The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-12
BY EARL 4. BRowoER.

Organized confusion is the out
standing characteristic Of the thesis
Of the minority. 1t is a perfect Illus
rration Of what the thesis Of the G.
p. G. (majority) warned against as
the right deviation Of ;farmer-laborism
within our party. Under cover Of
''leftist" phrases, the minority is ad-
vancing a revision Of Communist con-
ceptions Of political action, of the role
Of the Communist Party, of the ma
ture Of "class action" and Of the pro-
cess of revolutionizing the masses. On
each of these points the minority
stands for a definite right-wing revi-
zion. Let us briefly prove this in
their own words.
Minority Identifies Political Action
With RarIiamentarlsnn.
The majority thesis states the Com
munist position that the whole class
struggle is a political struggle, and
that the purpose Of the united front
is to engage in all struggles of the
workers to sharpen and develop the
political aspect and thus bring the
workers closer to Communism.
The minority, on the other hand,
contends that the only possible kind
of political action, on the united front
basis, is in the form of farmer-labor
party. Such an idea has no sense or
logic at all, unless we start from the
social-democratic conception that par
ticipation in elections is the only form
of political action. But it seems that
the minority is leaning very, very
strongly in that direction. What else
can it mean when the minority thesis
says:
"lf we abandon the united front
politically by abandoning the slogan /.
for class farmer-labor party. :"
Comrade Ruthenberg, in The Work.
ers' Monthly for December, goes so far
as to say that the slogan "for farm
er-labor party" is based upon 1.-THE rock
foundation" that the intensifying OF
the class struggle must mean, politi-
cally, farmer-labpr. party move
ment. We were under the impression
that the rock foundation" OF the class
struggle was the basis for Communist
political action, but never will we adj
NIT that farmer-laborism has the same
rock foundation as our own movement.
Such conception is organized confu-
sion, behind which the most funda-
mental right-wing deviations are
smuggled into our movement.
Minority RevIses the Role Of the Party
The minority says that the central
task Of the Workers (Communist)
Party is to build another, non-Commu!
mist party. They take the position
that the Workers Party can only grow
If it is an auxiliary to farmer-labor
party. They say that only "the slo-
gan Of farmerlabor party and cam
paigns for the building up of farmer
labor parties" will win any sort Of
position for the Workers Party in this
country.
This is another right-wing deviation,
part and parcel Of the general right
wing tendency Of the minority. I'm
der certain conditions such slogans
and campaigns may have temporary
value as they had in the past, but
when the minority makes this a prin-
ciple, declaring that only such means
will build the Workers Party without
regard to political conditions, then the
minority has thereby rejected the Len.
mist conception OF our party as the
leader, and reduced it to role of
parasite upon another organization
which is to be the real organ Of poll
teal struggle. The feminist concep-
ton of the role of the party is funda-
mentally in conflict with the minority.
It is based upon the conception of the