The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-20

AS early as May is, 1921, the ''VoIks-
zeitung" expressed it's opinion on the
ACCESSIBILITY of aggressive revolution
airy action in times of a receding re-
volutionary wave in the following
form:
what happened in Italy after Lii
vorno is known to us. The new Com
munist Party Immediately began an
aggressive offensive policy !.
and it accomplished by it that the
fascist organization, previously insig-
nifcant, met the offensive with still
sharper attacks and so drove the Com
munists from an offensive to a de-
fensive position. Not the red,
but the white terror now reigns in
Italy"
These remarks may serve as a
key note to Comrade Lore's attitude
towards revolutionary action. Com
rade Lore was averse to revolution
airy battles Of the working class, pro
ceeding from general assumption
that Europe was not ripe for revolu-
ton. Comrade Lore considered ap-
peals to revolutionary battles untime-
ly and therefore, disastrous to the
working cess.
His attitude towards the October
events in Germany is a point in case
It is now conceded even by the right
wing OF the German Communists that
the situation in Germany in October.
1873, offered unusual Revolutionary
possibilities, that the bourgeoisie was
IN state Of confusion, that its power
was weakened, and that the working
Glars was only waiting for leadership
to storm. the mainstays of capitalism
In Germany. 1t was lack of activity
on the part of the central committee
OF the Communist Party of Ger many.
and 1t was an opportunist notion con.
corning the united front with the
Saxony social-democrats in the gov
eminent of Saxony that turned the
October events into a defeat of the
working class. This policy of mac
tivity was subsequently repudiated by
the German rank and file Communists
who at the Frankfort convention
March, 1920 elected a left wing
central committee, and also by the
fifth congress Of the Communist In
ternational 1t is significant, how
ever, that Comrade Lore, without d.
rectly communicating with the Ger
man Communists, maintained in New
York the idea that the Communist
Party of Germany should not lead the
German workers into decisive battles
should, on the contrary, restrain the
workers from spontaneous outbursts
and revolts.
In an editorial entitled Hunger
not Communism" in the ''Volkszei-
tung" of Oct. rs, 1923, he expresses
the idea that revolts in Germany are
result OF hunger and not of revolu-
ticnary plan conceived by the Com
m1nist Party, because, in his opin-
ion, there are no objective possibili-
ties of revolution in Germany. The
revolt in Hamburg, Bremen and 9TH
er German cities he considered to be
hunger riots which should be kent
within limits. "The Communist move
ment works" he writes, ''in Germany
as elsewhere, for the social revolu-
ton. But it does not conduct a pol
icy Of adventurism. 1t chooses the
most favorable time for its aim of So
cial overthrow in order to be able to
deal capitalist society the decisive
blow. This is particularly true about
the German Communist Party at pres
ent: 1t is hunger that drives the
masses to despair 1t is the intoler
able misery which drives the masses
into the streets, which compels them
to plumber shops and warehouses full
Of foodstuffs and commodities Of
every kind. And when the natural i'm
pulse. the wish to live and not to
starve, finally moves them to actions
which. while cartainlv mt hrinofue a