The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-07-29
CHAPTER VII.
Questions Of Tactics.
opportunlstie Deductions Of
Comrade Hula.

Questions Of Tactics.
opportunstie Deductions Of
comrade Hula.
I AM now coming to the questions
| of tactics. To begin with l wish to
make a few general remarks on this
question. Hitherto thought that the
question of winning over the major
ity to our side had been solved at the
Third Congress. But it has now be-
come evident that this question still
requires calculation.
This was shown by the statement
made in the speeches of several of
the Czech party. Perhaps have not
followed events in Czecho.Slovakia
with sufficient attention and much is
still not clear to me. But 1 think
that the material at my disposal will
suffice for certain deductions to be
made. 1 have read an article by Hula
who seized upon a sentence in an
article of mine in which l said that
our task consisted in winning over to
our side the majority of the most inn
portant and decisive sections of the
working class as a prerequisite of
victorious revolution. He at once
sounded the alarm and quoted Lenin
against me. My contention was pre-.
sumed to be the direct opposite to
Lenin's precepts. Hula said: mo
evidence is necessary to prove that
the gaining over of the majority of
the more important elements of the
working class" is a vague and in
definite expression and that the inter-
probation of it under certain circum-
stances, in the last resort is contra
diction, because to win over the ma
jority Of the more important elements
of the working class may also be
taken to mean the winning Of the ma
jority of the proletariat; particularly
as no definition is given of what may
constitute the more important ele.
ments Of the working class, and which
are not important, and therefore as
should logically follow, from Zinc
views phrase, are not worth bother
ing about" Hula is a sincere sup
porter and adherent of the Third In
ternational. l know him personally
as good Communist.
This makes the matter worse and
shows only that there is something
rotten in the State of Denmark; that
desperate attempts are being made in
the Czech party to draw opportunist
conclusions out of this matter.
The Question of Winning the Majority.
l will not take up your time with
quotations, although 1 have a whole
collection of them here. All l want
to say is-that the Third Congress,
under Lenin's leadership, passed a
resolution which says that we must
strive to win over the working class
by organizing it's socially decisive sec
tons. do not wish to assert that in
my feeting remarks have formulated
the postulate Of "the winning of the
vanguard of the most important ele-
ments" perfectly; but on the whole
the idea was correctly expressed, as
it was at the Third Congress. l un.
reservedly accept the formula of the
Third Congress.
What does Hula's article imply?
Nothing but the we'll known oppor-
tunist theory that statistical ma
jority Of 80 per cent must be won over
and organized before there can be any
thought Of revolution. This is an op-
portunistic idea which is bound to
lead US astray, II we accept It. 1
think that one Of the most important
tasks before the Congress is the care
l full study of this question of winning