The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-08-02

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The more deeply our Party is be-
L. coming Bolshevized, the clearer
becomes its conceptions on the urgent
necessity of an agrarian program and
policies and systematic Communist
work on the agrarian field. The Party
must take closely to its heart and to
its understanding the lesson given by
the last plenum Of the Communist In
ternational: that an under-estimation
Of the agrarian question by Com
munist Party is fatal for the proletar-
ian struggle for power.
q One of the effective ways Of Boil
q. shevizing our Party is to increase
considerably our interest and Com
munist activities in the Party's agri-
cultural work. We may subdivide our
agricultural campaign into two phases:
First-to draw the rural proletariat
which is part of the working class into
active participation in the class strug-
gle side by side with the city prole-
tariat against the bourgeoisie. This
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ton of the working class.
Second-to separate from the bour-
geoisie and neutralize and to win over
to revolutionary proletarian influence
and leadership the middle farmers,
the poor mortgaged and tenant farm
ers and the semi-proletarian farming
masses.
. The Communist Party must still
- overcome certain prejudicies in
it's ranks in order to intensity and
broaden it's activities among the agri-
cultural masses.
(a) We must reject categorically
and fight theoretically against that
narrow guild or craft concept of the
class struggle in our ranks which is
the chief barrier to our approach and
application of Communist tactics in
our agricultural work.
OBJ We must categorically reject
the non-Communist and even anti
Communist attitude occasionally mani
Testing itself in our Party, of disre
garding the tremendous significance
of the farming masses in the struggle
of the proletariat against the big
bourgeoisie.
(c) Marx has well said:
"Only if we succeed in moving the
peasant masses to a coalition with the
proletariat, the proletarian revolution
will have obtained chorus without
which it's revolutionary solo (song)
would become swan song in all
agricultural (peasant) nations"
A Nearly one-fourth (about ten mil
Il lion people, of those employed in
gainful occupations in the United
States are engaged in agriculture. OF
these about two million and a half
are agricultural workers, proletarians
of the farms, who have the same in
terests as the proletariat of the cities
and must be made to struggle jointly
against the common exploiters.
= The Communist work among the
~ agricultural masses is especially
important for the Workers Party of
America because:
(a) Agricultural production consti-
tutes nearly 40 per cent of the total
production in the United States.
(b) With the development of the
| United States as the dominant impe-
rialist power the American colonial
domain is growing to gigantic proper
lions. In those colonies the agricul-
ural masses constitute the bulk of the
population. Thus the agricultural
question assumes for the American
proletariat increasing Importance be-
cause of it's close connection with The
colonial question.
(c) Furthermore our bourgeoisie are
making strenuous efforts to utilize the
present period of temporary improve
ment of the agricultural condition for
establishing their domination over
these rural masses at home and mob
LIKING them against the proletariat.
e In planning our agricultural work
VI we must recognize the various di.
visions within the agricultural masses
in the United States. We must con.
slider carefully the social composition
Of the farmers in the United States.
(a) There is a small section OF
wealthy farmers whose interests are
unqualifiedly capitalist.
| (b) One sixth of all our farms arc