- VI - For the liquidators of the fourth international, the fourth international does not exist

Along a certain number of years an historian who devoted his efforts to follow closely the life of Leon Trotsky wondered why the founder of the Red Army and leader of the Third International and the victory of Russian October preferred to “waste” his precious time organizing little groups and discussing endlessly with them, to spend so many hours gathering and forming cadres in the “hell-black night” of fascism and Stalinism in the ‘30s, for the sake of forming the Fourth International.
From the viewpoint of this historian, called Isaac Deutscher –author of works as “The Prophet Unarmed” and “The Prophet Outcast”, the worst mistake of Trotsky’s was that of wasting his time organizing the Fourth International when the Left Opposition had to break completely with the Third International after the defeat in 1933 to the German proletariat in the hands of fascism and Hitler due to the Stalinist misleading.
For all their heaps of scribbles about Trotsky, for all their fake ”tributes” to him, no one of the Trotskyite renegades can deny that they are adepts to that petty bourgeois viewpoint by Deutscher and only pay a shallow homage to Trotsky’s masterpiece, the founding of the Fourth International. They have dedicated, with their different “national-international chiefs” originated in the post-Yalta period, to build “their” internationals, with their “mother parties” and “satellite groups” which only served to give a cover to the misdeeds that each one of them performed in its country. They have used the Fourth International as a cover for federations of national groups, for their pompous international diplomacy of helping each other to put into practise and conceal the worst social-patriotism in order to better submit the working classes of their respective countries to their own bourgeoisies.
Trotsky affirms –and we with him- that the hour of national programs has long passed away; that the revolution in each country is only the refraction of the international conditions created by the political, economic and military dominance of imperialism over the planet; that the only national task for a revolutionary party is winning over the majority of the proletarians and their fighting organizations in order to centralize them together with the rest of the world working class for attaining victory, leading the masses in each country towards a victorious insurrection.
The liquidators of the Fourth International, with their international diplomatic federations, with their mother parties and satellites, have only achieved the discontinuity of a centralized party of the world proletariat.
When Trotsky received in Mexico the visit of hundreds of passionate revolutionary cadres, eager to know his experience at the head of the Red Army, he refused to answer their questions about this topic. His guests insisted, asking him again and again about his views on the experience of the Red Army and his extraordinary contributions to the military program of the proletariat, as in the case of the war of manoeuvres. Trotsky’s only answer was: “The Third International and the Russian Bolsheviks have already written a lot about that. Please read and study those lessons and you will be able to instruct yourselves”.
The founder of the Fourth International affirmed: for conducting the seizing of power, for founding the Third International and defending the power of the soviets, where I played a very significant role, I could have equally been absent; however, Bolshevism would have achieved those goals all the same.
Against the impostors that pay “homage” falsifying Trotskyism, it’s necessary to tell the truth: comrade Trotsky answered his guests (as today he would tell his detractors): “but I am positively important, and must play in it a central role, for the task of founding the Fourth International, the world party of socialist revolution. Without that, the next generation of the proletariat will be lost. The next war will be only a catastrophe in a chain of catastrophes if the world socialist revolution does not succeed in attaining victory. The perspective of socialist revolution will be far away for years and barbarism will devastate the planet”.