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"A Misleading Description of the German October"
by O. W. KUUSINEN (1925)
Source: The The Errors of Trotskyism, May 1925
marxists.org/archive/kuusinen/1925/05/german-october.htm
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Comrade Kuusinen, one of the leading Finnish Communists points out the errors and distortions of Trotsky concerning the failed German revolution of 1923 and the Finnish civil war.
Kuusinen points out that although Trotsky used far-left phrases and harshly criticized the leadership of the German party for it's Right-Wing capitulation after the fact, he still supported them during their capitulation. Trotsky was a supporter of the Right-ist tendency to the very end and only afterwards criticized it. Still even this hypocritical critique was wrong and ultra-left adventurist.
Kuusinen gave a very perceptive description of Trotsky's method:
"No one can understand Trotsky who sees in him nothing more than an ordinary opportunist. Comrade Trotsky is not a one-handed man. He has a right hand and a left hand.
"In actual practice he always represents two different “types” so to speak. One type deviates to the right, the other to the left.
"In reality the case is this: In his actions he deviates towards the Right, but he describes these actions in Left, very Left, terms."
Finally Kuusinen also debunks Trotsky's shameless accusations about the Finnish Reds. Trotsky was wrong in saying the Finns had significant military support from the Russians who were in the middle of their own civil war.
On top of that Trotsky's delaying of the peace treaty of Brest-Litovsk against the explicit orders of Lenin prompted Germany to send troops to crush the Finnish revolt! Thus among other reasons (such as the relative non-bolshevism and inexperience of the Finnish party) it was Trotsky himself who caused the downfall of the Finnish Revolution of 1918!
"A Misleading Description of the German October"
by O. W. KUUSINEN (1925)
Source: The The Errors of Trotskyism, May 1925
marxists.org/archive/kuusinen/1925/05/german-october.htm
___________________________
Comrade Kuusinen, one of the leading Finnish Communists points out the errors and distortions of Trotsky concerning the failed German revolution of 1923 and the Finnish civil war.
Kuusinen points out that although Trotsky used far-left phrases and harshly criticized the leadership of the German party for it's Right-Wing capitulation after the fact, he still supported them during their capitulation. Trotsky was a supporter of the Right-ist tendency to the very end and only afterwards criticized it. Still even this hypocritical critique was wrong and ultra-left adventurist.
Kuusinen gave a very perceptive description of Trotsky's method:
"No one can understand Trotsky who sees in him nothing more than an ordinary opportunist. Comrade Trotsky is not a one-handed man. He has a right hand and a left hand.
"In actual practice he always represents two different “types” so to speak. One type deviates to the right, the other to the left.
"In reality the case is this: In his actions he deviates towards the Right, but he describes these actions in Left, very Left, terms."
Finally Kuusinen also debunks Trotsky's shameless accusations about the Finnish Reds. Trotsky was wrong in saying the Finns had significant military support from the Russians who were in the middle of their own civil war.
On top of that Trotsky's delaying of the peace treaty of Brest-Litovsk against the explicit orders of Lenin prompted Germany to send troops to crush the Finnish revolt! Thus among other reasons (such as the relative non-bolshevism and inexperience of the Finnish party) it was Trotsky himself who caused the downfall of the Finnish Revolution of 1918!
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