The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-01-17
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Comrade Varsh says:
1--WE now know quite wen that with
out the Bolshevist organizatory con
ceptions regarding the role of the
leading circles in the party Central
committee, district committee, local
committee, or of the so-called party
apparatus in generaD and in the revo-
luton, there can be no revolution of
the proletariat whatever, and no die
tatorship of the proletariat."
The leading group of the c. E. c.
is group of the proletarian class
struggle, that grew out of the strug-
gle, and whose whole aim and con-
ception is to build and develop the
f, party, according to the teachings of
Lenin, in the process of struggle.
Nevertheless, during the discussion,
the minority was constantly reproach-
ing us with the charge that we had
done nothing" during the past year,
that there were no new grand man
euvers" undertaken, that there was no
action" If one is familiar with the
conception of the minority, such an
attitude is understandable. Their con-
ception of politics is thigh politics"
1t is noisy spectacular undertakings.
It is bluff and exaggeration, and
bombast. The day-by-day work and
struggle which builds the party firmly
and solidly and drives it's roots into
the labor movement, appears to them
to be mere "sectarianism." They do
not understand the admonition of
Lenin to build the party by quiet,
patient persistent, not noisy, but deep
work" The real and solid achieve
ments of the past year have escaped
their attention. They had no answer
whatever to our statement on "a
year of Progress" in which these sol
i'd achievements were set forth in de-
tail. They did not answer because
they could not answer in any way, ex-
cept with stereotyped sneers at the
Communist trade unionists" and 9TH
er proletarian elements in the party,
who have borne the brunt Of this
work.
The policy which. guided all our
work for the past year was wholly the
policy of the majority of the G. e. G.
The minority have not made a single
important contribution to the solution
of our problems and the development
of our work. The minority have had
such little connection with this basic
work, that they are hardly aware of
what has been done. They do not
know about the quiet, patient, per-
sistent, not noisy, but deep work"
which has been done during the past
year by the most active and dynamic
elements of the party under the lead
ership of the c. e. C. 1t is apparent
ly matter of small moment to theo-
rists Of politics on a grand SCALE"
that the beginnings of hard and firm
left wing movement have been crys-
tallized in a number of important un-
ions, under the leadership Of the Com
munists; that we have made at least
a beginning with systematic party
educational work; that our party, for
the first time, has made an election
campaign under its own banner, and
that we are learning how to develop
concrete struggles and agitation on
the basis of the united front.
The appearance of a revolutionary
left wing-altho a small and weak
one-in such a reactionary union as
the gigantic Brotherhood. of Carpen-
ters, for example, and the strong
movement we are leading in the Unit
ed Mine Workers, represent nothing
to the minority; and the tremendous
energy, sacrifice and courage en-
bodied in these achievements of our
party, brings no commentator from
them. For them it is merely another
example of "syndicalism." 1t is time
to say frankly to the party and to the
Communist International that we are
losing all patience with this superb
cial and condescending attitude to-