The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-01-19
THE OCTOBER COUNTER-REVOLUTION

class. And the left Social Democrats?
To this day they have not summoned
up enough courage to break with the
leaders of the right, in face Of this
enormous betrayal of the working
class, in face of the delivery even Of
middle class democracy to Fascism.
They have been opposed to every de-
fensive action of the working class.
What they represent is belly-aches,
tears and signs for the lost paradise
of the November republic.
Toni Sender, the left Social Demo-
cratic virgin from Frankfort on the
Main, the Brunhilde of the left wing.
publishes now, after the victory Of
Fascism, two articles which show
that there is no left wing of the
Social Democracy. The brave Valkyr
clings to the corpse of the November
republic and tries to breathe new life
into it. There are left Social Demo-
cratic workers, but there are no left
Social Democratic leaders. We must
prepare the ground for the new strug-
giles only through the most ruthless
fight against the phantom of left
Social Democratic leaders, only
through making clear the fact that
Fascism has won, and that it is now
time to lead the masses to storm
Fascism, and that for this purpose
it is necessary to break absolutely
with the Social Democracy. The
liquidation of the Social Democracy
is the prerequisite for the liquidation
of Fascism. Whoever is not openly
for the dictatorship of the working
class, is for the dictatorship of
Fascism. Whoever is not for prepar-
ing the armed uprising is for COM
pleting. the victory of Fascism, fer the
crushing of the defenseless working
class through armed bands of whites.
The third period of our tactic, which
began with the occupation of Saxony
by General Mueller and with the be-
trayal of the Social Democracy, calls
for the resumption of the entire pro-
gram of the Communist Party of Ger
many, calls for the life and death
struggle with the Social Democracy,
as prerequisite to winning the labor
ing masses to the armed uprising.
We have stressed so sharply the
connection between the new orienta-
ton of the Communist Party of Ger
many with the victory of Fascism in
order to ward off the attempt of our
'Iefts" who would ascribe the new
tactic to the recognition that the
tactic which the Communist Interna-
tional has pursued in the last thsee
years, has failed. We could cheer
fully leave the honor to the left COM
rades of having always said the same
thing in the years 1918, 1920 and
1923, although in these five years
conditions have undergone violent
development. But this theory would
have fatal results for the German as
well as for the other Communist
Parties, our discrepancies, which con-
tinue to carry on the tactic of the
Third and Fourth World Congresses
in their countries until events in their
countries will show this tactic to be
obsolete. They must naturally learn
from the German experience, but in
the first place they cannot substitute
for the object lesson of their own
country an account Of the German
experiences; secondly, the occur
rences in Germany must not be re-
peated mechanically in the other
countries. AS for the German Party,
by accepting the theory of the
"lefts." it will not only sign declara-
ton of bankruptcy, but it would bar
the way to taking hold of the real
new tasks. For if we only had to
make up today for that which we
neglected out of stupidity in the
years 1920-23, we would have no new
tasks before us, except the task of the
propaganda of "pure Communism"