The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-23

which Is the weakening of the power
of the bourgeoisie and the freeing Of
the minds of the workers from oppor-
tunist illusions.
will add just few more words on
the famous sentiment" Of the work
ers. The whole political situation OF
the last two years in America shows
clearly that the workers who are for
an independent political action, are not
inspired by the theology of the class
struggle, but are permeated by the
petty bourgeois psychology Of reform
ism and class collaboration. They do
not want class action. but "indepen-
dent" parliamentary action and conse-
quently they are not for class revo-
lutionary party, but they want to or
ganize a party which will strive for
parliamentary reforms.
Now, instead of trying, as 1t is our
duty as a class conscious vanguard
of the working class, to change this
sentiment of the workers into a revo-
lutionary one, calling upon them to
fight along with us for our class in
terests and showing them, thru their
daily struggles against the bourgeoisie
the illusion Of reformism and parlia-
mentarism, we are called upon by the
minority of the c. E. C. to instill more
methodically into the minds of the
workers the dangerous psychology of
parliamentarism, and even take up the
initiative of building such. a reform
list party, which by necessity will be
counterrevolutionar no matter how
the minority pleases to call it.
We will now take up their second
argument. The minority, reading the
thesis Of the Fifth Congress, strucE
upon the paragraph stating that
Communist Party in order to lead the
workers to the revolution, must be
mass party. Thereupon the minority,
in its eagerness to Immediately bring
about the revolution and realizing that
the workers in America are not as yet
ready to join en- masse the Workers
Party, conceived the grandiose idea
of building camouflage Communist
mass party.
The minority evidently believes that
the realization of the revolution de-
ponds exclusively upon the activity
of Communist Party, and it is this
idea that drives them to imagine the
craziest schemes for immediate re-
suits. We can here, therefore, call to
their attention the two main factors
necessary for the realization of the
revolution, and these are the follow
ing: First, the collapse of the eco
nomic structure of the bourgeoisie,
with the consequent weakening of its
economic and therefore it's political
power, and secondly, the will Of the
workers for revolutionary action. The
first one, which by the way, is the
most important, is created by the very
contradictions of the capitalist sys-
tenn, and the duty of the Communist
Party is to work increasingly for the
realization of the second factor.
This task requires heavy sacrifices
! and daily struggles on the part of our
party, struggles based on the tactic
of the united front-as formulated in
the thesis of the majority of the c.
e. C.-struggles aiming to the revolu-
tionization of the minds of the mass
es and not cultivating the reformistic
spirit. But the minority cannot wait.
1t wants immediate results and be-
lieves that we can succeed in achiev-
ing them by reformistic manipulations
and parliamentary acrobatics.
What is a Communist Mass Party?
A few words as to what the term
Communist Mass Party" means. For
Communist Party to be mass
party, does not necessarily mean that
1t must number millions in member
ship. This, even after the success
of the revolution, is neither possible
nor desirable, If the members are not
real Communists (see the recent
wedding out Of doubtful elements from
Communist Parties), But it means
and this is very ssential-thahoit
must have the influence and the lead
ership of large masses of workers for
revolutionary action. Every Commun-
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possess such elementary knowledge,
but 1t seems that the minority lacks
this knowledge and for this reason is
only interested in securing the lead
ership of the masses, ignoring entirely
where, the kind of leadership propos-
ed by them, will lead to.
will close my criticism of the
thesis of the minority with the ex-
ample of the Communist Party Of
| Greece. That young party has not
more than three thousand members
yet it is a great factor in the poll.
tical life Of that country, just because
it succeeded in winning the leadership
OF the trade unions, by taking part
in their daily struggles. The workers
of Greece are not members Of the
Communist Party, except the above
mentioned small minority, yet the
comrades of Greece never for mo-
ment conceived the idea to build
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