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Stalin School of Falsification -- Chapter 9 from the latter in his insistence upon a more precise formulation of the nature of the future revolution, arguing that the proletariat once having come to power, in alliance with the rural masses, would be unable to halt at the "democratic" stage and would have to continue to the "socialist stage," i.e., would make the revolution permanent. [BACK TO TEXT] 56. In defending his (that is, Trotsky's) amendment, Krassin said at the third congress of the Bolsheviks: "As regards the resolu tion of Comrade Lenin, I see its weak point in its failure to stress the question of the provisional government, and to indicate with sufficient clarity the connection between provisional government and armed uprising. As a matter of fact, the provisional gov ernment is established by the popular uprising as its own organ. I further find in the resolution the incorrect opinion that the provisional revolutionary government will appear only after the final victory of the armed uprising and after the overthrow of autocracy. No-it arises in the very process of the uprising and takes the most active part in the conduct of the uprising, insuring the latter's victory by its organized action. It is naive to think that the social democracy will be able to take part in the provi sional revolutionary government the moment the autocracy is completely overthrown; when the chestnuts have been removed from the fire by other hands than ours, nobody will ever dream of sharing them with us." In dealing with Krassin's remarks, Lenin said: "Taking it by and large, I subscribe to the opinion of Comrade Krassin. It is natural that as a literary man, I should concentrate my attention on the literary shaping of the question. The importance of the object of the struggle is pointed out by Comrade Krassin very exactly, and I wholly subscribe to his view. One cannot engage in a struggle without expecting to cap ture the position for which one is fighting." Commenting on the episode twenty-four years later, Trotsky wrote: "The resolution was correspondingly amended. It may not be superfluous to remark that during the polemics of the last few years, the reso lution of the Third Congress on the question of provisional gov ernment has been quoted hun~reds of times as something opposed to 'Trotskyism.' The 'Red Professors' of the Stalin school have not the ghost of an idea that they are quoting against me, as an example of Leninism, the very lines that I wrote myself." (My Life, New York, 1930, p. 173.) [BACK TO TEXT] 57. In reply to an article in the bourgeois liberal journal, Nasha Zhizn [Our Life], which sought to contrast the "reasonable" views of Lenin to the "permanent revolution" of Trotsky, the Bolshevik organ, Novaya Zhizn [New Life] replied, on Novem ber 27, 1905: "This gratuitous report is of course slicer nonsense. Comrade Trotsky said that the proletarian revolution, without standing still at the first stage, by pressing hard upon the ex ploiters, can continue on its road, while Lenin pointed out that the political revolution is only the first step. The publicist of Nasha Zhizn would like to perceive a contradiction there. . The whole misunderstanding comes, first, from the fear with which the name alone of the social revolution fills Nasha Zhizn, secondiy, out of the desire of this paper to discover some sort of sharp and piquant difference of opinion among the social demo crats and, thirdly, in the metaphorical expression of Comrade Trotsky: 'at one fell swoop.' In No. 10 of Nachalo [The Beginning], Comrade Trotsky explains his ideas quite unequivocally: 'The complete victory of the revolution signifies the victory of the proletariat,' writes Comrade Trotsky. 'But this victory in turn signifies the further uninterruptedness of the revolution. The proletariat realizes the fundamental tasks of democracy and the logic of its immediate struggle for the safeguarding of politi cal domination causes purely socialist problems to arise at the given moment. Between the minimum and http://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/works/1937-st2/sf09.htm (20 of 21) [06/06/2002 15:07:02]
Stalin School of Falsification -- Chapter 9 the maximum program of the social democracy, a revolutionary continuity is established. This is not one "blow," it is not one day and not a month, it is a whole historical epoch. It would be absurd to want to determine its duration in advance.' " [BACK TO TEXT] 58. At the London Congress in 1907, Lenin said of Trotsky's pro grammatic speech: "I merely wish to observe that Trotsky, in his hook On the Defense of the Party emphatically expressed his solidarity with Kautsky, who wrote of the economic community of interests of the proletariat and the peasantry in the present revolution in Russia. Trotsky recognized the admissibility and expediency of a Left bloc [with the peasants] against the liberal bourgeoisie. These facts are enough for me to establish Trotsky's approach to our conception. Independent of the question of the 'uninterrupted revolution,' we have here before our eyes a soli darity in the fundamental points of the question concerning the relationship to the bourgeois parties." (Collected Works, Vol. VIII, p.400. Russ. ed.) [BACK TO TEXT] 59. In the period of the upswing in the Russian labor movement, Trotsky sought to unify the various socialist groups and took the initiative to call a conference in Vienna of all the contending factions. It met in August, 1912, attended by various Menshevik representatives, Trotsky, and a number of Bolshevik conciliators. Largely because of Trotsky's irreconcilable political differences with the Mensheviks, the bloc formed in Vienna failed to hold together for any length of time. Looking back on the episode, Trotsky later wrote: "Among the Bolsheviks themselves, concil iatory tendencies were then still very strong, and I had hoped that this would induce Lenin also to take part in a general con ference. Lenin, however, came out with all his force against union. The entire course of the events that followed proved con clusively that Lenin was right." (My Life, p. 225.) [BACK TO TEXT] Return to Index Page — Next Chapter The Leon Trotsky Archive The Marxist writers' Archives http://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/works/1937-st2/sf09.htm (21 of 21) [06/06/2002 15:07:02]
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