| Category | Template | Form |
|---|---|---|
| Text | Text | Text |
| Author | Author | Author |
| Collection | Collection | Collection |
| Keywords | Keywords | Keywords |
| Subpage | Subpage | Subpage |
| Template | Form |
|---|---|
| BrowseTexts | BrowseTexts |
| BrowseAuthors | BrowseAuthors |
| BrowseLetters | BrowseLetters |
Template:GalleryAuthorsPreviewSmall
Special pages :
Knights of Anti-Trotskyism
| Author(s) | Leon Trotsky |
|---|---|
| Written | 1 November 1930 |
Pravda accuses Ryutin — Ryutin! — of Trotskyism, and the party must listen and suffer this. This is what we have come to! Let us recall the past briefly. The initiators of the struggle against Trotskyism were Zinoviev and Kamenev. After a time they themselves came over to the banner of Trotskyism; the fact that they later deserted this banner does not alter this. The principal or, rather, only theoretician of anti-Trotskyism was Bukharin, who fostered the whole campaign. He — Bukharin, the author of the Comintern program! — turned out to be "a bourgeois liberal" and "an agent of the saboteurs inside the party." His repeated repentance does not change this. The Moscow organization was entrusted to Uglanov, especially to carry on the struggle against Trotskyism. His services along this line were more than once given official recognition. But as soon as he had crushed Trotskyism in Moscow, he himself was exposed as an echo of the kulak-Nepman. At the head of the Moscow Central Control Commission which was expelling Trotskyists was the not unknown Moroz. As soon as he completed his work of expulsions, it was decided at the joint session of the Moscow committee and the control commission under Stalin's direction that Moroz, who had been the personification of the "conscience of the party" on the Moscow scale, in fact had no conscience at all (literally!). At the head of the Krasnopresnensk district, the main proletarian district in Moscow, stood Ryutin, the pillar and hope of Uglanov, the main theoretician of anti-Trotskyism in the Moscow organization. Now he has been labeled a former Menshevik, a renegade, a saboteur, and is expelled from the party. Nevertheless, between his allegiance to Menshevism in 1917 and his wrecking activities in 1930, he succeeded in performing the chief work of the Moscow organization in its struggle against Trotskyism.
We could continue this sketch indefinitely, beyond the confines of the USSR. In all the sections of the Comintern the majority of those who directed the struggle against Trotskyism proved to be right-wingers, counterrevolutionaries, and renegades.
Did not their renegacy consist precisely in the fact that they conducted a struggle for the extermination of the only Marxist, the only Leninist faction of contemporary communism?