The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-01-17


permanent opposition" which grew
out of the long fight in the socialist
party and which was even a part of
the philosophy of the syndicalist and
anarchist movements. This hostility
and prejudice against all leaders offer
ed favorable soil in which to start an
opposition and was fully exploited by
the minority. Such comrades who
have not yet assimilated the feminist
conception of proletarian leadership,
who draw a line between the leaders
and the party membership, and who
do not understand their indissoluble
connection, all rallied for the raid"
on the c. E. c.
But with all these factors in their
favor, with year-long caucus organ
ization, and with a considerable
amount of fundamental opposition in
the party ranks to our main line of
policy, the attack of the minority on
the c. E. G. met with decisive de-
feat.
This has an outstanding signif-
canoe for the party. For the first time
in the history of the party an organ
lied fight against the c. e. c. has
failed. The C. e. C. has proved it.
self fully able to lead the party thru
the most difficult year of it's exist
ence, to execute number of neces-
sary changes in tactics, to adapt the
party to the constantly changing DO
litical situation, to cope with an or
ganized opposition, and at the same
time to keep firm hold on the party
and to strengthen itself in the conf
dence of its most active and dynamic
elements. These facts are the best
augury that the party ranks will be
unified and consolidated, and that fac
tionalism will soon be liquidated.
IN the course Of the discussion, the
opportunist and revisionist character
IF the farmer-labor policy of the mi
nority was established beyond all
question by the minority themselves;
and the reactions of their rank and
file supporters merely gave it the
final confirmation. From the slogan
raised in Comrade Peppers pamphlet,
For labor party" of "A labor party
or the capitalist Dictatorship" it was
only one step further to Comrade
Lovestone's book 1.-THE Government
Strikebreaker" and his pamphlet 1.-THE
LaFollette Illusion" in which the role
of the Communist Party is complete
ly eliminated from consideration. And
from these deviations the proposals
of many rank and file supporters of
the minority, expressed at all the
membership meetings, 'to bore from
within" the LaFollette movement and
create a left wing there, followed ma
turally and logically.
The C. e. C. does not follow a pol
icy of reprisal and has no desire to
prolong or accentuate the bitterness
of the controversy. Nevertheless, we
feel duty-bound to call the attention of
the party to the superficial and cyni-
cal attitude toward the party, mani
tested in the concluding article by
Comrade Lovestone. In this article,
which from beginning to end is filled
with misrepresentation and perver-
sions of facts, with flippant sneers
and jibes, Comrade Lovestone even
goes so far as to speak derisively of
the party apparatus as the Estate pow
en-" We know of nothing more anti
Bolshevik and anti-proletarian than
such contemptuous attitude toward
the party apparatus, and we believe
that all that is serious, proletarian
and revolutionary in the ranks Of the
minority will repudiate II. The pro-
letarian movement is neither a game
nor an adventure. The party appara-
tus is not something separate from
the party. The party will find ways
and means Of making plain its point of
view on these questions.
The central feature OF the "opposi-
ton" in the Russian Communist Party
was its attack on the marty apparatus.