The toiler. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1919-1922, 1921-04-23

strong Communist Party. But the revolu-
tionary movement in India, in so far as it
concerns the broad popular masses, has
nothing in common with the nationalist
liberation movement"
On the basis of this analysis Comrade Roy
arrives ait the conclusion that it is necessary
Ito eliminate from point IL Of the theses
on the national problem the paragraph ac-
cording to which Communist parties must
assist any bourgeois4democratic liberation
movement i'm eastern countries. The Com
munist International should assist exclusive
ly the institution and development of the
Communist movement in India, and the
Communist Party of India must devote it.
self exclusively ito the organization of the
broad popular masses for the struggle for
the class interests of the latter
| Comraie Roy defends the opinion that the
revolutionary movement in Europe is abso-
| lutely dependent on the course of the revo-
tuition in the East Without the triumph Of
| the revolution in the Eastern countries, the
Communist movement in the West may be
brought to naught. World capitalism is
| drawing it's main resources and incomes from
the colonies, and principally from Asia. The
| European capitalists may i'm emergency give
| to the workmen the entire surplus value in
order to attract them to their side and to
destroy revolutionary tendencies. The capit-
| aliSts themselves would continue, with the
aid of the proletariat, to exploit Asia. Such
way out would be most comfortable for
the capitalists. Therefore it is necessary to
direct all efforts toward the development
and rise of the revolutionary movement in
| the East and to accept as fundamental
| thesis that the destiny of World Communism
depends ON the Triumph of Communism in
| the East.
| Comrade Welch, of the British Communist
Party answered Comrade Roy. Comrade
WEIGH argued that we are duty bound to
| aid every movement against imperialism.
| The national liberation movement in India
might not enjoy, for the time being, the
sympathies of the large popular masses; but
this does not mean that it will not gain them
in the very near future. The English Gov
ernment will find 1T very easy to handle the
purely Communistic propaganda in the colo
nies and to suppress the Communist move
| menH there,It will find it much harder to
defeat the national Liberation ntho ~oyns !.
colony.
/ Cornrade Lenin also disputed the view
point of Conrade Roy. In Russia we sup
ported the liberal-lberation movement when
it was taking stand against TsariSrn. The
Hindu Communists are duty-bolnd to sup
port the bourgeois Liberation movement with
out, however, merging with it. Comrade
Roy goes too far in declaring that the des-
tiny of the West will depend exclusively
upon the degree of development and the
strength of the revolutionary movement in
Eastern countries. Notwithstanding the
l'fact that there are five millions Of prole-
tarians and thirty millions of lanIdless
peasants in India, the Hindu Communists
did not succeed until the present time in
establishing Communist party in their
country, and because of this single fact the
views of Comrade Roy are to large extent
not well grounded.
(Next week Discussion of Colonial and Ma
] tional Policy)