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Letter to the International Secretariat Extract, March 1933
| Author(s) | Leon Trotsky |
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| Written | 1 March 1933 |
KPD or New Party? (II)
To the International Secretariat
For a certain period, many elements in the party will attempt to revive the party; there are already efforts at conspiratorial work. But this is nothing but the convulsion of a dying organism. The pogrom of the Hitlerites against the party has barely started. The cells exist and it is natural that they should try to persist and continue. But these efforts are doomed to failure because they are taking place on the old basis of principle, method, and selection of personnel. After inevitable failure, which is not far off, a new crystallization, very slow and very painful, will begin.
More or less symmetrical or analogous processes will take place among the workers in the Social Democracy, the SAP, etc. The workers' movement will enter into a period of turmoil and confusion. To present ourselves as the guardians of the coffin of the Stalinist organization would be absolutely fatal in this situation. On the contrary, to proclaim in time that the Fourth of August has been reached means to prepare for our merger with the best elements in the party after the failure of their efforts to revive the party.