The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-12

! prove that their party is the correct
workers party which is able to adapt
its work to the daily need of the
working class, to lead every struggle
every defensive or offensive strike
and to take up correct attitude to
all daily questions. We must make
the strong sides of the soc1al-democ-
racy our own, and rejecting opportun-
ism, defeat them with their own
weapons.
A FURTHER characteristic Of the
"A present period is the fact that the
after war process Of the levelling
again an aristocracy of labor is com
again a naristocracy of labor is COM
mencing to develop.
A still further phenomenon Of the
time is the strengthening petty bour-
geois influence upon social-democratic
party policy. The formation inside
the social democracy of a special
strata of party officials for whom each
change of government means the re-
ceipt Of new posts and which adapts
its theology to the bourgeois state
just as the Communists base theirs on
the proletarian state.
On the other hand the social-demo-
cratic leaders must adapt themselves
ever more to the spirit of the working
class in favor of the Soviet Union, in
particular after the journeys Of the
workers delegations to Russia. In
this connection the social-democratic
leaders, for instance Otto Bauer, at
tempt to attain a monopoly for the
defense of the Soviet Union and de-
mand the dissolution of the Commune
list parties.
Zinoviev pointed to the growing aT-
thority and influence Of the Soviet
Union as factor in the international
working class movement. Whilst dur
ing the difficult hunger years the So
cial-democracy attempted to utilize
the troubles of the Russian revolution
as propaganda amongst the European
working class against Bolshevism, to-
day it is compelled to recognize the
successes of the socialist and cultural
reconstruction of the Soviet Union
openly and to take the pro-Soviet feel
ings Of the working class into consid-
Grafton.
| ZINOVIEV outlined four fields OF
= the present international work:
1. The creation and support of
Communist Parties. Step for step ac-
cording to the circumstances, the le-
gal, halflegal and illegal Communist
parties must be consolidated. One
must grasp the fact that the 1909.
members of the British Communist
Party, the 5000 members of the Chin
csc Communist Party and the 5000
members of the Young Communist
League of China are a great historical
work.
2. The Anglo-Russian trade union
alliance and the contradictions inside
Amsterdam. The Anglo-Russian COM
mittee is a smashing proof for the
fact that the united front tactic, that
/ is the tactic of conquering the reform
list masses in the sterilization period,
in now beginning. Despite the weak
nesses of the English left movement,
the significance of this alliance of the
English and Russian unions, must not
be underestimated.
3. The workers. delegations and
the work Of socialist reconstruction of
the Soviet Union. The deep political
significance Of the workers delega-
tions to the Soviet Union consist in
particular in the fact that the work
ing masses led by the reformists are
beginning to understand that the dan
ger of war is unavoidable and that the
real struggle against the danger of
war is only possible in alliance with
the Soviet Union.
4. The movement in the East.
The tremendous significance of this
movement must be made ever more
clear to the European working class.
The Comintern must connect these
four fields of work and must not for
get that the organization of the Com
munist parties remains our basic prin-
ciple. There exist two possible dan
gers for the Comintern: One is that
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! International may fail to recognize
the complexity and newness Of the
present situation, for instance the
Anglo-Russian Alliance may overlook,
may in the tasks of organizing the
Communist parties, overlook the pro-
cesses developing inside the camp of
the reformists. The other danger is
recorded in the decisions of the
Fourteenth party congress of the Rus
sian Communist Party, namely the
danger Of national limitation, of fail
ure to recognize the close connection
Of the fate of the Soviet Union with
the fate of the international proletar-
ian revolution. of lack of understand
ing the mutual dependence Of the
Soviet Union and the international
working class movement.
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