The toiler. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1919-1922, 1921-05-07
THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE End CONGRESS OF THE 3rd COM
MINIST INTERNATIONAL Moscow 1920

giving speeches from other foreigners and speech
BY ziuovev is found in the Izvestia Of August /,
1920 from which the following extracts are taken:
Ember-Droz supports the same thought in re-
ation to the Swiss Party, which does not even re-
eognize the Dictatorship of the proletariat
Comrade Dauenig describes the evolution Of the
political frame of mind Of the laboring masses
entering and now to be found in the Socialist
Party Of Independents, and speaks Of those diff
ficulties which confront the leaders of The party
in the process of guiding the revolutionary line of
the party.
Comrade Stecker states that in the Congress and
in private conversation with him, various comrades
expressed the wish that the Independent Socialist
Party Of Germany should be differentiated definit-
ely and bring about a schism. Comrade Stecker
admits that there exist in the ranks of the party
OF Independents certain tendencies and views upon
the dictatorship of the proletariat, upon the Con-
stituent Assembly and upon the Soviet system, but
that the entire conjuncture of the political life Of
Germany and the natural development Of ideas
within the party of Independents at the present
moment do not yet dictate schism: 1--WE have an
army million strong of revolutionary peasants,
but we also have counterrevolutionar peasants. In
counterdistnction to our Russian comrades we have
an army million strong Of proetarian Intel
observation-disclosures commercial employees, etc.
who will class-consciously defend the dictatorship
OF the proletariat and facilitate it's realization SO
far terror and the use of violence are concerned,
there is no difference of opinion among us on that
question. myself said at Leipzig that under GER
tain conditions revolutionary terrorism is neces-
sity. When the German revolution begins to feel
the knife at its throat, was felt by our Russian
comrades, that necessity will be real one The
difference between the evolution of the Russian
Communist Party and that of the Party of In
dependents is explained by the fact that we had
no sort of connections with Russia Not only we,
but all other Communist parties represented here,
were not interested in the question of terror and
threw no light on it in their program" In con-
clusion Comrade Stecker expresses confidence that
other representatives of the Independents will also
remain revoutionists and, in Germany, will go
hand in hand with the Communist Party.
In the closing speech Conirade zinoviey UNI
married the debate which took place on his re-
port. He again emphasizes the dangers which
threaten the III International through association
with parties retaining opportunstc lines of action,
such sthe French Socialist Party and the German
Independents At the same time he strongly insists
reformst elements which have already joined the
Ill International, such as the italian, Danish, and
the Norwegian.
He finds that the orators replying to- him not lss1
did not refute his assertions, but on the contrary,
only corroborated them. But at the same time, Com
rade zinoviev, with no little firmness, replies to
those comrades of the LEFT" who categorically
rejected all thought of admitting intermediary par
ties under any sort of conditions whatsoever. He
calls such point of view "futurism" using an ex-
preston uttered by Comrade Guilbeau and calls it,
besides, very superficial and frivolous one. 1t is
very important for the international not to thrust
aside those masses who come in the wake Of inter-
mediary parties, but on the contrary to attract
them to its ranks.
In conclusion, Comrade Zinoviev proposes to re-
fer the question to the committee for the final
working out of resolutions.
The Congress so orders.
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