The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-01-02

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for abandoning it. Because the
Friends of Soviet Russia was
tremendous success, we should have
continued it regardless Of the changed
conditions. These examples can be
multiplied by the thousands. Yet, the
reasoning of the minority has been
so blunted by reasons better known
to those who support that thesis, that
the comrades cannot see the obsurd-
ity of it.
The minority thesis, admits that
conditions have changed, it states:
1.-THE development of this movement
(of the workers and farmers) side by
side with the petty bourgeois pro-
gressive movement led inevitably to a
struggle on the part of the petty
bourgeoisie to impose its leadership
on it and to absorb it."
Yes, the LaFollette movement alb
sorbed what the Workers Party has
built, according to Comrade Marley, at
cost of $4,000, and at the expense
of the energy of the best forces Of our
party, which If used to better advan-
tage would have brought the Com
munist movement better results than
the campaigning for and building of
petty bourgeois reformist farmer-labor
parties. The minority admits that
conditions have changed, yet it de-
sires to keep on the old tracks not
matter how decayed they are.
The metaphysical conception has
brough Comrade Kaplan into fury.
He RACES at the majority for having
abandoned their previous ideas. He
says
"In the last election campaign the
central executive committee of the
Workers Party promised the workers
and exploited farmers of this coun-
try in the party platform that: The
Workers Party declares its purpose to
continue the struggle to mobilize the
workers and exploited farmers for
independent political action thru a
mass farmer-labor party After
the election" he continues "the same
central executive committee declares;
Our chief task in the immediate
future is not the building of such a
Ifarmer-labor party but the strengthen
ing and developing of the Workers
Party itself as the practical leader of
the masses and as the only party
that represent the working class in
terests and fights for them"
Comrade Kaplan thinks that this
is an objectionable change Of front
on the part of the majority of the c.
E. c. When Lenin insisted upon the
signing Of the Brest Litovsk Treaty he
was reproached by comrades of the
Russian Communist Party for chang
ing his slogans and formulas almost
overnight. Lenin called those COM
rades HENS" The substance of his
reply was as follows:
when you draw cicle with a piece
of chalk around a hen she will walk
around and around the line and fear
to jump over. But in the case of the
hen it is more pardonable than with
you for the hen did not draw the line.
When you yourselves draw up for.
mulas and slogans to fit a certain oc-
casion you also can do away with them
And why, because conditions demand
it."
The lessons should be studied by
the comrades Of the minority.
Comrade Lovestone, altho one OF
the authors of the minority thesis
which states that the farmer-labor
movement was absorbed by LaFollet
teism, nevertheless, true to his met.
aphysical conception, still maintains
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that there is a demand on the part OF
the masses for a farmer-labor party
Comrade Lovestone being in charge oil
the research department and there
fore faithful reader of many dozens
of journals sees RED in every Amer
lean white guardist who happens to
humble the phrase "farmer-labor par
ty." On the strength of such informa
ton he is constructing a theory tc
prove the contention of the minority
But by the time Comrade Lovestone
finishes he will find out that he built a
castle which has hot air for it's founda
ton. Because-and If he is not toe
busy writing he probably already
found out that-Comrade Hathaway's
report, Comrade Manley's and Com
rade Cannon's articles punctured
demolished and blown to tit-bits the
foundation upon which he built his
castle consisting of FIVE points.
According to Comrade Reeve pol
itical action means nothing else thar
campaigning for a petty bourgeois re
formist farmer-labor party. He says,
What will the workers eventually
say of the Communist movement o.
America II we desert the united from