The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-17
The Letter of Traitor Tr0tskV

Trotzky enters bourgeois Europe in
the same way. We should hardly
have believed it possible, for it is a
curious smile and offensive to the
memory of Lenin, if we had not read
it with our own eyes. In the same
appeal "to the Russian Workers" Ito
tell the truth, no Russian worker
ever reads the "Volkswille," which is
read by the German petty-bour-
geoisie, who are out to libel the Ger
man Comm lists and denounce them
to their class enemies) Trotzky
writes as follows:
"In the spring of 1917, Lenin,
who was shut up in Switzerland
as in cage, used the sealed rail-
way-car of the HohenzolIerns for
the purpose of reaching the Rus
sian workers. Enclosed by the
Thermidorians in the cage of Con-
stantinople, l use the sealed car
of the bourgeois press for the pur-
pose of telling the truth to all the
world"
If this were mere play on words,
Trotzky's prediction for which once
earned him the sobriquet of "balal-
ALBANIAN" from Lenin, there would
be nothing bad about it. But we
all know that in 1917 Lenin came to
the land of revolution to organize
he indignation and fury of the work
ing class and the peasantry against
their class-enemies, the landowners
and the bourgeoisie. Lenin, who en-
tered the land of revolution in a
sealed railway carriage, lost no time
in casting among the working
masses the inflammatory ideas of
the most revolutionary document of
our age, the april theses" which
contained the dynamite to blow up
Kerenski's Government and the
kindling pathos of revolution. But
Trotzky? What did he do in the
sealed car of the bourgeois press :?
To whom did he apply? To what
masses did he address his words :?
What ideas did he diffuse? Whom
did he organize and against whom? ?
What he diffused was the poisonous
gas of calumny, to serve as spice
to the daily lies of the bourgeois
press in regard to the Soviet Union.
His articles helped and continue to
help in modifying the public opinion
of the bourgeoisie against the So
Wet Union. They form the public
opinion of the bourgeoisie, for it is
primarily to the bourgeoisie that
they are addressed.
There are truths" which are
worse than any lie. 1t was with a
truth" such as these that Trotzky
approached the public opinion of all
the world through the channels of
the bourgeois press. We need waste
no more words on the clap-trap
theories of the Trotzkyites, which
aim at duplicating Lenin in an
theological participation in their own
renegade policy, by proving that
Lenin once wrote an article Oh
Marxism with the permission of
the Parity for Granat's encyclopae-
dia. True, he did write an article in
defence of Marxism as a contribution
to the encyclopaedia in question,
which reproduced the article without
a single word of comment, whereas
each of the articles supplied by Trot-
zky to the bourgeois press is made
an excuse by the latter for the
meanest of attacks on the Soviet
Union. 81
We have already given publication
to the utterances with which the
bourgeois press accompanies the ar
ticles contributed by Trotzky. Thus
the "Neue Freie Presse" of April
10Th declares that his article appear
ing in that number is directed
against the Bolshevist Government.
Possible many will not even read
the article itself, but the COM
|mentary of the "Neue Freie Presse"
is sure to be read by everybody.
ITO Be Continued)