The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 1, 1924, Page 7

(Continued from last week.) ill. The Tasks of Organization of the Various Sections on the Field of Propaganda. 9. Agitational ana propaganda ac- tivity must be regarded as a special branch of work of every party, if pos- sible, or at least, the most highly de- veloped Communist mass _ parties. Within the central apparatus, a spe- cial body must be set up for party training (propaganda) and to guide agitational and propaganda activity. This body must guide Marxian-Lenin- ist propaganda, must work out the system and method of conducting this propaganda, and furnish propaganda literature for educational work in Marxism-Leninism. 10. One of the pre-requisites for or- ganized propaganda activity and sys- tematic development of party training, is to register all propagandist schools ' in Marxism, to specialize and secure a continuation of their education, and to support them in the educational work of the party. New cadres for propaganda must be formed and the old ones must be revised in the spirit of Leiiinism. In view of the scarcity of propaganda specialists, they must be used not only for teaching directly, but also for instructing lecturers who do not concern themselves specially with propaganda activity. Moreover, they must be organized into perma- nent commissions, or into commis- sions that meet periodically under the auspices of the departments for agi- tation and propaganda, the task of which will be to render assistance to the party members in their Marxian- Leninist education by word and deed, and to organize the work of educa- It is the duty of every party i, to awaken interest this autumn in the theoretical, political, tactical and or- ganizational questions of Marxism- Leninism by an as extensive campaign as possible. This campaign is to be carried on in connection with the death of Lenin, with the new program of the Communist International, and with the actual political and internal questions of the Communist Interna- tional and the parties. This campaign must also serve as the starting point for the systematic training of the parties. ’ : 12. It will be necessary to raise the question of imposing on all elected officials the duty of study. A special body must be formed within the train- .ing apparatus, which will offer the party officials an opportunity to ex- tend and intensify their theoretical knowledge. Wherever possible, edu- cation days must be introduced for the party officials after the pattern of weekly party conferences. Every party member must be required to be- come acquainted with a certain mini- mum of political and theoretical knowledge at least to such a degree that the masses of the party mem- bers will be able to answer the ques- tions of the non-Communist workers on the program, the aims, and the tac- tical principles of the Communist Par- ty, and to combat the most flagrant petty bourgeois and social democratic prejudices of the working class. 13. fhe party press must be utiliz- ed for awakening interest in the work of party training, in self-education, and in the problems of Marxism-Lenin- ism. The Communist periodicals must intensify the theoretical discussion of the actual political and tactical ques- Workers Part y Educational Department * ‘ Condacted by James P. Cannon, Educational Director he “Without a Revolutionary Theory a Revolutionary Party is Impossible.” ciples of Communist Pro Adopted by Fifth Congress of Comintern for popularizing Marxian -Leninist literature by linking them up with the minimum knowledge which every Communist worker must possess in those questions. The daily press must also support the efforts of self-educa- tion of the party members with ad- vice and in agreement with the de- partments for agitation and propagan- da of the party. The bibliographical sections of the daily press, which must be enlarged for this task, must an- nounce as completely and attractively as possible the appearance of Com- munist literature and Communist peri- odicals. The bibliographical sections of the periodicals must not confine itself merely to announcing and criticizing the contents of the literature, but must discuss the ways and means of utiliz- ing the literature in propaganda work. The Communist bibliography must be developed into one of the most im- portant means for awakening a de- sire for Marxian education among the party and non-party masses. 14. A thoro discussion of the li- brary question is also absolutely nec- essary. Marxian-Leninist libraries must be established in the party or- ganization. Those who have charge of the libraries must be put at the service of the workers who are try- ing to educate themselves, and must be instructed for this work. The par- ty must pay attention also to the public libraries (trade union and com- munity libraries) and gain influence in these libraries wherever possible so that they can be put at the service of Marxian-Leninist propaganda. iV. The Methods of Marxist-Leninist Propaganda Institutions. 15. The methods of propaganda must be adapted to the conditions and |. stage of development of the various sections. The following suggestions, may serve as a common principle for all countries and parties: a) Party education must be so or- ganized as to absorb, in some form or other, all the members.of the party. The parties must see to it that each one of their members obtains at least a thoro knowledge of elementary Marxist-Leninist propaganda. But even the higher party officials must continually refresh their political edu- cation to add to their knowledge and intensify their organizational and agi- tational activities. b) Every department of the Com- munist educational institutions and propaganda organs must be directed towards practical and definite aims, and must be composed of students of a similar level of education. When forming classes, drawing up programs, and selecting methods, the guiding principle for all propaganda institu- tions must be to train the students for a definite form of party work and for the solution of definite and prac- tical questions. c) Each department of the educa- tional propaganda institutions must represent an independent whole, hav- ng definite tasks to fulfill. It must not be regarded merely as a stepping stone to higher education. 16. In order to benefit as many party members as possible (in spite of the paucity of intellectual and ma- terial means), the two forms of edu- cation should be adopted in the Marx- ist-Leninist propaganda institutions, viz, party schools and self-education. 17. In connection with the former, the two poles of the party school sys- tem should be: a) Central party schools. b) A network of elementary even- ing classes or Sunday schools. 18. The central party schools must profound the student’s knowledge of Marxism and Leninism, and thus train fully qualified party workers and new and strong bodies of propagandists for the development of our propagandist activities. 19. The ‘principle aim of the ele- mentary evening classes (Sunday schools) must be to impart elementary political knowledge to our party mem- bers by teaching the first principles of Marxist-Leninist theory and me- thod. The curriculum of these class- ‘es'must be based on-the program of the Communist International. These classes must aim at making party members fit to take up active party work and to carry on individual propa- ganda among the’ masses inside and especially outside the party. 20. Between these two poles of the party school system various other forms of party education may be or- ganized and adapted to the conditions prevailing in the respective countries and parties. These forms of educa- tion can range from Sunday schools and short local study courses to dis- trict party schools, able to cater to more advanced students and calculat- ed to turn out local organizers and officials. Special efforts should be made to institute continual courses for propagandists in order to add to their knowledge and to keep them in practice. 21. Communist Parties must not neglect to make their influence felt in labor colleges, factory council school, trade union educational insti- tutions, ete. They must endeavor to get these institutions under their con- trol with the object of using them as Communist education centers. 22. Neither the funds nor the in- tellectual material of the parties are sufficient to carry out the ambitious scheme of establishing a network of Marxist-Leninist schools wide enough to cover the overwhelming majority of our membership in the near future. For this reason, and also because the school system alone cannot give to students a thoro and complete knowl- edge of Marxism-Leninism we must rouse the interest of our members in self-education which must be organ- ized on a large scale. In this con- nection special attention should be paid to the group system of self educa- tion (workers’ study circles). Every party must endeavor to set up a net- work of Marxist-Leninist study circles. The central agitation propaganda com- mittee of the party must appoint a committee organized of comrades well trained in propaganda work and hay- ing pedagogical abilities. This com- mittee must promote self education in Marxism and Leninism by giving advice to individual members and self- education groups by correspondence and thru our various organs of the press. ; 23. Organization of propaganda must not be limited to the-higher par- ty organs, but must be also extended to the larger factory nuclei of the par- ty as well as to the smaller territorial party organizations. In all these or- ganizations propaganda organizers must be selected whose business it must be to develop propaganda activi- ties and to arouse the interests of the workers for party education, in ac-|Copy cordance with the instructions of the da organs of the party. 4. The executive of the Commu- ist International must see to it that in the course of the next twelve months a model school and several model evening classes (Sunday schools) be established at least in the most important parties for the dis- semination of Marxism and Leninism. If desired by the central committee of any party, the executive must estab- lig] iM paganda contact with the propaganda institu- tions and Marxist-Leninist study cir- cles in the most important working class districts in their respective coun- tries. The Communist International must also be the medium for establish, ing connection between the Commu- nist universities, party schools, Marx- ist-Leninist study circles of the Rus- sian Communist Party, and the rres- ponding institutions abroad. 25. Party organs must take an ac tive part in the establishment of simi- lar educational institutions for the youth, in providing them with propa- gandists and by drawing the youth in- to the educational institutions of the party. 26. Communist Parties must also concern themselves with the higher education of Communist students and other iptellectuals. Students’ organ- izations must not be allowed to re main in a state of splendid isolation. The existing Communist student groups or fractions, which hitherto have been select self-education circles without any particular system, must be transformed, under the direct guid- ance of experienced party workers well versed.in Marxism and Lenin- ism and familiar with the labor move- ment, into educational bodies capable of turning out fully qualified propagan- fists. Moreover, members of these student groups must be induced to take part in the propagation of Marx- ist-Leninist ideas among the work- ers. 27. All Communist Parties must place the questfon of the development of Marxist-Leninist propaganda and of the party institutions engaged in it on the agenda of their next party con- vention. (To be concluded next Saturday) the International Learn Language IDO 16-page pamphlet, giving outline of language, showing its superiority over Esperanto, etc., sent free. The Workers Ido Federation Room 5, 805 James St., N. S. PITTSBURGH, PA. “The American Boom Is atan End...” Says Prof. E. 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