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Leninism Or Trotskyism Page Four THE DAILY WORKER Leninism or Trotskyism ALBIA, IOWA, IS (Continued last Issue) dictatorship? petty- FORCED TO from the Is it not a KNEEL bourgeois deviation? CLEAR TRACK FOR MARCH IS! Lenin criticised severely those com- 64-PAGE So long as the party is perfectly CONCERT AND DANCE PAMPHLET ON sound everything TO daily and weekly paper connected with she Workers Party and rades (including me) who had not ob- and goes well, Com- “KINO COAL” served that the revolution had already rade Trotsky quietly performs every BIG PARTY EVENT IN EVERYevery federation and branch of the party and the Young Workers LENINISM OR TROTSKYISM task which falls to him; but passed from one phase to another. as soon Miners Seek an Escape League will co-operate In one tremendous effort for the benefit of ths He progress the party encounters aivy obstacle, as feared most that would DETROIT ON FEB. 22 Communist press in Madison Square on Sunday, March be hindered by the party’s falling into NOW IN PREPARATION son as it has* to adjust its rudder, from Economic Ills 15. a track, the rut of Trotsky’s abstract theory, then Comrade Trotsky at once springs DETROIT, Mich., Feb. 12.-4>n In order to assure that this affair will have olear the NeW meeting and again he accuses it of wanting to This installment is part of a pam- forward in the role of savior and (Continued from page 1) Sunday, Feb. 22, the Workers Party York district executive committee at its on Feb. 9, unanimously spring over the peasants’ movement teacher of the party, but invariably resolution; phlet"Leninism orTrotzkylsm”now neither city water, gas, sewers nor of Detroit, will stage the big event adopted the following before this in hands. points out the wrong way, since he was our in preparation. It includes articles sidewalks, except before a few houses of the season, in the form of a con- "Whereas, the cooperation of every party unit is essential to make i There was no need for Lenin to has not absorbed the principles of Bol- by three outstanding figures in the where prosperity had smiled for over cert and dance, be held concert and change his equipment. The old Lenin- shevism. which will success of the Paris Commune pageant, ball that is being Russian Communist Party: G. a mouth at some in the distant in the of the House ist theory, the old Leninist, Bolshe- Our Errors time auditorium of arranged under the auspices of the Workers Party and the Young Work- Zinoviev, I. Stalin and C. Kamen- past. Many of the j’homes” seem to the Masses, 2646 St. Aubln. vist conception of the character of the Comrade Trotsky has another trump ers League for the benefit of the Communist press, and that will take revolution, ev, to form a most timely and im- have been put on the install- Delegates Russian and of the rela- in his hand against Bolshevism. This from the party branch- place in Madison Square Garden on Sunday, March 15, therefore be it tions between proletariat and peas- portant contribution to a discussion ment plan, others show resourceful- es on arrangements committee trump consists of certain errors com- the "Resolved, by the district execuive committee of district 2: first, that antry, were seen by Lenin to have of world interest. The pamphlet mitted by some few Bolsheviki (above ness and ingenuity in making much report considerable enthusiasm for all branches and party institutions shall refrain from arranging any proved fully correct. And now we had will be of 64 pages, selling at 20 all by me and Zinoviev, then those out of little. this event in their units, and every- con- to advance further on the same lines. flicting affairs; seoond, that party members shall sell no other cents and will be ready at the con- of Rykov and Nogin) in October, 1917. From the outside the miners’ thing indicates that the Feb. 22 af- tickets But the greatest must be taken, care clusion of this serial publication. The errors of the Bolsheviki are natur- shacks, in the large majority of cases' fair will go than the subscription tickets for the March 15 affair during the first two in the advance, not over big. to fall into Trot- .. ally invariably exploited by our look like the town of “Lost Hope.” The program weeks of Mprch; {bird, that competent comrades are called upon to volun- sky's mistaken footsteps. Twelve enemies. Trotsky includes vocal and Comrade did not Inside, however, the women folks con- teer for the work for visiting all branches as quickly as possible to enlist years before 1917 Lenin had prophe- ried out the instructions of the party resort to his trump so long as he hop- instrumental numbers of exception- trive to bring comfort and cleanliness strength sied that, after the revolutionary dem- strictly and accurately, leaning with ed to induce the party to deviate'to al merit, and the Russian dancers their full in this work.” dictatorship that seems unbelievable. ocratic of the proletariat the other members of the party on the path of Trotskyism by means of promise to score another triumph. The DAILY WORKER calls upon ail its readers to aid in carrying peasantry realized, totality common political exper- In Hiteman they have a pre-high and had been we the of the discussion of this or that practical The concert will last till 9 o'clock, out the purpose of this resolution so that the Madison Square should have to advance to the dicta- ience in the party and on the whole school as well as a grade school. Garden question. But after four attempts— after which the floor will be cleared celebration of March 15 a party may be tremendous demonstration of Com- torship of the proletariat, and must mass organization, and carrying Brest, trade unions, discussion on the There are six churches, at one time for dancing. Admission is 50 cents. create munist strength. conditions under which the but this or that task or command of economic plan, and the last discussion there were 13, and every fraternal peasantry co-operate with the prole- the party. At this time Comrade Trot- —had shown that he cannot persuade society in the land seems to have a —a tariat, without simply ignoring the were splendid, deeds and added the Bolsheviki Party to deviate from lodge there. There are so many peasantry as Trotsky proposes. Bol- many brilliant pages to his own his- Trachtenberg Is Next its path, after he had learned from knights and ladles, kings’ daughters, BRONX PARTY NOTES shevism does not need to borrow tory and that of the party. But since the party at the XIII party conference Harlem Forum Speaker | weapons from the arsenal of Trotsky- come forward worshipful masters, noble grands and BABY REDS Comrade Trotsky WILL has that we, the Leninists, do not require kleagles in that small village that no Postponed. ism. as individualist, believing that he and our theory to be corrected by Trotsky- NEW YORK, Feb. 12. Alexander Lecture At the time, there not in knight-errant of St. George could Due to the fact that Thursday, same were some the party is in the right the fun- ism, then he brought forward this ever Trachtenberg will be the speaker Sun- Feh, Bolsheviki who did not advance so damental questions of revolution, and last trump. hope to keep track of them. Nothing PLAY HOST TO 12, is Lincoln’s birthday, the lecturff from stage to stage required day evening, Feb. 15, at the next ses- rapidly that Leninism must be improved by not to short of six emblems. Including the of Dr. I. Stamler at the Bronx Eng. by the" tremendous He is of course the first do sion of the Sunday evening Harlem acceleration of the Trotskyism, we are obliged to see that exploit- masonic or columbus knights will lish branch, Workers Party, by this. These errors have been open forum conducted by the on Mus- revolution caused the enormous other aspect of Comrade Trotsky you Harlem ELDERS sollini ed often enough already by our ene- ever get anywhere in Hiteman SATURDAY and the State, scheduled for pressure of the war. But this does not to no section of the Workers Party, local which shows him be Bolshevik. mies, exploitation often means a date, in the least signify that Bolshevism but both errors and and that job. York, at the Harlem headquar- that at the Bronx headquarters, Four Attempts Made by Comrade were simply buried New wrong beneath the thun- Miners’ Union a Shadow Now. They Only Charge Two 1347 Boston Road, will not take plaoe. was on the track, that it lead Trotsky at Improving the Party proletarian ters 64 East 104th St. The subject bog to victory ders of the revolution. This lecture will be given at a later into a instead of or At the time neither the The terrible struggles that the mine is “American Imperialism.” that had to altered during the The party remembers four occasions errors them- Bits For the Honor date. it be upon Trotsky selves being workers have gone thru in the past to So far the forum has been a suc- this just which Comrade has nor their made use of revolution. And is what by quarters any up preserve cess, with highly interesting discus- Claaaea. Trotsky is trying prove. tried to instruct the party, and to hostile resulted in build and their union, This happy little Junior is appeal- to upon Trotskyist practical consequences.
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