The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-12-19
The Vital Problems of Our Movement

Oruer tnat the preparatory work
should not be raised to the status of
The main and only work.
To help the political development
and political organization of the work
ing class is our main and basic prob
lem. Everyone who pushes this prob
lem to the background, everyone who
does not subordinate to 1t all Of the
particular tasks and special methods
OF struggle, takes a false road and in
ficts serious harm upon the move
ment. Those, however, who relegate
it to the background are. first, they
who call the revolutionaries to the
struggle against the government with
the forces of the. isolated conspirato-
rial circles that are detached from
the labor movement; second, they who
restrict the content and scope Of the
political propaganda, agitation and
organization, they who consider ii
possible and timely to treat the work
ers to politics" only at the excep-
tional moments of their lives, only on
solemn occasions, they who are too
careful to trade off the political strug-
gle against autocracy in exchange for
demands for some partial concessions
from the autocracy, and who are not
careful enough to elevate these de-
mands for partial concessions into a
systematic and unflinching struggle of
a revolutionary party against the au-
|tocracy.
Organize" repeats the newspaper
"Robochaya Misl', to the workers in
many various ways. Organize" repeat
all the partisans of the Economic"
tendency. And we, of course, join
intellectually in this appeal, but we
will without fail add to it: Organize;
not only into mutual aid societies,
|strike-benefit associations and work
mems circles, but also organize into
a political party, organize for decisive
struggle against the autocratic gov
eminent and against the entire cap
italist society. Without such an or
ganizatiop the proletariat is not able
TO raise itself to a conscious struggle;
without such. augmentation the la
Dor movement is condemned to i'm
potency; and with its funds, circles
and mutual aid societies alone the
working class viii never succeed in
fulfilling the great historic task which
rests upon it: to liberate itself and
the whole Russian people from polit-
ical and economical slavery. Not
single class in history ever attained
domination, without having put for
ward its political leaders, it's advanced
representatives, capable Of organizing
the movement and of guiding it. And
the Russian working class has shown
already that it is capable of putting
forward such men; the widespread
struggle of the Russian workers for
the last five or six years has proven
what volume of revolutionary forces
is hidden within the working class.
how the most desperate government
tai prosecutions do not diminish but
increase the number of workers striv-
ing for socialism, for political con-
seriousness and political struggle. The
congress of our comrades in 1898 cor
rectly formulated the problem, and
did not merely repeat the words of
others; it did not express merely the
prescriptions of the ''intellectuals."
And we must decisively begin to full
NIL these tasks, putting on the order
Of the day the question of the pro-
gram, organization and tactics Of the
party. How we view the basic theses
OF our program, we have already stat
ed, and to develop these theses in de-
tail is, OF course, not in place here.
To the organizational question we in