The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-04-15
The Meyer Group.

WE had little trouble with Meyer,
w who demanded that the resolu-
ton should begin by pointing to the
relative sterilization. We deal with
the sterilization in the political reso-
luton. 1t is the business Of the Ger
man resolution to deal with specifi-
cally German matters. The most spe-
cific factor in Germany is the serious
crisis which is not simply an affair of
the moment, but which will charac-
terize the whole coming phase of Ger
man development. For this reason we
rejected the demand of Meyer, which
seemed to show that the Meyer group
had underestimated the crisis.
TN the last session of the commission
4 the group Scholem-Rosenberg- Kon-
rad split. Rosenberg and Konrad
were in favor of the resolution and
Scholem voted against it. Scholem
gave as the reason for this piece of
"heroics" the allegation that the res
olution was directed against the left.
I He said that he had broken with
the K. A. P. tendencies tx. A. P.,)
Kommunistische Arbeiter Partei -
Communist Workers Party, a split off
with ultra-left anarcho-syndicalist ten
denotes, from the Communist Party,
but that he would be a cad to vote
against his own past. This is a lack
of logic. Scholem is, so to speak,
afraid of his first forms of life
(amusement). We are very glad of
the support of Rosenberg and Kon-
rad, particularly of the latter, because
he is the leader of large Berlin dis
trict. This would be true if Urbahns
and Ruth Fischer were the representa-
tives of all the left workers, but this
is not true. Meyer declared that the
resolution described his group incor-
rectly and asked what further steps
he could take in the direction of the
line of the C. C. We answered that
his step must consist in the leader
ship of the struggle against the dan
gers from the right.
1--WE accepted certain corrections con-
w corning matters not concerning
any question of principle.
TheNcommission adopted the resolu-
ton with all votes against the vote of
lBordiga and the declaration of Scho-
lem, Urbahns and Engels, who sat in
1.-THE commission with only advisory
votes. In the name of the commits
lsion Bucharin then requested the dele
lgates to continue the discussion in the
Iplenum.
After Bukharin, Comrade Bordiga
spoke: Bukharin is wrong when he
contends that the resolution of the
German commission intimates the
best methods for the theological strug-
gle of the G. P. of Germany. After
the failures caused by the mistakes
of the right, the German working class
made considerable progress in the
formation of their political conscious
ness. This political consciousness Of
the German proletariat and its ad'
vance guard the Party must be still
further developed by the opening VI
of a broad discussion. Only such
discussion can be useful and produc
tive.
The methods of theological struggle
which are at present in use in the
Comintern are inadvisable and turn
great and basic questions into per
sonal ones. Every Party member who
is not in agreement with the line Of
the Comintern is termed an enemy Of
Bolshevism ana an enemy of the Sow
let Union. This will only damage the
popularity of the Soviet Union
amongst the masses of the interna
tional proletariat.
One may not waste that capital OF
confidence which was won by Lenin
ism. One must not term oppositional
comrades anti-Bolshevists as soon as
some non-essential difference of opil
ion occurs. The methods of theological
terror and the transformation of diff
ferences of principle into moral con
formations of individual persons is
damaging.
The discussion must be built up up
on more serious basis, upon the bas
Is of detailed study of the circum
stances existing in a particular coun
try. The speaker closed his remarks
by appealing to all Communist Parties
to carefully guard the connections be
tween the Soviet Union and the inter
national proletariat.