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

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II gress received from the Central
copy of special number of the Ber-
lin "Funke," the main contents Of
which were a diplomatic" attack by
Maslow on the Comintern. In this
article. entitled: Some Observations
on Our Tenth Party Congress" Mas
low wrote as follows:
"The subsequent left of the Ger
man C. p, before the Fourth World
Congress, raised the demand of
Back to the Second World Con-
gress' in this sense, and quite right
". Comrade Zetkin, in her above
mentioned book Of memoirs, relates
that Lenin laughed at this foolish
ness do not doubt it, for | can
easily imagine how this slogan was
presented and interpreted to him.
ut is not for nothing that the
Fourth Congress, despite Lenin's
derision, expressly confirmed the 81
conditions, and it is not for nothing
that the Fifth World Congress was
compelled to return deliberately
and emphatically to the principles
of the Second. =
Here again Maslow attempts, by
means of demagogic conformation of
the Second, Fourth and Fifth World
Congresses on the one hand, and the
Third, on the other, to destroy ideolo-
gically the political development of
the Comintern, and to discredit the
principles of Communist policy at the
present period Maslow also makes
the untrue assertion that: 'The Lee
Vites, unfortunately, have received
the actual support of the Russian
comrades"
This agitation against the Russian
comrades" is followed in Maslow's
article by the equally dangerous le-
gend that 'the Levites rightly regard
ed themselves as victors at the con-
gress in Moscow o."
THE Third Congress" proceeds
MasIow, had above all the effect Of
preventing the German G. P. from
finding clearness for itself. Thus the
Third Congress. exercised sim
liar effect upon the German C. P. as
the Heidelberg Party conference two
years previously; despite correct de-
cisions. harmful effect"
- of the principles of the Second
Congress had been propounded
without the DOGGY of Left dangers
being raised. then in all prob
ability the crises in the German and
French Communist Parties would
have been considerably shortened.
But the executive too, and the
Russian comrades 60 were not at
all agreed. :"
Maslow writes further that not his
group, but the executive has for a
long time prevented the German
Party from entering into satisfactory
relations with the executive"
He relates with complete approval
the following incident:
when the executive endeavor-
ed, after Jena, to correct its (com-
pletely rniustifable) attack by in
viting a Berlin delegation to visit
Moscow, it was too late; the delega-
ton unanimously declined this in
vitation to feast already over, and
Friesland, already right, wrote the
letter of refusal at the request of
the organization"
THIS last paragraph is an unex-
l. ampled attempt at lowering the
Communist International In the eyes
OF the German workers.
The antiBolshevist alliance in Mas
lows group is in itself the best proof
that Lenin was not merely "setting up
the DOGGY of left dangers" at the
Third World Congress, but that these
dangers still exist today. four years
after the Third World Congress, and
ire hampering the development Of the