The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-02-13

2. That the policy of the German
Communist Party is determined only
by the interests of the proletariat,
whilst the policy of the Russian Com
munist Party is dictated by the inter-
ests of the workers and peasants re-
public.
8. That the Comintern is an in
strument of Soviet policy as Professor
Korsch declared who not long ago
spoke of "red Imperialism
4. The fourth point of the ultra
left theology is that Leninism does
not preserve the Communist Party
from degeneration.
The speaker addressed to the oppo-
sition the question: Did they not
think that their attitude would assist
to a certain extent the ultra-left di-
gression? The third difficulty con-
sists in the possibility of the coming
to life of the right fractions. The
party congress must declare clearly
and firmly that both the right and
ultra-left digressions in the West will
receive an energetic opposition Gap
plause.)
The fourth difficulty consists in the
fact that up to the present the inter-
national social-democracy has utilizedt
all the failures of our economic re-
construction to brighten off broad
masses of the working class from
Communism. 1t is now attempting to
present our successes as a future to
capitalism in answer to the enthus-
iasm of the European proletariat
which expressed itself in the sending
of workers delegations.
This discussion can supply the So
cial-democrats with new weapons
The fifth difficulty consists in the fact
that we are now attempting to create
a collective leadership in the European
Communist Parties. Our comrades in
struggling for the leadership can util,
lie the Russian difference Of opinion.
Sixthly, the significance and author
ity of the Russian Communist Party
in the Comintern may fall. Objective
ly this would mean growth of the
influence of the European parties.
This is in certain connections a GER
tain advantage.
In conclusion the speaker argued
against the Ukrainian delegation
which criticized the policy of the Co
mintern in the question of the German
Communist Party. He proved that
this criticism was incorrect. AS early
as the Frankfort party congress we
struggled against the transition of the
leadership into the hands of Maslov
and Ruth Fischer. The task of the
Comintern is to take the peculiarities
in the development of the European
Communist Parties into consideration.
In the West we have two sections
in the membership: On the one hand
is the section recruited from the so
cial-democracy. The right digressions
and crises come from this section.
The second stratum is the younger
workers generation without any so
cial-democratic tradition, but also
without any political schooling. The
chief task Of the Comintern is to
synthesize these two strata.
A FTER Manuilsky Lominadse spoke.
4 4 The speaker declared that the
party congress must approve of the
policy of the delegation OF the Russian
Communist Party of the Comintern
because this policy was correct in all
basic questions. Certain mistakes OF
the executive committee of the Com
munist International in connection
with the German Communist Party
were only present in questions of de-
tail. The opinion that the leadership
OF Ruth Fischer and Maslov should
have been prevented in 1924 was in
correct, but the crises which ripened
In the summer of 1923 might perhaps
have been settled somewhat earlier.
A mistake was made in making too
large concessions to the German Com
munist Party at the last enlarged
plenum of the executive committee of
the Communist International by mild.
eAng under the pressure of the Ger
man delegation the demands for the
normalization OF the party life in
Germany in the theses upon Bolshevi.
cation. a 1na
The speaker declared that the pres
ent mistake was that zinoviev did not
separate himself sharply enough from
Ruth Fischer and Maslov The speaker
then dealt with what had happened