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Stalin School of Falsification -- Chapter 11
who incessantly keeps lashing the German Communist Party." (Problems of Leninism, 1928,p. 171.)
Accordingly, Trotsky was guilty in those days of "lashing" Brandlerism and not of patronizing it. It is
quite evident from the above to what extent Stalin and his Molotov are of service in the struggle against
the Rights in Germany!
26. The year 1924 is the year of the great turn. In the Spring of that year, Stalin was still repeating the old
for mul~ of the impossibility of building socialism in one country, especially in a backward country. In
the Autumn of that same year, Stalin broke with Marx and Lenin on the fundamental question of the
proletarian revolution, and constructed his "theory" of socialism in one country. Incidentally, Stalin has
nowhere developed this theory in a positive form, nor has he even expatiated on it. The entire foundation
for it comes down to two quotations from Lenin that have been deliberately given a false interpretation.
Stalin has made no reply to a single objection. The theory of socialism in one country has an
administrative and not a theoretical foundation.
27. In that same year, Stalin created the theory of "bi-composite," i.e., two-class worker and peasant
parties for the Orient. This constitutes a break with Marxism and with the entire history of Bolshevism on
the fundamental question of the class nature of the party. Even the Communist International found itself
compelled in 1928 to draw back from this theory which has doomed the communist parties of the Orient
for a long time to come. But this great discovery continues even today to grace the Stalinist Problems of
Leninism.
28. In that same year, Stalin carried through the subordination of Chinese communism to the bourgeois
party of the Kuomintang, passing the latter off as a "worker and peasant" party of the type he had himself
invented.
The Chinese workers and peasants, on the authority of the Comintern, were politically enslaved to the
bourgeoisie. Stalin organized in China the "division of labor" which Lenin prevented him from
organizing in Russia in 1917: the Chinese wcrkers and peasants did the "conquering" while Chiang
Kai-shek did the "fortifying."
Stalin's policy was the direct and immediate cause of the shipwreck of the Chinese Revolution.
29. Stalin's position and his zigzags on the questions of Soviet economic life are too fresh in the memory
of the entire world, and, therefore, we shall not dwell on them here.
80. In conclusion, we shall merely recall once again Lenin's "Testament." In question here is not a
polemical article or speech, where one may with some justification presuppose inevitable exaggerations
from the heat of the struggle. No, in the "Testament," Lenin, calmly weighing every word, offered his
last counsel to the party, evaluating each one of his collaborators on the basis of his entire experience
with them. What has he to say of Stalin? That Stalin is (a) rude, (b) disloyal, (c) inclined to abuse power.
Conclusion: Remove Stalin from the post of General Secretary.
A few weeks later Lenin also dictated a note to Stalin in which he announced that he was "breaking off
all personal and comradely relations with him." This was one of the final expressions of Lenin's will. All
these facts are recorded in the protocols of the July 1927 Plenum of the Central Committee.
Here are a few milestones in the political biography of Stalin. They provide a sufficiently distinct portrait
of a man in whom energy, will and resoluteness are combined with empiricism, myopia, an organic
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