Bukharin brings down anger at Social Democracy and demands turning the relation with her. What is social-democracy - scum – this is certain, and not we, of course, will defend it. But from where Bukharin specifically now took this rage?
Not because social democracy mislead the proletariat before the face of world war. "Social-democracy of August 4 1914" - he says – "is only an embryonic nucleus of modern social democracy." Not because she shot revolutionary workers - about this in his speech, he did not
remind. His anger is aroused by Hilferding's thesis that "it would be better if the Soviet Union was embroiled in the common complex of capitalist countries". "The practical expression of this formulation of mister Hilferding'', Bukharin said, "means nothing more than a war against the USSR. Of course, such an evolution of social-democracy was bound to cause appropriate response from our side. To all comrades it is known, that last enlarged plenum of the ECCI outlined a tactical change in the politics of the French and British party and, to some degree (?), on a general scale".
That is what motivates Bukharin's left turn in the politics of the Comintern. When the British General Council twice betrayed the English proletariat – at the time of the general strike and the miners' strike - then you could sit next to these traitors carrying to their address an approving resolution.
Only because on that occasion, that General Council had promised to fight against intervention. Turn away from social-democracy and its variants was necessary only when this social democracy began to speak out against USSR. It goes without saying - this is a great abomination, but the betrayal of the proletariat - no less of an abomination, and if that betrayal at the time did not cause a turn, then involuntarily the question is given: And what if under the influence of one or other international combination social democracy of one or another country - Germany, for example - once again changed its western orientation to the East? Will not Bukharin then give her for this his "global countryside" just as he gave the English proletariat to the General Council in 1926? And is not in this case the reservation made about the fact that the turn "on a general scale" is outlined only "to some degree'', although the degree of abomination of social-democracy is the same in all countries?
