The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-10-03


revolution. Comrade Maslow attempts
toaoppose to Lenin's alleged "oppor-
tunism" pure" left" and speci-
fically "West European" Communism.
This is precisely the standpoint TAX
en- by Paul Levi, Frossard, Hoglund,
and all the enemies of Leninism.
Behind the mask of combating
Trotskyism and the renegade Levi,
Maslow prepares his attack on Lenin,
who failed to recognize the charac-
ter of the German C. p" Beneath the
cloak of combating West European"
deviations from Communism, that 10,
anti-Bolshevist deviations, Maslow
propagated WEST European Com
munism" of the worst kind.
It is not by accident that today, In
1925, Comrade Maslow makes precise
ly the Third World Congress the OBJ
ject of his attack.
THE Third Congress embodies pre-
1 cisely that concrete link in the
chain of the development of Lenin.
ism and of the Comintern which is
of the greatest immediate practical
significance in the present situation
for all Communist Parties, but above
all for the German The Third World
Congress took place at turning point
of international proletarian revolu-
ton, at the moment of transition from
the period of tempestuous revolution
airy upheaval in the years immediate
ly following the war, 1919 and 1920,
to- the period of slower revolutionary
development in 1921 to 1925-and be-
yond this. The fresh estimate Of the
International situation enabled the
Third Congress, under the leadership
of Lenin, to draw fresh conclusions
for the tactics of all Communist
Parties.
Whilst the l. and II. World Con-
crosses determined only the general
outlines of the strategy and tactics
Of the Comintern, the Third Congress
worked out the concrete policy to be
pursued between two revolutions. 1t
placed the slogan: GO to the mass
es" in the center of our policy that
is, it directed our course towards
the winning over of the great major
ity of the working class. With this it
created the beginning of the Bolshe-
visit united front tactics, the axis
around which our present policy re-
wolves.
THOSE who-like Comrade Maslow
L deny this important turning
point in our tactics, those who seek to
discredit it as rswing to the right"
those who deride it as a concession
to Trotskyism or to the apostate Levi,
are attacking the fundamental prin
ciples of the Comintern.
The practical consequences of Com
rade Maslow's false theory are newt
able. If we delete out the basis of
the united front tactics, the results
in practise must be zero. If we assert
that "Lenin failed to recognize the
character of the German Communist
Party" then we cannot lead this
party in the spirit of Leninism. Com
rade Maslow's theology is antagonis
tic to Leninism, not only in tactics,
but in principle 1t is one of the
roots of the resistance still opposing
the tactics of the Comintern in the
German c. P. today, 1t is one of the
roots of the years of misunderstand-
ing encountered in trade union work,
this main center of our policy, among
the leading group of the German Cen
trail And finally, it is one of the roots
of the continuous coquetting on the
part of the alleged "combatters" of
the ultra-left group, headed by Com
rade Maslow and Ruth Fischer, with
precisely this group itself.
ONCE the Third World Congress,
~ the attitude of the Maslow group
to the Comintern has been upsound
and un-Bolshevist. At the Jena Party
conference this group opposed the
standpoint held by Lenin and the ex-
ecutive. Not only did it criticise--
and quite rightly-the opportunist dis
tortion of the united front tactics on
the part of the Brandler group, but 1t
brot forward all manner of objections
and reservations against the actual
united front tactics of the Comintern,
and against the slogan of the Work
ers' and Peasants government" Up
to recently these antiBolshevist tend
encies possessed decisive influence in
this group. The fact that the Mas
low-Ruth Fischer group, despite all
warnings from the Comintern, com
bined with the Scholem-Rosenberg.
Katz group to form a firm unit until
five months ago did not fail to bring
its punishment. At the Frankfort
Party congress various "anti-Moscow"
advances were made lin the trade
union question, in the question of the
selection of members to compose the
etc.). In spite of the objec-
tion raised by the executive, Comrade
Ruth Fischer sent several emissaries
IN various Sections during fha oouraa