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Sunday, 20 September 2020

National and the Colonial Questions- Lenin &Roy



1. Lenin 's draft thesis on the National and the Colonial Questions.

"The Communist International must enter into a temporary alliance with bourgeois democracy in the colonial and backward countries, but should not merge with it, and should under all circumstances uphold the independence of the proletarian movement even if it is in its most embryonic form" ("Preliminary Draft Theses on the National and the Colonial Questions," June 1920).

2. The report presented by the Commission on the National and Colonial question was discussed in detail in the Fourth session of the Second Congress of the Communist  International,  on 25 July 1920.  And the discussion was carried forward to the Fifth session held on 28 July 1920.

Lenin made lengthy speeches in defence of his thesis as also that of Roy with certain amendments.

After considerable debate, the Second Congress approved both the thesis – the main thesis by Lenin and the supplementary thesis by Roy.

The final resolution of the Congress directed communists in colonial countries to support the "national-revolutionary" movement in each, without regard to the fact that non-communist and non-working class elements such as the bourgeoisie and the peasantry might be dominant.  Particular attention was paid to formulating an alliance with the rural poor as a means of winning and holding power in a revolution.

 3. Leon Trotsky, in the Fifteenth and the final Session, on 7 August 1920, in his address to the Congress, refereeing to the national and colonial question, said:

The national and colonial question was also discussed and it seems to me that the resolution passed unanimously on this question similarly signifies a great moral victory for us. You know that the Second International approached the question of so-called national policies, that in general a policy of patience was suggested and that in 1907 the majority spoke out in favor of socialists supporting the policy of so-called cultural nationalism. Towards the peoples of the black and yellow races the Second International adopted an attitude calculated to arouse the deepest mistrust in these peoples. The Communist International had to return to the traditions of the First International. It was its duty to say, and it did say, that it did not only want to be an International of the toilers of the white race but also an International of the toilers of the black and yellow races, an International of the toilers of the whole world. 

I am convinced that the fraternal alliance that we have concluded in the Congress with the representatives of India, Korea, Turkey and a whole number of other countries will strike to the heart of international capital. This is the greatest conquest of the working class.

4. Was Stalin policy against the spirit of above thesis of Lenin and Roy?

This is the key to understand Trotskyist betrayal and their false propaganda against Stalin on the National and Colonial question on India and China.




Saturday, 5 September 2020

M N Roy on Trotsky

M N Roy, a Marxist revolutionary from India, who helped to establish the communist Party in Mexico was invited by Lenin to attend a conference of the Communist International in 1920. Later, Roy became a member of the Presidium of the Communist International 's Political Secretariat. Roy had close association with Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin. He was known for his sympathy for Trotsky, which he changed later. (Roy was also expelled from the Commintern, he thought he was a victim of a conflict in the CI.) Roy was present at the meeting that expelled Trotsky from the CI in 1927. The following excerpt from Roy's obituary when Trotsky died  shows graphically why Roy changed his position on Trotsky: ""Having agreed that it is not possible to build Socialism in the Soviet Union in the midst of a capitalist world there are two alternatives – either we should continue doing whatever is possible by way of advancing towards the ultimate goal of Socialism, pending the success of revolution in other countries; or we should lay down power in the Soviet Union and go back to emigration to wait for the time when there will be a revolution simultaneously throughout the world. I asked whether Trotsky would choose the latter alternative.
            He shouted "No". Then I would vote for his expulsion, because he had been advocating a policy without understanding its implications or without meaning to put it into practice if he had the opportunity to do so.
            Trotsky looked crestfallen. All through the night, he had heckled the speakers with challenging questions. He kept quiet while I spoke and hung his head in answer to my question. The historic vote was cast against him – unanimously. The Revolution went over the head of one of its most brilliant products".

१९५३ में स्टालिन की शव यात्रा पर उमड़ा सैलाब 

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