The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-27
Bukharin Speaks at the PIenun1


same opinion.") On the other hant
we made good progress in the appli
cation Of the united front tactic and
in the trade union work in England
Since the letter of the E. C. c. l. we
have had some success In Germany
some success in Italy since the policy
OF Bordiga has been overcome.
NOW the ultra-lefts declare that
they have made mistakes and
their general demand is for an am
nesty. am rather suspicious Of
these demands and this suspicion
finds some basis in the speeches of
the ultra-left delegates. Scholem said
that the general and organization line
Of the E. G. c. I. letter is correct; it
is only a few words that he doesn't
like. No politician talks like this.
Either the general line Of the letter
is correct-in this case one must sup
port it and not refuse on account Of
one or two expressionsr-or it is in
correct and in this case one must
fight it. u6
GCHOLEM sacrificed the correct pol
~ icy for a few words and fought
against the open letter. Probably
because Scholem is not only opposed
to few words of the E. c. G. l.
letter but to the whole policy. Ruth
Fischer told us here that she had
signed the E. c. c. I. letter and made
its policy her own, but the affair did
not work as easily as that. Long
struggles were fought out, the E. C.
c. l. sent telegram after telegram be-
cause Ruth Fischer did not want to
come. The first German delegation
after the party congress demanded
that the representative of the e. G..
G. |. should be disavowed. We man
aged to convince that delegation. We
also convinced the second delegation
and isolated Ruth Fischer in the Ger
man Communist party. And when
she lost her army to the last man she
signed in Berlin, she capitulated
heroically. (Amusement)
For this reason am skeptical about
the ultra-left declarations, for this rea-
son we must fight the ultra-left ideo-
logically to the end general amuse-
ment). Domsky also recognized indi-
+vidual ultra-left errors. He will, how
ever, not agree that the ultra-left pol
icy was in error. interruption of
Domsky: What was the policy?
sBukharin: Was it a mistaken one?
Domsky, after a pause: YesD
Domsky's hesitating answer makes
me skeptical. Bordisa declared that
the united front tactic degenerated.
He, however, did not prove it. Bor-
Olga declared that the bolshevization
only meant an organizational trans
formation to the shop nuclei.
This is, however, only a Pigment of
Bordiga's imaginationga as without or
ganization- there can be no revolution
Try victory, and without a good policy
even good organization cannot be
victorious. To oppose organization
% policy is un-Marxist. Bordiga
stressed the unimpontance of organi-
alton forms; nevertheless, two-thirds
his criticism directed itself against
he organizational forms of the Com
intern. sac
He forgets, however, that it was
ust the Russian party which put for
ward the question of drawing other
ections more deeply into the leader
hip of the Comintern. When Bor-
liga contends that the nuclei cannot
)e the basis for the party organiza-
ion because the workers have no in
,erests in politics, he betrays in this
statement his lack of confidence in
the working class. This is opportun-
ism, complete negation Of the revo-
lutionary perspectives. Bordiga spoke
also against iron discipline. But this
is also opportunistic, for the Com
munist parties must prepare them
selves to act in a state of civil war
where, without discipline, no victory
is possible.
Bordiga wants freedom to form
fractions and he appeals to Lenin,
who also organized fractions. Lenin,
however, organized a fraction in the
social-democracy. AS, however, we
are neither in the Second Interna-
tional, nor in the league of nations,
we are against the mechanical carry
ing over of the Russian experiences
in the question of fractions.
Zinoviev said very correctly that
our attitude in the German and French
questions characterized our general
policy. We must fight for very long
time still against the right and ultra
left dangers. If we carry out this cor
rectly, the Comintern will become
more steeled and stronger from this
plenum, despite thelopposite expecta-
tons of our enemies. (Applause.)
At the end of the eighth session the
enlarged e. c. c. l. unanimously
adopted a resolution to send a tele-
gram of greetings to the Georgian pro-
letariat on the occasion of the fifth
anniversary of the existence OF the
Soviet Republic OF Georgia.
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