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Letter to the International Secretariat, August 22, 1933
| Author(s) | Leon Trotsky |
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| Written | 22 August 1933 |
Reassuring the Polish Section
To the International Secretariat
Dear Comrades:
Perhaps our Polish friends have not been able to correctly assess the new possibilities opening up for us in connection with the revolutionary socialist organizations that are reaching their communist puberty, and those that in part have already done so. The fact that our Polish section was formed relatively late and has its own tempo of development plays an important role in this. There is, however, a secondary factor that could totally distort the picture of our new organizational connections in the eyes of the Polish comrades. You know that while the âInternational Labor Communityâ [IAG] was still under the leadership of Seydewitz-Rosenfeld there was also a small Polish socialist group, represented by Dr. Kruk, that participated in it. I am not familiar with this group. As far as Dr. Krukâs article and his speeches are concerned, they seem to me to smack of superficiality and centrism. I cannot judge whether the man and his group have matured. I also do not know whether this group will participate in the Paris conference. It goes without saying that we will not enter into any sort of alliance or obligation with doubtful elements, especially not with a Polish group, without the knowledge and agreement of our Polish section. Perhaps it is necessary to repeat this to our Polish friends so that even temporary misunderstandings do not arise. This could complicate and have a highly unfavorable influence on our principled dispute with the Polish section over the question of the new International.