Word: trotskyism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...intend to enter into a theoretical consideration of Stalinism vs. Trotskyism. . . . However I think even the Crimson should be told some of the facts of life about the radical movement...
During the acute stage of the Moscow Trials, when one famed old Bolshevik after another was being convicted of "Trotskyism" and shot, newspaper cartoonists in many lands spontaneously got the same idea. They drew the Dictator facing his reflection in a looking glass and shouting: "Traitor, confess! You too are a Trotskyist!" Last week there were epochal goings on in Moscow which made such cartoons even more appropriate than during the Trials...
...loud-pedal World Revolution is the No. 1 tenet of Trotskyism, but whatever Stalin loud-pedals is Stalinism. Last week Stalinists felt no embarrassment in hearing a loudspeaker blare across the Red Square from just back of where the Dictator was standing: "Long live the World Revolution! Long live the Leader [Stalin] of the International Working Class! Long live the Proletarian Revolution!" The vast and disciplined mob, moving across the Red Square wave on wave, took up each slogan as it was rolled out by the loudspeaker and enthusiastically shouted it in chorus...
...Were fascinated by the spectacle of a contest between Trotskyism and Stalinism staged on the floor of the House between two of Britain's most extreme Left M. P.'s, respectively Communist Willie Gallacher and Independent Laborite Jock McGovern. Mr. McGovern demanded that His Majesty's Government take steps to secure the release from Moscow and Leningrad jails of twelve Indian Communists arrested by Stalin police on charges of Trotskyism. Mr. Gallacher interjected to call Mr. McGovern "a converted revolutionary who now pleads with Capitalism to protect criminals!" Mr. McGovern retorted by calling Mr. Gallacher "a creature...
...against any candidate was reported made anywhere in the Soviet Union. However, the official Soviet press said last week that at Leningrad a citizen named Golubev was given seven years for "swearing at candidates." He only swore and so was let off easily. An opposition speech would have been "Trotskyism" or "wrecking," for which the legal penalty is death...