Stalin from the view of Trotsky
I would urge strongly that at this congress a number of changes be made in out political structure. I want to tell you of the considerations to which I attach most importance. At the head of the list I set an increase in the number of Central Committee members to a few dozen or even a hundred. It is my opinion that without this reform our Central Committee would be in great danger if the course of events were not quite favourable for us (and that is something we cannot count upon). Then, I intend to propose that the congress should on certain conditions invest the decisions of the State Planning Commission with legislative force, meeting in this respect the wishes of Comrade Trotsky - to a certain extent and on certain conditions. As for the first point, i.e., increasing the number of CC members, I think it must be done in order to raise the prestige of the CC, to do a thorough job of improving our administrative machinery, and to prevent conflicts between small sections of the CC from acquiring excessive importance for the future of the party. It seems to me that our party has every right to demand from the working class fifty to one hundred CC members,
He makes a mistake and tells them that its' CCommittee's fault. In my opinion, the workers admitted to the CC should come preferably not from among those who have had long service in Soviet bodies (in this part of my letter the term workers everywhere includes peasants), because those workers have already acquired the very traditions and the very prejudices which it is desirable to combat. He still thinks if Stalin only knew about his case, he would definitely correct the mistake of his apparatus that so often does things, Stalin doesn't know about. Maybe he keeps me here to make me go crazy or maybe he thinks it's going to hurt his ego somehow. By stability of the CC, of which I spoke above, I mean measures against a split, as far as such measures can at all be taken. I think that from this standpoint the prime factor in the question of stability are such members of the CC as Stalin and Trotsky. I am so full and disgusted by Stalin's secret police, which catches every suspect-real or imaginary, closes the mouth trap and never lets it out again.
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