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An Explanation (May 1933)
| Author(s) | Leon Trotsky |
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| Written | 13 May 1933 |
Your information about negotiations concerning my return to Moscow is, I suppose, an echo of the letter I sent to Moscow on March 15 to the Politburo of the Soviet Communist Party. In that letter I repeated afresh what I and my friends, headed by Rakovsky, had more than once declared in the course of these years of repression against our faction. We are conducting a struggle against the policies of the Stalinist bureaucracy, but we were and we still are entirely at the service of the Soviet republic, and we are prepared to carry out any work in its interests on the condition that we retain our right to defend our point of view within the limits of the party statutes and Soviet constitution. I considered it necessary to repeat this statement once more not only because of the domestic difficulties of the USSR (produced not by the methods of planned economy as such but by the false leadership of the Stalinist bureaucracy), but also because of external dangers; on the one hand from rabid Japanese militarism and on the other from fascist Germany. If the enemies of the Soviet Union are including in their calculations our internal differences, they are making a mistake. That was the meaning of my letter, and it retains its force absolutely independently of the present leading group's attitude to it.