The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-16

the establishment of loose left wing
group inside the independent labor
party.
1t seems to me that when the mi
nority advocates, not united front
with g. worker and farmer party, but
the organization of its class farmer
labor party as a Communist prin-
ciple without which the united front is
impossible on the political" field,
they come dangerously close to the
Newboldites.
They do not attempt to show and
they cannot show where the Comm
tern has instructed the American par
ty to enter into such a maneuver
when no mass movement existed.
On the contrary, Comrade Lenin
wrote that in the case Of the British
Communist Party that its task was
to split the British labor party--to
make the Communist Party the party
Of the British proletariat.
But" say the minority comrades.
"the British labor party was organ
ized in a period of capitalist strength
while here in the United States our
class farmer-labor party develops
during the decline of capitalism and
will therefore take different form
and play different role"
They are modest, these minority
comrades. All they claim is that they
have discovered a new instrument
Of revolution outside Of the commun-
list Party.
| This new instrument is nothing less
than their "class farmer-labor party
that they organize during a period of
"capitalist Decline" and which is to
form the united front on the poll
ticap' field.
We must leave England and go to
Germany to find a parallel for this
tendency. We find it there in the
conception held by the right leader
ship of the German Party, of the
workers and farmers government
as an instrument of revolution
conception and tendency that the G.
/. condemned in unmeasured terms.
The minority comrades will feel
outraged by these comparisons but
they are drawn logically from their
thesis.-a thesis which puts forward
a "class farmer-labor party" as a
Communist principle "class farmer
labor party" that they state in article
after article is the only form Of unit
ed front on the political field.
Let the minority comrades protest
their good intentions. Policy and not
good intentions is what determines
the fate of Communist parties and the
majority believes with Comrade Yin
oviev that theses, resolutions and
king "Old Tivet" was working for
articles are the best basis for forming
| opinions"
Going hand in hand with Comrade
Lovestone's attempt to pervert a
quotation from Lenin, his attempt to
label c. e. C. that carried out the
instructions Of the Comintern in the
election over his protest, as "menshe-
vik skeptics," is the arrogation Of the
minority to themselves of the title
'old Bolsheviks."
The minority cling fondly to their
"class farmer-labor party" and there
fore they are "old Bolsheviks.
Their formula is:
without a class farmer-labor
party" which we must organize,
'even tho it has but 5000 members
as that old Bolshevik Comrade Nat
Kaplan states-"we can have no mass
Communist Party"
The minority cannot point to one
single authentic movement for a
"class farmer-labor party" even to
any sentiment for 1t among the mass
es.
But to them the formula is too pre-
cious to discard. The slogan of the
G. e. c., 1.-THE Workers Communist
Party against the LaFollette party"
does not appeal TO them--nor does the
daily struggles for leadership in the
unions and industries.
Their formula has no connection
with reality but they say apparently,
"'Tis a poor thing but mine own!"
We recall here something written
by Comrade Lenin during the strenu-
GUS days OF 1917. 1t is from his
"Theses on Tactics" published in
Pravda, April 20, 1917.
"BoIshevlst slogans and ideas IN
GENERAL have been confirmed by
history; but conereteIy things have
developed somewhat differently than
was expected, assumed a more ORR
glnial, peculiar and varied form.
To ignore, to forget this fact, would
be to resemble those Of our
party by repeating senseless learn
ed formulate instead Of STUDYING
the pecuIlarltles Of the new, the liv-
ing reality Of things A Marxist
must take into consideration the
true facts and living reality Of to-
day, and not continue cllnginn to
the theory Of yesterday, which, like