Leon Trotsky: Letter to Harry Winitsky [Writing of Leon Trotsky, Vol. 2, 1930, New York 1975, p. 186, title: “A Letter to a Lovestoneite”] Dear Comrade Winitsky: I have received your paper regularly. The various addresses [Prinkipo, Buyuk-Ada, etc.] signify the same place. In thanking you for your kind attention I nevertheless feel the need of frankly expressing to you a certain surprise on my part in connection with your letter. The Revolutionary Age has from its very beginning, and its present director long before its appearance, constantly and energetically denounced me and my friends as counterrevolutionists. I cannot doubt that this happened out of honest conviction. You sign yourself, dear Comrade Winitsky, "fraternally." The sincerity of this salutation I also have absolutely no right to question. But since we are not diplomats, and what we say must correspond to what we think, I assume that, if not Revolutionary Age as a whole, at least a section around it no longer regards us as "counterrevolutionists." Would it not then be in place to acknowledge this openly? I raise this question not in my interest but in the interest of political clarification in general. In this spirit I also sign myself Fraternally, L. Trotsky |
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