JUDAS TROTSKY'S BLUSH OF SHAME

JUDAS TROTSKY'S BLUSH OF SHAME

V. I. Lenin

At the Plenary Meeting Judas Trotsky made a big show of fighting liquidationism and otzovism. He vowed and swore that he was true to the Party. He was given a subsidy.

    After the Meeting the Central Committee grew weaker, the Vperyod group grew stronger and acquired funds. The liquidators strengthened their position and in Nasha Zarya [26] spat in the face of the illegal Party, before Stolypin's very eyes.

    Judas expelled the representative of the Central Committee from Pravda and began to write liquidationist articles in Vorwärts.[27] In defiance of the direct decision of the School Commission[28] appointed by the Plenary Meeting to the effect that no Party lecturer may go to the Vperyod factional school, Judas

Trotsky did go and discussed a plan for a conference with the Vperyod group. This plan has now been published by the Vperyod group in a leaflet.

    And it is this Judas who beats his hreast and loudly professes his loyalty to the Party, claiming that he did not grovel before the Vperyod group and the liquidators.

    Such is Judas Trotsky's blush of shame.
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Written after January 2 (15), 1911 First published on January 21 1932, in Pravda, No. 21
Published according to the manuscript From V. I. Lenin, Collected Works, 4th English Edition,
Progress Publishers, Moscow, 1968 First printing 1963 Second printing 1968 Vol. 17, p. 45.
Translated from the Russian by Dora Cox Edited by George Hanna
Prepared © for the Internet by David J. Romagnolo, djr@marx2mao.org (June 1998)
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