PRAVDA" AGAIN POINTS TO SPECTER OF CROTSKVISH
The May 27 issue of L!Humanité, the newspaper ‘of the French - Communist” party, reports. from Moscow that. Pravda celebrated the fortieth anniversary of the Thirteenth Congress of the Conmunist party of Russia by "olacing the accent on the important role of this session in the struggle against Trotskyism. .."
The. dispatch, which was: “telephoned to LtHumanité, continues: "The. diffisulties which the Party encountered at the ti me were still further aggravated by the fact that the Trotskyists, after the death of Lenin, sought .to-assemble all the anti~Party elements in order to develop their splitting activity, The congress completely approved the policy conducted by the Central Committee in the struggle against Trotskyism,"
Why this odd. celebration. “‘torty years later? . A quotation is: offered from. Pravda?: "The significance of this defeat “inflicted on the Trotskyists by our Party, the instructive character of this historic experience, are particularly evident today, enabling one to understand the petty-bourgeois, neo-Trotskyist positions now adopted by the leaders of the Chinese Communist Party,"
Pravdats celebration is an.obvious retort to Peking's accusation that Khrushchev is more "Trotskyist" than Mao, What Khrushchev really reveals, however, is that his anti-Stalinism is only skin deep. By celebrating Stalin's 1924 victory, he.celebrates the beginning of the process that led inevitably to the one-man dictatorship, the blood purges, the frame-up trials, the weakening of the defense of the Soviet Union -- all tho abominations in fact which Khrushchev himself was compelled to admit, if only in part, at the Twentieth Congress,. Khrushchev is against ‘the: end of the procoss; but hails its “beginning!
And without intending it, he joins the Chinese in indicating once again that Trotskyism -- the living ideas of revolutionary socialism ~— cannot be oblitorated, Evon less than Stalin himself. can Stalin's disciples bury. trotskyism, no matter how often they announce its death! -
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