A Statement of Views on Some Disputed Questions many Right were committ must Partles section.
a democratic starten must viets can be bullt even Problems of the Revolutionary Movement out responsible mass work in a Communist manner before becoming leaders, their violence against Communist groups, these are some of the things that show on what road this clique marches. This is the final installment of the By ALBERT WÉISBORD any plan of industrialization was too pre The Communist Majority group speech made before the Lovestone group mature and would lead to terrible catas. Lovestone) shows just as bad tendencies.
plenum by comrade Weisbord in which he center of attack must be against British trophes and war in the village. when The failure to analyze international quespresent his views. The reply of the Com Imperialism and its conscious reactionary there is recalled how backward the original tions (China, Russia, etc. and to link up muntst League 18 appended. agents within India.
industrialization plans were and how far these questions in the closest degree with The crime of the in China and the masses outstripped the Party leaders. questions of the United States; the Right 18. India. The basic sbgang for the this opinion is not in contradiction with the then the conclusion is ripe that the attack line when these questions are approached, Communists today in India must be Lenin basic opinions of comrade Trotsky, It on comrade Trotsky on this question only the wrong estimation both of the whole Three Pillars. that 18, a basic slogan for seems) was NOT that the of China hid the Right opportunism of the Stalin present period of post war capitalism and of the proletariat (say the eight hour day) joined a national revolutionary front, but Bucharin regime.
the present situation inside and outside the a basic slogan for the peasantry (confiscathat the SUBSTITUTED the KuominThe Five Year Plan United States and the complete failure to tion of the land) and the slogan of Demtang for the Communist Party, succumbed understand the ma winy mistakes ocratic Republic. To these three pillars to Sun Yat Senism, introduced class collab The five year plan, belated as it was. including the methods of dealing with the and its speedy execution, mark a trementhe slogan Freedom for India oration against the class struggle, sacrificTrotsky opposition) that The industrialization dous step forward.
ing the class struggle to this national revadded. Only around all these slogans can by the leaders of this group as leaders of of the Soviet State must tend greatly to the masses be effectively mobilized. It olutionary front against foreign imperialthe Party. These are but part of the evistrengthen the revolutionary movement and would be a gross error for the Communiste Ism, failing to raise the Three Pillar dence to show how firmly tend to hasten the end of capitalism. But rooted the Right to stress the of Freedom for India slogans and thus leading the civil war in the economic progress of the R, does tendencies of this group have become.
alone as does the nationalist Indian bour village and town on concrete demands of The Communist League (Opposition)
not BY ITSELF NECESSARILY lead to an the masses against the native exploiters geolsie. The slogan for Constituent Asadvance of the world revolution.
Il with also has shown definite Right tendencies.
sembly Itselt is not as well. The policy today must be: a naby not incorrect tat But the Right tendences have NOT flowed incomplete and may be dangerous for it tional revolutionary front which later such an economic advance there should be will fastened from comrade Trotsky and the International Communist does not take into consideration the fact upon the be broken by the progress of the class strugsielte still more the theory of building socialism Left Opposition now that the true position that British Imperialism can maneuver so gle in India under the leadership of the of the Trotsky opposition known in one country. If this should lead not to as to make the slogan of Constituent Asproletariat (through its Communist Party)
American but are peculiar to its an international but a nationalist view sembly a SUBSTITUTE for a in alliance with the peasantry on the road The May the pagrepublic. The slogan Constituent Assembly point, if this should in turn lead the to the struggle for the dictatorship of the sivity and leadership to playing with and a sacrifice leanings, the the absolute proletariat.
can be ased correctly only in conjunction and of foreign sections of the if this should complete lack of self criticism and fails with the slogan for a Democratic Republic.
The Problem in China fasten the hold of the bureaucrats still more, ure to see that the Cannon faction within the The Slogan of Soviets 14. Here too the slogan of the Conit this should lead to Trotsky deportations Party was as un Leninist as any of the The slogan of Soviets can be appropri. stituent Assembly is still correct, although and Flumkin murders and violence to ever others, these defects llowed from the fact ate only when a sufficiently acute revolu. It is apparently incorrect to state that the Communist opposition movement, then in that the American section of the Left Intionary situation has been engendered Chinese revolution is still on the wane. deed it is possible to state that unless the ternational Opposition was too close to but around the three pillars. when the class Here the mobilization of workers and pea Communists throughout the world (alded a reconstituted Cannon faction in the bestruggle and civil war rages in the Villages sants on concrete issues can lead to such by the very economic advance of the Soviet ginning of its formation, However there and towns. In this connection it must be an acute revolutionary situation that So Union) can guard against this degeneration be admitted the great service such a emphasized that Soviets viets can be formed.
from Leninism it is possible to have an faction did render in the publication and with the slogan of Constituent Assembly It is dubious to say, as do some mem economic advance of the Soviet Union slpopularization of the principles of the Left The two slogans of Constituent Assembly International Opposition.
bers of the International Left Opposition, multaneously with a setback to the world and Soviets need not be antagonistic at The crying need of the hour today is that the present guerilla warfare going on proletarian revolution. Trotsky exposure се all times. But what must be stressed 18 absolute ideological intransigeance, plus the in China today is wrong and not to be of the elements of Thermidor generating the actual organization of civil war in the working together of all Communi groups.
supported. Under the present conditions, within the Soviet Union is absolutely cor: village and town and the leadership of the One of the crassest forms of opportunism it the facts are that masses of desperate rect.
was the factional unity attempted in the proletariat in this civil war. Only the dicpeasants are ready to take up civil war in Section 18. The Comintern today is Party in 1928. and before) and which was tatorship of the proletariat in India can the countryside. the Communists must in a profound crisis. The narrowing down make permanent its revolution.
only the obverse side of the unprincipled stimulate, support, organize and lead such and great loss of prestige of the and factionalism The Communists must make plain to a movement.
On the other hand, it must that had existed before merely the mass expulsions show how deeply opthe magses the role of the nationalistic another form. The correct solution of be clear that no matter how much the Im portunism was part of the Communist moveIndian bourgeoiste and the role of Ghandi the momentous questions of the day on the ment. The formation of three different sepperialists and native Chinese rulers may basis of Leninism stand above all questions as an agent of this class. Not only the be weakened, armed peasant bands cannot arately organized international Communist of formal discipline.
experiences of 1921 must be gone over, but take the place of mass peasant uprisings, groups speaks of the disintegration of the all the treacherous actions of the present At the same time all Communist groups the peasant movement can not take the movement. But it also marks a step forGhandi campaign (the salt campaign, the must work together on the basis of the place of a proletarian struggle, and pea ward since such a situation exposes the anti machine mov recognition of the Communist character of movement, passive resistance, sant Soviets cannot replace the dictator rottenness in all groups, hardens the real each group. The Communist Majority opopposition workers, record at the Na ship of the proletariat.
Leninists and prepares the way for new position group and the Communist League tionalist Congress, etc. etc. et. must be 15. The colonial revolutionary situaadvances.
elaborated. Simultaneously group by working together can help to remass movetions in China and India are of the greatest We owe it primarily and above all to establish mass work and to resist the vioments in town and countryside against naimportance to the rest of the world, and to Trotsky for exposing the situation lent tactics of the Party officialdom. They tive usurer, gentry. kulak. bourgeois, must the United States especially. How can we since Lenin died, for bringing to light the can help to separate the Communist movebe effected. By no means must the Chiang foresee that the United States will weather Testament of Lenin which the other leaders ment as a whole from the Mensheviks and Kai Shek disaster be repeated. The crim the economic storm and reach new peaks had deliberately hidden, for exposing the can deal a death blow to the theory of inal negligence of the in failing to unless we foresee aleady the complete and forgeries of Lenin writings attempted, Lascism and social fascism thus winbuild the Communist Party but in building sudden crushing of the revolutionary wave and for bringing to light many facts of worker peasant parties instead must be ning the advanced workers to workers to a Leninist in the Far East. It is the rankest oppor. Party history concealed by the bureaucrats conception of Party democracy. Only such speedily liquidated. It is clear it is not tunism to fall to connect in the most int fom the membership.
a working together of Communist groups OUR business to organize peasant parties. mate way the revolutionary situations in However it, seems that comrade Trot can raise those fundamental principles of It is clear that the main task of the the East with the immediate perspective of sky is incorrect in designating the struggle Leninist opganization that can reconstitute Communists must be the stimulation of the the United States. All of the Communist between Bucharin and Stalin (and the namasses around the three pillar and freean International of Lenin.
groups suffer from this opportunism more tional groups around them) as one between (SEE PAGE FIVE)
dom slogans. These movements are di or less. Unless view is correct it Right and Cent tendencies in the rected against both native and foreign rul will be true that the revolutions will be Communist movement. It is in reality a ers afd bourgeoisie who may desire a na defeated, but it will be the Communists who tionalist refolutionary movement under the will have aided unconsciously the hangmen struggle between two forms of the Right.
Both philosophically and politically the sole slogan of Freedom of India from the both in the East and in the West.
British.
conception of a Centrist COMMUNIST and this is most 16. The slogan Soviet United States of wing is wrong.
understand, so long as a secCentrism can be used as important to Europe today seems dubious. Lenin was designating Socialists but not Communists.
tion of the nationalist Indian bourgeoisie opposed to this slogan. Today, it may tend This was Lenin usage of the term. Pracfighting British Imperialism under the to aid reactionary schemes like those of Number 14 tically, it gives the illusion that the Censlogan of Freedom of India from ImperialBriand.
It should be remembered that trigts are more to the Left than BULLETIN OF THE RUSSIAN OPPOSITION the ist rule, so long as this movement unleashes among the capitalist nations the sharpest Righit and that Centrists are more (Entirely in Russian)
the energy of the masses which otherwise basic antagonisms are no longer between could not be unleashed and so long as the easily gwayed and have no real policy of Partial Contents European nations but between Europe and own.
masses have not been actively mobilized America.
19. In the United States, the disintegWho Will Pevall? News in the around the correct slogans and while the 17. The situation within the Soviet ration of the Communist Party has exParty The Political Biography of Stalin.
exposure of the native bourgeoisie is but in Tinion our fatherland, must be of the ut posed three groups with definite Right wing ALFA:Notes of a a Journalist Colits incipiency, it would be manifestly inmost correct for the Communists not to enter concern for us. The difficulty and del tendencies. The putschism of the official lectivization as It Really is letter from icacy of the subject must not lead to less Communist Party factionalists is not the the Russian countryside. MARKIN: The or to struggle for a national discussion but to erotutionary to more. There is no ques wrong estimation of those too impatient Persecution of the Bolshevik Leninists as front against British Imperialism even tion but that, on the whole, here comrade and too eager to struggle, but a deliberate the Principal Element in Preparing the though this national revolutionary front 16th Trotsky was correct both in stressing in make believe to to conceal their utter Right Party Congres. LETTERS FROM would temporarily contain sections of the THEU. Letter from Moscow: letdustrialization and the necessity of a wing bankruptcy. The theory of building nationalist revolutionary bourgeoisie (whom plan. and in proposing an intesification ter from exile; On Rakovsky; etc. etc. the masses follow) even though the sole ication socialism in one country, their attitude on of the war on the kulak. When there is Trotsky: Stalin as a Theortician colonial questions, their deliberate isolaslogan were Freedom for India from recalled Bucharin slogan to the peasantTrotsky: On the Defenders of the October tion from the masses, their conception that British Imperialism and even though later ry Enrich yourselves and how there was leaders of a Communist Party can be liars Revolution And numerous other features.
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