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Stalin School of Falsification -- Chapter 15 Leon Trotsky's The Stalin School Of Falsification Transcribed for the Trotsky Internet Archive, now a sub-archive of the Marxist writers' Internet Archive by David Walters in 1997 Chairman: Comrade Teodorovich. Secretaries: Comrades Boki and F. I. Drabkina. SESSION OF APRIL 1 Order of the day: Tseretelli's proposal for unification. STALIN: We ought to go. It is necessary to define our proposals as to the terms of unification. Unification is possible along the lines of Zimmerwald-Kienthal. LUGANOVSKY: The Kharkov Committee is carrying on negotiations precisely along these lines. MOLOTOV: Tseretelli wants to unite heterogeneous elements. Tseretelli calls himself a Zimmerwaldist and a Kienthalist, and for this reason unification along these lines is Incorrect both politically and organizationally. It would be more correct to advance a definite internationalist socialist platform. We will unite a compact minority. LUGANOVSKY (in refuting comrade Molotov) says: At the present time we are unaware of any disagreements. The Mensheviks abstained in the Soviet and spoke more strongly than did . . . the Bolsheviks who came out against. Many disagreements have been outlived. It is out of place to underscore tactical differences. We can have a joint Congress with the Mensheviks, the Zimmerwaldists and Kienthalists. SKRYPNIK: This debate is purely a verbal one. Unification is possible only with those who reject revolutionary defensism and who share our attitude toward the Provisional Government. ZALUTSKY: If we enter into negotiations with the Mensheviks, we must put forward our own views. We proceed from a definite position. Only a petty bourgeois and not a social democrat can proceed from a mere desire for unification. There is disagreement between us on the following questions: 1) the attitude to war; 2) the evaluation and role of the capitalist forces in the revolution. If we now slur over them, we will have a split within a week just the same. It is impossible to unite on the basis of a superficial Zimmerwald-Kienthal token. Teplovsky's argument that the "provinces will compel us to go to the Right" -- is wrong. He is a poor social democrat who will allow himself to become dissolved in the mass. It is necessary to lead the masses behind us. It is necessary to advance a definite program. http://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/works/1937-st2/sf15.htm (1 of 17) [06/06/2002 15:07:33]
Stalin School of Falsification -- Chapter 15 LAZURKINA: On the order of the day is the question whether or not we go to the meeting. TEODOROVICH: There is nothing for us "to go with." STALIN: There is no use running ahead and anticipating disagreements. There is no party life without disagreements. We will live down trivial disagreements within the party. But there is one question -- it is impossible to unite what cannot be united. We will have a single party with those who agree on Zimmerwald and Kienthal, i.e., those who are against revolutionary defensism. That is the line of demarcation. We must inform the Mensheviks that our desire is only the desire of the group meeting here and that it is not binding upon all Bolsheviks. We ought to go to the meeting, but not advance any platforms. Within the framework of what we desire is the convocation of a Conference on the basis of anti-defensism. The discussion is closed. Thc motions of comrades Stalin and Molotov are voted upon. The motion of comrade Stalin: "1) To announce that we can unite only with those whohold the standpoint of Zimmerwald and Kienthal, i.e., anti-defensism; "2) That the meeting be informative in character. Those participating in it are expressing the views of the group of the Bolsheviks, and is not binding on all." The motion of comrade Molotov: "1) It is necessary to come out with a platform; "2) Same as comrade Stalin's." Passed unanimously: "1) To go to the meeting. "2) To recognize the meeting as informative." LUGANOVSKY: Speaks in favor of creating a committee for the organization of a unity Congress. MILIUTIN: Moves the creation of a Bureau for contact with the centers. STALIN: Moves that we elect no Bureau for the convocation of a Conference of internationalists but instead propose to the Central Executive Committee that it communicate with the leaders of the internationalist-Mensheviks on the question of calling such a conference. The motion of comrade Stalin is adopted by a majority of all votes against one. LUGANOVSKY: Moves to convene a joint meeting of the Zimmerwaldists. (For --14; against -- l3.) The following committee to carry on negotiations is elected: Comrades Stalin, Kamenev, Teodorovich, Nogin.Comrade Stalin is assigned to make the report at the joint session. Chairman: Comrade Shliapnikov. SESSION OF APRIL 2 http://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/works/1937-st2/sf15.htm (2 of 17) [06/06/2002 15:07:33]
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