The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-26

and that the DAILY WORKER over
emphasized the criticism of Oscar Nell
son, notorious labor-faker alderman,
Here we have a glazing example
Of the misunderstanding Of the role
of the Communist Party in the every
day struggles of the workers.
The FL. p.
This is an organic feature Of OPP
portunism in our ranks. Another phase
Of this opportunistic, narrow basis of
the Foster-Cannon group is its theory
Of the party bowling before the spon-
taneity Of the masses. There is no
conscious mass demand for a class
farmer-labor party. Therefore, the
Communists CANNOT AND SHOULD
NOT agitate for such party and
MUST NOT utilize this slogan" This
is the burden of the song that the
Foster group is singing in the present
party controversy.
Dawes Plan and Masses.
In the ranks of the American
workers there is at this moment
no burning hatred of or conscious
mass opposition to the Dawes plan
Therefore, in the eyes of the
Foster group it is folly for the
central executive committee to at
tempt to work out program of ac-
ton based on the G. l. policy on the
Dawes scheme which will serve to
arouse such hatred thru enthusing
these masses in the United States
with some Communist consciousness.
An opportunist theology.
Comrade Stain has very well char
acterized this attitude towards the
spontaneity Of the masses as follows:
The theory Of spontaneity is a theory
Of opportunism, the theory Of bowling
before the spontaneity of the work
ers' movement, is the theory of actual
denial of the leading role Of the van
guard Of the working class. !. :.
The theory Of spontaneity is the ide-
oIogy Of trade unionism." (Lenin and
Leninism, page 4S.)
The Bridge to 2.5 Communism.
It is this lack of historical perspec-
tive coupled with this un-Communist
attitude towards the role of the Com
munist Party as the vanguard, as the
driving force and the spontaneity of
the masses in the development of the
revolutionary movement and the class
struggle that serves as the connect
ing link between the Foster group and
the Lore group It would be INSULT
cient and, therefore, incorrect to state
that the Foster and Lore groups have
been in an alliance merely for organ
, national reasons best known to them
selves. There is intense sympathy be-
tween the theology of the Foster and
Lore groups.
Only on this basis can we under
stand the why and the wherefore of
the Foster majority and Comrade Lore
having voted for each others propos-
ais and policies at least fifty-nine
times. Only on this basis can we un-
derstand the fact that the MARKHAM
group in the c. E. c. did not vote for
single proposal made by or in behalf
Of the Lore tendency. More than that
Whenever we attempted to correct
Comrade Lore's deviations from the
policies of the Comintern we were
called prosecutors. 1t is especially
significant to note that while we were
being called prosecutors because we
insisted on the c. E. c. complying
with the c. l. decision regarding the
Two-and-a-Half International tendency
in the party, members of our group
were being removed from responsible
party positions and Loreites put in
their place.
Radek on Lore.
In the light of this situation the
opinion of the Lore tendency enter
tanned by the Communist International
takes on a particularly instructive
and timely value in the present party
controversy. II is in this opinion of
the Communist International that we
find the basis for the organic unity
between the Foster and Lore groups.
Thus Comrade Radek spoke of the
Lore group in our party in his report
before the American commission in
the presidium of the e. C. of the C. l.
on May 20, 1924:
an conclusion something about the
Lore group. believe that we are
not dealing here with personal lapses
Of Comrade Lore. He has written ar
ticles in which he presents the history
of the Communist International com
pletely in the spirit of the Second
and-a-Half International He repre-
sents us as a movement which at first
was NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS., for splits
in the unions and then crept out to
a realistic standpoint. Or in an ar
ticle on the English labor party, Lore