V. I.

Lenin

Judas Trotsky’s Blush of Shame

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 grow weaker, the
Vperyod group grew stronger and acquired funds. The liquidators
strengthened their position and in Nasha Zarya [1] 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 . [2] In defiance of the direct decision of the
School

Commission [3] 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 breast 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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Notes:
[1]
Nasha Zarya ( Our Dawn )—a legal journal published monthly by the Menshevik-liquidators in St. Petersburg from 1910 to
1914. It became the rallying centre of the liquidators in Russia.

[2]
Vorwärts ( Forward) —the central organ of German
Social-Democrats which began publication in 1876. Wilhelm Liebknecht was
one of its editors. Frederick Engels waged a struggle in its columns
against all opportunist manifestations. In the mid-nineties, after the
death of Engels, Vorwärts regularly published articles by the
opportunists who dominated German Social-Democracy and the Second
International.

[3]
The School Commission (or School Committee ) was appointed by the January Plenary Meeting of the C.C. of the R.S.D.L.P.,
1910, to organise a Party school abroad. It was composed of nine people:

two Bolsheviks, two Mensheviks, two members of the Vperyod group
and one representative from each of the national organisations—the Bund
and the Latvian and Polish Social-Democratic organisations.