The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-07-16

our progress. But he was careful in
his report not to draw the conclusions
which logically follow from this.
| Now | want to say a few words about
the organization of the Revolution
The organization of the revolution
may mean that correct Communist
tactics are adopted from the first
moment when even group of Com.
munists are occupied in rallying the
workers for the revolution, in organ.
izing them for the fight, and in or
ganizing preparations for the fight un.
til they become so wise that they
grow into the party of the revolution
Or it may mean that we have reached
a situation when we can calculate that
within given time, that is to say, at
a moment not far off, in the next
months, or in the next weeks; we shall
enter upon the decisive battle. To
say this means that one must force
the pace of the struggle to an extra
ordinary degree, it demands the most
extensive concentration upon military
preparations-for if anybody says that
one can just get hold of arms, he is
very much undertaking the exper-
fences of revolutions, and also the ex-
periences Of the Russian revolution.
| (Turning to the German comrades. }
Comrades, you are simply talking in
the air when you say we are ready to
lead the masses in their struggle ev-
cry day! In that case, why don't you
lead the masses every day into the
struggle for power? Why do you
wait, if you can lead the mass of the
workers in their struggle every day?
(Freimuth: We do lead the masses
in their struggle every day, in what
ever struggle is the order of the day.
Comrade Freimuth says we lead the
struggle for power every day, just as
lit comes along. That means every
one Of our struggles for power. Quite
true! But what is being said gener-
ally is that the German Communist
Party is ready at any moment to lead
the proletariat in the struggle for
complete power. (Severing: Quite
trueDs
l say, if you are ready for it every
day. and do not do it, you are traitors
to the German proletariat. Comrades,
behind this dispute is a serious mat
ter. Comrade Zinoviev has said in his
report that in the important centers
in France and Germany we are ad-
vancing toward winning the majority
of the proletariat. That is the kernel
of the question. If Comrade Zinoviev
asserts that he is mistaken. And this
error, together with the idea of our
left comrades, who declare that they
are ready every day to take up the
struggle for complete power :.
interruption: Ready, ready!) One is
not ready to do that which one cannot
do.
Comrades, in that does the error in
Judging the situation lie? Comrades
have said, 1--WE have suffered ire
mendous defeat in Germany" and,
having said that, they are still Of the
opinion that nothing has changed that
tomorrow we shall again be ready.
That is the greatest illusion that can
be entertained.
If the French comrades were so
strong, why was there only one DEM
onstration in Paris when the Ruhr
workers were shot by the French
troops? Comrade TRENT writes very
pertinently in an article in the Com
munist International: "The great ma
jority of the French proletariat is still
filed with pacifst and democratic H.
lusions." And in Germany? believe,
comrades, that the Congress will have
the opportunity Of considering in COM
mission one fact after another, not
only the present transient situation
in the German Party, but that which
is developing.
A fraction numering 62 people rep
resent four millions Of workers who
have been thru all the tribulations of
illegality. They enter the Reichstag
for the first time, and what do we see?
We hear few parliamentary
speeches 1 will not describe here.
When the experts report, which is
to enslave the German proletariat,
comes before the Reichstag, 1t is the
duty Of the Communist Party, enter
ing parliament as agitators, not to
spout general speeches, but to give
an answer which will be echoed in