Chapter 9 Letter to the Trotskyites

a letter Mr. Lu Xun: After the failed revolution of 1927, China's Communista [2] did not adopt a policy of withdrawing troops to prepare for a resurgence, but turned to military speculation.They gave up their jobs in the cities and ordered party members to riot everywhere after the revolution ebbed, trying to create Reds on the basis of peasants to bring peace to the world.Over the past seven or eight years, hundreds of thousands of brave and promising young people have been sacrificed by this policy, causing the urban people to lose their revolutionary leaders when the current national movement is on the rise, and pushing the next revolution into a difficult future.

Now the Reds' campaign to conquer the world has failed.China's Communista has blindly accepted the orders of the Moscow bureaucracy and turned to the so-called "new policy".They reversed their previous behavior, abandoned their class position, changed their appearance, issued a manifesto, sent representatives to negotiate, and demanded a "united front" with bureaucrats, politicians, warlords, and even the executioners of the people.They hid their own flags, blurred the understanding of the people, and made the people think that bureaucrats, politicians, and executioners are all national revolutionaries who can resist Japan.This shameless act of betrayal by the Stalinist Party made Chinese revolutionaries feel ashamed.

Now the general liberal bourgeoisie and petty bourgeois upper strata in Shanghai all welcome this "new policy" of the Stalinist Party.This is no wonder.The traditional prestige of Moscow, the bloody history and existing power of the Chinese Reds—is there anything more worth using than this?But the more popular the "new policy" of the Stalinist party became, the more poisoned the Chinese revolution became. Our group, since 1930, has fought unremittingly for our ideas in various difficult circumstances.After the failure of the Great Revolution, we opposed the reckless policy of the Stalinists and proposed the road of "revolutionary democratic struggle".We believe that since the Great Revolution has failed, everything has to be done from scratch.We are constantly uniting revolutionary cadres, studying revolutionary theories, accepting the lessons of failure, and educating revolutionary workers, hoping to lay a solid foundation for the next revolution during this difficult period of counter-revolution.Various events in the past few years have proved that our political line and working methods are correct.We oppose the opportunism, putschist policies and bureaucratic party system of the Stalinist Party, and now we are resolutely fighting against this treacherous "new policy".But precisely because of this, we are now envied by various opportunists and party bureaucrats.Is this luck, or misfortune?

Mr.'s knowledge and character are what I have admired for more than ten years. When many thoughtful people are sinking into the pit of individualism, Mr. can only fight endlessly based on his own opinions!If our political opinions can be criticized by the husband, selfishness will be honored.Now send a few copies of the recent periodicals, please read them.If you receive a reply, please keep it at x, and come to collect it within three days.Good luck to your health!Chen ×× June 3rd. Two replies Mr. Chen: I have received the letter from Mr. Hui and the publications such as "Struggle" and "Spark" sent by Hui.

To sum up the meaning of your letter, there are roughly two points. One is to criticize Mr. Stalin as bureaucrats, and the other is to denounce Mr. Mao Zedong's idea of ​​"all factions unite to resist Japan" as a betrayal of the revolution. This made me "confused", because the success of the Federation of Soviet Russian Socialist Republics of Mr. Stalin in any aspect of the world does not mean that Mr. Trotsky [3] was expelled, drifted, and fell into poverty. Is it pitiful to "have to" use the enemy's money in the evening?Today's vagabondage must be different from the flavor of Siberia before the revolution, because there was no one who even gave a piece of bread back then; but the mood must be different, and this is because of the success of the Soviet Union now.Facts speak louder than words, but unexpectedly, such ruthless irony has come.Secondly, your "theories" are indeed much superior to those of Mr. Mao Zedong, not only are they much higher, they are both in the sky and underground.But virtuosity is certainly admirable, but it happened to be welcomed by the Japanese invaders, so it would inevitably fall from the sky and fall to the most unclean place on earth.Because your superb theories are welcomed by Japan, I can't help but sweat for you after reading your neatly printed publications. When you run a newspaper, can you clean it up very clearly?It is not because some of you have followed others and scolded me for taking rubles, and now you are doing this in revenge.No, I'm not so obscene, because I don't believe that you will be so low as to use Japanese money to publish reports attacking Mr. Mao Zedong's unanimous anti-Japanese theory.You never will.I just want to warn you that your superb theories will not be welcomed by the Chinese people, and your actions are contrary to the current morality of the Chinese people.That's all I have to say to you.

In the end, I felt a little uncomfortable. It is not without reason that you suddenly sent letters and books to me.That's because some of my "comrades in arms" once pointed out what I was.But I, even if I can't do it, I feel that I am always far away from you.Those who are real, with their feet on the ground, who are bleeding and fighting for the survival of the Chinese people today, I have to be cited as comrades, and I think it is glorious.I ask for your forgiveness, because the three-day period has passed, and you may not go there to pick it up again, so this letter will be answered publicly.That is to praise Da'an.

Lu Xun.June nine. (This letter was dictated by Mr. and written by OV[4].) CC [1] This article was originally published in the fourth issue of the monthly "Literature Series" and the first issue of the monthly "Reality Literature" in July 1936. The "Chen XX" who wrote the letter was originally signed "Chen Zhongshan" and his real name was Chen Qichang. According to the memoirs of some Trotskyists, he was a member of the Provisional Central Committee of a Trotskyist organization at that time. [2] The transliteration of Communist in English Communist (Communist).Reds below means "red elements" in English, and here refers to the Red Army. 〔3〕 Trotsky (UFGLMM, 1879-1940) interpreted Trotsky's T缒锋Weiyong砉锩* movement, and participated in the leading organs during the October Revolution and the early days of Soviet Russia.In 1927, he was expelled from the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Bolsheviks) for opposing the Soviet regime. He was expelled from the country in 1929 and died in Mexico in 1940.He was exiled to Siberia twice, which is what the "flavor of Siberia before the revolution" mentioned below refers to. [4] OV is Feng Xuefeng (1903-1976), a native of Yiwu, Zhejiang.Writer, literary theorist.One of the leading members of the Chinese Left-wing Writers Union.Author of "Proceedings", "Lingshan Song", "Reminiscences of Lu Xun" and so on.