Trotskyism, Communist Anti-Democratic
Ideas Are Exposed in New Weiss Drama

Peter
gained worldwide
attention with his pia)
The In -
vestigation" which Atheneum pub -
lished in 1966 Exiled from Ger-
many by the Nazis in 1934. he
used his skills to expose the Hitler
terror .
His play, known as Marat/Sade.
The Persecution and Assassina -
tion of Jean-Paul Marat as Per-
formed by the Inmates of the
Asylum of Charenton Under the
Direction of the ritarouis de Sade)
keeps drawing enthusiastic auto-
ences as it is doing at the Bonstelle
1 heater
Now Weiss deserves special at-
tention with his new play, "Trot-
sky in Exile," also published by
Atheneum
Every conceivable aspect in the
life of Leon Trot-
sky, all the con-
flicts with the
opposition in
C o m m u n i s t
ranks, the strug-
gle with Stalin,
his Jewish atti-
tudes— all are
utilized in this
noteworthy liter-
ary achievement
by the brilliant
dramatist.
Trotsky
Trotsky had his confrontations
with the Jewish socialists and the .
Jewish revolutionaries who in °
sisted on retaining a measure of
autonomy.
At the very outset, reconstruct-
ing the early Brussels meeting of
the Russian revolutionists, in 1903,
there are Trotsky, Plekhanov, Ar-
kadi Kremer and others, and the
Jewish issue is on the agenda.
involving desire for recognition by
Jews. In the play we have this
debate:

PLEKII 4 NOV
The Jeu,,h r'edera Pon
insists on keeping IN auton
If we
allow that, then all
other national

minorities will demand similar mule.

pencLence, once our party has achieved
Central organtration would go.
Ile replaced by federation
. 1•ROTSKY 14 oat has held the Jews
together till nine' The religion
That
is on
the pot., of rantsho , Their
'Peent , ot life, the, cliitonr,
Nut
the..e fly, the result of the covalitimrS
yy•sly —
r, b - h
they have laed for cen•
t n • o•
I
self. contioned Jew., CU; fore

v ictory

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aside all

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and tyystztutyobs stanclyny
in
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KNEW Ft
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harrn ' t
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the tor...lion of rite fat trrsh Ip
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to
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work out
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proletariat is a - Pre condition of the
social revolution The proletariat
hare complete palatial( power /II 11,11•••
tr sunpre, all resistance
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Over the parYlaryientary it'•

Ie., ', a tell'
If, after the collapse
r1.167EH A Nidt .
of thevbroyarchy,
n constituent a,
•1t1114
elected tch ash ys opposed by
ye- kers • port,
rbe rerolutronary
the , Yt sylyo, he Net aside

Weiss takes his audience to the
fateful 26th of October events in
1917. There is a conversation be
tween lAmin and Trotsky, and
Trotsky, replying to Lenin who
laughingly asked "Were you try-
ing to outplay me . grab the
leadership vourself -- . commented
- Maybe the unpulse was there
Somewhere in me there's still that
poor young Jewish lad Lev Brun
stein front nofska The fantas-
tic urge for power and infl,lenee

1/M(1i-ill( to appreciate that none
of it exists for you. Ambition. The
need to prove oneself. None of
it exists for you."

A hit later an historical incident
is recorded_ Kremer is hack on
the scene. Trotsky tells the Jew-
ish group their roles "played out. •
Go where you belong—into the rub-
bish bins of history." Kremer:
"Under these conditions it is im-
possible for the delegates of the
United Jewish Workers to take
part in the debates." dead. I„

Syrian POW Escape

uouutrie , The ones
Just at'Cept their

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t bed. k7,1::,:.`
tematwally to exterminate them,
TROTSKY. Ti,,' Jews are flot the only
engaged
In
a
people in the
id
life-and-death struggl e. It it true
they're paying a terrible
pr!ce for

JERI:SALENI (JTA)—A speci I
committee has been set up to in-
vestigate the esc ape of three
Syrian prisoners of war from la
POW camp in central Israel. lit

umla t eonfrm,mnon

Kamenev: "Put in the minutes:
eta.. f wance • I hey are merely the sir-
the delegates of the United Jewish pm', of a" i n ternal
d t at "rmi;;
qA""";`,.;
ey
o irm
an t understan
Workers leave the chamber."
•
the ranks of the erploited.

"Kuchin: Political adventurers
Finally, the execution—the mur-
are here deciding over the life of der'—in Mexico, and the curtain
,he nation. The soldiers in the goes down on a great drama.
trenches are not on your side."
Peter Weiss has reconstructed

Especially noteworthy is the an important chapter in Russian
Trotsky reaction when he gets to history, and it has an important
France, at Demesne near Greno- bearing on Jewish experiences, on
ble, after his demotion and exile 1 the Communists' rejection of Jew-
from Russia. He meets with stu- ish national aspirations, on the
dents and here is a portion of the assimilationism of the revolution-;
conversation: I aries who themselves collapsed
under violent defeat, themselves
FRENCH STUDENT Since you're not .
to come to port ,,
came suffering from the anti-Semitic
as a delegation to you.
virus,
GERMAN STUDENT.
we have
tat I
It does not overlook Trotsky's
of questions
Plenty to discuss. I am
assimilationist ideas, his rejec-
a German by birth
15 all a Jeunvh
n
,
1 :1, • Lion of Jewish claims to just rights
Dachr,u
Dnre you u re
as Jews, his adhering to a bank-
stilt? ;or
Are you
cr ,T,. 7%
rupt socialist idea about the solo-
. lion of the Jewish problem via
vot ■ -fro-ify
Persecute Jewish families. What good
Marxism_ Trotsky the anti-Jew.
as it us that we see ourselves
communism t h e anti-democratic
as Germans. not Jews7 We're 'tow la•
belled a di) I erent race. in inc Soviet
subject, emerge in their true light.
too, Jews
are discriminated
together with all related personali-
rioao,st Couldn't the creation of a
state
have
soloed
the prob-
ties. in a great play by Weiss.

To Deal With

Joe Slatkin's

One of the POWs was captured
in Tel Aviv but the search far
the other two is continuing.

DEXTER
CHEVROLET

One of the two missing POWS
was identified as Naji
Abu Salah, a Syrian intelligence
agent who served as liaison be
tween certain Druze leaders in
the Golan Heights and the intellii
gence service in Damascus.

where? The Itallans preparing to in -
vade Ethiopia. The Japanese Planning
t•ntted
a new assault On China, The

States sending troops to Bolivia and
Paraguay to safeguard their tin , their
Revolts in the Rhodesian copper
od
m,neat brutally put down by the colt,-
Sinkers ;n Spa,., shot
,al
power.

It's Nice

was announced.

theirown blindness They hate door
of
their sharein helping the rise
fascism. Rut
what is going On els , -

the great

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
12—Friday, May 26, 1972

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TROTSKY
Assimilation failed as a
policy
Not because the Jett s them-
Rather Mr
selves
were against if
cause the Jewswere
still
needed

a.s a scapegoat, to divert attention

In Germany
the
class struggle
from
the pattern IS shamefully clear. In the
Union anti-Semitism is more
Soviet
When Jews are
di) ficult to pin down.
rnrrested. it looks as it they are being
party
the
rsur,shed for c.riticuing

leadership-- not for being Jews

FRENCH STUDENT. When emotions
immediately
orarcome dialectics,
you
and recrimination Arid
oet
1 . 101 , 114,
that leads to increased Zionism
I see
.4 step backwards
TROTSKY
emigration to Palestine also as a dare
lend to in-
cjerfm, move It can only
nay
respitrince The
Arab
erenned
1, to fight harder to restore
panto,"
the International.
w hile hundreds
'DENT
GERM.%
rho/isn't/is
of Jew, in Gernya, a are
4,1
lives
fear of trier
ar ound In
• y1
rcf-
y Je n, 'lath money rn

Students End Strike;

Get Major Concessions

TEI. AVIV , JTA, — After is
five-hour stormy session the Stu-
dents Union Presidium decided
to end the three-day strike by some
40.0iai students.
striking
were
students
The
against a proposal by the ministry
of education to increase tuition
fees next year from $250 to $600
and against red tape in provid-
ing grants to needy students.
After several meetings with
Minister of Education Vigal Alton
it was agreed that the grants
would be given as soon as pos-
sible while the higher tuition fees
would not he introduced next
year
Meanwhile. Deputy Premier
Algal Alton pledged that he
would not permit any Israeli
institutions of higher learning
to shut down because of finan-
cial difficulties.

Speaking over the army broad-
casting services, Alton said he
would bring the matter before a
cabinet session.
His remarks seemed alined pro
marily at Tel Aviv Uni5ersity -
which has said it may not reopen
next fall because of an S8,000.-
000 deficit
Faculty and administratke ern-
plon.es at Tel Aviv University we ir
reportedly planning to strike if
the university is unable to rise
enough money to pay their full
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