The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-20


Der Of sacrifices. The Ger
man Communists do not cause hunger
levolts but they do not leave the
hungry ones who are driven to despair
in the hour of their greatest misery.
At the same time, however, the Com
munists do not wish revolution in
Germany because at present every
thing speaks against the possibility
Of a success of a proletarian revolu-
tionary upheaVel They Therefore CON
ceutrated their struggle against the
fascist and moDarchists, against the
constitutional" dictatorship and for
securing the republic and supporting
it thru workingmen's government
in the union and thru workingmen's
governments in the individual states
-. The Communist Party Of Ger
many is placed before immensely diff
ficult tasks. It must keep the revo-
lutionary fire alive, it must not, how
ever, allow the flames to shoot too
high. 1t must take account of the de-
spair of the pauperized German work
ing masses, it must, however, only
educate for struggle those who are
ready for struggle, knowing that the
struggle will be fought out only when
victory is possible" (Blackface mine.
M. ]. o.
Comrade Lore certainly was not in
favor of a revolution in Germany
then the time was ripe for such revo-
ltion. The fifth congress of the Com
munist International branded such
titude as opportunsm.
Even after the October defeat, when
IS disastrous consequences were man
Test 0 every observer, Comrade Lore
defended the German Communists on
he ground that they did not want
a revolution. Commenting on the
Impression of the German Commun-
ist Party, Lore writes in an editorial
November "a, 1923:
Even the German government au-
thorities know that it was the Ger
nan Communist Party which hitherto
leid the masses back; that it was the
Communists who warned the despair
ng and pauperized masses against ac-
tons OF despair, against useless sacri-
ices. They know that if it were not
for the strong Communist movement
in Germany, a guerrilla warfare would
have long broken out in Germany.
Comrade Lore praises the German
Communists for preventing guerrilla
warfare against capitalism in Ger
many. Comrade Lore sees in this a
particular merit of the German com
rades.
Viewing the revolutionary move
ment in Germany from such angle
It was natural for Comrade Lore to
maintain that the Russian comrades
were also against decisive revolution
airy action on the part of the German
workers in October, 1923. In an edi-
torial entitled Russia and Germany"
published in the "Volkszeitung" Oct.
26, 1928, Comrade Lore writes:
What those bourgeois and social
ist-reformist elements fail to under
stand, or claim to misunderstood, is
that 1t is the Russian conception that
the proletarian revolution in Germany
should not be overestimated either
from without or by the Communist
Party. The proletarian masses must
be spiritually prepared for it. They
must know their aim before the real
struggle begins. They must not again,
IS was the case in former years, step
on the battlefield aimlessly and un-
equipped"
Comrade Lore attributes to the Rus
sian comrades his own aversion TO
decisive revolutionary upheaval. On
the other hand, he is most favorably
inclined towards the left social-demo-
Gratis, particularly towards the coali-
ton government in Saxony. Com
inenting on the declaration in the
Saxon parliament by the social-demo-
cratic prime minister Zeigner, very