The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-23
"Where Is RdkoVsky? ,.

THE fuss in the capitalist press regard
ing Trotzky's ''plot to create Fourth
International comedies with the an
nOuncement that Christian Rakovsky,
Trotzky's closest friend and political aid,
has publicly declared his final break with
Trotzkyism, and proclaims the indis-
putable correctness of the Bolshevik lead
ership of Stain and the Central Committee
of the c. P. S. u
That the leadership of Stain at the head of
the Central Committee of the Communist PARTY
OF the Soviet Union is true Marxst- feminist lead
ership building Socialism in the Soviet Union thus
strengthening the bulwark of the world revolution
was proclaimed long ago by the entire toling pop
ulation of the Soviet Union we'll as the revolu-
tionary proletariat of the world
The statement of Rakovsky comes, therefore
far behind the verdict of history and the world
proletariat But it nevertheless has a significance
of its own. Rakovsky was bound to Trotzky by ties
Of the greatest personal association. Rakovsky
wrote books together with Trotzky. Next to Trot-
zky he was the admitted leader Of Trotzkyism
In addition, Rakovsky is one of the oldest mem
bers Of the Socialist movement in Europe founder
Of several Socialist Parties in the Balkans as well
as participant in the founding of the Second IN
ternational.
All of which signifies that Rakovsky's verdict
on Trotzky and Trotzkyism is the expression of
a man who belatedly returns to the fold of Lenins
Party after recognizing the horrible truth that his
associations with Trotzkyism were defng and de-
grading the meaning of his entire previous revolu
tionary activity for the liberation of the working
class.
DolyO el-,se hoe
that Trotzky's followers had been for years wailing
"where is Rakovsky"? and spewing their rotten
ISLANDERS and insinuations that Stain had had
Rakovsky murdered" etc. etc. 1t was to such filthy
depths of scandal-mongering that Trotzky and his
followers sank in their political struggle against
the Communist International. Now Rakovsky's
voice itself rises to brand the whole International
clique Of counter Revolutionary Trotzkyism.
TODAY, Trotzkyism has the active cooperation of
the most reactionary French imperialst bour-
geoisie as well the whole world capitalist press
in the putting up of Trotzkyism The expulsion of
Trotzky by the French Government does not
mean that the French bourgeoisie recognizes Trot-
zkyism in any way dangerous to its rule Trot-
zkyism is as cherished as ever by the capitalists
as the main of theological counter revolution
against the Soviet Union.
Who does not see in French mperialisms fan
fare about Trotzky an obvious attempt to turn the
eyes of the French masses away from the founess
OF the Stavisky case? Who does not see that this
publicity about Trotzkys revolutionary activities"
right Paris can become a convenient club
against the ant-Fascst upsurge in France and
that the French government is using it for Just
that purpose?
And in all the pretended fight about Trot-
zkys plots" who cannot see the world bourgeoisie
still building Trotzky up before the masses as a
true revolutionist" in conscious attempt to boil
ster his influence before the masses an influence
that shrinks before the victorious advance of the
Soviet Union and the revolutionary upsllrge and
which is very valuable to the bourgeoisie in the
moral preparation for ant-Soviet intervention?
WITH Rakovsky's final admission of the coun-
p" ter-revolutionary nature of Trotzkyism, Trotzky
stands naked and alone, deserted by the last of
his important followers
Today, plotting Fourth International" whose
objective is to join the forces of world reaction
in fighting the Communist International splitting
venom at the heroic German Communists joining
Chang Kai-Shek in defaming the epoch making
Chinese Soviets as bandits" clasping hands with
the White Guard Generals in Paris in calling for
the overthrow of the Stain bureaucratic govern
ment" of the Soviet Union, Trotzkyism now more
than ever confirms the remarkable Marxst-Lenin-
ist insight Of Stain, who already in 1929 forever
branded Trotzkyism with unerring accuracy as the
advance troops Of ounter-revouton."