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

urBJ 10 WluCo AT the personal Jr6no
OF the discussion. This in spite OF the
fact that he opens a personal attack
on Comrade Foster in the December
Workers Monthly''-the same issue
in which Comrade Foster also has an
article, but an article which proceeds
from beginning to end without refer
ence to persons but strictly to policy.
In addition, we have been charged
with "polemical detectivism" by those
who, even before discussion had open
ed and continually since, have holly
stigmatized the majority with the cpl
tibet Of "syndicalist."
Now it may be crime in a Com
munist Party to enter it from and
to remain in a proletarian organiza-
ton, if so / must apologize, tho the
Profntern may share the blame for
my persistence in this left error. But
am disposed to take up this accusa-
ton of "syndicalism" against the ma
iority, as it places our accusers also
on trial II we of the majority are
accused Of not being Communists, but
syndicalists, we may be permitted the
privilege to inquire into how far to
the right our comrades Of the minority
have moved that they feel we are so
far to the left as to be "syndicalists."
Syndicalist! Mea culpal Mea cuI-
pa! But then, on the other hand
never was an anarchist, whose mind
the Russian revolution could change
only very little, nor was l parlia-
mentary socialist whose mind neither
the revolution nor anything else has
been able to change at all. The Com
munist veneer which has been laid
over the comrades Of these two seem
ingly opposite tendencies, is now
showing cracks wide enough, that
looking thru the rents of the party
discussion, their remarkable similarity
| is distinctly noted.
Fight Both DeviatIonsl
There is an essential and fundamen-
tai connection between the anarchist
and the social democrat in their con-
ception Of what independent work
ing class political action" is. Comrade
Lenin has said that "Anarchism is a
punishment laid upon the labor move.
ment for its reformist SINS And
was about to add another article to
the many have already written
against the I. w. w. conception of
political action when-lo and be.
hold! find it more needful to write
one against the reformist parliament
arism which is showing itself in our
party and at the head of our party.
Political action means voting and
participation in elections and capital
list parliaments and nothing else, say
the anarchist leaders of the /. w. w.
We are organized for a political func-
ton, which means participation in
electoral struggles for the seizure of
political power. We are not syndical.
istsl" shouted Comrade Minor on the
evening Of November 20. 1924. He
was clearly supported by Comrade
Ruthenberg, who at that meeting ap-
parently understood that the "Twen-
ty-one points" Of the Comintern were
points of parliamentary procedure.
What Lies Behind Farmer-Laborism
Whether or not we shall have a
farmer-labor party ('mass" or "class"
You may take your choice), or even
whether or not there shall be a slo-
gan for these apples of Sodom, is be-
coming an issue which, tho of grave
importance, is exposing the graver
issue of whether or not we shall have
Bolsheyist party, or whether we
shall be delivered over to a social
democratic morass of vulgar par
iamentarism"-w is where the
comrades of the minority are leading
us, consciously or unconsciously.
See, for example, the generous
scorn for "pure Communist pro-
gram" and for the slogan FORWARD
to the soviets," as expressed by
comrade Pcllack. Then there Is
Comrade Lovestone, who has the
same success with Mahoney that
Mahoney had with the C. p. p. A.
comrade Lovestone testifTes (under
MARKHAM oath as all reformists do
who must find Communist ground
for non-communist aetIon) that
when we catch him trying to shove
our party into the nav Of petty
bourgeois farmer-Iabor party, that
he 10 only pulling US outl
Yet Comrade Lovestone is so com.
pletely a vulgar parliamentarian'
that he cannot see any political move.
ment outside OF party, and farmer.
labor party at that He deigns to
mention the Workers Party twice in
his article of December 3, in which
he says:
These comrades (the majority
would have us believe that the hun
dreds of thousands of farmer-labor-
ties Of yesterday don't want and are
not interested now in another poll
tical movement"
The Nebu,ar Hypothesis of Farmer.
Labor Parties.
Another political movement is, of
course, real, genuine. GLASS" farm