The Bloc of the Left and the Right Stalin Bucharin and the Chinese Revolution ism in one country. On the question of colonial revolutions and the role of the bourgeoisie in them, this program elucidates the treacheronis policy which was Revealing the real or fictitious bloc of conducted in China by the bloc of Stalin By LEON TROTSKY lution of the Sixth Congress are closer to and Bucharin, including also their alliance Syrzov with Lominadze as a bloc of the us than to the official policy of the Comin with Chiang Kai Shek. Under the treacherRight and Left. elements, Pravda redisorganizes the Party. But a consistently tern, which they supported against us until ous slogan of lemocratic dictatorship in peats: We have already witnessed such Right wing policy, no matter what the inyesterday? The Right Opposition in Czecho opposition to the dictatorship of the proleunprincipled blocs many times, beginning tentions of Bucharin, Rykov and Tomsky Slovakia establishes its solidarity in all tarixt, the program of the Comintern is prefvith the August bloc. That the August may be, is the policy of Thermidor. Where basic questions with the Brandlerites, and paring new defeats for the young proletar.
bloc, calculated to reconcile the Bolsheviks is the ground here for a bloc, or even the declares the Left Opposition to be a cari iat of the colonies. For this program the with the Mensheviks, was a mistake, is shadow of a bloc?
cature of the Comintern that is, a worse bloc of the center and the Right is responirrefutable. But this took place in 1913 for But, says the Stalinist press, the Left edition.
sible. This bloc cannot be called the Aua period of two or three months since then Opposition is against the Five Year Plan All these Right wing organizations stand gust bloc, because it did not endure for much water has passed under the bridge. in four years and against complete colon the ground of the present program of But Stalin, in March 1917, on the eve lectivization.
one or two months, as in 1913, but for eight the Comintern, elaborated by Stalin and years (1923 1930) and even after the forof Lenin arrival, advocated a fusion of Stalin Juggling of Figures Bucharin that is, the Centrists and the mal semi break still survives in the most the Bolshevik Party with that of Tseretelli.
Yes, the Left Opposition has not exRights. We reject this program becanse authoritative document: in the program of Under the influence of Stalin and his like, perienced the dizziness which is inevitable on the most basic points it betrays Marxism the comintern. And these people, who have the majority of the social democratic orfor the Centrist bureaucracy that has made and Bolshevism. It is a program of na squandered their basic Marxist principles banizations during the February revolution a turn of 180 degrees. When the Party tional socialism and not Marxian interna in unprincipled machinations have the had a united character, that is, they conpress, in the spring of this year, blew the tionlism, out of which it tears the scientific audacity to speak of our bloc with the sisted of the Bolsheviks and the Menshe, trumpets about a sixty percent collectivi and practical basis by its theory of social Right!
viks. In such proletarian centers as Ekaterinburg, Perm, Tula, Nizhni Novgorod, nonsense, self deceit and deception before zation of the peasantry, we exposed this Sermovo, Kolomna, Yusovka, the Bolshevthe dizziness was attested to by the responiks separated from the Mensheviks only sible director of the zig zag. Stalin very at the end of May 1917. In Odessa, NikolA LETTER BY TCHEN DU HSIU soon made a rebate of twenty percent, exaev, Elizavetgrad, Poltava, and other points pressing the hope that forty percent of the in the Ukraine, the Bolsheviks did not have (Continued from Last Issue)
politica logans adapted period; any independent organization as late as pescants would remain in the collective But the reasons given by the present then we can win the masses. The workers farms Pravda of very recent date writes the middle of June 1917. in Baku, ZlaCentral Committee for expelling me from that indvidual farms embrace three fourths and peasants Soviet is merely the propatousto, Bezhitsko, Kostroma, the Bolsheviks the Party are: ganda slogan at present. If we take the split decisively from the Mensheviks at the of the peasantry, so that to the share of They said: Fundamentally, he is struggle to organize Soviets as a slogan of the collective and Soviet farms are attriend of June. Is it place here to recall not sincere in recognizing his own mistake action, we will certainly get no response buted only twenty five percent. We see the August bloc of 1913?
in the opportunist leadership of the period from the proletariat. But the stated how shaky are all these data, and how, by Stalin and the Bloc with the Right of the great Chinese revolution, and has that we substitute for the slogans Down one stroke of the pen, tens of millions of But there is no need to look back to not decided to recognize where is his real with the Kuo Min Tang government and peasants are thrown from the camp of Stalin position in 1917. The fictitious socialism into the camp of petty bourgeois past error, so that he must inevitably con Establish the Soviet regime the present Lefts (Lominadze, Schatzkin, etc. who are tinue his past erroneous line. In reality, general political slogan of Summon the commodity production, which nourishes really Centrists in despair, are accused of capitalism. was expelled because sincerely recog. National Congress. This is also one of a bloc with Bucharin, Rykov and Tomsky.
nized where the error of the former op the reasons for my removal.
If the turn back from the general line They see Bucharin chief guilt and corconsists of 140 percent (25 percent of those portunist leadership lay, and decided to op5. said in a letter that we should rectly so in his advocacy of the Kulak pose the present and future continuation growing into socialism. But it is precisely who are now supposed to be in the collecpoint out the policy of treason or spoliaof wrong lines.
tives are what is left of the 60 percent who tion of the country by the Kuo Min Tang for the exposure of this theory and the were driven out of them. then it is clear They said: He is not satisfied with in the Chinese Eastern Railway. making practice flowing from it, that the Opposition that in the place of the 140 percent turn the decisions of the Communist Interna the broad masses still imbued with nawas expelled from the Party. And Stalin there is room for a Left and a Right, not tional. He is fundamentally unwilling to tionalist spirit able to sympathize with us was in a bloc with Bucharin and Rykov to speak of Stalin himself who came out come to Moscow to be trained by the Inand oppose the maneuver of the imperialagainst the Left Opposition not for two or against the maximalism of his own faction ternational. have been trained enough ists to attack the Soviet Union by utilizing three months, but for eight years pre after the fact by the Communist International. Former the Kuo Min Tang and making the Chinese cisely at the time when Bucharin developed But no matter how many peasants are ly, made many mistakes because took Eastern Railway problem an excuse. This the theory of the Kulak growing into social actually collectivized now, twenty, twenty the opinions of the Third International. was to help the slogan of defense for the ism, when Rykov relied on the backward five or thirty percent, we do not consider Now am expelled because am not satisU. penetrate the masses. But the village and resisted industrialization. On this sector, as a whole, socialist. because fied with those opinions. said wanted to issue the slogan of whose part, then, was there a bloc with the collectives, without the necessary in Last August 5, wroto a letter to opposing the spoliation of the country by the Rights? Lominadze, Schatzkin, Sten dustrial base, will inevitably produce Ku the Central Committee in which there were the Kuo Min Tang in place of the slogan and others are put forward as Lefts, Trotlaks from their midst. To represent com the following sentences: Besides, what is of supporting the That is anskyists and semi Trotskyists. All of plete collectivization on the basis of pea the fundamental contradiction between the other reason why was expelled.
them, however, in a bloc with Stalin wrote sant stock as socialism means to revive economic class interests of these two classInto the history of the struggle against the Bucharinist theory of the Kulak growI wrote the several letters Trotskyism a not very glorious but uusues? Before and after the Canton uprising, ing into socialism, only in an adminstradealing with the serious political problems wrote several letters to the Central Comally lucid page. Are they really in a bloc within the Party. The kept them tively masked and therefore a still more with the Right? In what is this bloc exmittee pointing out that the ruling power malignant form.
from the Party for a long time. Further, pressed? What is its program? The Party of the Kuo Min Tang would not collapse We are for industrialization and colthe delegate of the Comintern and the knows nothing about it. The shamelessness as quickly as you estimated. At present, told me plainly that the principle is that lectivization We are against bureaucratie of Prayda in inner Party falsifications is though, there are some mass struggles charlatanry against reactionary Utopias different political opinions cannot be proit is not enough to take them as the sympunexampied, and has its source in the days nounced in the Party. Because there is no of Bucharin. Pravda dresses up some as in their openly Thermidorian as well as toms of the coming revolutionary wave.
in their masked Centrist form. Where is hope of correcting the mistakes of the CenLefts, others as Rights, combines the ones The general legal movement, of course, is the ground here for a bloc with the Right?
tral Committee by means of a legal comto give up the attempt at revolution. But with the others it has a free (alas, illiter But we are also against the distorted, radely discussion, should not be bound ate) hand in everything. But the Party is under certain circumstances, when it is arbitrary, unprincipled, bureaucratic pureby the ordinary discipline of the organizaunable to verify any of it.
necessary to develop our power, all possily Stalinist methods of punishment of the tion, and it is not necessary to prevent comThe attempt to base the legend of a ble legal measures, without a burning charRight because we want a general delimi.
rades from passing my letters to others for bloc of the Left Opposition with the Right acter (Lenin) should also not be given up tation along the whole Party line and not reading. This is also one of the reasons on ideological considerations and not only in this the transition) period. The Cenapparatus chicanery, exile, and the noose.
why am expelled.
on new revelations of the has a tral Committee changed these sentences to It is precisely for this general delimitation very sorry and unwise appearance.
read ambiguously: There is no contradic The correctness of Trotsky Views that we need, above all democracy. Where The Problem of the Regime tion between the bourgeoisie ar. the feudis the ground here for a bloc with the al forces. The present ruling class is not Since the August conference, In the first place, says the Stalinist Right?
going to be overthrown and the revolution the has not permitted me to participress, the Rights as well as the Trotsky But if it should appear which is not ists are not satisfied with the regime and ary struggle is not beginning to revive pate in any meetings, nor has it given me the case that there is a tactical coincibut to decline more and more. He advoAs if, by the any work to do. Still, on October only accuse it of bureaucratism.
dence or an episodic crossing of the two cates the adoption of legal forms. Fur forty days before my expulsion. they sudway, anybody in the world could be satis differing, irreconcilably hostile strategical thermore, they put a quotation mark around denly wrote me a letter saying: The fied with the regime of spurious plebiscites lines, would that bring nearer the lines each sentence so as to make them seem has decided to ask you to undertake the and inevitable double handedness which themselves? When at the conference of like my original statement. This another work of in the under the grows with just as insurmountable a force 1907, Lenin voted with the Mensheviksas the isolation of the Stalinist top from reason for my expulsion.
political line of the Party, and to write an against all the Bolsheviks, including, it is the Party and the working class. As for understood Stalin too for participation in The Xeed for Democratic Slogans article Against the Opposition within a us, Bolsheviks Leninists, we never looked week. As had criticized the Central the Third Duma, did that bring Lenin closer upon Party democracy as freedom for Ther4. wrote another letter to the Cen Committee more than once for continuing to the Mensheviks?
midorian views and tendencies. Party the line of opportunism and putschism, Finally, are the disputed questions extral Committee on October 10 saying: The democracy, on the contrary was trampled hausted by the tempo of industrialization present period is not a period of the revo they tried to create some excuse for expulunderfoot in the defense of the latter. By and collectivization in the coming year?
lutionary wave, but a period of counter sion. Now have recognized fundamentalthe restoration of Party democracy we un What a sorry administrative national limitrevolution. We should elaborate democra ly that comrade Trotsky views are identiderstand the conquest by the real revolu edness!
cal with Marxism and Leninism. How would We Marxists do not construct tic slogans as our general ones. For intionary proletarian core of the Party of be able to write false words, contrary to socialism in a single country, like Stalin stance, besides the eight hour day demand, the possibility to curb the bureaucracy and and Bucharin. We stand on the position of the confiscation of land, we should issue my opinions. really to purge the Party, to purge the international socialism. Where is our comthe slogans Nullify the unequal treaties, We know that comrade Trotsky has Party of Thermidorians in principle as well mon ground with the Right. Against the military dictatorship of the decisively opposed the opportunist policy as of the unprincipled and careerist brethWhat the Right Wing Thinks Kuo Min Tang. Summon the National Conof Stalin and Bucharin. We cannot listen ren who vote according to the command The American organization of the Right gress, etc. etc. It is necessary to make to the rumors of the Stalin clique and befrom above; not only from the tendencies wing (Lovestone and Co. recently declared the broad masses active under these demolieve that comrade Trotsky, who created of chvostism but also from the numerous in a resolution of principles that with the cratic slogans; then we can shake the the October revolution hand in hand with factions of flunkeyism, whose name should Comintern that is, with Stalin and Molotov, counter revolutionary regime, go forwards Lenin, really is a counter revolutionist (it not be derived from Greek or Latin but they have only tactical differences, but with to the revolutionary wave, and make our may be proved by the rumors created from the truly Russion word for fiunkey in the Left Opposition not only tactical but fundamental slogans Down with the Kuo about us by the Chinese Stalinist clique, its contemporary, bureaucratized and Stalin also programmatic differences. This is abMin Tang government, Establish the SovLee Li San, etc. Because we spoke of ized form. This is only we need demo solutely correct. The Brandlerites in Ger et regime, etc. the slogans of action in the Trotsky as a comrade, the Central Comcracy. many, who constantly defend the economic mass movement.
mittee accused us of having already left The Rights have suddenly come to need policy of Stalin Bucharin against us as the On October 26; comrade Peng Shu Chi the revolution, left ha proletariat and gone democracy in order to have the possibility only possible one have the same position. and wrote a letter to the saying: over to the counter. evolution. and expelto conduct a consistently opportunist Or perhaps, the Workers and Peasants This is not the transitional period to dir led us from the Party.
policy which frritates all the classes and Partyites in France, who voted for the reso ect revolution, and we must have general (To Be Continued)