The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-01

WOhhEh continues the publication
OF the important speech by Chair
man kamenev, of the Moscow
Soviet, on the big problems now
confronting the Russian Commun-
Is Party, the ruling party in Sow
let Russla. Every day the DAILY
WORKER is publishing INSTALL
ments Of this momentous discussion
involving the fundamental inter
ests OF the emancipated workers
and farmers of the Soviet Republic.
Inns discussion should therefore be
OF the greatest interest to all the
workers and farmers Of this coun-
try. kamenev spoke to the Mos
COW Communists as follows:
Continued from Friday.
EFT US now consider another
- aspect of the question-let us
remember what we demand from
those comrades among the workers.
or even among the unemployed. who
are expected as Communists to nm
derstand our final aim, Communism.
and our latest bloody struggle with
the White Guards, and at the same
time to find clear mental path thru
those immediate external contradic-
lions of the principles of Commun-
ism and Socialism which they-the
unemployed or the city proletariat,
are bound to come across at every
step, when they go into the street,
look at the shop windows, or observe
the doings of the New Economic
Policy.
We demand very high degree Of
self-control, experience, and theoret-
zeal understanding from these COM
rades, if they, are not to be carried
away by anarcho-syndicais cur
rents. We must admit to ourselves
that in proportion to the extent of
the existence of the NEP, and in
proportion to the increasing acute
ness of the situation created in the
relations between the separate work.
ers, the unemployed, and those NEP
bourgeoisie, these anarcho-syndical-
list currents are almost inevitably
bound to reach nearly to the ranks
of our Party. And when the workers
group, this Myasnikov set, has been
able to gain a hearing among certain
elements of our Party whose outlook
is extremely limited, this influence
exercised by Myasnikov's counter
revolutionary speeches is explicable
as a result of those contradictions
which we are unable to eliminate,
which remain, and which are the
constant cause of a certain amount
of doubt and vacillation in this wing
of our Party, a certain tendency to
give hearing to those ideas current
in the Myasnikov atmosphere.
What is the essential character of
the Myasnikov tendency? The OPP
position of the working class to our
state.
What is Menshevism? The oppo-
sition of the working class to our
state.
1t requires a high standard Of
political schooling to understand that
our state, despite its many faults,
and despite the insufficient wage
payments to the workers, is still a
workers state. And this standard
cannot be expected of every work.
man.
The Two Dangers.
The two dangers threatening us
from various quarters are: First, de-
generation under the influence of the
NEP; and secondly, the anarcho-
syndicalist tendency. How are we eff
fectually to combat these dangers,
how are we to ensure that the in
creased demands put upon our Party
are to be adequately met, how are
we to make sure that a strike does
not merely pass over without affect
ing us, but is made unnecessary by
us beforehand; how are we to help
the economists on the one hand and
the provoked proletariat on the
other, how are we to find an anti
dote against these decomposing in
fiuences within the Party, how are
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