The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-28
An Example of the Failure to I'm
derstand the Task of BoIshevi-
cation

DUT we have among us more dan
Dgerous right wingers who are al
ready proposing to us to take a sharp
turn and adopt new" tactics. | will
take the liberty of quoting an example
taken from the experience of the
CzechoSlovak party, which shows
how bolshevization should not be un-
derstood.
A comrade from Brunn, quite pro-
perly, sent us the printed theses on
the differences within the Communist
Party in Czecho-Slovakia. There is
much in these theses that are of nc
interest, much that is petty, much con
corning personal conflicts, etc, of this
will speak in another place. There
fore, irrespective of the outcome of
the struggle within the Czecho-Slovak
party, l would like to reveal to you
what kind of Communists we still
have among us. The comrade from
Brunn, in the introduction to his me-
morandum, refers to the important
party played by Brunn, even in the
Second International. | would not in
the least question the revolutionary
past Tor presently of the Brunn work
ers, but l will say this, that the Brunn
comrades ought to send some of their
leaders to a school of Leninism and
only after that to discuss whether
they are suitable as leaders or not
In these theses, there is a chapter
entitled. THE Revolutionary Course"
in which demonstrations against the
high cost of living is confused with
nothing more nor less than-revolu-
ton.
This is what it says:
"The so-called left demanded from
us in Brunn to bring things to a con-
flict even in those places where we
can place against large forces of the
police only a couple of hundreds or
so of workers. without taking into con-
sideration what these sanguinary
sacrifices may entail for u.s."
Further on it says:
Some of the so-called left comrades
are of the opinion that we should con
tinuously make revolution We, how
ever, are OF the opinion that the tas'
of the Communist Party is not to cal
out revolutionary movement b!
some means or other, but to take adj
vantage of an existing revolutionary
movement, and to lead 1t to the end.
The theses of the third congress OF
the Comintern are very far from being
carried out in Czecho-Slovakia. and II
would be very important for the pres
ent central committee Of the Com
munist Party of Czecho-Slovakia,
even at this late hour to study the
theses on tactics passed by the third
congress- To send agitators among
the workers instructed to rouse fresh
revolutions every day, belongs as
much TO the sphere of illusionist tao
tics TO which we have referred above,
as to the infantile view, that the stage
Of revolutionary development in
given epoch may be judged by the
number OF windows broken In a de-
monstration. The raidlng OF shops
during a demonstration against the
high cost of living by the order of the
central committee, is something quite
different TO the raiding Of shops by
hungry mass, in spite of the orders
of their leaders. In the first case. we
have an example OF an excess Of ro-
manticism, In the second, we have
true symptom Of revolutionary
epoch"
Excellent ! must say. never
knew that breaking windows is an
excess of romanticism."
Here we must say quite frankly