The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-05
SECOND SECTION
By JOHN PEPPER

A.BhI against the Second lnterna-
tional only from the bottom. In the
second period we employed the tao
tics Of the united front which aimed
at the winning over of the majority
Of the working class, not only thru
direct attack on the yellow leaders
from the bottom, but also thru neeo-
tlatlons and compromises with them
from the top.
But they are greatly mistaken
those who believe that the tactics Of
the second period are a negation of
the tactics Of the first period. They
believe that the ''too stormy" Com
munist International had now be-
come more Sensible" that it aban-
doned the revolutionary tactics and
was employing opportunist tactics.
The Communist international in
the second period was just as revolu-
tionary as in the first period. The
task OF winning over the majority of
the working class for the revolution
IS Just as revolutionary a task as
the carrying out of the revolution
itself.
And the opportunists who were
glad that the Communist Interna-
tional had become Sensible and the
sectarians who accused the Com
munist international of having be-
come opportuNst, both experienced
bitter establishment as the third
period began in the tactics of the
Communist International.
The third period Of the world revo-
luton is marked by an ebb of the
offensive Of capital and new at
tempts at offensive on the part Of
the working class. The offensive of
the working class makes its advent
everywhere again. The events in
the second period of 1923 in Ger
many, the armed fighting in Bull
garia and Poland are just as much
stations of the advancing working
class as are the growth. of the Labor
Party in the United States. the
great election victory of the Labor
Party in England, and the arming
and increased consciousness of power
of the workers in Mexico as a result
of the De la Huerta counter-revoIu-
ton.
In the first moment that the new
wave of world revolution became ap-
parent, the Communist international
changed its tactics. AS the Fascists
in Bulgaria overthrow the peasant
government, the Communist Interna-
tlonal Immediately issued the slogan
of armed alliance of workers and
farmers, and criticized severely the
Communist Party of Bulgaria be-
cause it had remained neutral during
the civil war and did not take up
arms. As in Germany the laboring
masses awoke, as the Ruhr occupa,
ton by the French and the driving
out of the Cuno government bv the
general strike created a new revo-
lutionary situation, the Communist
international issued the slogan of
armed struggle, and criticized the
German Communist Party severely
because its tactics were not sufi-
GENTLY aggressive. The lying oppo-
nents say that the Communist Inter.
national is only an instrument of
Soviet Russia, and that it buried the
tactics of the world revolution long
ago in the grave of the New Eco
nomic Policy. But the truth is that
the Communist international in
which the Russian Party plays, OF
course, the leading role risked every
acquisition of the Russian revolu.
ton, and was ready to mobilize all
the forces Of Soviet Russia and of
the whole international for the sup
port of the German revolution.
The Communist international. in
all three periods Of the world revo-
luton, has shown itself the real gem
eral staff of world revolution. Of
fensive or defensive, or again often
sive, the tactics of tlE Communist
are always based on
the correct concrete analysis of con-
crete situations. That is the real
secret Of the leadership Of the Com
munist international. Fighting
against opportunism and eliminating
i from our own ranks, correcting
sectarienism, the Communist Inter-
fha nouo~~I