The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-03-27

Thru the nuclei a strong middle
leadership has been built up in the
Communist Party of Italy, which is in
the closest connection with the
masses and which guarantees the pro-
letarian nature of the party. Wher-
ever the party was organized upon
the basis of the nuclei we had an
increase of membership to show. In
those districts which were not reor-
ganized we lost members. A frac-
tional question is not a moral but a
political question.
When Bordiga said that the history
of fractions was identical with the
history Of Lenin he mixed up the Sec
ond international with the Comintern.
Lenin built fractions in the second
international because the process of
decay was gone so far that the only
possibility of hope was thru a split
When Bordiga demands fractions in
side the Communist parties he seems
to have similar perspective for the
Comintern. Democratic centralism
must be applied. la
Naturally the application of this
democracy must depend upon the po-
litical situation, the internal party sit
uation and upon the training of the
membership. Bordiga said that GER
tain difficult 'crisis" existed in the
Comintern. One must, however, not
make the executive responsible for
unavoidable phenomena. Upon the
basis of the objective situation and
the development of the subjective fac
tors, it is possible that we may have
these conflicts for years to come. The
only way out is to be found in still
closer cooperative work with the
Russian Communist Party.
OOMRADE BUKHARIN (greeted
~ with storms of cheers) stressed
the necessity of analysing the objec-
tive situation in which the Communist
parties as subjective factors natu-
rally work for the revolutionary per-
spective. In our tactics we must
reckon with reality. Bordiga, how
ever, eliminates reality and this leads
to a vulgarization of tactics Bordiga
declares that we wish to carry over
the experiences of the Russian revo-
luton mechanically to western
Europe. The absolute contrary is the
truth. Leninism gives no recipes, it
only gives us a method, and for this
reason / stress the necessity of ana
lying the specific situation in western
Europe.
This specific situation is that in
western Europe there are large social
democratic parties and large trade
unions under social-demoeratic infiu-
ence which make a coalition policy
with the bourgeoisie upon the basis of
and social-patriotism.
fails to notice these ele-
plants And as he does not observe
the social-democracy and the trade
unions he is opposed to the united
front. The Russian movement never
knew the united front tactic upon such
large scale. It is not we. who fail
to observe the characteristic of west
ern Europe, but Bordiga. An analysis
of the present situation shows a rela-
tive strengthening of the bourgeoisie,
but even then we must underline the
world relative.
Neurath is in error when he OBJ
serves no process of sterilization in
Czecho-Slovakia If this process were
non-existent, then there would be a
Revolutionary qtfuaffop fhara The
relatively of the sterilization and the
retreat of Europe before America is
expressed in the rehabilitation OF the
masses in western Europe. The
Strengthening of America produced a
swing towards the right in the Ameri-
can working class movement.
A. THIRD factor is the development
"A of the Soviet Union and it's ef-
fects upon the working class.
The socisI-demoeraey Is trying to
hinder the process Of radlealism;