The Daily Worker Newspaper, September 3, 1928, Page 3

=——— Bukharin’s Speech — The first and second sections of Bukharin’s speech in reply to the discussion on the international situation at the Sixth Congress of the Communist International were Published in Saturday's Daily Worker. Those sections were: I. “The Positive and Negative Sides of the Dis- cussion,” and II, “The Stabilization of Capitalism and the Controversy vver the ‘Third Period.’” Mee I come now to the second funda- mental question which gave rise to an even more lively discussion than the first one. It is a pity that only perialist press. ‘“Epokha,” the of- a few comrades spoke on this point. ficial Polish organ, in a leading ar- First of all, however, I would like ticle entitled “Soviet Loyalty,” says to put the following preliminary the following: question: What is demanded of an} “Bukharin’s speech shows that the E. C. C.I. reporter? Must he travel| Comintern and the Soviet govern- over the whole globe and then come | ment is one and the same thing. Up back and report that in Mexico the till now the Soviet government has situation is so and so, in the Argen- dissociated itself from the Comin- tine it is a little different, in Ni-| tern and this formula was accepted caragua it is altogether different; in| by those states who desire at all the Co-operative Movement so and} costs to maintain normal relations so and so and so is going on? Must | with the U. S. S. R. Poland is one he report about absolutely every-'of these states. Now, however, it thing; about the Co-operative Move-) turns out this formula is unsound. ment, about the Mexican govern-|The Soviet government cannot dis- ment, etc., etc.? Were he to do that, avow Bukharin, who is a member of he would no doubt satisfy the wishes |the Political Bureau, i. e., the su- of all the comrades without excep- preme organ of power in the U. S. tion. Had I done that, Comrade|S, R. The fact that Rykov is a Murphy, for example, would have|member of the Presidium of the been completely satisfied because I Comintern Congress (Bukharin: Ap- would have spoken about the Co-op-| parently they have confused Rykov erative movement (laughter). The | with an American or an Indian) and Mexican comrades would have been that Bukharin’s report is published satisfied with the last few words I/in all the Soviet newspapers indi- would have said about Mexico. Per- haps this would be a very good} longer dissociates itself from the method, because all the comrades|Comintern and has removed its would be pleased with the fact that) mask. Now we know that the So- I would have mentioned “their” | viet government and the Comintern Movement. For a Marxist, how-|is one and the same thing, that the their press they have commented on the speech I delivered here. First of all I will deal with the Polish im- jcate that the Soviet government no | ever, the important thing is to indi-| Soviet government is preparing for | cate the main tendencies out of the war against Poland and that in this sum of facts and on the basis of war the Polish Communists must these tendencies to lay down the | act as spies and create diversions in principal tactical line. That is what! the rear.” I considered my task to have been. | What is the pivot of the present sit-| 1. 7hroina,” the organ of the min- uation? We have taken note oftictiy for war, writes: the great changes that have taken ee nt ; place in the world situation in many sareeya See cre Sais directions; but what is the pivot of the role of the Polisi oe S the world situation, what is the key |im the event of a Polish-Soviet war is not an unexpected one. However, ies? I report I re-| one, ea ne (question quite openly |What deserves attention is the bold, and clearly. I said: the pivot of |O¢ may say, the insolent tone in the whole whole situation is the war | yeas Fear aapi te panes Problem. The war danger—‘his 18! ile that now: governs “Russia, speaks of the possibility of war with the core of the situation. In my opinion the war danger is the most Poland aud ‘tie feek-Alikk tie: dows not, think fit to conceal his plans characteristic symptom of the pres- and prospects. All that we wish to ent situation as a whole. | Imperialist and Social Democratic) (int to, however, is the senseless Comments. | and destructive demoralization which I will take it upon myself, com-| the mere fact of the existence of the rades, to “discuss” with the ene-| so-called Communist system intro- mies of the proletariat, the imper-| duces in internal and foreign rela- ialists and the social democrats. In| tions and the manner in which it is Another Polish newspaper, “Pol- tolerated. Bukharin’s have dentanded the legalization of Communists to hold their tongues. For, the Communists are the enemy. The most dangerous enemy of the Communist, system is Pilsudski, around whom all those who are op- posed to Communism must rally.” Comrades, you understand per- fectly clearly what all this talk means. It is by no means an acci- dent that the point in my speech about the war danger is precisely the one that is selected for com ment. The social democratic press has also commented on my report. “Vor- waerts,” the central organ of inter- national Social Democracy, in its is- sue of July 27, write: “This political belief in miracles is dictated by well-formulated theo- ries at the Congress of the Commu- nist International in Moscow; its prophet is Bukharin. The political belief in miracles has already taken many forms in the Comintern. The miracle was first expected to come from Germany, then from the Bal- kans and then from the Pacific Islands, Now Bukharin swears by China, by the antagonisms between America and Europe, but above all. he swears by war.” Then comes the following “com- ment”: “Again we get a rehash of the old vulgar-Marxian theory: the growth df productive forces under capitalism leads to the struggle for markets; the struggle for markets in Reply to Disc | Ill. The War Question Is the Central Question x declaration | terrupted. will compel those who up till now | over again from the year 1914. t leads to war—this prospect is in-| evitable and without any possibility of evasion... . / As sure as the sun will rise tomorrow, so sure will war break out—soon and even very soon, for Bukharin says: war is the ques- tion of the day. If war breaks out then further consequences will in- evitably follow: Imperialist war will give rise to civil war, to world revo- lution, to the victory of the Soviet system throughout the whole world! Long live the world revolution, or rather, as this is only the second act, long live war!” (Bukharin: So it turns out that our slogan is “long live war!”) “And so they believe in miracles; they be- lieve that the continuity of devel- opment and the continuity of the activities of social democracy in the sphere of practical politics in the interests of Socialism—will be in- THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAT, SEPTHABER 3, 1928 ussion on History commences all; “.... For Pr A other was is pos ssian-Germany no ible except a world new 1914, this is the illusion that is| war, and this world war will be of held out to the Communist Parties a power and magnitude hitherto un- of the world in order that their ¢ alleled. From eight to nine mil- may be closed to the cheerless per- lion soldiers will be hurled against spective and the hopelessness of the cach other, and Europe will be laid position that confronts them; and desolate to a degree that no swarm they cheerfully return to the thesis: of locusts has ever desolated a land. Vv is the beginning of all begin- It will be the desolation caused by nings.” the Thirty Years War compressed Permit me comrades to comment into three or four years, and over on these comments. First of all in the whole continent of Europe will regard to the Marxian theory. It is rage famine, starvation, the brutali- enough to read the last resolution zation of the troops as well as the passed by all the congresses of the general population, acute poverty cial democratic parties immedi- caused by the hopeless chaos in the ately before the war to realize how artifi¢ial mechanism of trade, indus- | thoroughly the social democrats have try and credit—all this will end in destroyed the Marxian theory which | universal bankruptcy; in the col- at one time determined their atti~ lapse of the old states and their tude towards war. I was present at routine political wisdom, a collapse the Chemnitz Congress of the social|so complete that crowns will roll democratic party. As far as I re- in the gutter in dozens and no one} member it was held in 1912 or in will think it worth while to pick 1913, Haase delivered a speech in them up. No one can foresee how which these vulgar-Marxian theories all this will end, and who will were employed in order to define| emerge the victor. But there is one the position of German social dem- result about which there is abso- ocracy on the question of war. Take lutely no doubt whatever: General the resolutions of international so-| exhaustion and the creation of the cialist tongresses, these too were conditions for the final victory of based on this “vulgar-Marxian the-|the working class. ory.” “This is’ the prospect, when the Marx, Engels and Lenin on War | system of mutual competition in ar- and Revolution. |maments carried to the extreme, Let us see what Marx, Engels and | finally brings its inevitable fruits. Lenin had to say on these questions, | It is to this, O Kings and statesmen, For example, the “vulgar Marxian” | your wisdom has brought old Eur- Karl Marx, in an article in the New ope! and if your only alternative is York Tribune of February 2, 1854 | to commence the last war dance, we entitled “The European War” wrote: shall not weep (uns kann es recht “But we must not forget that|S¢in). What if the war does push there is a sixth power in Europe |US into the background for a time;. which at a definite moment will| What if it does rob us of a few of establish its domination over the ‘the positions we have already cap- other five so-called ‘Great Powers’ ured? If you unleash the forces and make every one of them trem-|Which later on you will be unable to ble. This power is revolution. After Control them, no matter what turn a long period of calm and restraint vents may take, at the end of the it is now again called to the field | ‘t@gedy your power will be reduced of battle by crises and the phantom | 0 Tuin and the victory of the prole- of tanta: tariat will either have been achieved “At the required signal the sixth or at all events (doch) will be in- greatest European power will come ¢Vitable.” forth in shining armour, sword in I have quoted this long passage hand... in order to show what the “vulgar _ “That signal will be the threaten-| Marxians,” Karl Marx and Fried- ing European war... .” rich Engels thought about the con- That is how the “vulgar Marxian” | nection between war and revolution. Karl Marx appraised the situation. put it may be objected: These fore And another well-known “vulgar Marxian,” Friedrich Engels, in 1887, |C@8ts have partly come about al- in a preface to Siegesmund Bor-|Teady. What you have quoted may heim’s pamphlet whote: ibe a very good argument against the social democrats, But can it serve to explain the present situ ation? Now here I would like t quote the opinion of another “vulgar Marxian,” Comrade Lenin H thought that the revival of capital- r the first world war wa: He thought and wrote about the prospect of the further development of the revolution. What did he say on this subject? Comrade Lenn wrote: “We do not wish to ignore the deplorable possibility of humanity experiencing— imperialist war if, notwithstanding the mass ferment and the numerous outbreaks of mass nd notwithstanding our efforts, revolu tion fails to spring out of t sent war.” (Vol. XIII, p. 455. Ed.) As a result of the war, revol! was victorious in a number of coun- tries. In the U. tarian dictatorship i lished. But even after the victc of the proletariat in the U.S. . Lenin foresaw the possibility of an- other imperialist war. In his last work written a little while before his death he again emphasized this perspective. He spoke and wrote about a second series of European , of a second series of great lutions, and I think that in this he carried on the traditions of Marx and Engels and of all those who were really capable of understand- ing the world situation. disconten th 1 R. the prole- already estab- What Makes the ,Imperialists Social Democrats Irritable? and Now I ask you, comrades, what makes the imperialists ritable when the question of d cussed? Why is there so much tation in the Social Democratic camp direct reaction to my re rence to precisely on this question? Why is there such a sharp, sudden and this question in my speech? Ponder over it, Why is the thesis on the forthcoming world war primarily | subjected to 2 Why are the other protest: referred to, made against my “insolent conduct” and against my “insolent speech”? It is because objectively, the war danger is the pivot of the world s uation. That is why our opponents react so fretfully to our analy: And this is easily to be explained. We expose their criminal work, we tear down the veils that conceal the International Situation t the worst—a second of Page Three we destroy their screens, we What is the principal of the peak the truth and say that| Social Democrats toda It is to are preparing for throw a veil over ndamental are already con- fact of present-day opment, to comrades com-| ideologically obscure nd remove get that war c it from sight. That is why they Eastern As How can/|shout from the house-tops that the that be eliminated? capitalist states are craving for that this war is peace, that it is only the “cursed” on agai an “un- land of the proletariat that is dis- Chinese, | turbing the peace. That is why they ing the praises of the League of le,—against exist as not far as we civilized” ropeans are Nations and all other pacifist inven- concerned. Only blind can fail | tions. not all this clear? We to see that war is already going on have said this a thousand times be- in Ch . Only the blind can fail to fore. There is only one state which t Japanese-American con- is really carrying out a peace policy, Also|and that is the U. S. S. R. There s to the is only one State that has made a to the| serious proposal for universal dis ts and| armament, and that is the U. S. S. R. There is only one state that is the world capitalist system to ob-| not interested in the partition of the cure this thesis by all the trickery | globe, is not interested in colonies they can muster. 1 is in|and “mandates” and that is the U. action, maneu S.S.R. And it is precisely for this has become m it is perfe c s of the Social Democ all who desire to support r that i interest alists, imper Imperial all sorts of “pacifist” pacts, for reason that the imperialists and ample, the Kellogg Pact their lackeys try to turn the facts 1g out excellent maneuy upside down. 2 recent note 4 ing Government b idressed to ; e Bukharin’s speech will be ited States. It resorts toa num-| continue d in tomorrow’s ber of other fee it organizes Con-| Daily Worker, when the ferences of the League of Nations, it fourth section, IV. “The Ea- shouts about pe In a word it is) onal and Internal Cont exerting every effort to obscure the Sena’ and internal Contra- dictions of the Capitalist fundamental fact—its own criminal p work, And the Social Democrats? System,” will be published. ce. YOUTH GONGRESS STRESSES TASKS Must Prepare Now For Underground Days Miners’ Paper Builds New Union In Kansas PITTSBURGH, Pa., Aug. 31—S, T. Wakefield of Mulberry, Kansas, knows that the Coal Digger is the best speech-maker and means for bringing more and more miners into the new miners union. Kansas is a big state, and organizers haven't ‘enough money to pay train fare or Continued from Page One big gas bills. So Wakefield lets the reorganization proceeded slowly un- Coal Digger do the work where the til the end of 1927, when an organiz- | organizers can’t. ational conference revived the work among the children. successful; “One of the big mistakes is that! m: the Communist Parties do not give) qyJegality is threatened tothe sufficient support to the Young Young Communist work in the near Workers Leagues, and when they future, and the leagues must pre- do, it is only formally. similar organizations t be formed in other countries. pare for this time both organiz- Must Correct Errors. ationally and iedologically. 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