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Letter to Maurice Dommanget, March 24, 1935
| Author(s) | Leon Trotsky |
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| Written | 24 March 1935 |
On the Teachersâ Federation
Dear Comrade Dommanget:
I want to thank you warmly for your Pages Choisies of Babeuf. As of this moment, I have not read more than a third. But I have leafed through the rest and do not want to put off any longer expressing my totally sincere admiration for your work, which is marked by historic insight, scientific honesty, and a remarkable erudition.
Unfortunately, I cannot congratulate you at all on the activity of the Teachersâ Federation, its leaders or its paper. On the contrary, all of that gives me the impression of something doomed. A petty bureaucracy is sometimes worse than a big one. Impelled by the need for self-preservation, it identifies itself with Monmousseau at a time when the Stalinists are proving themselves a rotten and worm-eaten clique. We must simply cross out this generation of teachers who came over to communism in order to retire among themselves, to cultivate their little garden and their little federation, and to wake up âŚin their little concentration camp. Hopeless!
But if one is going to stand aside from the kind of activity required by our epoch, then the best thing one could do would be scientific investigations such as you have made.
My best regards to your companion and you.