The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-06
Lore and the Comintern > 1.5..y:1 2ls.


his Communism. he would not have
been tolerated in the International
But the Executive Committee said,
there is a certain brand of Commu-
nism. a certain tendency in the Com.
munist movement which is known as
oppoFtunlst or eentrist, a tendency
which, while accepting the program
and the tactical line of the Communist
International, has not yet relinquished
from its mind the image of another
organization where discipline is less
exacting, the revolutionary lines are
less tightly drawn and the fight
against the socialist reformers is less
severe. This tendency is I'm a con-
slant covert or overt opposition to the
Communist International. il is sus-
pieious of the decisions and policies
Of the Communist International; it
chafes under the rule Of International
discipline, and it expects evil from
what it terms the lack of response
bility" on the part of Moscow" To
put it in brief: This tendency is against
the BolsheViI character of the G. l.
Such tendency, the Executive Commit
tee said, is expressed;
a. In comrade Lore's support of
Serrati against the comintern;
b. In comrsde Lore's support of
Paul Levi against the comintern;
c. In comrade Lore's siding with
xath - - a. l. l..
sky policy against the majority of
the Russian Communist Party in the
discussion Of last year;
d. In comraos Lore's attitude to-
wards the German revolution in the
fall Of 1928;
e. In comrade Lore's estimation
OF what the Communist Enternation-
al was and what, in his opinion, It
should not have been in the first
five years Of its existence.
The Executive Committee of the
Communist International took the po-
sition that if the same general tend
ency manifests itself in the writings
of the same comrade in the course of
four OF more years under varying cir
cumstances, il the comrade only
seems to be waiting for an opportun-
ity to express his opinion in opposi
ton to the stand of the Communist
International and if he persists in his
opinions, never regulating what he
had enormously defended before, then
this eomrade must certainly be term
ed a centrist. The Executive Commit
tee, further maintains that the writ
ings Of a comrade form a good basis
for judging his basic position. 'Why
should we not judge on the basis of
articles, quotations and resolutions"
Comrade Zinoviev said in his con-
GLIDING speech at the Fifth Congress,
Theses, quotations and articles exist
just for the purpose that on their basis
of course, not on this alone-we
may judge" AS nearly everyone Of
the comrades in the Executive Com
mittee reads German fiuently, it was
possible for the Executive Committee
o get frst-hand information on the
nature of Comrade Lore's writings and
on the general character of the Volks-
zeitung. so that the decision cannot
be attributed to lack Of information"
on the part of Moscow, as is often
claimed by c. l. opponents.
In order that those American COM
rades who do not remember the cases
IF Serrati, Paul Levi, etc, may clearly
understood the Lore issue. it will be
well to recall those startling moments
in the history of our Communist In
ternational.
The keynote to Comrade Lore's at
titude was struck as early as Sep
TENDER 20. 1920, in volkszeitung edi-
torial entitled: Let us not allow nom
essentials to make us forget the basic
problem" In this article which is di-
rected against Hillquit, Comrade Lore
writes:
1--WE also think (like HlIIqult) that
comrade zinoviev should here and
there be more careful (grossere
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