The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-07-10

ISM
Pictures comintern as Battleship.
The battleship of the Comintern
must steer clear of the explosive
mines Of left and right wing tenden-
cies. Since the Fourth Congress, the
Executive Committee has been wag-
ing the fight chiefly against the right
wing. Frossard performed a great
service to the Communist party of
France, inasmuch as he took with
him every element in the party that
was bad and unhealthy. In Norway,
there has split of the half-syndical-
list, self-opportunist Tranmeal group,
in which Liam, the most banaI Of so
eial traitors, played first violin.
Errors of Policy.
In Italy, in the Socialist party,
Nenni and the Vellag group have
been fighting the supporters of the
Third International In Sweden,
right wing mistakes have been no
tieeable, and it is not yet clear, how
far these mistakes have been recti-
fed. The Bulgarian Party has al
ready corrected serious errors. 1t is
said that the Executive Committee
has entirely done away with right
wing leadership in the Communist
Party of Germany. The Executive
council has not this advantage, for
it supported right wing leadership
for much too long. And in the Com
munist Party of Russia, too, there
have cropped up petty-bourgeois
groups, on whose appearance the So
cial-Democrats founded high hopes.
These hopes will never be fulfilled,
but II is a good warning to Radek
that the Vorwaerts is praising him.
In the Communist Party of France,
dangerous illusions were built up in
connection with the rise of the Mac
Donald government. 1t is to be hoped
that Rosmer and Monatte will per-
ceive their mistakes. Souvarine be-
came hopelessly muddled.
The Party in England permitted
grave errors in the use Of the United
Front tactics. And as the traitors of
the Communist Party of Germany cor
rectly said, there were errors of ultra
radicalism in the Comintern, too. In
the German Communist Party there
was present strong tendency to get
out of the trade unions. The Exc
cutive committee fought ultra-left
radical philosophy.
Right Wing Dangers.
In nine cases out of ten the fight
Of the Executive Committee has had
influence with the right wing, and
this must come about in the Congress
as well. The dangers of right wing
tendencies are greater than was sup
posed. Between two revolutionary
uprisings, dangers of right wing
tendencies always crop up. The Com
intern does not condition its fight on
philosophic radicalism, but 1t wages
war chiefly on the right wing dan
gers of petty-bourgeois opportunism.
Graziadei is bringing up the half-for-
gotten Social-Democratic theory once
more. Lukacs wishes to revise the
oretical Marxism. Korsch, too, is re-
vising Marxism. All three are Pro-
fessors. Boris, who denies the facts
of colonial exploitation is no Com
munist and no Marxist The profess
sors should study Leninism first.
Situation Revolutionary.
Going back over this analysis of
the situation, the speaker wishes TO
emphasize, that events are coming
to pass more slowly than was ex-
pected. The situation is neverthe-
less a revolutionary one. The account,
ing shows balance in favor of the
Comintern, since dozens OF monarchs
have been overtiGown, one sixth of
the surface of the globe has been con-
quered, Asia has been Influenced in
favor OF the revolution, capitalism
has shaken and partly destroyed, the
Communist parties have grown.
Farmers crisis exist in America
and In the greater part Of the world.
II Hilferding points out this situa-
ton as a sign OF normally, such nor
malcy is very much to be desired for
us. The class war grows sharper;
the levelling Of the working class
which will bring 1t new life, is pro-
ceeding more rapidly; a crisis is at
hand.
Socialist PsoIfIst Era
As concerns the situation in world
politics, the speaker wishes to explain
matters as follows The Fourth World
Congress foretold what has actually
happened during the democratic-paci-
fist era in England, France, Denmark
and so forth. The Fifth Congress pre-
diets the end of this era and prophecies
an era OF reaction and OF fascism,
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