Trotsky on Stalin

Leon Trotsky, exiled to Turkey two years ago by Dictator Josef Stalin, hurled a figurative bunch of sour grapes last week in Moscow's direction.

Perfectly consistent but highly embittered, Comrade Trotsky, who was ousted for his "Left heresy" (TIME, Oct. 10, 1927), has written a new book, The Permanent Revolution, published in German last week by Die Aktion, Berlin. In this fat volume he flays Stalin because the Dictator concentrates his efforts primarily in Russia.

Stalin's mere "sympathy" for the work of fomenting the "World Revolution of the World Proletariat" is not enough, cries Trotsky. He accuses the Dictator of resting content,with the "partial revolution" (i. e. the Sovietization of Russia). Comrade Trotsky, grand-old, fire-eating, impotent revolutionist, demands "The Permanent Revolution!"

No sooner was the Trotsky tome published than Pravda, official organ of the Soviet Government, came out with an exhortation to the U. S. Communist Party, as if to show that Comrade Stalin is not such a bad world revolutionist after all. Pravda informed them that now is the time to spread Communist propaganda among the "exploited and ruined American farmers" and among "the 30,000,000 American proletarians, more than a third of whom are out of work."

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