The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-07-11

International Communist Party-the
shop nucleus. For our party with
$4,000 members operating in a whale
of country with 80 per cent of the
proletariat unorganized, divided into
so many languages, the matter does
not appear so very simple. am not
exaggerating when say that the bulk
of our membership Is as yet COM
pletely at sea on the theory of this
question and especially on its applica-
ton specifically to this country.
The Theory Of the Shop Nuclei.
THE organization structure general
4 ly should reflect the aim of the
movement, and as, every one knows,
we inherited our present oganization
fom the Second International. The
social-democratic theory of peacefully
growing into socialism by reforming
the capitalist state and gradually leg
islaHng capitalism out of existence
made it necessary for social-democ-
racy to accept the permeation Of bour-
geois parliament as its main objec-
tive, With this as the starting point,
the whole movement was placed on
a reform basis; it's organizational ap-
paratus had to run parallel to the
bourgeois machine and its parties.
Furthermore, in order that the masses
should not thru some Incorporate out
burst resulting from the daily conflict
of economic interests, disturb the
bourgeoisie order sufficiently for the
ruling class to abolish these nicely
won democratic privileges, social-de-
mocracy needed to manipulate such
struggles into peaceful channels.
OURS, the Communist program, is
" exactly the contrary. The perfec-
ton of bourgeois democracy and the
bourgeois parliament is not our OBJ
jective. Our aim is to express its
sham and hypocrisy and to use the
elbow-room that it affords us as a
platform to preach the slass struggle
Neither do we pacify the violence of
the daily class struggle We try to
SoEgaAize The masses of the exploited
Tor action outside of the sphere of
bourgeois parliamentary politics in
tensify the antagonisms of the daily
struggle until it becomes one mighty
blow that will crush the bourgeoisie
completely and establish the proletar-
ian Soviet power.
Where to Organize.
THE whole capitalist political ap-
= paratus called the state, no matter
what its democratic camoufiage, is in
essence the armed fist 0f the bour-
geoisie to ensure and perpetuate the
exploitation which is most severe at
the point of production. 1t is there
that the daily struggle to get a bigger
share of life takes place in its sever
est form. 1t is there that we are
skinned alive" And naturally it is
there that the proletariat does and
should organize for self-preservation,
offense and defense There is also
the soil to plant the roots of a fight
ing revolutionary working-class or
ganization. in factories, mills and
mines, where the struggle takes place
day by day. we can really participate
in those daily struggles, broaden
them, and organize the proletarian in
dustrially and politically for our pro-
gram. 1t is precisely here that we
are at the present time weakest and
cannot grow because Of our present
form Of organization.
Hence the need to junk 1t and to
build one that suits our program.
TlHE achievement of the nucleus
a form Of organization Is that it
bitches the basic party unit to def
mite group of workers in a shop or
mine and charges that group of our
party with the definite task of organ
izing these workers and participant
ing in their daily problems and strug-
giles; OF matching their wits with the
brains of the capitalists who exploits
them; and thus truly becoming their
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