The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-02
revoIutIon.

clad conviction that Europe is head
ing towards revolution, that capital
ism is bankrupt, that the contradic-
lions of capitalism and Imperialism
cannot be cured within the frame
work Of bourgeois society, that even
if there is a temporary halt in the
downward trend of the present social
and economic order, its final break
down is unavoidable and approaching
with fatal sureness. In such his
toric era, every detail of Communist
preparations may become Of moment
GUS consequences in the near future.
Every alteration may prove disas-
trous.
This conviction, on the other hand,
is based on new powerful factor
without which one cannot understand
revolutionary Europe of today: the
new proletarian generation. In the
last six-seven years, millions of young
workers have grown into manhood,
millions Of sturdy modern fighters
who have not gone thru the old school
Of social-democratic adaptations, who
have not lost their spirit in the cru
chile of disappointments following the
war and its hideous peace" who
have retained great source of I'M
exhausted energy and have no pa
tience with the existing order of
things. 1t is the impetus of this young
generation, unspoiled, unbiased in
favor of compromises with capitalist
rider, untouched by the poison of
bourgeois psychology, which is the
driving power back Of the new left
leaders of European Communist
parties. 1t is they, the millions of
postwar proletarians, and not the old,
tired, WORKOUT middle aged workers
of the old type, who will be in the
first ranks of the revolution.
5. This is Congress of BoIsheviza-
ton. The most feverish interest is
given to-the problems of the United
front tactics and the Farmer-Labor
government slogan. They are the
nerves of the congress, the throb-
bling heart Of all the discussion. They
have boon thrust upon the Commun-
list parties by the recent develop
ments in bourgeois states and by the
practice Of revolutionary struggle.
party is of paramount Importance.
The practice of the German Comp
The German leaders of the right wing
are branded for having failed to lead
the working class into battle for
power last October. The Brandler
group is accused of having allowed
itself to be caught in the net of bour-
geois democratic parliamentarism
when the German Communists en-
tered the Saxon government last fall.
fhere are no words hot enough to
express the scorn of the German dele
gates when they speak of tho Chem
nltz conference at which the right
wing leaders failed to issue a call for
lnsurrection. What was the reason
for such hesitation, they ask. And
their answer is: because the Brandler
group believed in organic coopera-
ton with the Social-Democracy on the
basis of the constitution; because the
right wing Communists were afraid
OF losing contact with the left wing
social-democratic leaders; because
they were not free from the Inherit
ance of the past-from parliamentary
democratic illusions; because thew
misunderstood and misinterpreted the
tactics of the united front and the
slogan of a labor-farmer government
which must be revolutionary tactic
and revolutionary slogan.
Nor is this wrong application of a
correct set Of principles confined to
the German party alone. Over and
over again representatives of the
various countries appeal to the Con-
gress against opportunist deviations
In their respective parties. There is.
for instance, the Checho-slovakian par
ty whose conference adopted a reso-
luton to the effect that the workers
government can he a neacef,,i +roxo,