The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-12-27
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20 initiate this farmer-labOr move
ment Il is very likely that we win
not pass thru the stage Of social-demo-
cratic parties in the United States and
that the development will be in the
direction of big capitalist party,
progresive-petty bourgeois party and
labor party controlled by the Com
munists.
Now that the grip of the trade union
geoisie on the workers is at a low
ebb. owing to the dissolution Of the
LaFollette movement, our strategy
must again be to get hold politically
of their imagination and crystalline it
into definite organization and thus
eliminate the possibility of the left
wing being absorbed politically by our
enemies.
Here again the minority strategy
offers the possibility of maneuvering
and Of eliminating the labor party as
factor on the side Of our enemies,
while the majority delivers it to them.
However, our propaganda must be
conducted in such a manner and the
preparations even of our own party
arranged in such a manner, that the
work Of organizing the farmer-Iabor
party will take place during the com
ing economic crisis.
Iiquidating the Workers Party.
OF all the silly accusations launched
against the minority. this one takes
the prize. How a farmer-labor party
composed Of affiliated organizations
and under our leadership, which
means without individual leadership,
can lead to the liquidation of the
Workers Party. must yet be an I'M
divulged secret in the chest of the
majority, for so far they have not yet
revealed it. In such a party the only
way to affiliate is to join the Workers
Party or by being a member of a
union. society, etc. In party OF the
type of the labor party of Great
Britain, owned and controlled by the
bureaucracy. there is far greater dan
ger OF that sort and is the main reason
for the numerical weakness of the
Communist Party. the left wing out
side of the Communists being absorbed
by the labor party. Not only would
the Workers Party not be liquidated,
but would become the dynamite force
within it. 1t would make il possible
for US to conduct recruiting campaigns
to get individual members within
these organizations on a scale never
attempted by US before.
This strategy win put the Workers
Party to the front in the true sense.
1t is flexible. while the majority's tao
tics would put US into a political
straight jacket that would revert into
opportunism on the industrial field
and into sectarianism on the POLITICAL
field The Workers Party will get to-
the fore politically in as much as III
got industrially thru the united front
tactics thru the left bloc united front
tactics formed under the auspices of
the T. U. e. L.. and It will consolidate
our industrial strength. and give us
the medium to effectively combat the.
petty-bourgeois political movement
wherever and whenever It may arise.
Farmer-Labor Party and oppcrtunism.
How can we be at the head OF
party with reformist program with
out sinking our whole movement into
the swamp Of opportunism? Indus
trially, it seems to me. we are keeping
out Of that swamp by the mere skin
OF our teeth. We will surely sink into
1t unless we make our followers there
politically class conscious. The COM
ing struggles even for immediate de-
mands will so react upon capitalism,
which is in precarious condition. that
they are bound to become more and
more intense. This gives the struggles
revolutionary implication and pre-