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The Wind Turns About
| Author(s) | Leon Trotsky |
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| Written | 1 September 1930 |
Molotov says of the decisions of the Sixth World Congress:
"In them there is given a fundamental analysis of world development and its perspectives, which received full [!] confirmation [!!] in the events that followed."
This is all the more comforting because the only world reporter to the Sixth Congress, Bukharin, was declared within a few months to be a bourgeois liberal.
The theses of the Sixth Congress, from the report of the "bourgeois liberal," announced "the growing Bolshevization of the party, the amassing of experience, internal consolidation, the overcoming of internal struggle, the overcoming of the Trotskyist opposition in the Comintern."
"The overcoming of internal struggle" sounds especially good in this triumphant melody. But Molotov conceals from us what took place after the Sixth Congress, i.e., after the happily achieved Bolshevization:
"Of the list of members and candidate members of the ECCI after the Sixth Congress, seven members are now outside the ranks of communism, having joined the camp of the renegades."
It transpires that, every time, it is necessary to begin from the beginning. The wind of "Bolshevization" turns about. And it further transpires that in the struggle against the "Trotskyist opposition" tomorrow's renegades did not occupy the last place. In a strange way, it was just they who played the leading role.