The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-08-12

OuF TedueTS Snouto follow THIS re-
port with keen interest. Comrade
Bukharln Is a noted Marxlst' and one
Of the leaders Of the Russian Com
munist Party and one Of the Russian
representatives on the Executive
Committee Of the Communist Inter
national. A second instalIment Will
appear tomorrow.
comrade 5ukharin's Report.
| COMRADES, we two reporters who
~ were appointed by the Executive
to deal with this question omrade
Thalheimer and myself, have divided
the work between us. Comrade Thai
heimer's report will not be counter
part to mine, but rather a supplement
to it.
Comrades, at our last congress the
program question was discussed with
considerable thoroness. The most i'm
portant program questions were dealt
with in the reports made at that time.
| will therefore not again go over the
paragraphs contained in my report
and in Thalheimer's supplementary
report.
Capitalist Accumulation.
Differences arose in connection
with two quite different questions:
first, in connection with capitalist ac-
cumulation-a purely theoretical ques-
ton brought forward by Comrade
Rosa Luxembourg. We have omitted
this purely theoretical discussion for
today, not because of our inability to
discuss this question, or because we do
not attack any Importance to it, but
because it is a question which does
not lend itself to discussion in the
plenum. 1t is of an extremely theore-
tical nature and therefore not suit
able for the plenum of a great con-
gress. We have decided to deal with
these purely theoretical questions at
separate meetings.
The second question, which gave
rise to differences the question of
partial demands and transition slo-
gans,-was settled by the Fourth Con-
gress AS there are no differences
in connection with it, this question
disappears from the agenda, unless
some delegation or group Of delega-
lions object to this.
Thus, in today's report l will deal
only with new questions, namely with
questions not discussed in former re-
ports.
Comrade ThaIheimer and myself
propose (and l believe we voice the
opinion of the Commission on this)
that at this congress, we adopt not
final program, but rather a draft
which the parties affiliated to the
Communist International may discuss.
This draft must be distributed to the
sections for discussion in the name of
the congress.
Determine Aims and Methods.
In the first place, we need the pro-
gram for the theological training of
the parties belonging to the Commun-
list International. We also need the
program for its political significance,
in order to determine its aims and
the methods by which these aims are
to be achieved. We also need the
program to demonstrate and to fur
Their our unity. must say that l do
not share comrade Maslov's scepti-
cism with relation to the program. He
published a rather good article in re-
ply to conrade Boris article in die
Internationale"-the theoretical maya
zine published by the German Party
expressed himself against the adop-
But in this article, comrade Maslov
ton of this program. He argues that
sufficient preparatory work has not
been done and that various, purely
theoretical questions, are not yet
solved. He proposes that only a pro-
gram of action be adopted in lieu of
programs do not agree with his
contention, for think that in the
various documents already adopted by
the Communist International, which
date from our first congress, we have
sufficient material and also sufficient
calculation of the most important
questions which concern the program.
I also think that, with a few excep-
tons we are justified in saying that
even the purely theoretical questions
have been, on the whole, we'll
thrashed out. think that there is no
justification for comrade Maslov's,
theoretical scepticism.
Philosophy Of Movement.
come now to the question itself.
AS have already said, I will deal now
only with questions which are CON-
lparatively new. presume that form
er reports, which we're published in
book form, and the discussions con-
nected with them, are familiar to all
the comrades.
The first question we have 10 con-
slider is--our philosophy. Not a word
has been said in the draft laid before
the Fourth World Congress about the
philosophy Of the Communist Interna-
tional and Of Communism in general.
But since then we have gone thru
experiences which make 1t impera-
tive for US to deal with this quss-