The toiler. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1919-1922, 1921-07-09
THE SOCIALIST PARTY.


workers, leave the Socialist Party 1t is your enemy and
ours"
This sentence was part of the reply the Communist
ternaona year the Socialist Partys application for af
faton The workers following the advice given Ten thou
sand members have left the party within the past year. according
to the report of the Secretary at the Detroit convention
"You being deceived The Socialist Party of the United
States is working class party but auxiliary organization
of the American bougeose world Imperialism 1t lead
ing you toward Socas-t is berayng you the counter
revolution" continued the reply.
How truly the advice given justified is by the
actions the convention just concluded To those naive socialists
and sympahers who have been patiently waiting for the So
cas Party to take revolutionary stand and retrieve its lost
standing party of the workers. the convention actions should
convincing argument that has hopees fosaken the
principles of the Revolution The Party muster
respectable lef wing among its membership The spirit and
integrity of Revolution abdeth not in the shattered body Of this
remnant
1t by the saness of numbers the bankrupt
don Of its finances the stress of its publications by which
should judge the Party Rather by the plans programe the spirit
and vision which animate it, is it to be judged The party which
is to lead the workers out of bondage will undoubtedly be small
in numbers and always broke yet it's spirit will be that of
votonary progress always well in the vanguard Of the ug
gle with keen vision of the problems the workers and
and will sufficient to all obstacles These the socialist
party does not possess
The Socialist Party at Detroit repudiated the principles
which made the Russian revolution successful In encous
cngs to the bourgeois methods of democracy patterns after
the enemies of labor in its political srvngs 1t aation
with the successful revolutionary the W0rldthe
Communist International 1t has definitely withdrawn from the
struggle revolution and entered the last phase of its exist
ence-fuson, compromise waverng and indecision.
The Party eaderess, rather is without leaders who
have vision hope courage and poearan conception of the
cassstrugge has programe it is unable to formulate
On Mass Action the Political and General Strike unable to
express opinion Torn between to opposing views of these
workngass weapons is unable to choose and therefore de-
cines to take stand
In the present phase of the class struggle the Party does
not know which step tae which weapon lay hold of Vac
caon and ndecision marked the conventions actions
fact the outstanding characteristic of the affair
Ptyng in its puerity yet full Of praise of it for its
patriotic stand for its refusal to take revolutionary position
the capitalist press has voiced it's hearty approval of the Social
ist Party
fully recognizes the features of of its family and
renders praise accordingly This is the party this party of
caton of inability to formulate program to take step for
ward which mouths the phrases of revolution yet refuses to
act which epudates revolution in deeds while appaudng it il
words" - this is the party which to American workers
follow me!
All that is lacking for the complete recognition of the So
cast Party conerrevoutonary party, the open adop
on of by the bourgeose This will later BY the
tons orders the Party will feel its way into methods Of
cooperation with other derecs of its kind whose only
and purpose for future existence service to the bougeoss
against the proearian revolution.