Moissaye Olgin as a «Historian» Zinoviev on the Party Regime world by er helt ringe For a Social Democratic Gov in Belgium. Why?
British Capitalist Class Prepares New Attacks on Workers in SATURDAY, JULY 29, 1933 THE MILITANT PAGE purpose is not the review of history.
It is rather that of discrediting and slandering the present day MarxFinally Olgin disputes Trotsky clarity of his political Lenin lives in an imaginary In Some of His Recent The present day fulminations historians present the question of years found himself in open or Letter That Doesn Jibetwofold, regardless of the statutes.
viston. statement that the official Stalinist Zinovlev who for a number of It is calling the 15th Congress in which he mistakes the creations of his mind for realit Criticism» on Trotsky against the theory of the perman: the voting of the Bolshevik Central semi masked orpoaltion to the stal. With His Latest two year arter the 14th. Prior to the Congress the is trebling les. It would seem that Lenin History essential accuracy of the comments surrection as though the entire mitted, after a short stay in exile, Recantation the repression against the dissenters radicaliam only blocks the road party leadership except (for example, exile more on this rrrrrrrrr made above!
of the Russian Revolution by Zinovlev that the party regime of Stalinis Olgin however does not reach bls and Kamenev stood for insurrecthe best of them all. It is therecalling forth a reaction by add the bourgeois democratic revolution mg to the disorganization of was a by product of the socialist real heights until he treate the tion. The constant re writings of fore all the more enlightening to authority for an extra year, that does not take any measures to ela country shaken to its foundations. proletarian revolution of 1917. mestone of the origin of the Nov. the history of the Bolshevik party recall what Zinoviev wrote on the is ved doubling the authority to borate such orders and schedules Communist Feb. 1932 his em tleman finds Trotsky once the sain Stalinists are notorious roolgia howe sex weeks prior to the 15th Party this despite the fact that the real possibility of expressing seemingly extreme, are in reality pasis. This formulation is atmosphere a rigorous civil war themselves on the questious under a weakening the strength of dem direct contradiction to the official quotes Trotsky as saying that the purpose. We assume that he pick cannot reproduce in its entirety the made the convocation of congresses cussion, but on the contrary in extensive document directed by The Menshevik who penned the question.
Stalinist position on the colonial idea of an insurrection took formed the strongest available.
Leningrul, in the Ukraine Secondly, under Lenin, prior to and in a whole series of other citfrom the moment the order was The course on insurrection taken Zinoviev to all the leading party above lines (in Asia Dec. 1917) is given for the removal of the troops by Lenin, however, met with resist. Institutions: the co, coc and the Congressi cell members of the is the district conferences are none other than the present Stalin To get back to Olgin. Many from Petrograd and the Petrograd ance on the part of some members ECSY, and containing a wealth of in the the party press their sug Maced even to terminate by the ist knight in the struggle against years ago, this gentleman trans Soviet decided to organize mill of the Central Committee, in the factual material on the methods or Drip were given the possibility to scheduled to begin, and in some Trotskyism. Moissaye Olgin. lated a number of Trotsky writ. tary revolutionary committee. The first place on the part Kamenew party repression and bureaucratic gestions, theses, platforms, pam His latest miserable attempt to ings from 1905 to 1917 particularis meeting Trotsky refers to was held and Zinoviev. This reads a his demoralization. Although we are phlets and books and to appear be entieth of October, where is the begituing of the official discussion is promised by the Central Com.
November. This means that the of the collection of Lenin writings to Prospects of a Labor Dictator not advanced by Trotsky. The fa tion. Who are these others? Not we hope that they will prove sucall members of the party might sittee only for the tirst days of only October revolution recently put out wrote: Whatever our attitude to Trotsky. With this attempt at the individuals fall in the bad of affairs in the as well and that the elections to the after the district conferences have in two volumes Towards the Selz ward se tube course of events in the sarcasism, Olgin continues to cite graces of the present ruling re as on the nature of Zinovier re Congress would really express the been concluded, or at any rate, ut Publishers) in the theoretical organ vealed in the quotations from Asia latter called for insurrection before have on a number of occasions!
Prinkipo, July 6, 1933.
under Lenin, a case of ward con have been concluded. If this is the of the American Communist Party. we must admit that in the October 22nd.
For the Stalinist historians to ferences, which really decide every way arrangements are to be made, the Communist (May and June main, this course has taken the Is it possible that Trotsky was literally confine the disputes (on to the Politbureau of the thing, being called first, and the it will only be a shum and.
an attack on the views of the Left says. There is a labor dictatorship it? Is it true that even Trotsky to Zinovlev and Kamenev alone To the Praesidium of the coc the convocation of state conferences. This will prompt large circles of Under Lenin such a procedure would party members to the belief that History of the Russian Revolutorship not a dictatorship of the October 22nd? One need but turn about nine tenths of Lenin writ. To the ECCI be laughed at and rejected as a the Central Committee fears discustion.
proletariat and peasantry. Au to volume III of the Eistory and ings between July and November Dear Comrades, wretched and disgraceful comedy, Fourthly, under Lenin, in the whatsoever of defending its poll stou like fire, that it has no hope In typical Stalinist fashion Olin this had been outlined by Trotsky And a complete chapter on Lenin 1917. This has been found impos. It is superfluous to point out the relation between the twelve years ago. When one reads continual proposals for insurrection sible even by the expert stalinist that with proper preparatory work pre Congress period the shifting of tical line in any kind of normal and tion and the theory of the perman feeling that they were written not chapter. But he most important role and really line of the cc, from workers censuch calendar tricks really lipp ent revolution in the course of the first Russian readers of Comes that the mity with regard to the other perhelp our party emerge from the ters to distant corners not only considered normal methods in intra have not sonages.
To appear objective, Olgin quotes upheaval (The essays appeared in and will not do so! Even Olgin The world revolutionary move present crisis.
never took place (under Lenin, exile narty democracy, en they solve. lengthy and we may add, repre 1906 as part of a book by Trotsky, can easily understand that what ment will have to purge itselt of it could do all that, however, in generat was not heard of. but the present sentative section from Trotsky entitled. Our Revolution, Peters: Trotsky means in the quoted para the falsiflers and revisionists of only if it were prepared in the man on the contrary, precisely those. Bulow the Central Commitsentence of this declaration is just as if they were discussing problems tion first took form at that moment official historians and theoreti much less serious disagreements, who had disagreements with the the opposite of historical truth and of the present situation. This more among the masses in the Soviets cans exemplified only reveals Trotsky as what he than anything else shows the con rather than in the minds of Lenin Olgin.
Moissaye our Congresses were prepared in majority of the cc were accorded okes its decision on the date of. JOSEPH CARTER. Lenin time.
fullest guarantee, of remaining interesati revises it to the effect. a falsifier of history. No less tinuity of the revolution. Twelve and Trotsky Further that the How did the party act in Lenin the large centres so that they might at the election to these couterLet us requote the section.
years ago those essays seemed to Idea was concretized that the time?
come forward with their criticismetice should take place atter disetus From the year 1906 the Bolshe picture an imaginary world. Today Soviet rather than the Bolshevik STATEMENT ON FUNDS First, the Congresses were called of the line of the Central Commitsom, then all pre Congress Cits vik party had waged a struggle they seem to tell the history of the party directly or a new organ, COLLECTED FOR GERMAN exactly on time. postponement to the pre Congress days as well guaranteed by the marty ut head to the under the lenssian revolution.
We may agree would be the oficial instrument of cual comiendo for the prest of the under enim, inadmissibile. Under There is no such thing now. Just wanted. The elections to the Congress the Proletariat And Peasantry: er, nobody can deny the jwer and finitely decided up to then. Olgin German section of the Internation: Lenin there was never a case of the the opposite is being done. The ce will be turucu tutto il pare format will be Central Committee extending its itself has prolonged its authority aty, and in the present atmosphere lan, lekhanov, stubbornly opposed seen from the statement a little Lito nothing but it comedy.
more than 100 has been collected the mistaken idea of the possibil and forwarded up to date. The The Congress is the highest organ revolution without the bourgeoisie.
American League has been assigned most important event in funer party of our wrty. The Congress is the Lenin considered that the Russian a quota of 200. All readers of ute. Every party memier should bourgeoisie was already incapable the Militant are again requested of leading its own revolution. Only to support this fund and gain enconsider the authority of the couable us to all our quota. Send congres beyond doubt und beyond disthe proletariat and peasantry prute. The members of the Bolsheclose union could carry through a Brussels, Belgium. The general ſing of the dictatorial government tributions to the Militant, 126 VIKurty must unconditionally subdemocratic revolution against the discontent of the toiling masses who by the general strike of the masses 16th St.
monarchy and the landlords. The have been severely hit by the ap and the installation of a social INCOME (Continued from Page 1)
members finding themselves not to the decisions of the party victory of this union, according to plication of the hunger decrees of democratic government which will Harold Robbins, 00 only at war with the oflicials but congresses. But all this is realizLenin, should Inaugurate the dem the dictatorial government, the be the product of the extra parlia Gibson, Farmington, Series of Strikes also at loggerheads with the rank in practice only under the ocratic dictatorship, which was not anger growing in the workers ranks mentary struggle. It is Mich.
possible, 00 In London, the bus men were suc and file who look upon the Com condition, exclusively guaranteed only not identical with the dictator. and the desire they manifest for with the aid of this struggle to Montreal Branch 00 cessful in striking against wage monists as more of a menace than wy the party statutes, that all memship of the proletariat, but was in struggle, the fear of being taken rally great masses discontented 00 wers of the purty are in a position sharp contrast with It, for its pro. by surprise, Toronto Branch to influence its decisious, that the were in July with the governmental policy in the. 60 seriele Strikes have taken place at Henry Bureaucrats Restrain Struggle (a Jack Swetow 00 the party is whole party votes and not only the Fords works at Dagenham, at. The bankruptcy cialist society, nor even the crea could rapidly spread over the whole ernment.
New York Branch 15. 00 Nope works at Birmingham, and at doubly unfortunate because the party apparatus.
tion of forms of transition to such country has forced the socialist and know that there will be objecDr. Drobny, So. Bend. 50 like the Porth British Rubber Mill at small sectional strikes look We shall cite only absolutely a society, but merely a ruthless Democratic Christian leaders to per. tion that a social democratic gov 75 Youngstown Branch Edinburgh, at the Firestone Tire being the prelude to action on a verified ſucts, which cannot possibly cleansing of the Augean stables o form a maeuver on the political ernment will merely change the Chicago Militant Workers Co. at Brentford, while the Liver national scale but unfortunately unde refuted.
medievalism.
Club pool and Glasgow seamen struck der the unwilling leadership of the In a whole series of cities olutionary struggles was fully designed to prevent a direct and im main the same. This is not exactly 50 Pittsburgh Branch work in sympathy with their com trade union bureaucrats who are now (Loscow, Leningrad, Kostov, Isaku)
Anonymous scribed in three militant slogans: mediate struggle against the hun correct. 00 social democratle government Youngstown Branch New York Branch nearly every Instance the workers whogere to her cute futwe motive party cauru wus deliberately 32. 00 of the Landed Estates, Eight Hour The pact consumated between the coming to power by the struggle were unorganized or only partially Blunds. This is revealed in the a treble selection, tekets being Working Day colloquially called socialists and Democratic Christians of the masses against the bourgeois New York Branch 20. 00 organized and the strikes assumed the three whales of Bolshevism. at Charlorol which commits them coalition would be obligated, under Minneapolis Branch 10. 00 Boston Branch Leon Trotsky. History of the Rus before the workers to struggle the danger of complete discredit 00 ments the workers throwing up Britain. The desideration of Greatable. personal tickets, while buuof the Miners their own leaders during Every sentence a historical un ernment, to call for the immediato tense of the interests of the work Total Collected 101. 35 of the fight.
course resolution calling for to teda tona dreds of old party members who Recapitulation strike if the mine owners should take a most lively part in party truth? Olgin raised the question convocation of parliament in order ers.
Remitted to the German Apart from the London Bus strike attack any district now that the work were refused admittance.
of the proletariat in the bourgegła the government in a democratie will come into violent collision with As timid as this policy will be it Section 100. 00 where the Communist party had wage guarantee agreement has ex At ward conferences, as well Cost of Bank Draft been active for a long time, the pired as at city wide 50 order to Way is the revolution in prove that the latter saw in this euver. Politie signing of this man tbe brutal reaction of the bourgethis agreement oisie.
Moscow and in Len.
Total Expenditures 101. 50 from the outside and while at are bad as each diatriet bas a sepingrad, and surely, also in the transition of the democratic means the following. Patience, otber The class antagonisms will only Into the Socialist revolution. He workers, do not strike in any case sharpen, the class struggle will de little quotes a number of writings from against the application of the hunvelop and the workers will them a sympathetic response from the have left the untons, six of whom groups organized beforehand, that If the number on strikers in other places, notably are competing for numbers in variis, prepared and suitably Lenin to prove this contention. But ger decrees, we are going to strosselves become convinced by the polplaced, the basic questions still remain: Ble in parliament for a democratic itical experience which has been your wrapper is.
184 Glasgow and Edinburgh, the workous parts of the country. com ittle groups ready for anything, your subscription has exptred.
ers proved hostile to outside Inter. plete stoppage would therefore be which interrupted the Opposition considered the democratic dicta measures which effect you sothek ingessity to the use of revola ference. The trade union policy of no easy matter but the miners are speakers with yells, threats, whistl: If you to get the MM the party has, of course, changed again in fighting mood and soonering and abuse. At no meeting old torship of the proletariat and pea severely.
tant promptly overy week from time to time, but no matter or later strike is inevitable. the leadership take any measures santry as the culmination of the Summing up, the agreement of thonary struggle to fight back the attacks of reaction and Fascism. nenow your subscription at how they twist or turn the members The national conference of rail to call these groups to order or to bourgeois democratic revolution? June 1983 continues the agreement Dia he understand as Trotsky in arrived at between the socialistinent with this slogan reflect a litonce: per year for Afty Let those who are not in agreeof the party find themselves stran waymen also faced heavy attacks remove them from the meeting hall.
two weekly issues; a ball his theory of the permament revolu lenders and the Democratic Christle before saying that we are playsled by the false general line which as the railway companies have ear. party member like Ivan Nikitich year for twenty six weekly tion did that the solution of the tian leaders in July 1932 during the ing the game of the socialist leadhas been in operation for pastried on a wholesale policy of dis Smirnov, who has been in the party insbes.
few years. At one time calling missals and wage cuts in the pro tur 25 years, who is knowu to the by the proletarian revolution, this difference: in 1932 the agreed to be carried to power on the wave THE MILITANT upon the workers to leave the union cess of rationalizing the railways. widest circles of workers, a comthrough the institution of a prole ment was consummated in order to of the direct struggle of the masses.
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and at another time ordering them the present wage agreement ends rude greatly respected by all who tarian dictatorship? And lastly. strangle the general strike and to LESOIL icy has resulted with the party bosses have signifted their intention in the Red Army und in Soviet work how did lite itself solve this dis save the government which was of launching one more attack in the such a comrade was unable to pute In the form of the democra shaken to its pins by this movetic dictatorship or the proletar ment; In July 1983 it is consumimmediate future and as the rail make use of the ten minutes alloted lan dictatorship?
mated to prevent a national general way men only accepted the last wage to him in order to clarify the recuts under Olgin in his polemic against Trot strike which might upset the dictaers. The lecture from the lead sults of the Plenuin of the Cat sky quotes Lenin Two Tactie torial government by the look like having to the Moscow active cadre meeting Every Day Conditions in the Life of a Russian Worker of Social Democracy in a Dem struggle of the masses. If the toe the line at last and bring their His speech, absolutely loyul und forces into action.
ocratic Revolution written in 1905 Communists and the more conscious to prove his contentions. But it is socialists workers understand the Moscow, take this, tion, not knowing what to do with that lie? No, all this exists. Only precisely this source that the same socialist Workers evincerta justified opportunity to write you a detailed themselves and how to kill time there is no mention this del Ebat the Rebellion in Transport Workers organized manner by Title Group Olgin used to prove the exact op depths of this agreement. If the from a trip to Ukraine and observ ferocious disproportions between ed in these new constructions and also in the throes of severe strug to the Political Bureau.
letter. Just recently returned which is so precious. Generally the tiniest part of the workers is hous The Transport Workers Union is man, comrade Uklanov, a candidate with the comivance of the chair In his Two Tacties he (Lenin) Christian leaders, it is no less true ed a good deal there. In Moscow, prdoaction and consumption are lives in unbearable, humane condi gles and at the recent conterence sald, The stage of Russia econ that the perspective of a socialist that is in a city more privileged simply crushlesin Despite di large tions. The rest live in barracks. at Cambridge, Bevin and Co. had insuperstermelings were bresaka omie development (forming an ob. Dernocratic Christian opposition to and better supplied, more coming the better life machines, generale lige noe roleh sembe darkness in winter a hard job dealing with the rebel clan TY Leningrail. In jective the months that. but worse.
of the secretary of the consciousness and progress of ores the hope in the discontented, which astonishes one within a few is seized by terror under the one coldthe food bad. Faces are surly. lion in the branches. In fact, the the real one senses not only dissatisfaction period of pencerether with the Kirov, a candidate to the Political Committee. comrade to at an end ganization among the masses of the masses in the abrogation of the days in the provinces. In the proization of the fact that is being but despair. It is impossilbe proletariat (forming a subjective vicious hunger decrees without hav vince created but exist long condition intrinsically machine, becaues, while under capi pictures of terrifying poverty. Ev. ret activities of the capitalists.
They und at the conference of the Vyborg at the city wide conference with the objective) makes an im We should take into account the certainty.
The working class (Introduction of es, not in order to let up on our many new enterprises, housing con. ed into a monstrosity directed war. Lice, against which Lenin but they are the prepared the district at the moment when a re would have to admit that both against the othe kenegal strikestructions, etc. and, at the same against people, under socialism it once declared merciless war, are whatever comes along. Unfortun gan to read his resolution. At the socialism) Impossible. Even Lenin propaganda for the application of the hun time, tens of thousands of people should serve us an aid to people: thriving again. For days at sately the same cannot be said of better stretch people sprawl in railroad the working class who seem to be rowdles threw themselves upon the meeting of the Petrograd district, objective and subjective conditions ger decrees, but so as to feed the sit in the dark at night (they sat the more machines, the have not changed substantially since aspirations of the masses, in the through the whole winter in this should be the living conditions of stations; men, women, children, all receiving one more lesson in the comrade reading the resolution, and 1906. Obvious Nonsense. sense of a direct struggle against fashion in or atlogether unheated. us.
are pusbed, chased from place to ever happens in the near future this anti se ridden impoverished Russia. Asta paration for Fascism. While it is supplied with electricity. The flats Needless to repeat grandiose mation about the departing trains talism will drift into ever greater methods of intimidation, a most tablishment of socialism in war ernment of social reaction and pro Entire sections of the city are not was at the Dnieprostroy also place. Nobody to stve them intor much is certain, that British capi anti Semiticells were to be heard. Dec. 1917 page 783. Asia necessary to appeai to, tomobilize, are dark, the cinemas and clubs are creation of human thought and Thty climb into the first train that difficulties at home and abroad and rockless, most poisonious siit alicut The quotation from Lenin proves to convince the masses of the need closed. And this lasts for long power. It looks like a plaything, comes and depart often the converse of what Olgin now of the general strike see in defense of stretches of weeks. There is no everything radiates cleanliness. But wrong direction. They are put off will be forced to throw aside the in the press. Any hack writer, or attempts! We may add that his their daily bread, we must glve kerosene, no candles, so that the out of the four power arrregates, and they are left on the road with conservative traditions that are careerist knows beforehand that comment any vulgarity, and lie, any Intrigue writings!
in order to to avoid the breaking of ates from among the bureaucracy plants they are to supply have not money. There is interminable wait edited a History of the cominum the case in July 1932 by the lead sent although the output of oil in ned economy for you! And while window. The sale of tieke en mire of its own contradictions and because they fear no ere that ticket tack will grow in intensity as capelles directe entre outros dome the They en act this manner only ist Party of the Soviet Union aners of the Belgian Social Baku has been increased fi no elee at the electric plant there rules not yet begun. later at der the guidance of the Trotsky ist Party) and the Democratic tricity although the Dneprostroy cleanliness and everywhere there is trance to the station. The passen the will once more open up is, because it has been decided in killer, Yaroslavsky several years Christians, who become opponents has been built. This absence of felt attentive care. It is otherwise gers cannot get in as yet. But for the building of Communist advance not to allow any discusthey recorded Lenin change of of struggle in face of the actions light has an oppressing effect, es with the workers. The papers car none attempts to rush the trains. party upon the Bolshevik model. sions, either printed or oral, before entrance stands lone mill. Meantime, the leadership of the the Congress 1917 only to bring on their heads made some concessions and propens to be the case in Kharkov is Dnieprostroy from a tiny village tia the shares of Trotskyim tele the workers in order to turn ticles of the net to know to the uz The electricity is shut off suddenly Latlon. 70, 000, there was such potatoes and bread may be bought, being painfully demonstrated by criticism. This Leninist The political objective which and unexpectedly, and there is description of clubs, and workers somewhere there are new construe the peculiar policy of the of min in the Komsomolskaya Pra. army now formulates the question in a must be given to the struggle that none for weeks. And the people dining rooms; and photographs tions, somwhere there is a factory.
new way: the completion of is in preparation, is the overthrow live in some semi barbarous condi. were printed of new houses. Is (Continued on page Continued on Page June 16, 1938. 00 00 the form of rank and Ale ore decisions of the annual conference issued only to the ausulutely reintout e policy of de democrat usual approach of the party was The conditions in the coal fields active cadres interences of the Letter from Moscow direct the ol new attacks to be launched upon Bureau, someone put out the coleted house fremste do te senere estetike, with a feeling of uneasiness and un som tremendous mand force, the Haroute, everywhere, unbroken Yet here he is, preaching the es the government, to upset this gop heated flats which were barely the worker, but it is otherwise with together. lying side by side. They art of class warfare. But what. ture it to pleces, during which time not strategical line between 1905 and of the bourgeois government which pecially in winter. And what hap ried a great deal to the effect that wan. All wait in silence. Wherel Communist International is a great