The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-08-29

economic field was favorable to the
development Of reformtst illusion
Conversely. 1t was unfav6rable to a
revolutionary party e
The minority comrades had critic
lied his statement that among the
varying opposition movements to cap
italist imperialism, only the Workers
(Communist) Party could create"
an opposite movement which would
be effective in overthrowing capital
ism, His critics had taken exception
to the word create" They said:
Isn't the Workers Party itself a
product of objective conditions? Then
how can it create movements by it.
self?" This is not dialectics, but me-
| taphysics, Bittelman declared. On the
scale of the world struggle it needs a
Communist International to weld to-
gether and push forward the opposi-
ton to capitalist Imperialism which is
required to overthrow It. So on the
national scale, the varying movements
OF opposition to big capital cannot
overthrwo its rule without the inter
vention Of the Communist Party
1t may be slight error OF terms
applied to say create" but between
Ruthenbergs mistake and Bittelman's
mistake, he believes he would rather
be guilty of Bittelnan's mistake.
This was the basis for the minority's
minimizing Of the Communist Party, |
their view that the Workers Party
cannot oanything, that it is only
"red flag" and counts for nothing in
the political struggle.
AS to the right wing, it existed in
not only the Finnish, but In the Jew
ish federation and in all other sec
tions of the party. And since the G.
l. decision for fight against it, the
majority had sharpened and inten-
sified this fight while the minority
had softened It. That was why, he
contended, that the minority lost New
York. where the majority did not ex-
pect to win against both the Lore
group and the minority, but had done
so because the membership saw the
difference in attitude of the minority
and majority group towards Loreism
and had come over to the majority on
that basis.
Comrade Lovestone, said Bittelman,
had said the majority were the right
wing because they were against wild
maneuvers," while the right wing was
against "maneuvers' on principle.
Yet Comrade Lenin had said precisely
that. it was the wild maneuvers" Of
ultra left Communists which played
into the hands Of the right wing op-
position to all maneuvers Such
wild maneuvers" was observable in
the minority's actions in the Philip
pine question and in the, Federated
Farmer-Labor Party.
True, Bittelman said, there had been
no revolution last year. But even the
G. E. G. could not be blamed for that.
The question was: Did we, in the cir
cumstances prevailing, accomplish the
best we could for the party? AS to
fighting the right wing, BALKAN had
said that it was immaterial whether or
not they had called the Finnish groups
in New Work white guards, yet ex-
perience shows that it was not the
right way to defeat right wing lead
ers by calling tn eworkers supporting
them white guards. The majority
meant to carry on the fight on the
right wing, it would like to carry on
this fight along with the minority
comrades, but if they would not CO.
operate, then the majority would carry
it on without this cooperation.
This ended the debate and resolu-
tions came before the convention for
a vote.
The majority resolution upon the
Plenum of the E. G. of the G. l. was
\ passed by 40 to 20 votes. The Parity
Commission resolution Of the Politii
cal Situation and the Immediate TaskA
OF the Party passed unanimously. Th{
resolution on the past activities of the
party presented by the majority,
u passed by vote Of 40 to 81.
Comrade Abern then moved the fol
lowing resolution:
I'm view Of the fact that the theor-
les about the labor party which were
expounded in the thesis of August,
1923, have been widely spread thru
out the party, and have never been Of
fcially and specifically repudiated by
our party, this convention declares
that the theories of the August thesis,
the theory of competing labor parties,
the theory Of a Communist labor
party, the splitting off of the left wing
and the transformation of the labor
party in mass Communist Party, all
Of these theories are declared to be
contrary to the decision of the Com
intern" as
Comrae Ruthenberg introduced the
following amendment to sAbern's reso-
luton: res
In view Of the fact that the Third
National Convention ~ tbo ro-t.x