The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-27


AZ. If, on the other hand. these
statements are incorrect, it follows
that:
AZ The C. E. c., including its major
ity, made another mistake in apprais-
ling the political situation.
/ b. The c. |. shared in this mistake
by not taking exception to this state
ment.
| O. The majority of the C. E. c..
failed in it's duty to the party and the
! c. |. by not Withdrawing formally and
specifically what they now in their
majority thesis are attacking as in
correct cit should be noted that the
quotations are not from casual cam
paign document, but from one which
the C. e. c. was proud to issue as a
result and proof of party unity en-
Joined by the c. l., and for which both
comrades Foster and Ruthenberg
toured the party districts, familiar
lizng the party membership in detail
and with emphasis with this program
in August, the majority abandoning
it in November.
!. Criticism.
| 43. 1t is logical that IN countries
where a strong Communist Party is
confronting an unusual constellation
of forces it must strike out upon new
ways to achieve maximum result. The
various social forces in the u. S. A.
are of course producing certain spe-
cial problems: The leading econ
mic and financial position Of the U
s. A.; the fact that it has relatively
the weakest labor movement of an
indHstrialized country in the world
with the proporionately strongest
labor bureaucracy, making the labor
movement topheavier than anywhere
else in the world; most important of
all the absence Of any effective class
consciousness Of the workers as ex-
pressed on the political field.
"A. But our party itself does not
produce any particularly new prob
lens; while we are relatively the
weakest party in the C. l., this very
weakness makes our party problems
such as are as a rule common and
known. and whose repeated solution
within the C. /. is wen known.
| IS. Another feature of our domes-
Itic reasoning is the vision Of rapid
Ichanges which are supposed to be
! either taking place before our eyes, or
Eelse Immediately pending (See the
r. l. P. absorption of the majority
thesis, and the ever critical unemploy-
ment situation as the minority sees
Iitl
. 46. The majority thesis claims that
the F. L. p. sentiment Of the first half
of 1924 has been completely absorbed
and is irretrievably lost to the LaFol-
llette movement, in this time of "im-
mediate downward plunge of Ameri-
can industry. renewed crisis, unem-
lployment, and sharpening Of the class
struggle"
81. Political parties seem to be
permanently severed from their econ
Iomic foundation and slide around upon
a surface creased with political ex-
pediency.
As. StiIl worse "the LaFoIIette
movement :. win be forced to over
come -. the contradictions Of group
and sectional interests :. sufficiently
to crystalline into a new political
party" In this era where political par
ties are unable to maintain themselves
without adjusting the antagonism Of
the various economic groups tsee
point 6d) it is expected that the La
Toilette movement win begin to create
parties out of economically incompat-
ible groups.
}. The Elements for a Revolution
airy Party.
40. Il requires a violent elimina-
ton of democratic-pacifist preconsep-
tons to identity oneself with the Com