The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-10
By E. YAROSLAvSKI.

have used the expression
"leave" although 1 might better have
said Decay, Dissolution of the Trot-
skyist Organization" About two
thirds of the Trotskyists expelled
from the Party within recent years
have severed themselves from the
Opposition, and the majority of these
have reverted to the path of the
Party and rejoined the Party.
Not only is the Trotskyist organi-
cation in decay, the mainstay of the
Dezists (Sapronovists) is disinte-
grating, and the Mjasnikov group,
which illegally published the news
paper path of the Worker to
Power" the journal Of the ~ Inter
national, is also breaking up.
Within the last few days, the Cen
trail Control Commission and the To-
cal branches have been receiving col
lective declarations in regard to
breaking away from the opposition.
Moreover, it is chiefly workers who
are thus departing from the Trot-
skyists.
The cause of the breach is chiefly
that, through the experience gained
in the fight with the Party the work
ers have become convinced that the
Trotskyists are on the wrong path.
They have taken survey, not
only of themselves, but also of the
Trotskyists and of the Party. They
have convinced themselves that the
talk of Thermidorian degeneration
of the Party is partly due to the
former bureaucrats, who do not take
into account the facts of the tense
proletarian class fight, which the
Party is carrying on against the
capitalist elements in the country.
They have convinced themselves
that the country of the Soviets is
defending the positions captured in
October, 1917, and that it is
strengthening these positions. They
have convinced themselves that the
Party is carrying on an implacable,
ruthless fight against bureaucracy.
Every honest proletarian is ami
mated by the desire to take an active
part in the work of socialist recon-
struction and not hold sulkily aloof
and maliciously smoker over this or
that deficiency, difficulty or mistake.
They now comprehend the fruitless-
ness, purposelessness and shallow
ness of the scholastic discussions of
the opposition leaders," who quar-
rel interminably as to the percentage
to which this or that development in
the country has progressed, and hold
endless, dreary and phantastic
speeches to the effect that the work
ing class will finally have to call
upon the opposition to put things
in order, etc. The workers in the OPP
position looked things over and con-
WINGED themselves that, with these
self-enamored politicians, who SO
lightly broke with the good prole-
tartan party, they are not following
the right path.
Trotsky Speeds Degeneration.
1t should, however, be mentioned
that this process, which has long
been in progress, has been fomented
by Trotsky's confusion and particu-
larly by two facts: the first is Trot-
sky's letter of October 21st, 1926;
the second, Trotsky's appearance in
the reactionary bourgeois press.
This bloc, composed of the most
divergent elements and set up with
out principle, on the basis of mere
platform, fell to pieces at the first
severe test. Expulsion from the
Party aggravated che question of
the differences Of opinion within the
bloc. But the discipline in the frac-
ton, on the one hand, and the in
flux to the Opposition of anti-Party
elements (and such there will al
ways be in our country as long as
The fight and TIE cl fight en-