The Daily Worker Newspaper, August 5, 1929, Page 2

By MARIO ALPY been expel tee, ha national a: drastic mi who attemp’ cess of Bolsheviz In order to be as brief as possible I shall not analyze thoroughly the Party’ general situation, but I shall point out some of tke Party’s fun- damental errors and major weak- nesses that I have been able to no- ig my national of da which has given me an tour 1.) The any se tion to acquai the political and revolutior mean- ing of the Bolshevik reorganization. There has been failure to direct our comrades’ vities towerd the mill and the min Even today nu ous street units exist in many dis- ts while there are mills and mines in which are employed many af ades who are not acquainted with each other. LY WORKER, NEW YORK, MONDAY, AU GUST 5, wad rong per- individu- the comrades movement as a was in the Party a c rele e of the factional strug- led to study the in- political and eco- of the country, the bourgeois and y according to which en capitalism — is n in America, mical pro! ete., and to accep nmunist International with ntal reservation that only the Committee of the American to understand the e United States. Many des who do not know which belongs the the Party to at Ate varlone pro ional angle of view. ades have not learned rom the Comintern’s mode g with the Italian, German, ion within the hen Trotsky- liquidated in International nding of the situ: Union so > Party, within the Communist} Soviet Union many des were not able to i expose his factional specu- nd when the bourgeois and press published er of were unable to defend ener; the fatherland of the prolet It is not enough to discuss the sit- uation of the Soviet Union in our conventions or in our National Of- fice: It is absolutely necessary to explain it to all the members so as to equip them with data and argu-! ments with which they may win to our cause large masses of prole-| tarian elements influenced by the) bourgeois and _ social- I-democratic press. | (6) al struggle de- | personal | that the Communist In- | rian and English | ers a clear under-| Enlightenment Campaign on the Comintern Address to the Communist Party “pS Polbureau is desirous of securing the broadest pos- sible Enlightenment Campaign on the Comintern Ad- dress and the immediate Part y tasks outlined therein. All Party members and particularly the comrades active in the workshops in the basic indust large but even leading and active} ideology within the Party was com-)have already a revolutionary situa- organization of the Party? do not understand the! mitted when it was stated that the | tion, but is evinced also by the dis-|not enough to show that words are comrades ries are invited to write their opinions for the Party Press. also will be printed in this section. Resolutions of Factory Nuclei Send all material ‘deal- ing with this campaign to Comrade Jack Stachel, care Na- tional office, Communist Party, 43 E. 125th St., New York City. meaning of democratic centralism| increased production of the United content of the toilers which mani- and adhere to the Trotskyist ideol-| States is a normal development of/ fests itself in many industries, ogy according to which the Party! for eternal discussion: in the Party’s meetings and in the meeting of organizations controlled by us, formality plays so great a role and comrades resort more than often to a procedure that smells of petty-bourgeois and _ social-demo- cratic parliamentarism, Freedom of criticism is often in- terpreted in a bourgeois-democratic | manner and that’s why some com- rades controlling a worker’s club went even so far as to tolerate a lecture by an evangelist minister. They thought that from the ensu- ing discussion would spring up the truth, This shows clearly how the political education of the comrades has been neglected and how the Party has fallen short in explaining Marxism, historical materialism and} —above ‘all—discipline, Given the low ideological level of | the comrades, discipline has been Mie to confound some} understood and applied quite me-} n at the 6th Conven-| chanically and has been resorted to! Lovestone intro- j for factional purposes. olution on the ideolog-| ship, absolute factional centralism, |rationalizing its industries, without Dictator- ill-interpreted democratic central-| ism and have created nothing but confusion. (7) Much has been said about the problem of Americanization and yet there are many comrades who do not understand it clearly and hold) s| that in order to Americanize the y' Party it is merely necessary to in- crease the number of American- born members. They fail* to see the impelling necessity of eliminat-| ing completely the federationist spi- rit which was not annihilated by the formal abolition of the old fed- erations. The language fractions were not centralized and they con- stituted, therefore, so many parties within the party in which the fac- tional struggle found another issue. | . (8) One of the most pernicious} Not only the members at/ errors that helped tu rear the right-| overthrow of the capitalist state, we ill-understood discipline | capitalism. This increased produc- the productive power fostered by the post-war crisi! sis of world capi- talism. This increased production is vitally necessary to American capitalism. Given the monstrous productive apparatus created dur ing the war and immediately after ward, when the capitalist countries of Europe e going through a profound crisis, American cap?tal- ism cannot reduce its production without reducing at the same time | f its total profit, without causing a further expansion of unemployment which is already large enough and without producing a general discon- tent that would spur the masses to the left. | But today the expansion of pro- duction finds a serious obstacle in ! the increased productive power of! | the European countries, and—in or- | der to beat its competitors on the contracted world market and protect its profit—Ameri ican capitalism can- | not increase its production without | reducing wages, without extending the length of the working day and augmenting the intensity and pro- ductivity of labor, thus accelerating the radicalization of the masses, Many comrades talk about the process of rationalization’ because they cannot ignore it, but since they do not understand it thoroughly, they adhere to the social-democratic theory, hold that rationalization is also a normal development of capi- talism and deny at the same time the radicalization of the masses. | They do not realize that the radical- ization of the masses is not evinced solely by the march of millions of workers along the streets of the in- dustrial cities because, if such a march occurs and if its aim is the ) Why? by their lack of confidence in the mis-| | should be nothing else but a club, tion is absolutely abnormal and it! leaders of the yellow trade unions, That’s why,| is due to the great expansion of by the increasing number of strikes, by the expansion of the new Indus- trial Unions and even by the con- cealed discontent of those workers who have a mortgaged home and a mortgaged automobile and are, therefore, less inclined to express it. (10) Many comrades who do not understand the general situation of the country, or they analyze it from a provincial angle of view, thus ailing to grasp its close relation- ship to the international situation, | do not realize the danger of war and the necessity of the new unions. They talk about all this, they talk about the necessity of defending the} Soviet Union and building the new ;industrial unions, but in reality they see the war far away and do not intend to build the new unions. Simply because when they} analyze the crisis of capitalism they, forget a “little thing,” they forget—| that is to say—that the unity of the economical world has been broken} by the Soviet Union, the sole exist-| ence of which is a contradiction | h they seek tq solve through a! war against the U.S. S. R. They forget that the sharpening contra- dictions between the United States and England and the whole series of imperialist contradictions ushers in a new phase of the crisis. They do} not understand that this cris tensifies the process of radicaliza-| v and emphasizes | the necessity of giving the Party a solid structure and of building new! industrial unions capable of organ-| izing the radicalized masses. Some comrades will say that they | understand all this. But I ask, “Why | then in many districts of primary) importance do not exist shop nuclei? | Why our ranks do not understand) meaning of the Bolshevik re-| Is this luseless if their spirit is not trans- lated into deeds?” This confradiction shows clearly the existence in our Party of a whole series of social-democratic and syn- dicalist traditions and shows also how many comrades are more in- clined to discuss than to work ef- fectively. Effective work is possible only if our problems are clearly’ un-| derstood, only if our discussions rise out of reality, only if our anlyses are based on the concrete situation and not on mere impres-| sions. Thus, and thus only, is it} possible to see the development of |the situation and to base on it the tactics of the Party and the organ- |izational measures necessary to car- ry out its work. Il, All these errors and weaknesses show how great is the Right danger in our Party and how necessary. it! A comm is to fight against it in order to! strengthen ourselves sand org: ‘of the member ie) “or the Boishevization of the Communist. Party ot the United States of America ationally and face the situation o: conciliatory spirit| energy and f: ly necessary those who are still s to fight against all ceped in in- diyidualism, who do not want to get) jrid of the factional spirit and cover their opportunism with a super- ficial Communist phraseology. The most fundamental and most jurgent tasks of the Party in this! period are—in my opinion—the fol- lowing: (1) Effective of shop nuclei, mine + and clear definition of t (2) Extensive politi in ord ideological level by international sit education r to lift their laining the} tion, the political and econom: ation of the country, the problem of democratic centralism and of discipline, etc. con- cerning the life of the Party. (3) Wide diffusion of the Com- intern’s Program that all the members may get acquainted with | it. Up to this day this hes not been done. Several months after eS the Progr: is not members That are not equipped hwhat constitutes the most ef- tive weapon against our enemies. Immediate and accurate elab- oration of the Party’s Program on the basis of the Comintern’s ion must be appointed i prepare a. draft, on the basis of | ideologically! which a’ thorough discussion must ; |more Bolshevik conscience, so that |it may face the future. Wrecked by Fury of Tortured Prisoners Remains of part of Auburn prison, New | | York, burnt by the prisoners who revolted after unspeakable mistreatment. | more proletari | mi be opened, in order to give all the members an opportunity to partici: pate in the elaboration of the fina must be led, but with] text. It is absolute-| (5) Recruiting of new member: among. the American-borr workers, centralization of all the language fractions and newspapers definition of the fractions’ tasks ir the several workers’ orgatlization: !and definition of the general task: to be carried out by the foreign. born comrades among the worker: of their nationalities. (6) Pitiless elimination of fac tional mentality, carrying with it so cial-democratic, syndiczlist and an archist traditions and displaying 4 super-criticism which has nothing te do with our sound Communist criti: cism. Such standpoints constitute nothing but obstacles which musi be removed. (7) Preparation of new prole: j tarian Jeaders through a rapid edu: cation of young elements working in the mills. Special educational courses must be started and ele- ments from the language fractions must be called upon to attend them (8) Betterment of the Party’s press, indidating the line that if must follow in dealing with the na. tional and international situation, with the trade unions’ problems and with the reorganization’ of the Party. The Party’s press must be n. It is necessary its worker correspon- to increase dents. Today the Party must have a The crisis will cause, in this country, which has 8 productive power far above its b i capacity, so large a prole- tarian end revolutionary movement as to obscure all those recorded by | history. The vanguard of the proletariat {must be ready, therefore, to face all events. 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