Saturday, July 26, 1980.
THB MILITANT Page NOTES of a JOURNALIST. Concerning ZINOVIEV, MANUILSKY, and RADOVOY. by ALFA facts.
Zinoviev and the Evils of. The petty bourgeois tendency with Is that all? Yes, nothing more than that. political The personal role of Lorovsky in our own Party cannot struggle against But, a well meaning reader will ob 18 such that it is not of advantage to him Printing our Leninist views otherwise than by as ject, can so much be expected from a young to expose himself to blows. in delicate cribing to us things we never thought or Radovoy? He still has a chance to grow. moments of ideological clashes he prefers In Number of the Bolsbevik of this said. ibid, page 72. After all it is not he who creates the modest anonymity, just as in the sharp.
year, Zinoviev once more fuses with the The last lines were not only signed by trale union policy for France. For that acute hours of the revolutionary struggle Party by that single method now access Zinoviev, but, unless we are mistaken, were we have serious revolutionary strategiste. he 19 inclined to solitary deliberations. This ible to him. Zinoviey writes: written by him. Truly Joseph Gutenberg tested in struggle, a9 for instance, the 18 the personal reason. As we have said. In 1922, Trotsky predicted that the has rendered some people a very poor ser general secretary of the Profintern, Losov there is also a political reason. Had Loreal rise of socialist economy will become vtca. Partioularly when they have to sky.
BOVKy signed Losovsky, everybody would possible cnly after the victory of the prolet. fuse with the other Joseph who, it is Correct we will reply to the reader say: Is it possible that in the questions of ariat in the most important countries of true, did not invent printing, but works all this would be convincing it. it only the trade union movement, we really have Europe. This prediction has not been very conscientiously at its destruction. the Radovoy were not Logovaky himself. nothing better than this? But seeing the confirmed, just as many other predictions And in the meantime, the matter stands signature of Redlovoy (rank 201 filer)
of the author mentioned. The real rise of Has France Entered the Period thus: the bouquet of soured light mindedunder the article, the well meaning reader ness and flaccid wit is such tbat it cannot retains the possibility of saying: We must ready prior to the victory of the proletar of Revolution?
deceive us.
admit that Radovoy is a sorry scribbler.
iat in the most important countries of EurThe Left turn in the 1, began in 1928. The leading general, under the modest But nevertheless we still have Losovsky.
ope. The real rise is developing before our in July, the third period was proclaimed. pseudonym, defends his own acts with Another New Talent very eyes. year later, Molotov declared that France, rhymes he drapes the calamities he inflicts The same Zinoviev, beginning with the together with Gormany and Poland, had upon the labor movement with his leadersame year 1922, accused Trotsky of superOnly a few months have clapsed since entered a period of the greatest revolu ship. In connection with that, he asgalls industrialism. that is, of demanding a too tionary events. All this way deducted it was declared throughout the Comintern the Left Opposition with all the magnifispeedy industrial rise. How should this from the development of the strike move cence of his vengeful irony: It can, don by command of Molotov that the ideologibe reconciled?
roent. No figures, no facts were cited. They you seo, be completely seated on one sofa.
cal struggle against Trotskyism must The Opposition was accused of nonlimited themselves to two or three examples Let the Radovoy investigate: be considered at an end. Well? The pubAre there bellei in socialist construction and at the taken from the last numbers of the newe any sofas in the jails that are filled with lications of the Comintern, beginning with same time that it wants to rob the peasant.
the publications of the Communist Party papers. We took (see Militant No. 29 33) Oppositionists? But if they really were ry. If that were so, why did it have to of the Soviet Union arb once more devotthe question of the dynamics of the French 80 fow ir number as Lovosky would have it. rob the peasantry? In reality, the Oping an innumerable amount of coluning and labor movement in the light of figures and this would not frighten, ug at all. At the position spoke of compelling the Kulak and The picture siven by Molotov, beginning of the war, the revolutionary inpages to the struggle against Trotsky HA.
the upper layer of the peasantry in general Even the most honorable Pokrovsky, who prompted by the words of others (the role ternationalists of all Europe went to Zimto bring sacrifices for socialist construcis burdened with the labors of instructing of the prompters, we assume, was played merwald on a few carriages. We never tion the one which the Opposition was by Manuilsky and Kuusinen) in no way feared remaining in the minority. It is the youth, has been moved to the front supposed not to have believed. flery coincided with roality. The strike wave trenches. This corresponds approximately Logovsky who, during the war, was very belief in socialist construction was madiof the last two years had a very limited much afraid of remaining in the minority to the period in the imperialist war when tested only by those who struggled against character, even though it revealed a certain and therefore defended in print the LongGermany resorted to the mobilization of proclaimed the super industrialism and thoso forty five and fifty years old.
rise compared to the preceding year, which uerists, with whom he tried by all means This empty slogan face towards the village.
fact alone would suggest serious fears for was the lowest of the decade. The weak to unito us, against us. During the October Zinovlev proposed to the peasantry, inthe condition of the Stalinist front. For development of the strike struggle in the revolution, Losovsky was afraid that the stead of cotton prints and a tractor.
tunately, the Nestor of the Marxist histor last two years is all the more remarkablo Bolshevik Party would be isolated from pleasant smiling face.
iography has not only grand children but because France, during 1928 1929 went the Mensheviks and Social Revolutionaries, In 1930 as well as in 1922 Trotsky through an undeniable Industrial revival, and he therefor. betrayed the Party which even great grand children. One of them is considers that the real rise of socialist Novikov, tho author of an article on the clear enough in the metal industry whero he temporarily joined, and united with us, economy in Russia will become possible autoblography of LD. Trotsky. This young the strike movement was the weakest of against us. During the October revolution, all.
Logovsky was afraid that the Bolshevik talent Immediately established a record by only after the victory of the proletariat in Party would be isolated from tho Menshowing that one can fill one and a hall the most important countries of Europe. One of the reasons for the fact that the French workers did not utilize the favor sheviks and Social Revolutionaries, and he Only it must be understood, and this 19 printed pages without presenting a single not so difficult, after all that by socialist factor formulating a single idea. Such able conjuncture is undoubtedly the ex thorefore betrayed the Party which he economy we have here in mind precisely an exceptional gift could be developed tremely superficial character of the striko temporarily joined, and united with its strategy of Monmousseau and the other enemies in the most critical period. But only under the direction of socialist economy and not the contradictory experienced even later on, when Losovsky did join the master. And we involuntarily ask ourtransitory economy of the NEP and that pupils of Losovsky. It became clear that victorious Soviet power, his quantitative selves: Was it not Manuilsky. In the hourg by a rent rise we understani quch a riso they did not know the state of Industry in their own country. As a substitute for evaluations were just as little reliable an which will completely reconstruct the habfree from the direction of the Comintern, itual and cultural conditions of life of the that nourished Novikov it his breast, this that they characterized as offensive, revo hte qualitative ones.
blessed baby of the third period. Or toiling masses dastroying not only the lutionary and political strikes the isolated, After the victory of which he was not queues. o wise Zinoviev, but also the defensive economic strikes primarily in the perhaps Manuilsky had no need of bringin the least guilty. Losovsky, putting the contradiction between the city and the vil light Industries.
minus signs where he had previously had ing up the young talent? Maybe Manuilsky simly made use. of his own talent? We lage. Only in this sense can a Marxist speak This is the essential part of the anal his pluses, at the time of the Fifth Conwill not tire the reader any longer: Novikov about a real rise in socialist economy.
ysis we made in our work on the third gress of the Comintern, declared in a trium.
19 Manullsky. The same one who in 1918 After his struggle with Trotskyism period in France. Thus far we have not phant manifesto that the French Socialt wrote that Trotsky no more, no less!
in 1923 1926, Zinovlev in July 1926, official seen a single article in which our analysis pary no longer exists, and in spite of liberated Russlan Bolshevism from national ly admitted that the basic core of the Op is submitted to criticiam but evidently a all our protests against this shameful limitedness and made it a world Ideologi.
position of 1923 way correct in its prog very acuto need for such a criticism 18 light mindedness, retained this contention cal current. Now, Manuilsky writes, that posis. And now for the sake of fusion with felt. There is no other way of explaining When It became clear that the international Stalin freed Bolshevism from Trotskyism Yaroslavsky, Zincviev once more rushes the appearance in Pravda of an enormous social democracy neverthelesg does exist, and by that definitely strengthened it as an into all the difficulties and warmy over feuilleton, On the Strike Strategy of the Logovsky together with his teachers, crawlideological current of the solar system.
the old dishes.
Generalissimo Trotsky, where there are ed on all fours through the whole policy It is worth while therefore, to recall frivolous rhymes, quotations from Juvenal, of the Anglo Russian Committee and was But are we not mistaken in identifying that this same Zinoviev signed, and in part and in general fathomless wit, but not a in a union with the strike breakerg during the little Novikov with the great Manuilwrote on the question he now touches, in word about a factual analysis of the strug the greatest strike of the British proletarsky? No, we are not mistaken. We did not gle of the French proletariat. for the last jat.
the Platform of the Opposition. With what triumph with a triumph come to this conclusion lightly, and not by When we, in the words of Lenin, say decade. particularly for the last two years.
guessing, but through zealous Investigation, over the Opposition did Losoveky, at the to be exact: we read five lines at the begins that in order to construct socialist soci The article which evidently belongs to the session of the Plenum of the Central Compen of one of the recent gifts of the third mittee, report the telegram in which Citning of the article and five lines at the ety in our country victory of the proend.
Jetarian revolution 18 needed in one or period is signed modestly Radovoy (rank rine and Purcell generously agreed to conMore than that, we hope, nobody and filer. more c: the advanced capitalist countriey, verse with the representatives of the Allwill demand of us. But why should Manand that the final victory of socialism in The author accuses Troteky that he Russian Trade Union Central Committee, wilsky hide under the signature of Novikov, sonebody will ask?
knows strike defense but does not recogone country and a backward one at that after they had crushed not only the general Isn this clear? To strike but also the strike of the coal minhave people think: nize the offensive. Let us assume that Trotas impossible, as Marx, Engels and Lenin 11 Novikov 19 so insky is guilty of that. But is this a reason ers.
proved, the Stalin group ascribes to us the vincible then how must Manuilsky himself be! By the way, we will not repeat our view that we do not believe in socialiem for renouncing an offensive struggle in the After the destruction of the Chinese selves: The motives are the same for which and socialist construction in the metal industry under the most favorable revolution and the disintegration of the Losovsky turned into Radovoy. These peo(Platform of the Bolshevik Leninists, page conditions and at the same time designate organizations of the Chinese proletariat, ple are in need of reincarnation, like sbiny 72. petty, defensive strikes as offensve? Losovsky, at the Plenum of the Central pants of a chemical cleaning.
Not badly said, is it?
The author accuses Trotsky of not dis Committee (who he came as a guest beHow to explain these scurryings from tinguishing capitalism of the epoch of rise cause Stalin had not as yet decided to bring falsi cations to repentance and from ro from capitalism of the epoch of decline. him in as a member) reporting the fantastic pentance to falsifications? On this point Let ue assume that this is 80. Let us for data about the conquests of the Profintern, CORRECTION get about the struggle over the relation of the Platform of the Opposition does not gave the figure of the workers organized in le without an answer: the the crisis of capitalism and its cyclical the trade unions of China as three million, In the letter from South Africa by crises which went on in the Comintern in Everybody gasped. But Logovsky did not comrade Frank Glasy published in the the period of its Third Congress, when live even wink an eye. He operates just as March 29, 1930 19sue of the Militant, an thought was pulang in the Comintern. Let lightly with millions of organized workers unfortunate error occurred. The third us assume that Trotsky forgot all of that, as he does with rhymes for the coloring paragraph read: The cause which led to and that Radovoy absorbed it all. Eut doce of articles. This explains sufficiently why the severance of my connection with the this give an angwer to the question whether Losovsky witticisms about the sofa on il readers of the militant and their was the newly adopted policy laid France entered for the past two years into which the whole position can have to down by the frien ls who desire to get their copy of This policy, with its the period of decisive revolutionary events, do not in the least overwhelm us with their central glogan of An Independent Native of Leon Trotsky, My Life. should make it or not? This le precisely what the Comin magnicence. Solay as well as fumitule Republic, with autonomy for national mina point to order the book directly through tern has proclaimed. Hag this question in general are undoubtedly in abundance orities (meaning the whites mainly) wag the Militant. Shipment will be made the any significance or not? It would seem that in the offices of the Profintern, but un one to which was unable to subscribe. day the order is received, and the cost of It has. But what does the author of the fortunately there are no ideas there. And It should have read: The cause which the book, five dollars. 00. covers the witty feuilleton say on this point? Not a it is ideas that conquer, because they win led to the severance of my connection pos, charge. Send your order, together word. France and its labor movement are the masses.
with the was the newly adopted polwith money order or cash to completely disregarded. As a substitute, But why did Losovsky sign Radovoy? icy, subsequently confirmed and extended THE MILITANT thie Radovoy proves that Trotsky is a mis we hear a distrustful or a doubtful voice. by the under the central slogan of Avenue, New York, ter and that he serves the bourgeoisie. There are two reasons: a personal and a autonomy for national minorities LIFE