Doonping, or, the Stalin School Orientalist Speaks Up very Once again the noted scholar Doonping By JOSEPH CARTER the Renegade, Lenin. tries his hand at Trotsky killing in the At the Sixth Congress the confusion current issue of the Communist. While ernment. For example, the Enlarged Ex tegral unity with the petty bourgeoisie of wrought by the Comintern theories and ostensibly discussing the present events in ecutive Committee meeting of the Comin the Left Kuo Min Tang for the establish policies on the colonial question was espeChina in relation to the Comintern policy tern in February March 1926 stated in its ment of another Wuhan government. or cially reflected in the discussion on the there, he devotes most of his time to a resolution on China: even worse traps for the proletariat. Question of the socalled growing into.
ruthless. attack on comrade Trotsky and The Canton government, which is the Neumann who at the time of the Canton the standpoint of the Left Opposition. But vanguard in the liberation struggle of the However for China the question has uprising saw in it the ending of the bourto what avail? Has he not informed us Chinese people, serves as a model for the special significance. The interconnection geois democratic and the beginning of the that the revolutionary proletariat and op. future revolutionary democratic order of between the gentry and the city capitalists, proletarian revolution, that is, the actual pressed masses in the colonies can only the whole country. The Communist Party the intricate relation between the usurer, growing into stated that the mutation laugh at the embarrassment and doomed and the Kuo Min Tang should help in ev who is one of the chief exploiters of the. growing over. is a question of the relafate of the these renegades. Communist, ery way to extend the work of democratizpoor peasantry and the town and city, the tion of forces; is decided by the strugMarch, 1930) Or is he merely trying to ing on the lines of the Canton government.
relation between the rich peasantry (kulak) gle. number of other speakers expressdevelop the sense of humor of the colonial freedom of speech, press, assembly, etc.
and the poor peasantry the intimate eco ed similar views. This is obviously a reoppressed? Be that as it may.
organizing democratie local organs in the nomic and political relations between the pudiation of the minimum prerequisite Some of the points raised have already various localities, into agrarian reforms.
native bourgeoisie theory. Kuusinen, the author of the colonial and foreign capital, been taken up in the Militant in a reply (Impreecor, Vol. VI No. 40 648. Doonmake the character of even the first stage theses, polemized against the latter and to Doonping previous article. will there. ping carefully omits this and is of the revolution, anti bourgeois, e. so reiterated the formulation of the theses.
fore limit myself to some of the more out thereby able to accuse Trotsky cialist, as well as anti feudal. That is the of Since then little progress has been made standing arguments presented.
having democratic illusions. of being agrarian revolution and the democratic rein clarifying the question; on the contrary As to the characterization of the pre a liquidationist and playing the game of volution in the cities, cannot be carried out more confusion has been injected by the sent period in China and the stage of the the Left kuo Min Tang! The Stalinists are without at the same time encroaching on Left turn after the Sixth Congress. For trying to forget that period of the Chinese bourgeois property rights. The Comintern revolutionary movement Doonping repeats example an editorial in Pravda stated: leadership, which even as late as the Sixth the Stalinist fable about 70. 000, 000 workers, Revolution! But their programmatic and Changsha under the Soviet rule means the Congress laughed at the idea of a kulak peasants and soldiers being under Soviet strategical position, as elaborated in the proletarian revolution in South China has rule in China, led by the Chinese Commun Program and Colonial Theses of the Sixth question in China now calls for leadercaptured its first big town. Our emship of the poor and middle peasants ist Party. He does not explain or mention Congress, basically condones such policies phasis, quoted in Daily Worker 8a matter of fact the latter form an insignithe if this is true of Stalin, or why the and thereby makes possilbe or rather, in16 30. What does Doonping think of the ficant part of the peasantry) instead of its slogan in the October 12th statement of the official Party press is compelled to quote evitable, debacles in India, Latin America, previous slogan of the struggle of the Central Committee of the Chinese Comthe capitalist press in Shanghai on the ac etc. This in spite of the Left tactical changes in India today. whole peasantry in the revolution. The tivities of the peasants in China, that is, munist Party: Long live the socialist reCanton uprising of December 1927 was a volutionary dictatorship of the proletariat activities which the Communist Party, is Doonping poses the quintessential ques direct proof of the contention of the Left and the peasants of China. My emphasis.
supposed to be leading: Added to this is tion: What is the difference between the Opposition; the proletariat in face of the Daily Worker 12 30. To us the unique statement that the struggle of democratic dictatorship of the proletariat Comintern official standpoint, was imme this is but an added sign of the confusionthe proletariat is no longer lagging behind and peasantry and the dictatorship of the diately compelled to make inroads on ist and bankrupt position of the Cominthe forward march of the agrarian revolu proletariat if the proletariat plays the lead bourgeois property rights.
tern. And even after Doonping article tion. This light hearted exaggeration is ing role in both? And after proving how Doonping repeats the wisdom borrowed under consideration appeared, peculiarly cne of the greatest barriers for a real the Opposition confuses the question by by Stalin Kuusinen from Kamenev in 1917 enough, confusion still exists!
awakening of the revolutionary spirit of the speaking of the democratic dictatorship about the democratic revolution peacefulChinese proletariat by the Communist as bourgeois democracy, Doonping adds: However, nothing seems to deter Doonly growing into the proletarian dictatorParty.
ping! He continues to make logical. The dictatorship of the proletariat ship. How this is to take place neither the illogical; shatters the illusions and and peasantry differs from the dictatorship Stalin, Kuusinen nor, to drop a few pegs, false views of the reader! It is someComrade Trotsky, immediately follow of the proletariat in the same way as the Doonping tells us. All we are told is that ing the Sixth Congress of the Comintern times erroneously assumed that there can bourgeois democratic revolution differs from it will not be a violent revolution. that only be Soviets in a proletarian revolution wrote a letter to a comrade in this connecthe proletarian dictatorship. Here is there will be a continuity of government tion (Militant 15 1929, Some Remarks and then he adds that this is wrong bebreath taking profundity for you! An or with a gradual progressive shifting of the cause Lenin spoke about the propaganda on the Sixth Congress. There Trotsky dinary polemic seems futile against it, un class forces (1. 1025. And all this is for the idea of Soviets for the East as speaks of the necessity of transitional detil the next sentence is read: handed out as Marxism, as Leninism! It early as the Second Congress of the Commands which would correspond to the ob Just as there are no puretypes in runs directly counter to the Marxist view jective situation. the Stolypin period of intern. Perfect! What happened in 1926the revolutionary process, there is neither of the role of the state in a revolution; it Chiang Kai Shek. in order to arouse the 27 to Lenin advice on China? In May pure democratic dictatorship of the prois almost word for word a repetition of the masses in preparation for the organization 1927, that is, seven years after Lenin phrase mongerings of the letariat and peasantry nor pure dictatorof Soviets and the proletarian dictatorship. Left Social speech, the Plenum of the in its Doonping gets Democracy. Even ship of the proletariat. Whether a governexcited about Trotsky casual perusual of decision on China stated. With the characterization of the period as the Stolyment is the one or the other depends upon Lenin State and Revolution should make development of the revolution, when it bepin period of Chiang Kai Shek. This is the relative share of the proletariat, peathis clear even to a Doonping! peaceful girls to change from a democratic into a Interpreted as a belief in a long democratic santry and city poor in the power of the growing over of the bourgeois democratic socialist revolution it will be necessary to period for China, as liquidationism, ete. state, as well as the predominant characrevolution, characterized by its anti feudal set up Soviets of Workers. Peasants and Anyone who understands even the broad teristics of the socio economic policies of social content, to a socialist phase can only Soldiers deputies. as) the slogan of the outlines of Trotsky theory of Permanent the state which are concrete expressions of take place as two stages of the proletarian Party. And the Stalinist specialist on Revolution (even Doonping confused nothe stage the revolution has reached.
dictatorship.
China at that time commented: The protions of it might suffice. and its applica. Our emphasis, In the democraticNevertheless let us see how and when posal to organize Soviets sounds very Left tion to the problems of the Chinese Revo dictatorship of the proletariat and peasant this growing into is scheduled to take Wing. In the tenth year of existence of lution knows how false and intentionally ry Doonping, the proletariat is to have place. The colonial theses states: the Proletarian Republic we cannot regard dishonest such an interpretation is. The the Soviets merely. as a form of organthe hegemony, which means that the first As in all colonies and semi colonies, meaning of Trotsky phrase is obvious. Just distinction (emphasized in the quotation) so also in China, the development of proization and mobHization of the masses. The Soviets live in the eyes of humanity as an as the period following the defeats of the is done away with, therefore the real ditductive forces and the socialization of laRussian Revolution of 1905 was characterIncarnation of proletarian dictatorship. The ference must apparently lie in the second, bor stands at a comparatively low level.
ized by a depression in the revolutionary organization of Soviets can be advocated that is, the predominant characteristics of This circumstance, together with the fact mood of the workers and peasants; a period the socio economic policies.
only when it is a question of undertaking In other of foreign domination and also the presence of reaction to which the Bolsheviks, led by the revolution, under the leadership of the words, since the socio economic content is of powerful relics of feudaltsm and pre capiLenin, adapted themselves by raising demoproletariat, with the purpose of establishanti feudal. bourgeois democratic. the re talist relations, determines the character of cratic slogans, fghting for immediate ecoing a new proletarian government. Othergime will have to be a democratic dictator the immediate stage of the revolutionary nomie interests of the workers, consoll.
wise to advocate Soviets is merely playing ship. Then what were the socio economic movement of these countries. In the revodating their forces with words or deception pure and simple.
and preparing the policies of the state in Russia following lutionary movement of these countries we ground for the proletarian revolution, 80. War the Communist International Postthe October revolution? It executed the have to deal with the bourgeois democratic it is with the period following the Chinese tion, by Bennett. tasks of the democratic revolution in the revolution, e. of the stage signifying the revolution of 1925 27. The duration of the agrarian revolution, workers control, etc. preparation of the prerequisites for the It is sometimes erroneously assum Stolypin period, and even certain of its Then why was it a proletarian revolution? proletarian dictatorship and socialist revo.
ed. We are literally at a loss for words.
omic racteristics are obviously not And by whom has this erroneous assumpidentical when applied to conditions and In other words, the Comintern superficially lution.
tion been made? It was made by the ComIn other words, the present stage is to relation of forces as different as those in calls for the same kind of revolutionary be a prolonged one, for surely government in China as came into existwould tako intern spokesman of an earlier period Russia after 1905 and China after 1927. To ence in October 1917 in Russia. Yet in one some time for such minimum prerequisAnd not by Bennett alone, but by the sacra be sure, Deonping is not entirely unaware ites for a proletarian dictatorship to develsanct Stalin himself, to saying nothing of of this simple fact; but he is cautious case, it is called the democratic dictatorthe official theses of the To quote enough to omit any acknowledgment of it.
ship, while in the other, the proletarian op. This paraphrasing of Kautsky Plechdictatorship! Doonping does not answer anov, Martov, and Co. about the absence Bennett, then, we would say that not only Doonping but also his teachers in the inof minimum prerequisites for a proletarian Doonping even mistakes the official this question and thereby gives no reply to ternational Stalinist apparatus, are either position of the Comintern as expressed both his own rhetorical question mentioned dictatorship and socialist revolution, is playing with words or deception pure and a result of the logic of the Stalin Buchaarin in its activities in China since 1925 and in above.
theory of national socialism that is, state simple. They are adept att both.
the colonial theses adopted at the Sixth World Congress. Instead of the activities of power should be taken by the proletariat 0 However, the quotation above gives only where it has the possibilities of develthe Communists in the colonies being divid him away. For does it not mean that the oping a complete national socialist ecoMOLOTOV OX THE SKIDS?
ed into two stages (struggle for a bour. democratic dictatorship is a form of govnomy (where it has the material prequisgeois democratic dictatorship of the pro ernment where the relative share. ites for the building of socialism. We Etsewhere in this issue, we indicate letariat and peasantry and then a prolet in the power of the state of the proletarcan reply to such arguments in the same that the scapegoat for Stalin ultra Left arian dictatorship) as Doonping would hove iat is unfavorable as compared to the manner as Lenin answered the pseudo swing, as soon as he prepares to shift to us believe, the Comintern held that there peasantry and city poor (read urban Marxists of 1917: Since the entire world the Right, will be Molotov. The subsequent should be three stages. The two mentioned petty bourgeoisie, That is precisely has the material prerequisites for social removal of Rykov and his replacement by above were preceded both theoretically the point! The democratic dictatorship ism (as Kautsky had already stated in Molotov, would seem to invalidate this pree. on paper, and practically, by a joint in real life means either a proletarian dic 1909, in his Path to Power. the question dicion. But only superficially. Molotov national revolutionary struggle of all anti tatorship or revolutionary Wuhan gov is not whether an individual country is ripe has been removed as one of the Party secimperialist classes (i. e. the bourgeoisie, ernment, a Kerensky regime. And this is for socialism, but rather this: Are the con retaries, and as head of the Comintern, and the urban petty bourgeoisie, the peasantry why today after the October revolution, ditions present for the leadership of the invested with what has become a more or and the proletariat, united into one na after the experiences in China 1925 27 the peasantry by the proletariat so as to make less formal post. It should be remembered tional organization. the Kuo Min Tang) slogan of democratic dictatorship must be the revolution in that country a link the that Rykov and Syrzov both occupied the which was supposed to struggle against rejected. It leaves the door open for chain of the world proletarian revolution place Molotov was just given. And look foreign imperialism and or a people gov. workers and peasants parties, for in. The Proletarian Revolution and Kautsky at them today!
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