The two recent letters from Com. Bukharin of 22 July 1929, addressed to the Central Committee, testify that Com. Bukharin continues to use the method of struggle with the party and its Central Committee chosen by him of late, making indirect sorties against decisions of the Central Committee (in “private” conversations: the “chat” with Com. Kamenev and now the “chats” with the Komsomol member Com. Platonov and others) and permitting himself further masked attacks on the party line in speeches and articles (“Notes of an Economist,” then the speech “The Political Testament of Lenin,” and recently the speech at the All-Union Congress of Atheists and the article “The Theory of ‘Organized Mismanagement’”). Furthermore, each time the party catches Com. Bukharin at this, he squirms out of a direct answer and an admission of his mistakes and in reality covers them up. Regarding the two recent letters from Com. Bukharin, the Politburo must state the following: a) In vain does Com. Bukharin pretend not to understand the decisions of the Politburo condemning his article “The Theory of ‘Organized Mismanagement.’” First, in this article, Com. Bukharin makes the same mistake in evaluating the development of capitalism that was pointed out at the last plenum of the Comintern: “The reconcilers' notion about the waning of internal contradictions within capitalist countries and the possibility of organizing the domestic market while preserving anarchy only in the world market is refuted by the entire development of capitalism during the past years and in reality means a capitulation to reformist ideology.” Second, under cover of the “analogy” between the proletarian dictatorship's method of economic management and the methods used by contemporary capitalist monopolies, Com. Bukharin essentially continues his defense of views condemned at the April plenum of the Central Committee, thus continuing his battle against the party's policy of an intensified offensive against the capitalist elements and their

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removal. His actions can only nourish the illusions of capitalist elements about a retreat from the proletariat's socialist offensive. b) Com. Bukharin also pretends that his speech at the Congress of Atheists does not contradict the line of the party and its Central Committee. Meanwhile, in reality, under cover of the slogan “Doubt everything,” deployed by Marx to destroy capitalism and overthrow the bourgeois government, Com. Bukharin is engaged in spreading unbelief [nedoverie] in the general line of the party, which promotes the triumphant construction of socialism. Thus, instead of helping to mobilize the broad masses of workers under the Communist banner of the working class, in this speech, Com. Bukharin completely violates the Marxist method of dialectics; furthermore, he continues his struggle against the party leadership. His views reflect the vacillations of petit bourgeois segments [of the population]. These vacillations are inevitable when class warfare is aggravated during the offensive against capitalist elements. c) Although not believing it necessary to dwell on Bukharin's “justifications” regarding his “chat” with Komsomol member G. Platonov, the Central Committee cannot overlook the fact that even Com. Bukharin's letter — without dwelling here on the unworthy attacks on the Central Committee — confirms that he is using any excuse to continue the battle against the party's policy.

Ibid., ll. 7, 8.