NOTES OF JOURNALIST. By ALFA cance: Commission.
tion only the day period prepared day, are Reply To Comrade Weisbord The Sermon on Cockroaches years words appear on the same day in the Minsk looks like a stagnant pool. And it also We do not know who fell into this fit Two or Not Even One?
Raboteht?
looks as though someone had been splash of babbling: Blucher, or the editor of his (Blucher Enigmatic Speech)
We know well enough how all the in ing around in that pool.
speech, or both of them. But it is clear that And finally there is a third question: somebody here fell into a Alt of babbling formation about the Congress is edited.
One of the first sessions of the SixNot a teenth Party Congress was greeted by the single line leaves the boundaries of Why did the Trotskylsts have to fire exceeding the most exceptional norms of the Congress without visa from the Press to the camp of the Chinese counter revolu verisimilitude. That is why Pravda refused commander of the Far Eastern army, BluCommission. This means that the inform tlon? At its head stands Chang Kai Shek. to print these words. It was decided there, cher. This fact in itself no political commissie and not without cause, that this is too significance and would hardly deserve nenHe was ally. He was the ally of ation about the Trotskyist deserters could Stalin. Home to Stalin for negotiations, never have been invented in Minsk. It had tion.
tiations, stupid. But at the same time the Prese Neither has the fact a Party signifito be sent from Moscow with the seal of the week prior to to the bloody II, as a soldier, Blucher is far Commission of the Congress was reluctant die Congress Press But then, Chiang Kai Shek in April 1927, Stalin in to throw them out: maybe somebody will interior to Budenny for instance, then in once more, why were these lines omitted the Hall of the of the Columns vouched for the find some use for them. And really such Party sense he is very little superior from Pravda? That is the first question. loyalty of Chiang Kai Shek. Chiang Kai an alluring morsel: On the one hand, not him. Besides Blucher speech of greetings There is also a second question. Two di wo Shek party belonged to the Comintern a single deserter, which is such an excelwas edited beforehand in the office of qualified recruits went over to the enemy, with a consultative vote. The Opposition lent testimonial to the army. On the other Voroschtlov and therefore very badly editwe are told by Blucher or by gomebody fought against this intransigeantly. Stalin hand, fully two deserters, and both of them ed. But the spirit of the flunkey who falls en the supplementing him. Both of them turned in line at command was consistent to the out to be Trotskyists. These words are it reveals the direct connection between the Chiang Kai Shek in April 1927, Stalin in end There we the enraptured acclaim printed in the Minsk Journal in bold face ceived a protrait of Chiang Kai Shek from Opposition and Chiang Kai Shek. pity to of Stalin and the ardent greetings to Vorotype.
Naturally! But here is what is the office of the Comintern with the request throw it out: Perhaps it will come in handy schilov, and several jabs aimed at the Right mer Between the Fifteenth incomprehensible.
wing before whom Blucher stood at attenthat he give his own portrait to Chiang in Minsk.
and the Sixteenth Congresses, according Kal Shek in exchange. Trotsky returned before.
In conclusion, there still remains to is Everything to the words of Blucher, the army was comorder.
the portrait and refused to give his own.
take a look at the composition of the Press There is also an Interesting ad ple pletely Stalin taught that Chiang Kai Shek Knuo purged of the remnants of Trotskymission. In the Commission. It includes the former Social the Filbetween ism. Why wasn it purged of these two Min Tang is a substitute for Soviets. The teenth and Sixteenth Congresses, our Party Revolutionists, Berdnikov, who is also? Evidently they were not known until Opposition revealed the alliance between and Communist Youth organization in the for any service; Stalin former secretary, the moment of their flight. How did Blu Stalin and Chiang Kal Shek as a betrayal army carried on a succes a successful struggle Nazaretlan, who has quite a distinct and cher find out that they were Trotskylsts. of the revolution.
What grounds, then, well earned reputation; the former Menagainst counter revolutionary Trotskyism.
after they had fled? Both of them turned The Fifteenth could the Trotskyists have had for fleeing the shevik, Popov, who supplements Berdnikov; Congress, as was said in its out. to be Trotskyists. What does he to the camp of Chiang Kai Shek? And the chief cook of the Bureau of Party Hisdrew the final balance under the mean turned out. How and on what would it not be better for you, my good tory, Savillev; and Stalin former secretary. struggle against Trotskyism and liquidpoint? The water is dark, so dark that it Birs, to remain silent about this?
ated it completely. Now we hear from Tovstukha. This ought to be enough for Blucher that a successful struggle against anybody.
Trotskyism was carried on in the army for the last two and a half years, between the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Congresses. We must assume that at the Seventeenth ConIn his concluding remarks, Stalin The speech of comrade Weisbord at the rade who has occupied prominent posts in gress we will find out not a little of instrucspoke about how Rykov, Bucharin and Tomplenum of the Lovestone faction is signifi the work of American Communism and te tive value concerning the further course sky becames frightened as soon as a cockcant as an example of a strong trend in the not in the same position as a new comer or of this struggle which is no sooner ended Communist movement to consider again the rank and ale worker in the movement, all roach stirred somewhere, before it even than it starts anew. If we live we shall crawled out of its hole. The speech fundamental principle questions in dispute, unclarity and confusion must be energethear about it.
and to draw closer to the Marxist standpoint fcally opposed, evidently referred to the dissatifled Kulaks and middle peasants. Further on, however, But we have paused at Blucher of the Left Opposition. The recent adherThey exist in Weisbord views on the the above mentioned cockroach turns out speech not beacuse ence to our group of some of the best this admission, nor feebi problems of the Indian and Chinese revoluand moribund. This complibecause of its general tone, which can militants in the official Party, the winning be tions and the relations of the various groups of a section of the youth comrades who forcates matters somewhat. It may be that expressed in three words: At your service!
merly followed the Lovestone group, and the in the movement. What comrade Weisbord a feeble cockroach can stir, but so far as In this speech, or at any rate in the reports.
the present attitude comrade Weisbord, for, entirely falls to see connection with the of it, there is one point which is of serious a moribund cockroach is concerned we significance not as a characterization of these are incontestable facts which demonsupporter of the Lovestone taction, would say frankly that we have our doubts.
guerilla warfare in China is the character of the period. It is not a question of right We are quite in accord with the moral that Blucher but as a characterization of what strate that the Left Opposition in the United or wrong in the Chinese guerilla warfare, even live cockroaches should not be feared.
is now being done in the Party and what Sates continues to be the rallying banner but of what perlod we are experiencing in But on the other hand we assume that is what is now being done to the Party.
for ever increasing numbers of revolutionChina. Neither Stalinism nor the Lovestones under no circumstances should a cockroach According to the report in Pravda of ary Communists.
recognize that their Menghevik policies dur be called a rafein, as an economical father June 28, 1930, Blucher declared: They are facts which by themselves are ing 1925 27 led to the victory of counter We, the fighters in the Red Army, can once did when a baked cockroach was disBufficient answer to the pitiful declarations revolution, the recession of the revolution cove covered in his bread.
proudly report to you that during these in the camp of the Right wing and the Cenary wave, and the virtual decapitation of people economists it not economical. battles we did not have a single defection, trists about our disintegration. ropeated the Communist movement believed and taught others, beginning with not a single deserter to the enemy. The solely for the purpose of retaining domina. Because they consider the defeat of the 1924, that the Kulak is a myth alto army showed a high political and class tion over militants whom the barrage of Chinese revolution as a passing or already that socialism can very well be reconciled devotion to socialist construction.
anti Trotskyism alone has prevented from passed episode. the policy of putschism with that powerful middle peasant. In Every revolutionist can only welcome endorsing our views.
is systematically advocated or condoned by word, for four years they ardently convertthis information.
Unfortunately, however, In this sense, the Communist League of them. They fail to see the need, particularly ed the cockroach into the raisin of national we have a second version of this point America (Opposition) welcomes the statesocialism. This too shquld have been In Blucher speech which undermines all now in a period of depression of the workment of comrade Weisbord. At the same ers, of re awakening them, re grouping our confidence in the whole report. In the ume, it is imperative to indicate some ex them by means of democratie slogans, cenJournal, Rabotell, which is tremely serious defects in it, also typical terin of the Central Committee of the White Russ of a certain confusion that exists in the Assembly At the same time this cheap lan Communist Party, the quotation from ranks of many militants who are drawing Leftism is supplemented by the outright The Irreplacable colleague, YaroslavBlucher speech is reported as follows: closer to our point of view.
sky, in the interests of self criticism, read It is not a Menshevik perspective of the democratic We can proudly report to you that we question here of a number of ques relatively at the Congress a description of a Commundictatorship of the proletariat and peasant.
had no defections nor a single deserter to minor differences of opinion, which are ist given by a certain organization ry. e. a new Kuo Min Tang scandal, a the camp of the enemy. We have only two quite admissable within the ranks of the forsaken locality: new Kerenskyism. Consistent politically dark, shameful stalns: two qualified rec. Opposition itselt. Nor do we raise the quesliterate, has no firm convictions of his It rults who were to serve for a period of nine is these questions of strategical and tion of criticisms made by comrade Weisbord, own. Awaits what other will say. The months went over to the enemy. Both of tactical significance that must be decided which, in any case, can be discussed and report records laughter. But if one stops them turned out to be Trotskyists.
in the Chinese revolution. Only by estabsolved on the basis of comradely argument to think, it not at all a laughing matter.
lishing a sound foundation on them can It is only too true. And maybe this is The words we underlined are com and internal democracy. More fundamental the present guerilla warfare be estimated questions are involved.
precisely why it is so ludriclous. The propletely absent from the Praydn report.
correctly, in its proper place, and not in The Need for Clarity Were they spoken by Blucher or not? If vince has hit the mark, describing not a the ambiguous manner into which comrade.
man but a type.
we are to judge by the text we would have The Communist League is the Left wing Weisbord falls.
to conclude that these words were arbitrar of the Communist movement, a faction fight An Ambiguous Position on India Yes, even if we take this same Yaroily and incongruously inserted into the ing for the reconstitution of the Communist The same ambiguity exists in Weis slavsky. In 1923, he wrote panegyrics to report after it was made, as a result of International on the unshakable foundations bord words on India. Side by side with Trotsky. In 1925, wrote agreeing with which we have an obvious. absurdity. At of Marx and Lenin which have been sys perfectly correct formulations are to be Zinoviev Leninism. which was directly first it says that there was not a single tematically undermined by Stalinism. As a entirely against Stalin.
found perfectly confused ones, particularly In 1927, he wrote deserter and then it is reported that there faction, its base is necessarily narrower than on the relations of the proletarian movethat Bucharin has no deviations whatever were two of them. Obviously, there is some that of the official Party and its requirement with the national bourgeoisie, mu The and that he is educating the youth in the thing foul here: If there is not single ments more stringent. Without wasting arprimary problem of the Indian revolution spirit of Leninism.
one, then where did the two come from? guments on the on the philistine contentions of the one is not one of an alliance with the national And if there really were two deserters then Right wing concerning our alleged sectarbourgeoisie, but of how to shatter every But can it be said that Yaroslavsky is Puu how can one say not a single one. Bu inconsistent? Nobody will say that. He tonte ianism (1. e. our insistence upon revolubit of faith of the masses in that leaderis quite consistent, even too consistent.
let us assume that it was not Blucher tionary principle. we must establish at all ship, how to make them rely upon themhimself who made the ends meet: In the Politically illiterate? No, of course not.
costs a thorough clarity in all fundamental selves exclusively, to drive the national At worst he is semi literate.
speech unfortunately, there is generally Has he his problems of the movement, since without bourgeoiste (Ghandism in all shades)
remore ardor than sense. But then why did own firm convictions? It appears that he that it is impossible to point the correct lentlessly out of movement.
the has not. But why should convictions be Pravda report omit such tempting in road for the movement and help the revolu tive bourgeoisie is the principal brake on firm? They formation about two deserters? Why did not metallic. But how is tionary workers in and around the Commun. the popular masses; It is the last and most Pravda conceal the counter revolutionary it that Yaroslavsky, without firm convicist Party tread this road by unloading their substantial prop of British imperialism in betrayals of the Trotskyists. If Prayda tions, maintains himself at the top? Very artificially appointed leaders and their India.
simple. He awaits what others will say.
did not conceal anything, if Elucher did baggage of pernicious theories. That is why, The economic and political needs of No, the Congress laughed for nothing.
not even say this, then how is it that these particularly in the case of Weisbord, a com( Continued on Page 8)
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