The toiler. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1919-1922, 1921-04-16

in the course of the two decades, as we have seen
it in Russia in the course of number of years as
we see it now in Germany, conducting its struggle
not only against the bourgeoisie but also against
those Socialists who really serve as the con-
ductors of bourgeois influence over the proletariat
has drawn into its ranks the most stable, farts
sighted and advanced miitants of the working
class. Only in the presence of such united organ-
zaton of the best part of the working class is it
possible to overcome all the difficulties which rise
before the labor dictatorship on the day after its
victory. The organization of new proletarian Red
Army the actual destruction of the bourgeois state
APPARATUS and the creation in its place of the be-
ginnngs Of a new proletarian state apparatus,
the struggle against the guild tendencies among
separate groups of wsrkmen, the struggle against
local and particuarstic patriotism" the blazing
of new paths in the domain of newly created labor
discpne-in all these fields the decisive voice be-
longs to the Communist Party, whose members
through their own example lead the majority of the
working classes.
IL. The aim of political party of the proletariat
disappears only with the complete destruction of
classes In the process of achieving this final VIC
tory of Communism it is possible that the specific
gravity of the three fundamental proetarian or
ganizations of our tme the party, the Soviet. and
the productive unions, will undergo changes, and
that eventually unified type of labor organization
will become crystalized. But the Communist Party
will become dissolved completely in the working
class at the time when Communism will cease to
be the aim of the struggle, and when the whole
working class will become communistic.
II. The End Congress Of the Communist Inter-
national should not only affirm the historic mission
of the Communist Party in general, but should
indicate to the International Proetariat at least in
its fundamental features, precisely what kind OF
Communist Party we need.
13. The Communist International considers that
the Communist Party should be built up on the
basis of iron proetarian centralsm particularly in
the epoch of the dictatorship of the proletariat In
order to be able to direct successfully the activities
of the working class in the long and persistent civil
war which mpends, the Communist Party itself
must create within its own ranks iron military
order. The experience of the Russian Communist
Party, which has directed the civil war of the work.
ing class for the course of three years, has shown
that without the strictest discipline, without
plete cent-alsm, and without unbounded comradely
confidence of all the organizations of the party in
the directing party center, the victory of the work.
men is impossible. ~
IA. The Communist Party must be built on the
basis of democratic centralsm. The main principles
of democratic centralism are the election of the
upper body by the lower body; the absolute com-
pulsory nature of the decisions of the upper body
for the lower the latter being sgbordnated to the
former: and the existence of authoritative party
center as the undisputed directing institution of the
party life from one Congress to another.
15 whole series of communist parties in Eu-
rope and America, in view Of conditions of siege
rule adopted by the bourgeoise against the Com
munists are compelled to exist illegally. We must
remember that under such circumstances it is some
times necessary to give up in part the strict ap-
plicaton of the elective principle and to make it
possible for the directing party institution to in
vite in members as has been done in Russia. In
what amounts to state of Siege the Communist
Party not only can not place very serious ques-
tions before all the members of the party for Il
democratic referendum Gas proposed by fraction
of the American Communists), but on the contrary
must delegate to its directing center the right in
critical moment to make decisions for all the
members Of the party.
16. To preach wide autonomy" for separate local
organizations Of the party is equivalent at the
present time to weakening the ranks of the Com
munist Party impairing its efficiency, and render