The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-01-09
REVOLUTIONARY" PHRASE MONGERS

to conduct fight for policy indepen-
dent Of the capitalist class and by es-
tablishing bond with the farmers
who are at present in state of strong
fermentation"
Business communism" in New York.
A deal has been made in New York.
One week Lore's followers spoke in
favor of retaining the farmer-labor
party slogan. The very next week
they lined up solidly with the major.
ity. This is a deal between the ma
jority and Lore. Lore, the Two-and-a-
Half Internationalist was to stay out
of the fight until the last minute in
order not to inconvenience the ma
jority by openly attaching himself to
it.
At the same time he Immediately
released his followers so that they
might line up with the majority and
thus present solid front to the Com
munist minority. The reward to Lore
perhaps will be that in case of vic
tory for the majority, he and another
Two-and-a-Half Communist will be on
the new central executive committee.
If such deal has been made, it is
nothing but dirty trick and the New
York comrades should not be taken
in by it.
A "Pure" Communist Protests Too
Much.
Comrade Juliet Stuart Poyntz be-
clouds the issue by constantly reviv-
ing the third party alliance CHATS
their game), failing to mention that
her allies past and present were the
staunchest supporters of this posi-
ton. Comrade Poyntz is now the Sec
ond Sylvia Pankhurst. She will have
nothing to do with the farmer-labor
party because that is compromise, OPP
portunism, menshevism, socialism,
she says. She wants to be pure,
chaste; she does not want to lose her
Communist virginity. Sylvia Pank-
hurst, the renegade, in her day spoke
the very same kind of language, as
for instance, when she wrote the fol-
lowing: "a Communist Party must
keep its doctrine pure, and its indie
pendence of reformism inviolate; its
mission is to lead the way, without
stopping or turning, by the direct
road to the Communist revolution"
And Comrade Lenin handled her as
she deserved in his pamphlet, LEFT
Communism = And Inrantile Sick
ness" Comrades would do we'll to
read this pamphlet of Lenin, particu-
larly now when our party is threaten
ed by this same sickness, this left
wing sectarianism which is only the
counterpart to right wing oppoi tun-
ism.
Membership viii Not be Fooled
Comrades should not be misled by
ultra revolutionary phrases which are
only cloak for passivity. lack of
revolutionary conviction, skepticism,
the rankest kind of opportunism. Let
the revolutionary phrase mongers
continue to play at being ultra-revolu-
tionary-their shamming will be I'M
covered in the end. And as for those
of the rank and file who are deluded
by this phraseology, they will soon
come to their senses.
Comrades, we must fight against
the defeatism which is threatening to
engulf of our party. We must fight
against the forces that are trying to
turn our party into propaganda club,
a sect. We must combat the one-sid-
ed theology of trade unionism, the
pseudo syndicalism in the party which
does not understand the true role of
a Communist Party. We must Bolshe-
VIE our party with the methods and
in the spirit of Leninism.
Next Sunday Niuht and Every Sun.