The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-01-05

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aroups-ln the case of the proIe-
tariat by Its party"
comrade Stain says further. "To
confuse slogans with directions, or
slogans Of agitation with slogans Of
action Is Just as dangerous as pre-
mature or too retarded action,
which can become catastrophe.
SLOGANS must be of such a ma
ture so as to rally masses of work
ers. II sometimes becomes neces-
sary to alter or withdraw slogans,
when they cease to have dynamic
effect upon the movement Of the
masses. Sometimes to postpone
them to more favorable time"
Strategy and Tactics Of Our Party
Let us see what has been our main
strategic aim? 1t is this:
To develop independent political
action Of the working masses under
the leadership Of the Workers (Com-
munist) Party.
This is still our main strategic aim
only our tactical means must be
changed, because of the changed poll
tical situation.
The trouble with the comrades of
the minority is this: They have con-
fused our tactical means with our
strategic aim. To them the farmer
labor party becomes an end instead
of means to an end. At certain
period under given conditions our
farmer-labor party policy was correct
but not now.
Political Action and the United Front
To some comrades of the minority
the farmer-labor party is the all-inclu-
sive phase of political action. To
them the united front can only be ap-
piled thru a farmer-labor party.
This conception is wrong and is
due, mainly, to a Misunderstanding
Of Communist political activity and
also to the misunderstanding of the
united front tactic.
Political action for the Commun-
lists does not merely manifest itself
in elections or, in parliament and
neither is it limited to a farmer-labor
party. Mass demonstrations against
the state is political action, a fight
against the injunction is political &C.
ton. 1t is sometimes impossible dur
ing struggle to distinguish between
economic action and political action
or vice versa. If we Communists are
in the work shops organized into
nucleus, we will be ready to lead and
sharpen all political action.
To believe that political action is
only limited to farmer-labor party
is absurd.
In every argument put forth by the
minority they claim that to abandon
the f. l.. P. policy is to abandon
the united front. To listen the way
these comrades talk is almost to be-
lieve that the Comintern adopted the
united front tactics solely for the Unit
ed States. 1t is strange that in every
country the Communists have applied
the united front. We are not the
only ones and they did it not thru
a farmer-labor party, but on the basis
of the daily struggles of the working
masses, 9. l., shop committees, eight
hour day, etc.
The european comrades in apply
ing the united front did it with the
Communist Party as the leader under
its own banner. Not handing 1t over
to a party which can never be any
thing else but reformist party. 1t
spite of the fact that Coprade Ruth
enberg attaches the word "class" to
it.
Liquidation.
The Communist International has
said that there can be only one Com
munist Party in any country. The
Workers (Communist) Party is cap
able of developing into a mass Com
munist Party. 1t needs no other
name. To hand over virtues to re-
formist party which rightly belongs
to a Communist Party, is not Com
munist action.
Comrade J. Powell in attacking the
T u. z. L. program, says "The new
T. u. e. L. program has plenty of
demands all the way from amalgama-
ton to naturalization to abolition of
the X. X. X. Yet it entirely over
looks the greatest need of the work
ing class Of this country; the neces-
sity of a political party"
Evidently it seems that Comrade
Powell has forgotten that there is a
political party of the workers In this
country. He has forgotten the teach
ings of Marx and the Comintern that
only Communist Party is a political
party OF the working class. He also
does not know that the left wing
in the trade unions in this country
has been following the leadership of
the Workers (Communist) Party and
are ready to do so in the future. But
MOI Comrade Powell wants the work
ers to follow a real political
party, a farmer-labor party.
Comrade Powell is not the only
disappointed Communist. here we
have Comrade Sylvan A. Pollock. who
says no one can find fault with that
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