RIVALS IN RUSSIA

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 110, 5 November 1926, Page 7

RIVALS IN RUSSIA

STALIN ON THE POLICY OF TROTSKY

SOViET RULE AND SOCIAL DEMOCRACY

COMMUNIST CONFERENCE'S RESOLUTION.

(United i'l-oas Association.—Copyright.) MOSCOW, 3rcl November. A long resolution condemning the policy of Zino'vicff, Trotsky, and KameuciT, and stressing the importance of unit}-, was the upshot of the Communist Conference, according to the official "T«ss" Agency. Tlio resolution, which followed a speech by Stalin, characterised the programme of the Opposition as a drift towards social democracy, tending to lead to revolutionary adventurousness, whereas the starting point of the Communist Party was that everything necessary and adequate, for Socialist construction existed in the union of Soviet republics. Trotskyism, on tho contrary, started from the viewpoint that the successful development of Socialist economy would only be possible after the victory of tho proletariat in tho principal countries of Europe, having no faith in the internal forces of revolution and falling into despair at the delay of the world revolution. The Opposition bloc was falling into the condition of ultra self-deception, and denied the existence of partial capitalistic stabilisation, thus going astray in tho direction of Putschism. Tho resolution further accused tho Opposition of rejecting Lenin's fundamental idea of a union of the proletariat and peasants, as shown in the proposals to raise the price of manufactured goods and impose a maximum burden of taxation on the peasantry— a policy calculated to disrupt the union of the working-class with the peasantry and undermine the possibilities of the real industrialisation of the country. The resolution emphasised the victory of tho party which had forced the Opposition openly to renounce sectional strife, and added that tho most important tasks of the party now were to recreate the minimum requisites of party unity, to struggle resolutely against the Social Democratic drift of the Opposition, to get the latter to recognise tho mistaken nature of their views, and to cut short all attempts to provoke sectional strife.