The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-07-21

not get back to Berlin until the au-
tumn OF 1922.
Brandler In saxony.
Yet another fact should be pointed
out: the policy of the former Central
Committee was endorsed by the Elk
ecutive until the October defeat.
Therefore, if the German Party is In
deed guilty of any sin, the Executive
is equally guilty, because it has acted
with utmost vigor against the oppor-
tunist policy. It was asserted that
Comrade Brandler had deliberately
chosen Saxony as the battle ground
for the application of the united front
which was to eliminate in the work
ers' government" for the reason that
the Communist masses in that coun-
try were already contained with OPP
portunism.
The fact of the matter is that Com
rade Brandler did attach supreme i'm
portance to the development of the
situation in Saxony, yet it was not be-
cause he considered the Communist
masses contaminated with social-demo-
cracy, but rather because he errone-
ously imagined the social democratic
masses to be so impregnated with our
influence that they would join us in
the fight.
Fooled Fascist Coup.
There was yet another important
reason for choosing Saxony as the
battle ground. 1t was the talk of the
town that the fascists in Berlin were
going to restore the monarchy on the
9Th Of November. The only way to
Illustrate this plan was to retard the
fascist march from the South, in Sax
ony and Thuringia. If the events in
Saxony did not bring about the prole-
tartan revolution, they have at least
contributed to the fact that the fascist
attempt on the 9th of November re-
suited in nothing else but the Hitler
farce at Munich.
The majority representatives seem
to share the view Of Comrade Zinoviev
that the October retreat was due to a
wrong application of the tactics of
workers government. To my mind the
October defeat was due to a number
of causes, which should prompt us to.
criticise severely the attitude of the
party prior to October.
Revolutionary Situation.
Thanks to the occupation of the
Ruhr, the situation was doubtlessly
extremely revolutionary from an OBJ
jective point of view, and it already
began to grow even subjectively revo-
lutionary. All of a sudden, so to
speak, hundreds of hot springs bub-
bled forth from the ground that was
rent by an outburst of volcanic forces
1t was the task of the party to merge
these waters into one strong stream
and to set to this stream its course
and it's goal. In other words, the fight
was to be waged for the conquest Of
power.
Blames Leadership.
This did not happen. The party did
not take timely cognizance of the revo-
lutionary situation, nor did it take adj
vantage of the situation with suf-
ficient consistency and vigor. And by
far the larger part of the blame rests
upon the leadership of the German
Communist Party, because it should
have led the way instead of waiting
to be driven into activity by the
masses. 1t was the duty of the party
to lead up to the common every day
demands of the proletariat to the de-
mand for the conquest of power, and
to challenge a civil war, not abstract
ly, but utilizing and intensifying the
movement for the ameliorating of the
misery of the people. The party failed
to utilize all the opportunities for &C.
ton in parliament, in the communal
councils, at public meetings and de-
monstrations, so as to transform every
cry for bread, clothing, or education
into the cry: down with the capitalist
dictatorship! The party failed to con-
centrate and to permeate the factory
councils and to organize into points of
support for mass action. Neither did
Ignored Partial Fights.
it infuse the breath Of life into the
militant organs of the united front, by
making the proletarian hundreds &C
tive and by giving them definite
aim, to serve as the defense corps of
the workers in their daily struggles.
How are these mistakes to be ex-
planned? The party was convinced
that the fight for the conquest Of
power would be inaugurated by an
extreme effort, in which all the forces
would pull and work together. II con-
sidered the partial fights and the par
tial demands merely as the premature
dissipation of the energy Of the
masses. 1t did not consider the fight
for partial demands as means Of
recruiting, mobilizing and educating
the proletariat for the mass fight for