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Heckert Teaches Liebknecht
| Author(s) | Leon Trotsky |
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| Written | 1 November 1930 |
Fritz Heckert writes on the defeat of the German revolution of 1918-19 in an anniversary article of Pravda: "It was a great mistake that the Spartacus League considered itself merely a propagandist group in the ranks of the Social Democratic Party." Further on he accuses Karl Liebknecht, Rosa Luxemburg, and Leo Jogiches of "not having understood the role of the revolutionary party."
There is a grain of truth in this remark, although expressed pedantically and torn out of its historical context. But we are not concerned with this now.
If it can be considered a mistake that Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht maintained the Spartacists as a revolutionary faction inside the Social Democratic Party for too long a time and by doing so impeded the victory of the German revolution, then what can be said about the gentlemen who forcibly compelled the young Communist Party of China to enter a purely bourgeois party, to abide by its discipline, and even to forsake its duty of counterposing Marxism to Sun Yat-senism?
But it was precisely this crime that was committed during 1923-28 by the Comintern leadership. And it was Fritz Heckert who unfailingly defended this criminal policy of the right-centrist bloc against the Left Opposition. Shouldn't Heckert be a bit more careful in his comments on Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg?