The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-08-12
The Political Report Of the Central Committee the XVI Party Cong
ofhe Communist arty Of the Soviet Union
COmrade !. Stains Address on June II, 1896

bourgeois democracy. Here we have an ;
sertion of the right to form fractional grou
in the Party, involving the permission to fo
political parties in the land of the proletari
dictatorship; this is concealed behind
phraseology of the elmer Party democrac
and of the Improvement of the regime" Tr,
skyism is not capable of comprehending tn
the freedom of fractional squabbles is not inn
Party democracy, but that the open self-crit
ism promoted b. the Party, and the tremendo
activity of the Party masses, form very re
and genuine inner Party democracy. Can su
views of the Party secure that iron disciple
in the Party, that iron unity in the Part
which is necessary for the successful struge
against the class enemy? 1t is clear that tn
cannot.
Hence the conclusion: In order to ensu
the iron unity and proletarian discipline of t
Party, it is first of all necessary to bury t
organizational theory of Trotskyism.
The essential character of Trotskyism
actual capitulatory attitude as content, Lief
phraseology and adventurous "revolutionar,
gestures as form, concealing and camouflagil
the capitulatory content
The inconsistency of Trotskyism mirrors Ii
inconsistent position of the impoverished pet
bourgeoise, which cannot bear the "reeim
of the dictatorship of the proletariat, and e
deavors either to spring over "immediately
into Socialism and to avoid ruin (hence al
venturism and hysteria in politics., or, whe,
this is impossible, to make every concession
capitalism (hence the capitulatory policy).
This inconsistency in Trotskyism explain
the fact that as rule Trotskyism crowns
raging" sham attacks upon the Right devi;
tons by forming bloc with these as cap
tulators without masks.
What are these Left" derailings observab
in the Party in the field of the collectiy
farming movement? These represent certai
attempt, though an unconscious one, to reviv
among US in actual practice towards the midd
peasant They are the result of that erro
OF policy which Lenin named "over-administra
tion." This means that some of our comrade.
carried away by the successes of the collectiv
farming movement, have tackled the work O
building up the colectives not so much
builders, but as administrators, and thereb
permitted number of serious errors to cree,
in.
There are some people in our Party who be
lieve that the Left" sectarians should nc
have been called to order. These are of tn
opinion that our Party workers should no
have been offended and their enthusiast
damped, even where this enthusiasm led u
errors. This is nonsense, comrades. Peopl,
who can speak like this are only people anxiou!
to swim with the stream. These same peopI
will never be able to follow the feminist line
they will never be able to swim against The
current when the situation demands It, wbel
the interests of the Party require it. These
are -in-the-wake politicians, not Lenin
lists. That the Party has been successful il
leading so many comrades back to the RICH
path, that it has been successful in CORRECTING
the errors and attaining successes, is due t,
precisely the fact that it has gone determinedlS
against the current in the interests of tht
realization Of the general line And this il
Leninism in actual practice Leninism in lead
ershp.
And therefore I believe that unless we hac
overcome the Left" derailings we should mo-
have been able to attain our present successe!
in the collective farming movement.
This is the actual practice of the struggl,
against the last remnant of Trotskyism ant
against relapses into Trotskyism.
Ito be ntinued)