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TROTSKYISM. "Contemporary Trotskyism is not a political tendency in
the working class, but [rather] an unprincipled, ideal-less band of wreckers,
saboteurs, agents, spies, murdereres, a band of accursed enemies of the working
class, acting for hire of intelligence organs of foreign governments." (Stalin,
"On deficiencies of Party
work in measures for the liquidation of Trotskyites and other double-dealers,"
1937, p. 14).
In the past, T. was an anti-Leninist, opportunist tendency and a most
dangerous agency of the imperialist bourgeoisie in the workers' movement, a
vilest variety of Menshevism. T. was the most important group implanting centrism (cf).
In the course of struggling against the ACP(b) [All-union Communist Party (bolsheviks)],
Trotskyism stopped being a political tendency in the working class and turned
into the leading unit of the counterrevolutionary bourgeoisie, leading the
struggle against Soviet power and the construction of socialism in the USSR,
against Communism.
Trotsky always conducted a treasonable battle against Leninism, against the
Party of Lenin and Stalin. At the 2nd Congress of the RSDRP (1903)
Trotsky together with the Mensheviks struggled against the Bolsheviks. On the
question of the 1-st paragraph of the charter of the party Trotsky defended the
Menshevik formulation of Martov and heatedly came out against the formulation of
Lenin, struggling for the founding of a monolithic, militant, clearly organized
party. Trotsky, in essence, rejected the dictatorship of the proletariat. After
the Second Congress of the party, Trotsky, together with the Mensheviks, in
every possible way subverted Bolshevik party-solidarity ,
frustrated the decisions of the Congress, trying to seize the leading centers of
the party and disorganize party work.
In the period of the Russo-Japanese War and the
first Russian Revolution (1904-7) Trotsky slid into the position of “defensism”:
he was against the defeat of the tsarist government, which led to the weakening
of tsarism and the strengthening of the revolution. Trotsky, along with the
Mensheviks, led the treasonous policy of curtailment of the Revolution of
1904-7. Trotsky led the fight against the Leninist theory of the socialist
revolution. Denying the hegemony of the proletariat in the bourgeois-democratic
revolution, he denied the possibility of alliance between the proletariat and
the peasantry. Thus Trotsky even denied the victory of the socialist revolution,
the victory of the dictatorship of the proletariat. Defending the
counterrevolutionary Menshevik theory of “permanent revolution,” Trotsky did not
believe in the strength and ability of the Russian proletariat and the
revolutionary possibilities of a peasant movement; he claimed that the peasants
were a class hostile to the proletariat.
In the years of the Stolypin reaction, Trotsky supported the Menshevik
“liquidators,” aiming to dissolve the RSDRP [Russian Social-Democratic
Revolutionary Party]. Being a “centrist,” Trotsky tried to reconcile and to
unite the Bolsheviks and the liquidators on a liquidators’ platform.
Characterizing the position of Trotsky, Lenin wrote: “Trotsky conducted himself
like the worst sort of careerist and factionalist...he prattles on about the
party, but conducts himself as the worst factionalist of all.” (Lenin Anthology
XXV, page 38). In these very years Lenin called Trotsky “Judas-Trotsky.” In 1912
Trotsky organized the anti-Party "August bloc,” uniting all anti-Bolshevik
groups and movements against Lenin and the Bolshevik party. Trotsky and the
Trotskyites occupied on all fundamental questions the liquidators’ position, but
concealed their liquidationism as conciliation. Exposed by Lenin and Stalin, the
Trotskyite “August bloc” disintegrated under the blows of the Bolsheviks in
1913-14.
In the period of the First World War, Trotsky in all important questions of
socialism and war led the struggle against Lenin and against the Bolshevik
party. Trotskyites defended admitted social-chauvinists, called for the
renunciation of the class struggle in time of war, supported the imperialist
war, concealing their treason against the proletariat and socialism with “left”
phraseology about the struggle with war, planning the deception of the working
class. Slipping by means of deception into the ranks of the Bolshevik party in
1917 with the purpose of undermining and blasting it from within, Trotsky
organized an antiparty counterrevolutionary group of Trotskyites, speaking out
against the Bolshevik party and its leaders – Lenin and Stalin – on all
fundamental questions of Marxism-Leninism and the revolution.
In the period of the preparation and carrying out of the October socialist
revolution (April 1917 – 1918), Trotsky along with other traitors to the party
–- Zinoviev, Kamanev, Rykov, Bukharin, Pyatakov –- tried by treacherous means to
thwart the armed rebellion and turn the Bolshevik party from the path socialist
revolution.
In February 1918 the Trotskyite-Bukharinite band of traitors wrecked the
peace talks at Brest-Litovsk with Germany, aiming to place the as-yet
unorganized Soviet Republic, lacking a strong army, under the deadly blow of
German imperialism. The treason of Trotsky and Bukharin cost the Soviet state
dearly. The new terms of peace were significantly more onerous than before.
Latvia, Estonia, and Lithuania went to Germany. The Ukraine was turned into a
German puppet state. The Soviet Republic was required to pay an indemnity to the
Germans. Lenin noted that Bukharin and Trotsky “in [this] matter aided the
German imperialists and hindered the growth and development of revolution in
Germany” (Lenin, Collected Works, vol. XXII, p. 307).
In the years of the foreign military intervention and civil war (1918-20)
Trotsky and the Trotskyites treacherously disorganized work in the Red Army,
attempting to weaken its fighting power; as saboteurs, they disrupted the
fighting successes of the Red Army, giving direct help to interventionists and
bourgeois-landowner counterrevolutionaries.
In the period of transition to peacetime work on restoration of the nation’s
economy (1921-1925) Trotsky at the head of all anti-Party elements led a bitter
fight against the party of Lenin and its leaders Lenin and Stalin, who were
successfully leading the Soviet country to socialism by way of the New Economic
Policy. In 1923 the Trotskyites, attempting to split the party, demanded a
party-wide debate, in which they were utterly defeated throughout the Soviet
Union. The Thirteenth Party Conference and the Thirteenth Party Congress RKP(b)
(1924) condemned the Trotskyite opposition as an openly-expressed
petty-bourgeois deviation from Marxism, as revisionim of Leninism. In 1927
Trotsky in his slanderous article “The Lessons of October” attempted to replace
Leninism with Trotskyism. Stalin demonstrated in his speeches that the
ideological defeat of Trotsky was an indispensable condition to secure the
further victorious movement towards socialism, and he rallied the party around
the Central Committee for the struggle for the victory of socialism. In 1925 the
Trotskyites came out against the teaching of Lenin and Stalin about the victory
of socialism in the Soviet land, against the party course on the victorious
construction of socialism in the USSR, against the socialist industrialization
of the country. To the general party line, to the Stalinist plan of socialist
industrialization of the country, the Trotskyites offered in opposition a
bourgeois plan of enslavement of the USSR, converting the Soviet Union into a
feeble agrarian appendage of the capitalist world, disarmed and deprived of a
possibility for existence in conditions of capitalist encirclement. The
Trotskyites tried to corrupt and break up the Bolshevik party after the death of
Lenin, to infect it with their disbelief in the cause of victory of socialism in
the USSR and to create a party of capitalist restoration.
In the years of struggle for socialist industrialization of the country
(1926-29), the Trotskyites continued a treasonable struggle against the party of
Lenin and Stalin. In 1926, Trotsky organized the anti-Party,
counterrevolutionary Trotskyite-Zinovievite bloc, developing subversive work
against the Bolshevist Party and Soviet government. Under the leadership of
Stalin, the Party of Bolsheviks ideologically smashed and organizationally
crushed the Trotskyite-Zinovievite bloc. At the Fifteenth Congress of the ACP(b)
(1927) the Trotskyites and Zinovievites were expelled from the Bolshevist Party
for counterrevolutionary activity. "Being ideologically smashed by the
Bolshevist Party, losing any base in the working class, the Trotskyites ceased
to be a political tendency and turned into an unprincipled, careerist clique of
political swindlers, into a band of political double-dealers." [History of
the ACP(b), Short Course, pp. 285-286]. In 1929, Trotsky was deported from
the territory of the USSR for anti-Soviet and counterrevolutionary activity.
Overseas, he continued a treasonable struggle against the Party of Lenin and
Stalin and the Soviet government.
In 1932-33, Trotskyites and Bukharinites organized the anti-Soviet
"Right-Trotskyite bloc." Trials in 1936, 1937, and 1938 revealed, that
Bukharinites and Trotskyites headed by Trotsky, Bukharin, Zinoviev, Kamenev, and
Rykov already from the first days of the Great October Socialist Revolution took
part in a conspiracy against Lenin, against the Party of the Bolsheviks, against
the Soviet government; long ago they had already formed one common band of the
worst enemies of the people. They tried to break the Brest peace, together with
"Left" SRs overthrow Soviet authority, arrest and kill V. I. Lenin, I. V.
Stalin, Ya. M. Sverdlov, and form a new government of Trotskyites, Bukharinites,
and "Left" SRs. They organized the despicable wounding of Lenin in the summer of
1918; prepared the anti-Soviet rebellion of "Left" SRs in the summer of 1918;
deliberately aggravated disagreements in the Party in 1921, trying to loosen and
overthrow from within the leadership of Lenin; they tried to overthrow the
leadership of the Party during Lenin's illness and after his death. The
Trotskyites and Bukharinites long before this moved into the service of foreign
intelligence agencies, handed over state secrets and provided foreign
intelligence agencies with espionage information; carried out wrecking,
sabotage, explosions; organized despicable murders of Kirov, Menzhinsky,
Kuybyshev, Gorki. Judicial proceedings revealed, that Trotsky-Bukharinite
traitors, carrying out the will of their masters -- foreign bourgeois
intelligence agencies, set as their goal the destruction of the Bolshevik Party
and the Soviet state, the undermining of the defense of the country, the
facilitation of foreign military intervention, preparation of the defeat of the
Red Army, the partition of the USSR, the destruction of the gains of the workers
and peasants and the restoration of capitalist slavery in the Soviet Union. For
these monstrous crimes, according to the sentence of the Military Collegium of
the Supreme Court of the USSR, the Bukharin-Trotskyite traitors were shot. The
Soviet people approved the crushing of the counterrevolutionary
"Right-Trotskyite Bloc" and rallied ever more closely around the Party of Lenin
and Stalin. Trotsky was killed in 1940 by one of his [own] accomplices. Trotsky
is the worst enemy of all toiling humanity, Trotskyites everywhere play the role
of provocateurs and spies of the counterrevolutionary bourgeoisie in the
working-class movement, trying to demoralize the Communist movement.