The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-14
BY KARL KREIRICH
Continued

sTrotsky's Fraction" was type Of
that little group Of literary people
who existed only in the emigration
and not in the movement in Russia
itself. Trotsky lived by playing the
sconciliator and uniTer; he lived on
splits and splitting. In the pamphlet
9Qn the right Of self-deternination
OF the Nations" Lenin wrote:
Trotsky never had firm opinions
on any serious questions Of Marxsn;
he always crept into the cracks and
assures Of this or that difference Of
opinion, and at the same time sprang
from one side to the other
With these tactics he was success
ful against the Bolsheviki, against
Lenin, for the last time at the PIE
mum Of the Central Council Of the
Social Democratic Labor Party of
Russia in January, 1910, before it
came to def1r-tte split. He sue
ceeded, against Lenin, in getting some
cunning amendments to the reSolu-
tons and having his "Pravda" recog-
nized as the party organ. But in the
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tween him and the representative Of
the Central Committee, Kamenjev,
and the role of the Trotskyist PRAY
da' as party organ was played out.
A FINAL
SEPARATION
In the year 1912, the Party Confer
ence was held in Prague, from which
all the groups allied with the liqui-
dators kept away. At this Confer
ence it came to a final separation
between the Party and the Menshe-
wiki and the hquidators Of all vari-
cites, and the social democratic labor
party OF Russia finally became the
Bolshevist Party.
The liquidators and their friends
were furious. The most furious of all
was Trotsky, who now saw no chink
into. which he could creep. In the
Berlin "Vorwaerts" of March 20. 1912,
he published an anonymous article
on the Prague Conference entitled
eOn the Russian Party LIFE which
Lenin described as a shameful, lying
article.
-Lenin's reply, '@Tns anonymous
writer in the 'Vorwaerts' and the
situation in the Social Democratic
Labor Party OF Russia CVoI. gD,
was rejected by the chief editor of
the "Vorwaerts," Hilferding, and the
Bolsheviki then published it in Ger
man as a pamphlet which they sent
to the social democratic organiza-
lions.
There now stood on the one side
the united firm Bolshevist Party, and
on the other side the motley crowd
Of liquidators, Trotskyists, Plechano-
visits and other groups and group1ets
what was more natural than the
idea should arise Of uniting all this
motley crowd into one camp? And
who was more suitable for this task
than Trotsky, standing above all
and on good terms with all?
HEADED BLOC OF
ANTI BOLSHEVISTs
Thus Trotsky, quite as q matter Of
course, was at the head Of that Con-
ference of nearly all the opponents
of the Bolshevih, which met at
Vienna in August, 1912, and at which
the anti Bolshevist August Bloc was
set up. Here the damnable Bolshe-
Visit in.uence on the former decisions
Of the Party, to which they them
selves had belonged, was got rid Of.
In the political resolution the de-
nnand for the democratic republic was
substituted by the full sovereignty
Of the Dun1a and adult suffrage. The
demand for the conf1scation Of the
big landed estates was substituted by
discrimination Of the agrarian legisla-
slon of the third Durna." The con-
ference then pronounced in favor Of
an election bloc with the Cadets (the
Constitutional Democrats" of the
liberal Party of Miliukov) and for
ths liquidation Of the revolutionary
Illegal party.
And this happened shortly after the
sEfike Of the workers in the Lena
gold fields and the blood bath which
the creatures Of the Gar carried out
among them, which had given the
impulse to new upsurge of the revo-
1utionsry movement in Russia. One
strike followed another, and the fact
that the peasants were beginning to
stir as well as the workers was shown
by various movements in the army