SATURDAY MARCH 10, 1984 THE MILITANT 3 to ARE THERE LIMITS TO THE FALI by Trotsky US of The pleuum of the Exeyutive of, ist philosophy: changes of political us back again the question, it with shallow witticisms upon the the which met toward the end regimes are, if you please, without whether the victory of ascism theme of dog lights among the of December passed a resolution any principled meaning! No. Fascism, the War Danger, and doubt, those Communsts who are sittion. One could inaintain with Une muust widerstand that the the Tasks of the Communist Part ting uot in Hotel de Luxe but in equal success that shipwreck social encrucy was never before les. This resolution resembles the concentration camp see these speeds up the voyage from Eur augat in such a fearful vise nothing so much as an epitaph matters differently.
ope to America. The great import now. It is accident that in the Here lie buried the last remains The resolution teaches us the phantom universe that the busy by bureaucratic strangulatiou, it the opposition. We are not to ance of this question is patent: it must minute before the crush, Starof what was once the party of the that the difference between social reaucrats of the Comintern inhabit. would be no exageration to say blame replied all the Kuusinens Fascism speeds up. then it is morer phoned the Soviet cousulate international proletariat. The ab democracy and Fascism involves The British Cou. munist party is a that the total number of members Hitler, you see, is applying terror permissilbe to repeat la France, seeking assistance wouluist Hitler.
sence of any general guiding con only the forms and methods of sorry wyth. And on the other hand, or the Counintern is now 10 of the How unexpected! Hitler selzed spala, Belgium, Holland, etc. those he traditional division of labor be: ception whatsoever is attested to in fascization. That all. In con the party of the Laborites, covered number in the period of its apex. power precisely order to be able policies which were applied so succween Brunn aud Reuuudel bas turu.
this resolution. But where could tradistinction to Fascists, social with betrayals, is preparing once As regards the Profintern, it would tuperate by means of terror. But cessfully in Germany. One can have ed into a split. Blum, who led the such a conception possibly have Pascists defend the preservation again to asume power, tor new be necessary to cite a proportion us Alessis. Bankrupts originally no doubts as to the happy results. venuinous strugele against Soviet come from? Seraps of old zigzaps of parliamentary, forms while put betrayals. In 1926 1927, the Pro leveu more depressing. The Krestinusserted the assumption of power Au the more merellessly must the imperialism. huds niniselt comhave been carelessly pieced together ting through the Fascization of the antern numbered a million work. tern. Peasant International) gave by the Fascists acts to hasten the Bolshevik Leninists drive the theory pelled to amuance the French suto serve as directives for the workPourgeois Metatorship But oners in the ranks of the Lett wing up its shost long ago, and its very revolution. then this should have and practice of bureaucratie ad cal democracy now leads its strugthing that remains for criticism is ods. bruscism wages struggle rematuet joday of this movement. tion. The cited figures, however, impossibility to cow the workers venturism out of the ranks of the ele for peace in a united front with workers movement!
ube The Belgian social to expose the insufficiency of each against the social democracy not We shall not speak of the collapse far from provide a complete picture by measures of terror the more so, It is incontestable that the prole: uemueruey advances the recogulof the elements separately and or life but to death, murdering its of the German party which als of the theoretical collapse of the suco not burricades were fuvolved arut crushed by Fascist will passion of toe as one of their mutual incompatibility as a leaders, Setzing houses and funds. will not be saved by the efforts of Comintern, and of the decline of us yet but only the casting of op ultimately out of the defeat; but its chief sloguns. Among kussinta whole.
and committing workers to concen a few hundred or thousands sell its revolutionary prestige. position bullots. But it turns out only at the cost of territle sacritices, Stensbeviks tendencies are becoming The Polley of the German tration camps. We know that the sacrificing workers.
Explaining the Facts chat ascism after Was Correct. social democracy is a party which In France the split of the Social How does the comintern itself million votes under democracy was equivalent to the political rulu od stronger in tavor of recognizing the an entire generation. The experlo soviet states a workers state. The resolution once again adapts itself to every political po ist party did not help the decom. explain these facts? It does not ex. able to terrorize 25 million more. 11 At the same time, au interest, parttakes a solemn oath evidently wer, and which crawls on its knees Dosing Communist party a halr plain them but keeps mum on the chis is an expression of wpeedingence of Italy clearly attests this.
As against the Italian example y simulated, partly sincere, is grow.
there are a few who do not believe even before the crowned represen. breadth. The Unitary trade unions subject. It makes a fleeting com up the revolatiou then there is it hat the policy of the German tatives of the ruling classes; why dropped from half a million to less ment; only in speaking of the tasks absolutely no difference between the Plenum advances the following ang in the ranks of the lett reformCommunist Party was uncondition is it, may we ask, that this utterly than 200, 000, while the reformist of mass work of the Communist that and the deepenuhos ng the couche trst wave of the Fascization of Bolshevik Leninists. Even among the Hitler overturn. We are told. Fascization becomes the vietim of selgium the Communist party does mark that their weakest side as teatisu. Capitulation!
will bow during the transition from respons super wenn dikiever the preKemmele and Neumano belong to to it? Is it only because of non. Dis Magesty Minister, Vandervelde prises and trade unions, that is, in paid for their invariable readiness olutionary crisis to a partial stabili sressive sides of. Trotskyism.
Estimating the Socialist Kitts the right opportunists and defeat principled forms and methods still continues to rule over the the proletariat. Where Is its to cull counter revolution, revoluzation, the capitalist world today is ists in their appraisal of the perrhe perspicacious leaders of the workers movement. In Austria the strongest side? Evidently in the tion, the moment it is demanded of passing from the end of capitalist Oue would have to be an infant spectives of the German Revolu Comintern took note of parlia social democracy is consistently circus teut of Muenzenberg, and in them by their bosses. Workers, stabilization to the revolutionary to accept all this in a lump for tron. If this is not a miraclementary forms but they forgot leading the proletariat to complete the Moscow Hotel de Luxe. What burn to uusilse this bureaucratic crisis. The modteum of truth sound currency; one would have to what is? During the last few years, about the political and economie or debacle, while the Communist party do the words us yet signify? The rabble!
included in these words is lavishly be a Kuusinen not to see in it any.
diluted with lies. The victory otching more than dog tights among the leadership of the German Com ganizations of the proletariat. Not never emerged from its state of non period when the Communist parties Directives Contradict Analysis munist Party had been officially enjoy a single word do they recall that entity. Despite the fact that in were winning over trade talons and 11. The directives of the Comin. Hitler does not coincide at all with the social Fascist tops. It is nec trusted by the Comintern to three the social democracy can neither Sweden and Denmark the social shop committees and when the ro tern which do not rise above the che transition from stabilization to essary to catch the squirming ro persons: Thaelmann, Remmele and ulve nor breathe that is, it cannot democracy has been in power for intern was a imposig power lies in level of its theoretical analysis crisis, because the unheard of world cormists at their own words, and to Neumann (one can gleau this even exploit democracy nor betray the years, the official Communist part the past and not the future. There contradict the latter, however, at crisis beganku 1020 and Hitler con pel the reformist masses to the enemy From the last edition of the German workers without leaning upon the is in these countries remain ciph Is no retrieving the past. The pol every point. The 13th Plenum pre quered some four years later, a road of action beat the encyclopaedia. Now we are in political and trade union organiza ers.
icles of Zinoviev Buchario Stalin. scribes to the Communist parties the moment when the general social with his own weapons.
formed, in a fleeting remark, that tions of the working class. Conthe that they painstakingly Least of all does there flow from In Norway the perildious reform. Manuilsky Kuusinen ruined explain crisis of capitalism may again be two merabers of this triumvirate currently, it is precisely along this ist Tranmel, who in 1923 bad slight Comintern.
what economic and political e. mitag a ted for a time by caseon June amis perspective the courting of sothat led the German party Coruine that the irreconcilable contra Ily less than did the orthodox sec Only a fraudulent, made to Slavement the Fascist dictatorship thing is indubitable, the contradic hushing up of their crimes, the exoue cal. rectly before and during the over diction between social democracytion of the Comintern, received 45 order optimism has remained of the has in store for the toilers. Just lions of capitalism, internal anggerating of tbeir services and turn accidentally turn out to be and Fascism takes place; precisely of the votes of the population dur strength that was frittered away. How we were pustakingly In opportunists and deftatists. Only along this line does there open uying the last elections while the It would be right opportunist er structed that there is no princinternational, have sharpened mon so forth. Such a policy is worthy the thick walls of a Fascist jall the necessary and unbridgeable Communist party has degenerated ror pronounces oracularly the 13th plod. difference between democracy including the Fascist, are heading to be only the shadow or retortuwhield the third member against stage of the policies of the united into a pitiful sect. In Switzerland Plenum not to see now the objecand the Fascist dictatorship. Loward terrible experiences and ism and which fears to counterpose such an meldent. But actually, crout with the social democracy. the social democracy has been win tive tendencies of the intensited that the social democracy frightenso tests.
whom are the leaders of the Comioits attempt to leap over this stage ning one canton after another while ripening of the revolutionary crisis the workers with the bucsist deItselt actually to rerurmism. He who tern making fools of? Are they cout the Comintern its head.
for New Revolutionary Situations the party draws further and further in the capitalist world. And what struction of democracy, only seeks roud to the masses by com On this point the resolution recorming to reformist leaders will perhape, ridiculing themselves? Provoking Idiocy back into obecurity. In Spain does intensified signify? Is it in the sake of fooling the workers.
The Growth of Fascism The socialdemocracy In where the social democracy has comparison with that situation Suddenly without any logical transl marks: At any moment the turn assuredly be cast away by the masse According to the resolution, the words of the resolution con borne the direct responsibility for when Hitler had not as yet conquer ton, the leaders of the Comintern may occur which would sigutty the togetber with the compromised The growth of Fascism and itatinues to play the role of being the strangling the revolutionary massesed? And did this catastrophe re in chorus with the social democrats crisis into a revolutionary crisis. against reormism! Not the slighttransformation of the economic leaders. consistent struggle assumption of power in Germany, chief social. support of the during the last few years, and sult from a lack of the objective proceed painstakingly to friebte The idea itselt is old enough; the est concession to Cutrism These and in a number of other capitalist bourgeoisie also in those countries where it has indubitably become tendencles revolutionary the workers with that enslavement Bolshevik Leninists explained long are the inscriptious ou the banner countries, imply a growth of the where an open Fascist dictatorship weaker; and where anarcho syndicrisis?
which the victory of Fascism bears.
revolutionary crisis and increasing exists. It is ditticult to imagine callam bad exposed its insufficiency Stalinism Assisted Hitler One reads with revulsion and feel.
how and why our epoch is the or the 4th International.
indignation of wide masses against an idiocy more provoking. The soon an unheard of scale, the Com Had the Comintern placed, from ing of shame this political gibber epoch of political turns. But this 18. Under the present conditions, the hegemony of capital. Common cial democracy was driven from all munist party failed to emerge from 1920, or even from 1930 or 1931, at ish, which, however, is the lawful idea is least of all applicable today the left flank of the social dem ly this is called covering up one its powitions, entirely overwhelmed its state of nonentity. Everything the foundation of its policies the progeny of the famous theory of precisely in relation to Germany. cracy would evolve quickly to the tracks. It is an old story by now and trampled uuderfoot precisely seems to indicate that by passing objective irreconcitability between the two twius: social democracy in every other country in Europe side of Communism, the road a revolutionary situation may arise were not barred by the Stalinist that the growth of Fascism would because it had ceased to be of ser over to the opposition sido, the social democracy and Fascism, or and Fascisin.
be impossible without the growth vice as a support for the bourgeoiste Spanish socialist party will regain more exactly between Fascism and 12. The plenum charges the sooner than in Germany where the bureaucracy.
Failmg to understand of the social crisis of capitalism. The place of the workers bureau its lost positon once more. social democracy: it upon this, it Communist parties with the task of proletariat requires a considerable the historical dialectie of the de But Hitler victory. the assump cracy that leaned upon the reform The Polish Communist party, had built a systematic and persist arousing the masses for the timely period to recover from the have generation of the Comintern, mang tion of power by Fascism. did not it organizations of the proletariat which as late as 1981 represented ent policy of the united front, Ger defense of trade unions, of the and the demoralization, to recuperert groupings halt midway and at all arise from the indignation and received fat bribes from the a major political force, has com many, within a few months, would workers press, workers homes, the ate and to regain confidence in its entertain notions of merging the of wide masses against the bege hands of finance capital has been pletely frittered away its influence have been covered with a network right to strike, the right to hold own forces. Needless to say, the two Internationals, of creating an mohy of capital but from the im taken by Fascist thugs who lean over the masses. The leadership of of mighty committees of proletarian workers meetings. creating milt victory of the proletariat lu any intermediate International, and sim.
potence of these masses, who have upon the unbridled petty bourge the working class has returned backdefense, potential workers Soviets, tant self defense squads to repell other country would immeasurably lar reactionary phantasmagorias.
been paralyzed by reformism, and olsie. The essence of the overturn again into the hands of te that 14. Had the government of terroristic bands. Obviously the speed up the process of the revolu But alongside of these fence sitadventurism; by the lack of revoluconsisted in supplanting one social (Polish Socialist party. The re the announced in time matter concerns the defense of not tionary resurrection of Germany, ting currents for whom there is in The center of gravity is not lods store an uneasy evolution with intionary leadership, and by the de support by another social supporter Kuusinen could have de that it would view Hitler coming only Communist unions, papers and spicable and criminal policy of the port. If one were to use the term scribed eloquently how the Comto power as a preparation to strike homes but of workers organizations ed, however, in the revolutionary levitable internal splits, there are Comintern. No Stalin no victory inology of the leaders of the Communist party of Finland passed into Eastward; it by utilizing the favor. In general. And since the social order of countries. In whatever being extrudeu even at this moment for Hitler. No bureaucratic sub intern: in reality what they have the limbo under his leadership. The able situation in Europe, it had at democracy is interested no less in country it may occur, the trans more progressive groupings which terfuges can cover up either the in mind is not social but political resolution of the 13th plenum men the same time taken the necessary timately than the Communist party formation of the economic crisis act as their task the creation of depth of the German defeat or the support.
tions only one country by name preparatory military measures on In defending its own unions, papers, Into a revolutionary one does not the Fourth International, that is, responsibility of the Comintern. Evidently, the wise acres wish to where it appears the majority of the Western boundaries of the and workers homes, then there im quite decide the question. In order the re establishment of the policies The Social Democracy express the idea that what Fascism the working class solidly follows A, it would have imbued a periously flows from this the policy that the revolutionary crisis be of Marx and Leiin on a new aud The social democracy reads leans upon is the lack of confidence the Communist party serried double assurance into the ranks of the united front. Is it not, then, transformed into the proletarian higher historical level the resolution aims only to fool of the workers in themselves; and ranks. this country is Bulgaria. German workers, and Germany obligatory, right now, to turn to revolution and not into a new Faso Counter Revolutionary and disarm the workers by denying that reformism bears the sullt for But even in Bulgaria the workers would have had all the chances of the socialist parties and trade ist overturn, a correct policy is re The 13th plenum graciously takes the Fascination of bourgeois dem this abject condition of the prole did not react at all wherequired and consequently a genuine note of this tendency also, The ocracy and by counterposing in tariat. Historically, this is true. terroristic measures which were and the entire world would have Facsism is just getting ready for revolutionary party. new Interna. Nireling of the counter revolution of tional is necessary.
principles the democratic coun. Bere to as founded that the Corder perfegated base naste the recommunist belt of ferent base per te bere non potente de tenise, with the 16. There is no ground for takpathetic attempts to create a 4th ary bourgeoisie, Trotsky, by his Fasclet dictatorship. By intention to liquidate the fatal influence of Figures from the Yearbooks. tern, as well as the Stalinist diping of the workers squads? But ing pride in the fact that 15 years International. seeks without sucto The yearbooks of the Com lomacy, assisted Hitler into the sad the resolution keeps mum on this after the foundation of the 3rd Incess to halt the transition of the diferent orders, this muddled for the Comintern fulfilled this task intern, a few years ago, save the dle from either side. After which point. It dares not mention it, forternational it is necessary, in social democratie workers over to mulation serves the mme purpose. successfully. Since then, for the following data relating to the num Platnitsky put his forefinger to his fear of unwinding the entire chain certain sense, to begin from the bolthe side of Communism. It is to justify the correct policy of last 10 years, it has been system. erical strength of the Communist head and explained: The German of the crimes committed by the ginning. But the guilt for so great quite in character for people who the German Comunist Party which, atically sliding downward. By comparties: workers surrendered to the execu Comintern.
slide backward lies upon the lead pass of the victory of counter rev.
during the epoch of Braun Severing promising the revolutionary meth Year Members tioner without a battle because. Self Indicting Recommendationership of the Comintern. The past olution as the speeding up of Bruening, asserted that Pasicismods in the consciousness of the toll Germany 1921 300, 000 there was no revolutionary situa. 13. The recommends fighting cannot be remedied. One must take revolution, to pass of Marxists for was already victorious, because ing masses, the Comintern provid1923 400, 000 tion. Messrs. Strategists, how many for the right to strike, and the his point of departure from things counter revolutionists. It is there is no principled difference ed one of the most important con1926 160, 000 revolutionary situations are you right to hold workers meetings, in as they actually are in order to worthwhile to dwell on it. There between the regime of social demaitions for the victory of Fascism. England 10, 000 prepared ruin? Fortunately other words: for the democratic consolidate the international rev. is another side to the matter which ocracy and the regime of National This does not, of course, imply that 1923 4, 000 your hands have become consider rights of the proletariat. To this folutionary vanguard on a new his is more interesting. It appears Socialism. Apparently these genthe Cominzern, today, plays the role 5, 000 ably shorter.
must be added the defense of free toric stage.
that the counter revolutionary tlemen do not know themselves what being the chief social support France 1921 30, 000 10. The revolutionary develop elections and the inviolability of This is equally necessary both in bourgeoisle (evidently there exists they understand by a principle of Hitler. but this does imply that 1923 52, 000 ment teaches us the 13th Plenum Communist deputies and consequ the interests of the world revolution a revolutionary one also. which difference. Let us aastat them. to overthrow Hitler, it is necessary 1926 83, 000. is at the same time both made ently the defense of parliamentar and for the salvation of the has the social democracy for its Czarlem was the state rule of the to finish with the Comintern, Czecho difficult and is hastened by the Fascism itself against Fascist and Bona Today nothing threatens the chief social support and which, fendal landowners and of large cap Phantom Universe Slovakia 1921 300, 000 (7) ist madness of the bourgeoisie. To partist assaults. In what a cow. world position of the first workers at the same time, entrusts to Faseital. The Provisional Government But the resolution comforts 154, 000 this equivocal phrase there is ap ardly, confused, circumspect and state to such a degree as placing ism the blasting of its chief sup of the February Republic remained us it (the social democracy) is al1926 13, 000 pended the following melancholy hem and bawing manner do the ill caith on the parasitic Comintern. In port although there is no prinalso the rule of the landowners and ready in process of decomposition Norway 1921 97, 000 postscript At the given moment the cated leaders of the Comintern ap the moment of danger to the Scipled difference between the two large capital. Was there a prin in the majority of countries. In 1923 20, 000 (after revolutionary hatred of the prole proach the question of defending one can expect the same ala this counter revolutionary bourclpled difference between the two brief coinmunication of the 13th the split) tariat is growing in less open. the democratic positions of the pro trom Cachin and Jacquemotte asseoisie. it appears, requires over Obviously, no. If so, was it worth Plenum, the Britisn Communist 1926 7, 000 forms in Germany. That it! On letariat! These masked demi con from Leon Blum and Vandervelde. and above this the 4th Internawhile to make the February Rev. Party is advised to redouble the With 1926, the statistics of the the day after the Fascist overturn cessions are entirely insufficient for The New International tional. At any rate, there is conolution? Or to put it differently: is struggle for the united front, at Comintern, as well the publication we had been promised a proletarian a correct policy, but they more than 17. The plenum did not leavesolation in the fact that despite the It permissible to attach any sort of tracting into it workers who stl of the yearbooks come to a dead Insurrection in the next few months, suffice for an indictment against the unnoticed the question of the New efforts counter revolutionists principled significance to the Feb. fotw the Labor party and the stop: before an abyss, one had best ur not weeke, in fact it was prog Comintern.
International elther. After posing the transition of social democratic ruary rerolution? Yet, without the tradent u bursaucracy. The lit shut one eyes. But the real de nosed that it would coincide with. 14. The resolution demands that the leftward trend of the social workers over to the side of ComFebruary revoultion, the October tle word still completely exposes cline, which assumed an irresistible October. Whoever refused to be the Communist parties put an end democratic workers and the dog munism not only is not being hin revolution would have been imposcharacter in the course of the lieve it was branded a counter to the opportunist and capitulatory eghts among the social Fascist tops dered but on the contrary is grow.
sible. Large capital ruled in Ger. Some of our critics have the fol Third Perfod. began only in 1825 revolutionary. Subsequently in the disdain. of trade union work that flow from this, the resolution ing not by the day but by the hour many under the vile democracy of lowing to say on this score: under 1926. Outside of the plebiscite, Hitler receivda 43 mil and, in particular, of work inside takes note of the attempt to con. Only people who spit upon the Mueller Severing Bruening: large Lenin, it appears, everything was where the party has been liquidated lon votes as against million for the reformist. trade unions. On coct a new 21 International out of publle opinion of the working class capital rules under Hitler. Clearly. Ane, but after his death, everything the ofteenth anniversary of the the left splinters. The political can le so crudely and idiotically.
there is no principled difference went to the dogs: Ho where does Comintern, the plenum is obliged to thought of the leaders of the Combetween these two regimes. Yet, Marxism come in here? The causes Just off the Press!
explain to the Communist parties intern does not rise higher than the The decsions of the 13th plenum after the Fascist overturn, the pro for the bureaucratie degeneration that it is impermissible to cherish level of these cheap words. Yet, are permeated with the spirit of buletariat found itself deprived of all of the and the Comin disdain toward make working before us is the question of a new cratic cynicism. The Comintern means of defense and offense. tern have been long since disclosed class organizations. The most rabid stage in the world working class is dead for the revolutionary cause.
The Reasoning of Anarchism by us, no one has offered any other foes have never uttered anything movement.
Yor will it be revived by the VIIth The 13th Plenum offers us the explanations; but the objective bis BY more annihilating about the Comin. The influx of workers to the Congress which has been called at classic reasoning of anarchism dur. torical processes are realized tern than these few words. Dis social democracy, coupled with the last for the latter part of the ing the period of its primitive through people; and specific per dain toward the proletariat and its mortal danger of Fascism, knocks current year. The revolutionary MARIA REESE dumbness; Messrs. Kuusinen, Man sonal influences con hasten or remass organizations that is the re the camp of reformism out of its movement will follow another ullsky and so forth are no anarch tard these processes. It remains sult that is what has entered into old equilibrium and engenders in it course. The Bolshevik Leninists lsts; they place much too great an incontestable historical fact that 5c the brain and marrow of the entire new currents and differentiations have the right to be proud of the value upon the aid of the Lenin funess was widely utilized policies of bureaucratic adventur. The preset growth of the social fact that history has placed upon in the struggle against revolution by the bureaucratic reaction and 3c in bundle orders of and more ism.
democracy only prepares a new and them the mission of being the new ary Marilats. But by the logic of that it prepared a road for Itaelt Perspectives much more aente crisis for it. One trail blazers their mistakes, subterfuges, and by mense of the rabid struggle PIONEER PUBLISHER8, Erst 10th Street, New York City, 15. And what of the perspectives? must go to meet this crisis with a TROTSKY.
dendals they have arrived at anarch lagalpat Trotskylam on this score, the resolution refers clear strategic plan and not dismiss January 18, 1934.
in not 1921 to 1926 1923 or Accuse Stalinism!