The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-01-07
By ISRAEL AMTER

him and his followers as remnants or
views of the Two-and-a-Half Interna-
tional." This has been stated very mild
ly in the resolution of the Presidium of
the Communist international. Nater we
shall see what Comrade Zinoviev said
on this matter.)
In reporting to the Presidium for
the American Commission, Comrade
Radek, speaking Of Lore and his fol-
lowers said: I'm conclusion let me
say something about the Lore group
l believe that we are not dealing here
with personal lapses of Comrade
Lore. He has written articles in
which he presents the history Of the
Communist international completely
in the spirit of the Second-and-a-Half
International. He represents us as q
movement which at first was anti-par-
Humanitarian, and for splits in the
trade unions, and chen crept out to a
realistic standpoint. Or In an article
on the British Labor Party Lore says:
Poor Macdonald would like to do
everything good for the working class,
but the liberals won't let him. In an
article on the German revolution, he
says that conditions have long been
'overripe for the revolution, but the
German Communist Party, for which
there are international difficulties, has
succeeded in keeping the workers
from the revolution.
Il believe that behind these mat
tiers there is one fact in regard to
Comrade Lore. During the war there
were in America German workers,
former social-democrats, who for pat
riotlc reasons were against Americas
participation in the war. Part of the
German comrades in America came
to us not as Communists but as a
result of the struggle which they con-
Quoted as Germans against Americas
entry into the war. And perhaps l
am mistaken, but have the impress
sion that Lore represents this Sec
ton. =. For that reason l believe
that the G. E. G. acted incorrectly
when 1t regarded the lapses of Lore
as lapses of peculiar fellow. This is
centrlstIc tendency in the party
against which the C. e. C. must fight.
The comrades must oppose Lore in
the press; they must attack him.
"The comrades must not be misled
by the fact that in the question of the
support Of the third party Lore has
gone along with US. He did so from a
traditional social-demoeratlc point of
view-because of fear of compromises
with petty-bourgeois parties. We are
on no account against such comprom-
ises. But in Lore we have a
soclaI-democratic viewpoint meeting
with Communist point of view. And
it would be very wrong if the deci-
sion Of the Executive Committee of
the Comintern should be so inter-
preted as if the Executive Commit
tee puts the banner ofthe executive in
to the hands of Lore and should say
that he represents the point of view
of the executive. This is merely 10
coincidence"
There are American comrades, de-
tenders of Lore, who maintain that
Lore was Communist in his an
tagonism to the war. Let us see If
his nationalism has so completely
vanished-even at the present time.
On November 10, Lore had an edit
orial in the Volkszeitung entitled 1.-THE
Belated Pardon In this article Lore
states:
''The pardon granted the French
ex-premier Joseph Cailleux and-in
less measure that granted ex-minis-
ter Louis Malvy by both houses of
parliament is a correction of an In
just act committed In the heat and
hatred Of the war, even II II comes
very late. =.
Joseph Cailleaux represented for
nearly twenty years that movement
in France which sought rapproche-
ment with Germany in order to-
gether with the German empire to
question the world supremacy of
Great Britain" (Emphisis mine)
Lore evidently has a notion Of
bourgeois justice, and feels that Call
leaux. who was liberal, was treat
ed unjustly by Clemenceau. We Com
munists in the laughable role of de-
Tending the liberals against the re-
actionariesl But the crux OF the situa-
ton is that Cailleaux was for a rap
prochement" with Germany, in order
together with her TO secure the heg.
emony OF the world. This is the in
nate nationalism in Lore, which Ra-
dek was perfectly justified in charg-
ing him with. Despite their militant
opposition to the war, the motive OF
Lore and his followers was not Com.
munistic. but . German. patriotic one.
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