The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-12

informed as to the affairs of the Party. The
Party has not yet been quite cleared of the
last residue o. Trotskyist theory, of Trotsky-
ism. First of ALL therefore, this last residue
must be cleared away.
What is the essential character of Trotsky-
ism? The essence of Trotskyism lies above all
in its denial Of the possibility of building up
Socialism in the Soviet Union with the forces
of the working class and the peasantry. What
does this mean? 1t means that unless we be-
fore long receive the aid o. the victorious world
revolution, we shall be obliged to capitulate
to the bourgeoisie, and to make room for
bourgeois-democratic republic. Here we are
faced with a bourgeois denial of the possibility
of building up Socialism in our country, a
denial yelled in revolutionary" phrases on the
victory of the world revolution. Are such views
calculated to arouse the millions of the working
masses to work, to socialist competition, to the
mass movement of the shock troops, to the in
intensified offensive against the capitalist ele-
ments? 1t is clear that they are not. 1t would
be foolish to assume that our working. class,
which has passed through three revolutions,
would permit itself to be won over for the
mass movement of the shock troops, or be filled
with enthusiasm for work, if all this is due to
manure the soil for capitalism. Our working
class is not putting its shoulder to the wheel
for the sake of capitalism, but to the end that
capitalism may be finally exterminated and So
cialism established in the Soviet Union. If you
deprive the working class of its conviction of
the possibility of building up Socialism, you
cut from under it's feet the very basis of So
ciahst competition, C working energy, of the
shock troops.
Hence the conclusion: In order to win over
the workers for intensified work. and for the
shock troops land in order to organize the
developed offensive, it is of first Importance
that the bourgeois theory of Trotskyism--the
theory of the impossibility of building up
Socialism in our country-be finally buried.
Secondly it is part of the essent al character
of Trotskyism that it denies the possibility of
inducing the decisive masses of the peasantry
to participate in the work of building up So
cialism in the village. What does this mean?
1t means that the working class is unable to
draw the peasantry along with it in bringing
over the individual peasant farms to the col
lective system, so that unless the world revo-
luton. comes to the aid of the working class,
the peasantry will restore to the old bourgeois
order Here we have bourgeois denial of the
power and possibility of the proletarian dicta-
torshin to win over the peasants to Socialism,
denial concealed behind the mask of "reyolu-
tionary" phrases the victory of the world
revolution. Can such views as these bring the
ment or organize the liquidation of the kulak
as a class? 1t is clear that they cannot
Hence the conclusion: In order to organize
the collective farming movement and to liqui-
date the kulak, it is of first Importance to bury
the bourgeois theory advanced by Trotskysnl.
that it is impossible to include the masses of
the working peasants in Socialism.
Finally, it is part of the essential character
OF Trotskyism that it denies the necessity of
an iron discipline in the Party, and maintains
the necessity of forming the Trotskyist party.
According to Trotskyist conceptions, the C.P.
S.U. should not be united and firmly-welded
fighting Party, but loose assemblage of
groups and fractions, each with its own centers,
its own press etc. And what does this mean?
1t means the proclamation of the freedom Of
political fractions in the Party. 1t means that
the freedom to form political groupings within
the Party must be followed by the freedom of
political parties in the country, that is, by