The daily worker., 1930-12-25
SUBSCRIPTION RATES:
AGAINST THE TWO-FACED
POLICY OF CAPITULATERS"

In an article bearing the above title the
"Pravda" writes:
The Syrzov-L -Lomnadse- -Shatzkin bloc was
founded Tor the struggle against the general line
of the Party and its feminist leadership. Whilst,
however, the participants in this bloc conducted
illegal fraction work, they posed before the Party
and the country as 100 per cent adherents of the
Party line. 1t was only thanks to this deception
of the Party that the Sixteenth Party Congress
elected them as members of the &C. and of
the CC.C.
We are here confronted with an instance of
double -facedness which fully confirms the reso-
lutions of the Sixteenth Party Congress regard
ing the new maneuvers of the opportunists of
all tendencies, in the first place the Rights Out
wardly they proclaim their formal solidarity with
the general line of the Party and in reality they
fight against it.
Here there is revealed the isolation from the
Party and from the working class of 4 handful
of intellectuals who owe their whole, even if
small, influence solely to the fact that the Party
placed them in responsible positions because they
declared their agreement with the genral lin
declared their agreement with the general line
at once revealed as soon as the Party exposed
their fraud.
The unprincipled two-faced bloc of syrzov,
from of the Right opportunistS under the slogan
of the radical alteration of the Party line"
(Syrzov) of the contraction of the front of capi-
tai investments" Oominadse) ETC.
After the Sixteenth Party Congress Syrzov
propagated with energy the demand for an in
crease of prices borrowed from the old Trotsky-
ist arsenal and now used by the Right oppor-
tunists. This demand would have led to limit
alton of the rate of industrialization to the JOY
not only of the Right opportunists but of all
counter revoutionaries and wreckers
The representatives of the Left" tendency,
Lominadze Shatzkin, in the past committed mis-
takes of a Trotzkyist and semi mi-Trotzkyist char
acter the League of the village poor, permanent
revolution in China, character2ing the Soviet
State apparatus as alien and bourgeois, and The
exaggerations in self-criticism resulting from
this). Therefore it is not surprising that after
they had dropped their Trotzlyist standpoint
they adopted the standpoint of Right capitulators
and renegades in the most important questions
of Party policy
1t is not SO long ago that Lominadze Shatzkin
and their adherents criticized the Party on ac-
count of an alegedly not sufficiently determined
struggle against the Rights. Sten, who belongs
to their group even went SO far as to accuse the
feminist Party leadership of centricm.
Now they have themselves arrived at the de-
mand for contracting the front of capital in
vestment,' e., adaptation to the weak Spots;''
at Bukharins Remarks of an Economist" Lom-
inadze and Shatzkin allied themselves with Syr-
zov on the basis of the Menshevist- -Trotzkyist
criticism of the Party and on the platform of
Right opportunism. Just like the Mensheviki
and the Trotzkyists, just like the Right oppor-
tunist leaders, they talk about wo-senirg of
the position of the working class, of feudalistic
rule of the Soviet apparatus over the masses
(tlls formulation was used by Lominadac in his
letter to the district comnttee), Of Party
regime ard the disintegration Of the Coinintern.
And they were unable to propose anything to