The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-10-09


continuation Of Report Of Party GEO.
In the Sunday evening session of
the convention, Comrade Bedacht,
continuing his report on behalf of
-the Central Executive Committee of
the Workers (Communist) Party. said
that the working class is our army.
If the working class remains mac
tive, the revolutionary movement can
not be successful. 1t is our task to
develop the working class conscious
ness and to accelerate its movement.
There appears to be very little motion
in the American working class. But
there are some little connections here
and there. 1t is the business. Of the
Communists to unite these little COM
motions, and this, with the experience
es Of the struggle, will increase the
power and activity of the working
class until it becomes strong enough
and conscious enough to overcome the
capitalist class.
All of this would seem to be an
A. B. G. lesson having no place in a
report of the Central Executive Com
mittee Of the party to the conven-
ton of the Y w. L., said Comrade
Bedacht. But unfortunately, this A.
B. c. is not sufficiently rooted in the
minds of our comrades. Leninism for
them is not method of analyses of
all Of the phenomena of social and
other life. but it consists of phrases
which they memorize out of articles,
pamphlets OF books. In the phrase
these comrades are bound to forget
the substance presented by the ever
flowing and ever-moving reality of
life. The hanging on to an incom-
pletely-understood phrase prevents
the dia lsctic consideration of the stu
alton and leads to false conclusions.
Thus while the Leninism of these
comrades seems to be attested to by
their familiarity with the phrase,
their lack of Leninism is attested to
by their thoroly un-Leninist analyses
and policies.
Comrade Bedacht discussed the
present low level of the party and
the league in the matter of Marxist-
feminist understanding, giving ex-
amples Of comrades who wildly ar
gued against the policy of building a
labor party as a policy of raising
the yellow flag" but some of these
same individual comrades had occa-.
sion later to take party examina-
ton on their knowledge of Commun-
list theory, and were unable to answer
the simplest questions.
The feminist quality of our activi-
ties must be carefully guarded thru
the leadership and advice of the com
bined feminist understanding and ex-
perience of our international party.
The leadership of the Communist In
ternational thus becomes an indis-
pensable element in the accomplish
ment of our tasks. The Communist
International is the international gem
eral staff of the revolutionary prole-
tartan army. Any movement which
may be started for the purpose of I'M
dermining the authority of this gen.
eral staff of the revolution, the lead
ers of the Communist International, is
an act of enmity to our organization
and to the working class. The speak
er recalled that Lore had built his
movement against the Comintern on
the propaganda of the claim that "the
Communist International was misin-
formed" Such propaganda is agita-
ton against the leadership of the
c. /. One cannot at the same time
propagate the broad masses of the
workers for the correctness of the
leadership Of the Comintern and at
the same time agitate the party
against this correctness. One cannot
appeal to the Comintern against the
party and at the same time appeal
to~the party against the Comintern.l
The speaker declared that the Carr
trail Executive Committee of the party
. will do its duty in carefully guard
ing the authority of the Comintern
and at the same time of guarding its
own authority in the American sec
tons of the Communist movement as
the agent of the Comintern.
In the endeavor to establish the
leadership of our international Com
munist Party also over the American
working masses. the best possible CO.
operation and unity of action of the
party and the league must be estab-
Hshed. This unity must b one Of
purpose as well as Of policy For this
reason all the activities and cam
paigns of the league must fit into the
general political policies and cam
paigns of the party. The problems
of the working class as a whole are
in the main the problems of the young
workers among whom the Young
Workers League carries on its special
work. There can be no division,
therefore, between the activities and
policies Of the party and the league.
Comrade Bedacht dwelt at length
on the problem OF the inner purihca-
ton Of our movement from the rem
nants OF social-democracy the prob
lem Of cleansing the party and the
league of Loreism.s He pointed out