Word: stalins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Even to suggest that there may be some rapprochement between Stalin and Trotsky indicates a lack of knowledge of this most important of all conflicts in the revolutionary movement; Stalin, the great organizer of defeats for the proletariat, who symbolizes National Socialism at the expense of the world proletariat and the world revolution, and Trotsky, who symbolizes revolutionary international socialism and the fight for world revolution. Even the most wily dialectician (and Comrades Editors, I have grave doubts that the second word in that description applies to you) could not reconcile these two diametrically opposed tenets of action...
...Stalin's Stooge? Sirs...
...stooge of Stalin is TIME, and if Trotsky is also no stooge of Stalin, Reader Antoinette Konikow will do well to mobilize the Friends of Trotsky to protect him in turbulent. pro-Stalin Mexico. If he is Stalin's stooge, he will be safe in Mexico and that was TIME'S point. So far as World Revolution is concerned the position of Joseph Stalin is that his left hand constantly assists the Comintern led by Dimitroff to foment World Revolution, while his right assists the Soviet diplomacy of Litvinoff to maintain nominally friendly relations with Capitalist countries. Everyone...
International Communist affairs are nearly as involved as the Chinese (see p. 23), but on the surface of things last week the Friends of Stalin were taking in Mexico two opposite courses at the same time. On the one hand, according to the Defenders of Trotsky, the Stalinites were all ready to assassinate Trotsky in Mexico or in Mexican waters. On the other hand, the Mexican Communist Party executive suddenly last week manifestoed, "The entry of Trotsky into Mexico must be prevented. We will make every effort to keep Trotsky out of Mexico. Trotskyism is the same as Divisionism...
Valencia was still claiming to be the seat of Spanish Democracy this week but in its allied district of Catalonia the official Barcelona censor passed dispatches describing it as "Western Europe's First Communist State." Reports from both Spanish sides indicated that Stalin has now sent some of his best bombers and pursuit fighters to Spain, and that these Soviet craft are extremely fine machines, greatly surprising the Germans who had supposed until last week that it was enough for them to send such "old crates" as the French have been sending and as Madrid has been buying...