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Trotsky to Rivera

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Trotsky was a key figure in the Bolshevik seizure of power in Russia, second only to Lenin in the early stage of Soviet communist rule. However, he lost out to Stalin in the power struggle that followed Lenin''s death, and was assassinated while in exile. Following letter was written to one of Trotsky''s loyal sympathisers and the famous Mexican Marxist muralist, Diego Rivera. The letter discusses some of the articles that appeared in the “Bourgeoisie Press” denouncing collaboration of Communist Party of China with Kuomintang’s Chiang Kai-shek during the Sino-Japanese war.

September 23, 1937

Dear Comrade Diego Rivera

During the past few days I have been reading some of the lucubration of the Oehlerites and the Eiffelites on the civil war in Spain and on the Sino-Japanese War. Lenin called the ideas of these people "infantile disorders." A sick child arouses sympathy.

I want to stop to discuss in this letter only the Sino-Japanese War. In my declaration to the bourgeois press, I said that the duty of all the workers'' organizations of China was to participate actively and in the front lines of the present war against Japan, without abandoning, for a single moment, their own program and independent activity. But that is "social patriotism!" the Eiffelites cry. It is capitulation to Chiang Kai-shek! It is the abandonment of the principle of the class struggle! Bolshevism preached revolutionary defeatism in the imperialist war. Now, the war in Spain and the Sino-Japanese War are both imperialist wars.

We do not and never have put all wars on the same plane. Marx and Engels supported the revolutionary struggle of the Irish against Great Britain, of the Poles against the tsar, even though in these two nationalist wars the leaders were, for the most part, members of the bourgeoisie and even at times of the feudal aristocracy . . . at all events, Catholic reactionaries. When Abdel-Krim rose up against France, the democrats and Social Democrats spoke with hate of the struggle of a "savage tyrant" against the "democracy."


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