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Nahuel Moreno The OCI (u)’s Betrayal CEHuS Centro de Estudios Humanos y Sociales Nahuel Moreno The OCI (u)’s Betrayal 1981 (Translated from Panorama Internacional, Year VI, No 19, Madrid, 1982) English translation: Daniel Iglesias Cover and interior design: Daniel Iglesias www.nahuelmoreno.org www.uit-ci.org www.izquierdasocialista.org.ar Copyright by CEHuS , Centro de Estudios Humanos y Sociales Buenos Aires, 2017 [email protected] CEHuS Centro de Estudios Humanos y Sociales Table of Contents The OCI (u)’s Betrayal Chapter I The Theory of Progressive Bourgeois Camps .............................1 1. From the Possibilists to Bernstein ..........................................................3 2. Menshevik revisionism: the theory of progressive bourgeois camps .................... 4 3. The Bolshevik and Trotskyist response ................................................................ 5 4. Stalin and the popular front ....................................................................6 5. Mao and the theory of contradictions .....................................................6 6. Revisionists and Marxists: summary of differences ...............................7 Chapter II Revisionism in revolutionary parties .......................................10 1. Kamenev-Stalin vs. Lenin and Trotsky ..................................................12 2. Stalin and socialism in one country ......................................................13 3. Marceau Pivert and the combat popular front ......................................14 4. Molinier and Schachtman: the first appearance of the camps theory in our ranks ...............................................................................................15 5. The Pabloite version of the camps theory ............................................16 6. Bolivia and Nicaragua: Two applications of Pabloite revisionism ........17 7. The reasons for a capitulation ..............................................................17 Chapter III The Anti-imperialist United Front as Expression of the Theory of Progressive Bourgeois Fronts ...........................................19 1. The Lambert-Favre theory of the anti-imperialist united front .............19 2. Stalin, Mao, and the struggle against “militarism” and “imperialism” in China .....................................................................................................20 3. Mao and the Japanese invasion of China ..............................................21 4. The policy of the Third International for the colonial and semi-colonial countries ...............................................................................................23 5. The theoretical context of the Third International positions ................25 6. The Chinese revolution and Trotsky’s theoretical evolution ................26 Chapter IV French Reality Seen Through the Camps Theory .....................29 1. Two incompatible camps .......................................................................29 2. The seed of a civil war ..........................................................................30 3. A new agreement between Pablo and Lambert .....................................31 4. A deliberate confusion ..........................................................................32 5. The actual French reality ......................................................................33 6. The true incompatibility .......................................................................34 7. Who foresaw the current French situation? ..........................................34 Chapter V The politics of the OCI (u) .........................................................36 1. The Lambert-Forgue theory of the “Mitterrand camp” ..........................36 2. The other member of the “progressive camp” ......................................37 3. Driving the bourgeois government towards anti-capitalist positions ..38 4. Is planting hopes different to depositing trust? ...................................39 First example: The Health Insurance Fund.............................................................. 39 Second example: The strike at the airport .............................................................. 40 3. Lambert, adviser to Mitterrand .............................................................40 4. A strange break with the bourgeoisie ..................................................42 5. Lying to the masses to protect the government ...................................44 6. Protect the government or fight it? .......................................................44 7. The Lambertist version of the combat popular front ...........................45 8. The OCI applies a Stalinist policy .........................................................46 9. A tradition betrayed ..............................................................................46 10. The revolution by stages, Lambert version ........................................47 11. The OCI has no government slogan ....................................................48 12. A clear prediction ................................................................................49 Chapter VI What if there is a Civil War in France? ......................................51 1. Civil war between the “camps” .............................................................51 2. Civil war without armament of the proletariat .....................................52 3. Civil war without destruction of the bourgeois army ...........................53 4. The special virtues of the popular front ...............................................55 5. The three examples of Lambert ............................................................56 Fight with Kerensky against Kornilov ..................................................................... 56 The Japanese invasion of China ............................................................................. 57 The Spanish civil war ............................................................................................. 57 6. True Bolshevik and Trotskyist politics .................................................58 We fight militarily in the popular front camp .......................................................... 58 The military alignment is a tactical episode ........................................................... 58 Transforming the struggle between camps in class struggle .................................. 58 Overthrowing the bourgeois government and seizing power ................................. 59 Chapter VII The Policy for the Counter-revolutionary Workers’ Parties .....60 1. The OCI does not fight the counter-revolutionary workers’ parties .....61 2. Instead of denunciation, fraternal criticism .........................................61 3. The OCI (u) calls the SP and the PCF to form a united front .................62 4. A theoretical confusion at the service of betrayal ................................64 5. A united front within the united front ..................................................65 6. The true politics of Lenin and Trotsky .................................................66 7. An exceptional tactic for an exceptional circumstance .........................67 8. The origin of the united front tactic .....................................................67 9. A contradictory tactic ............................................................................69 10. The united front in our ranks .............................................................70 11. The tactic of entryism .........................................................................71 12. The workers’ and peasants’ government ............................................72 13. The revolutionary workers’ front .......................................................72 14. The only strategy of Trotskyism ........................................................74 Chapter VIII The OCI abandons the Transitional Program for a Minimal Program .................................................................................75 1. The OCI acknowledges it has no program ............................................75 2. Trotsky versus Frank-Molinier-Lambert ................................................76 3. The tasks and slogans of Pablo and Lambert .......................................77 4. A policy based on the hopes of the masses ..........................................78 5. The Trotskyist policy starts from the objective factor .........................78 6. A “confusion” in the character of the slogans ......................................79 7. The nature of our Transitional Program ...............................................80 8. The axes of the Transitional Program ...................................................81 9. The reformism of the OCI .....................................................................82 Chapter IX An Opportunistic Program in the Face of the Minimum Needs of the Masses .........................................................................84 1. The situation of the French proletariat .................................................85 2. The OCI does not fight against the misery of the French proletariat ...86 3. Unemployment ......................................................................................87 4. Support for government nationalisations .............................................89 5. Education ..............................................................................................90