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Who Is Leading the Comintern To day?
every step.
WARSKI poison the mind of the international working class in The past of Warski is infinitely more serious. For By Trotsky these last years, it can be said that Kuusinen took the many years he marched behind Rosa Luxemburg, while lion share. That may seem paradoxical.
But it Valetsky always looked upon her with the blind hatred to Moscow. remember how disclosed the psycho sometimes happens that the lion share falls to the of a Polish chauvinist. But Warski assimilated more logical mechanism of Smeral Bolshevism to Lenin. hare. As was shown by his report on the colonial questhe weak sides of Rosa Luxemburg than her strong Lenin repeated with a thoughtful smile: It is prob tion at the Sixth Congress, Kuusinen has remained able. you know, it is very probable. Many like exactly the same as when he helped the Finnish boursides, the best of which was its revolutionary inflexigeisie to slaughter the Finnish proletariat, and the bility. In the end, Warski has remained to this day that will come to us now. We must keep our eyes open.
Chinese proletariat.
the revolutionary social democrat of the old type. They must be watched at This brought him close to Klara Zetkin, as could be Smeral was profoundly convinced that the renaming PETROVSKY BENNETT seen clearly in the attitude they both took to the GerA very active role is now played in the Internationof the Czech Party a Communist Party exhausted the al by such a person as Petrovsky Bennett. It is inman events of 1923. Warsk never felt himself quite question. At any rate, he did everything in his power at ease in Bolshevism. That explains his momentary dividuals of this kind who decide today, since the offito justify further the saying of Otto Bauer on the two cial leaders. aside from their competence, do not conciliationism. based on a misunderstanding, togood social democratic Parties in Europe: the Austrian bother themselves, so to speak, with the questions of the wards the Opposition of 1923. But as soon as the lines social democracy and the Czech Communist Party. This International. Practically, it is the Petrovskys who became established, Warski found his natural place in year Red Day has shown with a tragic éclat that direct, taking good care to cover themselves, that is the official ranks. The struggle of the epigones against five years of Zinovievist, Bucharinist, Stalinist and by getting an authorized indorsement for themselves the permanent revolution and the under estimation Smeralist Bolshevization have given the Party, that whenever wanted. But we will see that further on.
of the peasantry led the timorous Warski to view the is, its leadership, in the first place, nothing absolutely Petrovsky is a Bundist Menshevik, American type, The of the worst kind. For a long time he was one of the victorious uprising of Pilsudski as a sort of demo nothing. But in return Smeral has taken root.
pillars of the miserable and pitiful Jewish yellow socratic dictatorship of the proletariat and the peasantry deeper the leadership of the International sank, ideocialist journal in New York, which became enraptured and to drive the Polish Communists to support the logically, the higher Smeral rose. Such people conFascist coup Etat. This solitary example gives the stitute an excellent political barometer. It is hardly with the victories of the Germans before it licked the boots of Wilson. Back to Russia 1917, Petrovsky measure of the Marxist perspicacity and the revolu necessary to say for that this patented Bolshevik moved in the same Bundist Menshevik circles. Like tionary firmness of Warski. It is neediess to say that we Oppositionists are avowed opportunists. But the Guralsky, like Rafes, he rallied to Bolshevism only afafter recognizing his mistakes. he is today one of Czech workers should be told clearly that Smeral will ter the Bolsheviks had conquered power. He showed the pillars of Stalinism. How this old companion of never lead them to the conquest of power.
himseif to be a diligent and adroit official in the military Rosa Luxemburg that internationalist to the bottom of work, but nothing more than an official. The deKOLAROV ceased Frunze, an excellent soldier, but one who was her heart teaches the Polish workers the construction Another variety of the same type that has been bred not distinguished by any keen political judgement, of socialism in one country, do not know. But it is in these last five years in the Hotel Lux is Kolarov.
told me more than once: Petrovsky smells terrible of highly doubtful if people of this type can teach the His past is more serious by the fact that for a long Bundism. Not only in the questions of military adPolish workers how to wrest power from the bour time he belonged to the Tesniaki. Narrow. Bulgarministration, but also in political questions, Petrovsky.
geoisie.
ian Party which endeavored to remain on Marxist invariably aligned himself with his superiors. More Let us, however, return to the central apparatus of ground. But in spite of its apparent intransigeance, than once said in jest to my deceased friend Sklianthe International which Warski has left since he beit was a Marxism of expectant propaganda, a passive sky that Petrovsky is trying too hard to support me.
and tolerably inert Marxism. As for the rest, in intercame a deputy in the Sejni.
Skliansky, who valued the practical qualities of Penational questions the Tesniaki inclined much more trovsky and therefore defended him, replied to this KLARA ZETKIN toward Plechanov than toward Lenin. The ruin of complaint jokingly: Nothing can be done about it; For a long time Klara Zetkin has been a purely Bulgaria in the imperialist war, then the October it his nature. And, as a matter of fact, it is not a decorative figure of the presidium of the Executive revolution, drove them to Bolshevism. Kolarov settled question of careerism in the narrow sense of the word, Committee of the Communist International. One would in Moscow. In the first years that followed the revo but of an instinct for self sufficient adaptation, for lution, we jumped avidly at every foreign Marxist, or downright mimickry, for organic opportunism.
not have to use this cruel characterization if Zetkin rather at every one whom we supposed to be a revolu Rafes, another variety of the same type, proved did not serve as a pathetic cloak for the methods that tionary Marxist. By virtue of this Kolarov was drawn himself just as capable of being a minister of compromise not only herself, but also bring the great into the apparatus of the International as a possible Petlura as of being councilor of the Chinese revoluest injury to the cause of the international proletariat. general secretary. But a few months later we had to tion. To what extent he contributed to the death of The strength of Zetkin was always her temperament. abandon our hopes unanimously. Lenin summed up his Petluraism by his support will not judge. But that impression of Kolarov in terms that do not want to She never had any independence of thought. For a he did everything he could to lose the Chinese revolulong time Rosa Luxemburg was her political pivot.
write down here. In 1923, Kolarov again demonstrated tion is proved by every line of his reports and his Afterwards she looked for a new pivot in Paul Levi, his limits in the Bulgarian events. The same result. articles.
While Lenin was still alive it had been decided to reTO BE CONTINUED and to a certain extent in Brandler.
move Kolarov from any leading role in the InternationAfter the days of March 1921, Zetkin did not simply al. But after the illness and the death of Lenin came Hey! What This?
revolt against the supidities of Bela Kun. but she the revived struggle against Trotskyism.
Kolarov defended essentially the old, tested policy of the in plunged into this bath at the first onset and emerged We are amazed and stunned by the new alliance that cessant accumulation of forces. In a conversation that from it regenerated. He marched first with Zinoviev the Party has made. From the letterhead of the ReLenin and had with her, Lenin said to her, mildly but against Trotsky, then with Bucharin against Zinoviev; ception Committee for the Soviet Fliers, Auspices of insistently: The young ones will commit many stupid today he marches with Stalin against Bucharin. In Friends of the Soviet Union. we find that along with ities, but they will nevertheless make a good revolution.
a word, he is a water tight, uninflammable, unsinkable Bolshevik of the Lux, a list of Party notables on the committee there are Zetkin exclaimed excitedly: They will not even make such notorious Musteites, social reformists, liberals, KUUSINEN a bad one. Lenin and looked at each other and were Kuusinen is one of those who killed the Finnish repacifists, etc. etc. as Roger Baldwin, Budish, unable to restrain our laughter.
volution of 1918. Under the pressure of events and Louis Boudin, Stuart Chase, Robert Dunn, Lewis The brief and vague half sympathies of Zetkin for the masses, Kuusinen, in spite of his better judgment, Gannett, John Haynes Holmes, Timothy Healy, Darthe Opposition of 1923 were aroused only because was found himself sonstrained to accept the revolution, but win Messerole, Henry Pinkham, Anne Rochesagainst throwing the blame of the International for like a good Philistine he wanted to trim it according ter, Gilbert Roe and a host of others.
the German catastrophe of 1923 on to the Brandler to the best vegetarian model. During the insurrec What is this? Where is the New Line. Where is group. During 1923, Zetkin showed all the traits of tion, with that eloquence that is all his own, he in the Third Period. Where is the Intensified Camvited the good public to remain at home so that there the good old social democracy: she understood neither paign to Expose the Fake Progressives and Liberals. would be no victims. If, as in Hungary, events had the brusque change in the situation nor the necessity Where is Class Against Class. Where is the Unitthrown power at his very feet, he would not have bent for a bold change policy. In the main, Zetkin takes down immediately to pick it up. But no one threw powed Front from Below We want enlightment!
no part in the solution of questions. But her tradi er to him. It had to be conquered. The situation was tional authority is necessary as a veil for the Manuil. exceptionally favorable. Only revolutionary audacity Plenum Coming skys, the Peppers and the Heinz Neumanns.
and desire to attack were needed. In other words, It is authentically reported to us by Party comthose qualities were needed of which Kuusinen is the rades that the Party Secretariat (i. e. the Comintern SMERAL living negation. He showed himself literally incapable Commission) has decided to call a Plenary session of Among the men who in this last period lead the work of taking the offensive against the Finnish bourgeoisie the Central Executive Committee right after the Cleveof the International from within the presidium of the who were then able to drown thọ heroic insurrection in land conference of the Now that the bureauExecutive, not the lowest rank is occupied by the repblood. But in return Kuusinen gave proof of some crats have expelled every supporter of the Communist resentative of the Czecho Slovak Communist Party, aggressive tendencies towards the Left wing of the In Opposition in the Party they could lay hands on, and, ternational, after he examined himself and discovered Smeral, who has today also become one of the inflexible more recently, since they have expelled the main leaders that, knights of neo Bolshevism. Smeral and inflexibility, the words of Shakespeare, he was no worse of the Right wing and frightened the others into temthat is the same as Tartuffe and sincerity, or than those who were no better than he. Here, he porary submission, they feel themselves quite safe in and unselfishness. Smeral has passed through the rieked nothing. He swam with the stream like those letting the rest of the come together to raise who commanded him. The petty logician became a solid Austrian school, and if he is to be distinguished their hands for any policy or line or deed of the new great intrigant. Of the lies used by the epigones to leadership, past, present and future.
from the Austro Marxist type it is only by the fact that has never risen to it. In the old Czech social democracy Smeral was in semi opposition, the which was so much the more difficult to grasp since The First Issue Contains: Letters from Moscow on how the the ideas of Smeral always gave the impression of Political Bureau handled the deoil stain. One can say that Smeral op. BOLSHEVIK LENINISTS)
posed to the Czech social nationalism of a Nemetz et portation of Trotsky. The work of tutti quanti an Austro Hungarian imperialist state In Russian the Russian Opposition and the persecutions. Behind the scenes in power inspired by Renner, but without Renner knowledge and talent. The Czech republic was realized in the Party Political Bureau.
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