The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-11-26


The least deviation on this field Of
battle from the revolutionary lines OF
Leninism weakens and endangers. otiT
whole party. The way to guard
against these weaknesses is strict Rd-
herence to the letter and spirit Of the
tactics of the Communist Interns,
tional and the Red International Of
Labor Unions, OF which the represCn'
tative in the United States is the
Trade Union Educational League.
B. The Right Deviation Of Farmer.
Laborlsm In our Party. The Com.
munist international has repeatedly
pointed out that the united front tao
tics, altho the most effective means in
mobilizing the masses for the class
struggle and for the upbuiidinr OF a
mass Communist Party. also carries
with it serious dangers which Com
munist Parties must constantly guard
against
The appiication Of the united front
tactics in America, thru our fight to
establish farmer-labor party. has on
the whole strengthened our party and
extended its influence among the
masses. But, at the same time. it
gave rise within our party to a men
acing tendency to make the farmer.
labor party an end in itself and 70
relegate the Workers Party to the
background.
The position taken by the comrades
OF this tendency is that the only way
to crystalline independent political &C
ton Of workers and poor farmers is
thru farmer-labor party, forgetting
the existence Of the Workers Party
as the political class party Of the
workers and poor farmers. These
comrades also take the position that
the only way to build mass Com
. munist Party in America is thru a
farmer-labor party thus enunciating
new principle that the Workers
Party can never become a mass Com
) munist Party except thru organizing
and working within farmer-labor
party.
Notwithstanding the declaration OF
these comrades that they conceive
the farmer-labor party merely as an
instrument for the building up of the
Workers Party, the effect of this
theory is to tend to liquidate the
Workers (Communist) Party in "a
vor of a non-C Communist farmer-labor
party. These comrades work under
the delusion that the Workers Party
as such and under its own name can
not successfully appeal to and absorb
into it's ranks large masses of work
ers. Their theory is that the Work
ers' Party can at present appeal only
to a small section Of theoretically
convinced Communists and that in
! order to approach with Communist
propaganda larger masses of workers,
our party must form new special po-
litical organizations, such as women's
!, councils and a farmer-labor party
This non-COmmunist conception of
the role Of our party manifests itself
particularly in the tendency to resort
to all kinds of new political organiza.
I. tons, substitutes for the Workers
Party, whenever an opportunity pre-
!, sents itself to appeal to large masses
4 Of workers on concrete issues OF
everyday life.
The protagonists Of this theory at
tempt to justify their false concep-
tons on the basis Of the united front
. tactics of the Communist Interna-
!. tional This is totally wrong. The
= fundamental idea of the united front
: tactics is to bring the Workers Party
!. itself into direct contact with the
4 rank and file of the working class in
their everyday struggles against the
canitalists, and to popularize it as the
v leader of the fight for their daily
: needs. The attempt to set up a
!. farmer-labor party in the absence Of
4 a powerful mass movement in the
if direction of such a party, means moth
!. ing else than the setting up semi
r Communist substitute for the Work
4 ers' Party
d A fundamental principle OF the
e united front tactics is that a Com.
{ munist Party must absorb into its own
D ranks every section and group of the
a working class that accepts in the
struggle the policies and slogans Of
a, the Communist Party. Therefore
k every attempt by the Workers Party
d to set up middle-of-the-way political
Ie bodies to take the place of the Work.
Ie ers' Party in the eyes Of the masses
Ie is in direct violation OF Communist
d. principles, and if carried to any length
II will spell the liquidation Of the Work
s. ers' (Communist) Party. This farm.
Il. er-laborism opportunistic tendency
II with in the Workers Party means