lovestone- Cannon are still publicly unre-
sponsive to the love-songs directed toward
them by Lore. They are non-committal; thels
is plenty of time to accept these overtureH
Everything in it's due course" is their motto
Their present ability to take to their breasts
the Finnish right wing in the cooperatives
(Halonen & Coz, is, however, sufficient guar
antee for Lore and his friends of certain fu-
ture consummation. They will be patient.
In the meantime Trotsky gives the broad
political program to this maturing bloc of rene
gades. Just few quotations from his pen, as
published in Cannons organ, should make its
unter-revolutclary nature clear to any
worker
AT moment of tremendous mass upheavals
in China, with the new release of the vast
forces of the peasant revolution, Trotsky finds
the perspective for the Chinese revolution one
"of a terrific debacle and of an adventurist
degeneration of the remains of the Commu-
mist Party" The Berlin "Vorwaerts" could do
no better!
At moment of the beginning of tremen-
dous transformation of agricultural economy
in the Soviet Union, with the streaming of mil
lions of peasants into the collective and Soviet
farms, which even bourgeois journalists are
forced to hail as a movement of world signi-
ficance marking the entrance of the peasants
upon the road of socialism-at this moment
Trotsky can only repeat the bourgeois menshe-
vk propaganda that the peasantry whole
has lost by the revolution, that the net result
is "a minus for the peasant class that can be
estimated at several hundreds of millions of
rubles.' =
At the moment of the most determined arn
successful advance of socialist construction
the Soviet Union, Trotsky sees the main char
acteristic of the period as "a time when the
Soviet Republic and the International in
the greatest difficulties and contradictions"
At the moment when it has finally been
proven that with its resources the Soviet
Union can make greater progress in socialist
industrialization than history has ever shown
.,.l, -, n+e1y,
ates his unter-revoutionary dogma that "a
leadership, even the most correct and perspica-
cous, could not lead the USSR to building of
socialism within the national framework if it
remained closed to world economy by the
monopoly of foreign trade"
At moment when the Soviet Union is at
the highest point of it's development, and be-
ginning to fundamentally challenge capitalism
on the economic field, Trotsky can only wall
his defeatist slogan, which accepts the nevita-
bility of the triumph of mperalsm-"th U.
S. S. R. must make the dictatorship last as
long as possible!"
This Trotsky against whose stubborn resia
tance the Communist Party of the Soviet UniJ
has achieved its great trumphs of construH
ton, who repeats in his latest diatribes, "We
repent nothing and we renounce nothing is
now giving the general political line of the
Lovestone- Cannon Lore Company.
He who says "A" must say "B"! The logic
of political line is memorable. The rene
gades proceed steadily into the same camp
Meanwhile the clouds Of imperiaist war mass
upon the horizon. The workers must prepare
for war by smashing the renegades