The Ghost in Communism

The Communist Party of the Russian Federation discovered neo-Trotskyists in its ranks

The Communist Party of the Russian Federation had barely managed to recover from the period of splits and purges of party ranks from supporters of Gennady Semigin , when a new internal party conflict arose. The Central Control and Audit Commission (CCRK) of the party identified a “neo-Trotskyist conspiracy” in the communist camp and adopted a corresponding resolution in the best traditions of the rhetoric of the mid-20s of the last century. The CCRC declared the editor of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation website Anatoly Baranov and the head of the party organization of the Western District of Moscow Pavel Basants, known for their pro-liberal position, to be conspirators.

“Contrary to the resolution of the 10th Congress of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation “Communists and the Russian Question” and the decisions of the 9th joint plenum of the Central Committee and the Central Red Cross on combining political and spiritual forms of struggle, filling the class consciousness of workers with moral and spiritual meaning, accumulating forces for the implementation of the socialist revolution, the “Baranov group” persistently opposes the Communist Party of the Russian Federation from the victorious Leninist to the false Trotskyist path of a quick revolution, carried out in fact in the interests of the pro-Western bourgeoisie, and not the Russian people, and leading to the complete occupation of Russia by NATO forces,” reads the resolution signed by the chairman of the Central Red Cross Committee Vladimir Nikitin. According to the author, in the actions of Baranov, Basants and their supporters, “signs of Trotskyism, defined by I.V., are clearly visible. Stalin in the article “Trotskyism and Leninism.” This is a lack of real party membership and a reluctance to bind oneself to the norms of the Party Program and Charter, a penchant for left-wing revolutionary phrases with a persistent desire for an alliance with extreme right-wing forces, ignoring the fundamental interests and rights of the Russian people, as well as the desire to create distrust in the party leaders and get rid of staunch communists . These manifestations of neo-Trotskyism are extremely dangerous for the Communist Party of the Russian Federation and Russia and must be resolutely rebuffed.”

The Central Committee of the Red Cross decided to send this letter to the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation “to take party action against violators of the program and statutory requirements of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, pursuing a neo-Trotskyist line in the party.”

However, as a source in the Communist Party told a Vremya Novostey correspondent, the leadership does not share Nikitin’s position and is unlikely to take any measures against the “conspirators.” At the plenum of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, which will take place next week, reconciliation is expected. Which would be wise, given the danger of splits ahead of the looming parliamentary elections.

“We will specifically devote a meeting of the presidium to this topic,” Oleg Kulikov, secretary of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Central Committee, told a Vremya Novostey correspondent. “It would be nice for reconciliation to happen.” At least I don’t see organized neo-Trotskyism in the party. Individuals may occupy a position slightly different from management. Just like socialism is understood differently by different people.”

At the same time, Petr Miloserdov, one of the leaders of the “People” movement, which nominated former deputy of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg Sergei Gulyaev as a presidential candidate, recently lost his post as head of the electoral technologies sector of the Information Center of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation. The communists considered Miloserdov’s behavior a violation of party discipline, because party leader Gennady Zyuganov was going to run for the post of head of state from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation . A similar story happened in Yabloko. Another leader of “People”, Alexei Navalny, was forced to resign from the post of deputy chairman of the Moscow “Yabloko” - its first person, Grigory Yavlinsky, will also participate in the presidential campaign from this party.

Trotskyism is a political movement, which was started by one of the Bolshevik leaders Leon Trotsky (real name Leiba Bronstein, 1879-1940), primarily with his theory of “permanent revolution.” Trotsky believed that in order to compensate for the political bankruptcy of the First and Third Internationals and for the revolutionary leadership of the working class during the growing crisis of capitalism and the onset of fascism, it was necessary to create a new International. Central to Trotsky's strategy was criticism of the USSR as a degenerating workers' state, in which power had passed from the hands of the proletariat to the hands of the bureaucracy, which took control of state and party structures. The USSR, according to Trotsky, was a transitional society and could go either forward to socialism or back to capitalism. Only a political revolution, for which the social base must be prepared, can prevent the latter. The Fourth International was conceived as an organization that would lead the resistance to Stalin's control, create new working class parties and trade unions, and bring about world revolution. Under Stalin in 1924, Trotskyism was declared a “petty-bourgeois deviation.” In 1927, Trotsky was deprived of all posts and exiled to Alma-Ata, and in 1929 he was exiled abroad. He spent his last years in Mexico. He was beaten to death with an ice pick on August 20, 1940 by NKVD communist agent Ramon Mecarder on the personal orders of Stalin.

Ksenia VERETENNIKOVA