"Big Joke!"
The importance of Trotsky for Soviet Russia has always been much overblown. A clearly transitional figure, the so-called “permanent revolutionist,” he was completely overshadowed by the “constructive transitionist” Lenin. Furthermore, his role as a senior Soviet official holding ostensibly central government positions was only deceptively prominent, as the present entry will explain. Shockingly, his biggest prominence was achieved during his years of exile, and here is where the clever Soviet ploy comes out loud and clear.
Let us start with this question, which, to my knowledge, has never been asked:
Why was Trotsky, alone of all major Soviet officials, not just allowed to leave Soviet Russia, but effectively pushed into permanent exile abroad?
The answer is perfectly clear to me. Because he was much more useful to the Soviet State abroad and alive than at home awaiting his eventual show trial and execution like the rest of them. Trotsky was not a creator but a destroyer. Whatever usefulness he had in Russia during the period of the destruction of the old order, had turned into a liability as soon as that period had given way to the era of the buildup of the new “Soviet” order from the dust of the old. Now his usefulness would move abroad, where his destructive powers would serve to attack the foundations of the states hostile to Soviet Russia. What has become known as Trotskyism has in fact been an infectious virus affecting both the West and the East, whereas it could never harm Russia which had become immune to it, having been inoculated with Bolshevism.
Thus Trotsky had become Soviet Russia’s Trojan Horse, sent out to debilitate the enemy. His assassination in 1940 killed two birds with one stone: it demonstrated to Hitler (among several other such moves) that the USSR was no longer willing to tolerate the influence of Communist Jews (thus arguably eliminating at least one of the incentives for Nazi Germany to attack Russia), and it also created a glorious martyr for all those subversive movements around the world who would be proudly calling themselves the Trotskyites!!!
Having thus delivered the main thrust of my Trotsky entry, I shall now proceed with lesser details.---
Let us have that Trotsky paragraph of Lenin’s Testament back, for the specific purposes of this entry:
“Trotsky is distinguished not only in his exceptional abilities (personally, to be sure, he is perhaps the most able man in the present Tse-Ka), but also by his excessive self-assurance and excessive enthusiasm for the purely administrative aspect of his work... I will not further characterize the other members of the Tse-Ka, as to their personal qualities... I will only remind you that the October episode of Zinoviev and Kamenev was not, of course, accidental, but neither can it be used against them any more than the non-Bolshevism of Trotsky.”
In the previous entry, I already made my adamant point that here we are dealing with a large dose of Lenin’s famously acrid sarcasm, which he used as his second nature to ‘liquefy’ his enemies. (To liquidate them was not always practical in Lenin’s day, and it was most certainly not enough as far as their historical legacy was concerned!) Our next question is no longer about Lenin, but about Trotsky proper and about his relationship with Bolshevism and with Soviet Russia. We need to establish, which things are not what they seem to be, and why.
Trotsky’s non-Bolshevism, mentioned by Lenin, is a well known fact. Trotsky was never a trusted comrade of Lenin and his group. He was openly an opportunistic demagogue, a self-absorbed egomaniac, a ruthless thug, with no respect for the value of human life. He was also a consummate loner, with no sense of loyalty to others, and no inclination whatsoever to be a team player on anybody’s team.
He had not joined the Bolsheviks, and he was called a Menshevik by Lenin and his comrades, which was not a reference to his membership in the SD, although he was part of a small political group under the umbrella of the SD (all of these groups united by their opposition to the Bolsheviks), but, as I mentioned before, the label Menshevik was a title of derision, and, soon thereafter, a common reason for the death sentence during the years of the Red Terror; and consequently Trotsky would immediately become an object of derision and mocking condemnation. In other words, he was bound to be anathema to Lenin and to every Bolshevik, and his swift liquidation seemed like a foregone conclusion. Yet, in the first years of Bolshevism he managed to survive and prosper… Why?
Why, for that matter, had Zinoviev and Kamenev, open traitors to the Bolshevik Revolution, survived intact as well? To answer them all at once, let us add another why here. Why was Yakov Sverdlov, one of Lenin’s secretaries, a man whose singular qualification was his unquestioning meticulousness in following his boss’s instructions, appointed by Lenin to the post formally equivalent to “President” of Soviet Russia?
“What’s in a name?”, Shakespeare asks in Romeo and Juliet, and answers his own question in King Richard III, as the Duke of Clarence is dispatched to the Tower where he is soon to be murdered, “Because my name is George!” Yes, the name does matter, and so does… the ethnic factor!
The reader may have guessed it already. Yes, the Jews were being set up, prophylactically, I may add, as the scapegoats for everything and anything that might be going wrong with the Russian Revolution. They were also designated, by their ethnic-Russian Comrades, as the persecutors of Russian Orthodox Christianity, so that Russia’s great religion could be purified in the flames of persecution, as Early Christianity was purified in its own time. Immediately after the Revolution, the all-Russian Committee of the Godless was set up, and none other than our friend Trotsky was given its chairmanship, to which honor he promptly reacted, “No chance in hell!” and the honor then went to another distinctively Jewish candidate, who called himself Yemelyan Yaroslavsky (a Russian-sounding pseudonym, of course, which clashed with his distinctive Jewish facial features, and at once provoked a burst of anti-Jewish anger among the ethnic Russian population, who saw this as a direct assault by the Jews on Russian nationhood itself!), who did not think twice to accept it from Lenin’s hand with a most sincere gratitude.
Lenin never even concealed his grand idea to set up the Jews for the dirty jobs: the whole idea of appointing Sverdlov President of Russia was to make him sign the extremely unpopular death warrant for the Romanov family (all executed in July 1918), while Sverdlov himself, as soon as that dirty job had been accomplished, would be dispatched to the other world less than a year later, allegedly catching a bad cold on a train!
“The traitor Zinoviev’s” useful mission after the Bolshevik Revolution was to attract foreign Jewish leftist radicals of note to become Moscow’s clients in the Comintern, Communist International, created by Lenin as the sole legitimate heir to Karl Marx’s First and Second Internationals, and, consequently, also known as The Third International. For this reason, Zinoviev was appointed President of the Comintern, thus putting a distinctive Jewish face on it. (Incidentally, my grandfather Artem’s Comintern job was to communicate with the non-Jewish members and Bolshevik sympathizers, such as, for instance, the American John Reed, with whom Artem was briefly associated, until the American’s sudden death from typhus in 1920.
As for Trotsky, his apologists are quoting his high posts in the Soviet government in those early years as an authoritative indication of his supreme importance. But let us look at Trotsky’s appointments more closely. In his capacity as the People’s Commissar for Foreign Affairs, Trotsky’s sole ‘achievement’ happened to be the shockingly unpopular Brest-Litovsk Peace treaty with Germany in 1918, considered by many Russians as a shameful capitulation to Germany, and by the Entente Powers as an act of betrayal of their mutual war obligations. Trotsky himself suffered a fit of hysterics, realizing how appallingly he was being used, only this time, he could no longer wiggle out of his assignment, as he had from the ludicrous position of Head of the Godless.
…He, Trotsky, as Russia’s Foreign Affairs Commissar?!!… Big Joke!
Characteristically, having performed his stunt at Brest-Litovsk, Trotsky was summarily dismissed from his position as Commissar for Foreign Affairs and transferred to another lofty position of War Commissar...
In his new post of War Commissar in wartime, Trotsky was by no means as all-powerful as his title might suggest. The real Red Army, as it came to be known, started as Stalin’s special army, under the command of Stalin’s loyal crony Voroshilov. It was not answerable to anyone, except Stalin, that anyone including Lenin himself, not to mention Lenin’s subordinate “cabinet members,” such as the War Commissar, et al. On the other hand, the rest of the Russian Army, presumably under Trotsky’s command, was not under his control at all. It was largely stuffed by professional Tsarist officers who had reluctantly accepted the authority of the existing Russian government (which was the Bolshevik government), as a gesture of their patriotic rejection of the foreign intervention of the Entente powers on the Russian soil, but they continued to look down upon their new bosses in Moscow as a bunch of pathetic amateurs and upstart nobodies. Needless to say, Trotsky, being Jewish and extremely arrogant by nature, was a special object of their contempt, and so these officers, often openly flaunting insubordination, were giving Trotsky such huge headaches that he would frequently complain to the amused Lenin that they were all driving him mad…
…Trotsky as Russia’s War Commissar?!!… Big Joke!
Finally, there is a good reason for ridiculing those scholars who made their careers visualizing Trotsky as a viable Lenin’s successor. As I talked about this before, even Trotsky’s own writings convincingly reveal his prickly derision (thinly concealing sheer incompetence) for the practice of governing, and his predilection for the dynamics of the revolutionary process as such. Even more than Lenin, I repeat, he was the epitome of transitional, rather than institutional, political figure. As such, he was a textbook case of bombastic anti-state demagoguery, totally lacking the ability to be the leader of a stable nation.
...Trotsky the permanent revolutionist as head of the Russian State?!!… Big Joke!
The importance of Trotsky for Soviet Russia has always been much overblown. A clearly transitional figure, the so-called “permanent revolutionist,” he was completely overshadowed by the “constructive transitionist” Lenin. Furthermore, his role as a senior Soviet official holding ostensibly central government positions was only deceptively prominent, as the present entry will explain. Shockingly, his biggest prominence was achieved during his years of exile, and here is where the clever Soviet ploy comes out loud and clear.
Let us start with this question, which, to my knowledge, has never been asked:
Why was Trotsky, alone of all major Soviet officials, not just allowed to leave Soviet Russia, but effectively pushed into permanent exile abroad?
The answer is perfectly clear to me. Because he was much more useful to the Soviet State abroad and alive than at home awaiting his eventual show trial and execution like the rest of them. Trotsky was not a creator but a destroyer. Whatever usefulness he had in Russia during the period of the destruction of the old order, had turned into a liability as soon as that period had given way to the era of the buildup of the new “Soviet” order from the dust of the old. Now his usefulness would move abroad, where his destructive powers would serve to attack the foundations of the states hostile to Soviet Russia. What has become known as Trotskyism has in fact been an infectious virus affecting both the West and the East, whereas it could never harm Russia which had become immune to it, having been inoculated with Bolshevism.
Thus Trotsky had become Soviet Russia’s Trojan Horse, sent out to debilitate the enemy. His assassination in 1940 killed two birds with one stone: it demonstrated to Hitler (among several other such moves) that the USSR was no longer willing to tolerate the influence of Communist Jews (thus arguably eliminating at least one of the incentives for Nazi Germany to attack Russia), and it also created a glorious martyr for all those subversive movements around the world who would be proudly calling themselves the Trotskyites!!!
Having thus delivered the main thrust of my Trotsky entry, I shall now proceed with lesser details.---
Let us have that Trotsky paragraph of Lenin’s Testament back, for the specific purposes of this entry:
“Trotsky is distinguished not only in his exceptional abilities (personally, to be sure, he is perhaps the most able man in the present Tse-Ka), but also by his excessive self-assurance and excessive enthusiasm for the purely administrative aspect of his work... I will not further characterize the other members of the Tse-Ka, as to their personal qualities... I will only remind you that the October episode of Zinoviev and Kamenev was not, of course, accidental, but neither can it be used against them any more than the non-Bolshevism of Trotsky.”
In the previous entry, I already made my adamant point that here we are dealing with a large dose of Lenin’s famously acrid sarcasm, which he used as his second nature to ‘liquefy’ his enemies. (To liquidate them was not always practical in Lenin’s day, and it was most certainly not enough as far as their historical legacy was concerned!) Our next question is no longer about Lenin, but about Trotsky proper and about his relationship with Bolshevism and with Soviet Russia. We need to establish, which things are not what they seem to be, and why.
Trotsky’s non-Bolshevism, mentioned by Lenin, is a well known fact. Trotsky was never a trusted comrade of Lenin and his group. He was openly an opportunistic demagogue, a self-absorbed egomaniac, a ruthless thug, with no respect for the value of human life. He was also a consummate loner, with no sense of loyalty to others, and no inclination whatsoever to be a team player on anybody’s team.
He had not joined the Bolsheviks, and he was called a Menshevik by Lenin and his comrades, which was not a reference to his membership in the SD, although he was part of a small political group under the umbrella of the SD (all of these groups united by their opposition to the Bolsheviks), but, as I mentioned before, the label Menshevik was a title of derision, and, soon thereafter, a common reason for the death sentence during the years of the Red Terror; and consequently Trotsky would immediately become an object of derision and mocking condemnation. In other words, he was bound to be anathema to Lenin and to every Bolshevik, and his swift liquidation seemed like a foregone conclusion. Yet, in the first years of Bolshevism he managed to survive and prosper… Why?
Why, for that matter, had Zinoviev and Kamenev, open traitors to the Bolshevik Revolution, survived intact as well? To answer them all at once, let us add another why here. Why was Yakov Sverdlov, one of Lenin’s secretaries, a man whose singular qualification was his unquestioning meticulousness in following his boss’s instructions, appointed by Lenin to the post formally equivalent to “President” of Soviet Russia?
“What’s in a name?”, Shakespeare asks in Romeo and Juliet, and answers his own question in King Richard III, as the Duke of Clarence is dispatched to the Tower where he is soon to be murdered, “Because my name is George!” Yes, the name does matter, and so does… the ethnic factor!
The reader may have guessed it already. Yes, the Jews were being set up, prophylactically, I may add, as the scapegoats for everything and anything that might be going wrong with the Russian Revolution. They were also designated, by their ethnic-Russian Comrades, as the persecutors of Russian Orthodox Christianity, so that Russia’s great religion could be purified in the flames of persecution, as Early Christianity was purified in its own time. Immediately after the Revolution, the all-Russian Committee of the Godless was set up, and none other than our friend Trotsky was given its chairmanship, to which honor he promptly reacted, “No chance in hell!” and the honor then went to another distinctively Jewish candidate, who called himself Yemelyan Yaroslavsky (a Russian-sounding pseudonym, of course, which clashed with his distinctive Jewish facial features, and at once provoked a burst of anti-Jewish anger among the ethnic Russian population, who saw this as a direct assault by the Jews on Russian nationhood itself!), who did not think twice to accept it from Lenin’s hand with a most sincere gratitude.
Lenin never even concealed his grand idea to set up the Jews for the dirty jobs: the whole idea of appointing Sverdlov President of Russia was to make him sign the extremely unpopular death warrant for the Romanov family (all executed in July 1918), while Sverdlov himself, as soon as that dirty job had been accomplished, would be dispatched to the other world less than a year later, allegedly catching a bad cold on a train!
“The traitor Zinoviev’s” useful mission after the Bolshevik Revolution was to attract foreign Jewish leftist radicals of note to become Moscow’s clients in the Comintern, Communist International, created by Lenin as the sole legitimate heir to Karl Marx’s First and Second Internationals, and, consequently, also known as The Third International. For this reason, Zinoviev was appointed President of the Comintern, thus putting a distinctive Jewish face on it. (Incidentally, my grandfather Artem’s Comintern job was to communicate with the non-Jewish members and Bolshevik sympathizers, such as, for instance, the American John Reed, with whom Artem was briefly associated, until the American’s sudden death from typhus in 1920.
As for Trotsky, his apologists are quoting his high posts in the Soviet government in those early years as an authoritative indication of his supreme importance. But let us look at Trotsky’s appointments more closely. In his capacity as the People’s Commissar for Foreign Affairs, Trotsky’s sole ‘achievement’ happened to be the shockingly unpopular Brest-Litovsk Peace treaty with Germany in 1918, considered by many Russians as a shameful capitulation to Germany, and by the Entente Powers as an act of betrayal of their mutual war obligations. Trotsky himself suffered a fit of hysterics, realizing how appallingly he was being used, only this time, he could no longer wiggle out of his assignment, as he had from the ludicrous position of Head of the Godless.
…He, Trotsky, as Russia’s Foreign Affairs Commissar?!!… Big Joke!
Characteristically, having performed his stunt at Brest-Litovsk, Trotsky was summarily dismissed from his position as Commissar for Foreign Affairs and transferred to another lofty position of War Commissar...
In his new post of War Commissar in wartime, Trotsky was by no means as all-powerful as his title might suggest. The real Red Army, as it came to be known, started as Stalin’s special army, under the command of Stalin’s loyal crony Voroshilov. It was not answerable to anyone, except Stalin, that anyone including Lenin himself, not to mention Lenin’s subordinate “cabinet members,” such as the War Commissar, et al. On the other hand, the rest of the Russian Army, presumably under Trotsky’s command, was not under his control at all. It was largely stuffed by professional Tsarist officers who had reluctantly accepted the authority of the existing Russian government (which was the Bolshevik government), as a gesture of their patriotic rejection of the foreign intervention of the Entente powers on the Russian soil, but they continued to look down upon their new bosses in Moscow as a bunch of pathetic amateurs and upstart nobodies. Needless to say, Trotsky, being Jewish and extremely arrogant by nature, was a special object of their contempt, and so these officers, often openly flaunting insubordination, were giving Trotsky such huge headaches that he would frequently complain to the amused Lenin that they were all driving him mad…
…Trotsky as Russia’s War Commissar?!!… Big Joke!
Finally, there is a good reason for ridiculing those scholars who made their careers visualizing Trotsky as a viable Lenin’s successor. As I talked about this before, even Trotsky’s own writings convincingly reveal his prickly derision (thinly concealing sheer incompetence) for the practice of governing, and his predilection for the dynamics of the revolutionary process as such. Even more than Lenin, I repeat, he was the epitome of transitional, rather than institutional, political figure. As such, he was a textbook case of bombastic anti-state demagoguery, totally lacking the ability to be the leader of a stable nation.
...Trotsky the permanent revolutionist as head of the Russian State?!!… Big Joke!
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