The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-08-07
Labor Should Learn How
the Au-Union Communist
Party Leads the Fight
BY j. LOUIS ENoDAHL.

TT should be a very profitable
4 lesson for the workers and farm
. ers in all countries to carefully
study the very able manner in
which the Communist Party of the
Union of Soviet Republics meets
and overcomes the problems that
rise before 1t.
The All-Union Communist Party
is the government party in the
Workers Republic. 1t formulates
the governmental policies and car
ries them out.
1t occupies the position now that
the Communist Parties in all other
countries will hold when labor rises
to power.
From the day the Bolsheviks went
into power in the Soviet Union on
Nov. z, 1917, capitalist spokesman
predicted almost daily that some
new dictator" or group of "dicta-
tors" would seize power. These
predictions have not ended even
after nine years of Soviet Rule.
Only the "cheka" kept Lenin in
power, they said. Often they herald
ed the triumph of Trotsky, "The
Red Napoleon" They tried to liken
the outstanding comrades in our
Bolshevik Revolution, of 1917, with
the prominent figures in the French
Revolution. They sought in Moscow
for Robespierre, Danton, Marat
or a Mirabeau, and, of course, also
for a Napoleon. They claimed to
have found in Russia parallel organ
izations for the Jacobins and Giron-
dins. They talked glibly of clashing
''triumvirates," as in the days Of the
Roman empire, and even confident
ly picked their personnel. All was
so simple for the capitalist scribes.
Given sufficient time, they promised,
and reaction would return in
triumph to all the Russias.
These prophets of profit did not,
and do not now take into considera-
ton the character and role of the
Communist Party, the standard
bearer and guide of the Soviet
power. 1t was Lenin, more than
anyone else, who struggled cease
Z lessly not only for the perfection
of the Communist Party in the So
Wet Union, but also for the creation
and building of the Communist In
ternational, purged of all social
democratic faint. and reformist in
fluences.
The Communist Party as the gov
erning party became the leader Of
the Red Army, the Red Navy, the
trade unions, the co-operatives, Of
the work in the factories, in the
mills and on the land, of every &C
tivity. 1t was the collective guiding
genius of the struggle to build a
new social order. Before such a
mighty giant the most powerful and
gifted individual stood but as a
pigmy. Similarly the Communist
International functions for the
whole world.
Frequently the storms of discus
sion have swept the All-Union Com
munist Party. But always the storm
passes and the party has come out
stronger and more unified
In the early days of the revolu-
ton there was much difference of
opinion over the signing of the
Brest-Litovsk peace treaty with
Germany. Lenin and Trotsky had
different opinions. Lenin urged the
treaty and his position proved cor
rect.
Then came the discussions over
the new economic policy, the "Nep"
as it was called. This policy was
also urged by Lenin, and altho it
has remained the subject of some
controversy even down to the pres
ent day, in its application, neverthe-
less 1t has proved fundamentally
correct.
Dire things were, of course, pre-
dicted by the enemy after Lenin
died. II was prophesied that dis
indignation would set in everywhere.
After long waiting, the discussion
raised by Trotsky in 1923, was hail
ed with ecstasy as "the beginning of
the end" But what a disappoint-
ment for the whole capitalist world.
The issues raised by Trotsky, con-
corning his theory OF permanent re-
volution, his estimate OF the stab
ilization of capitalism and his at
titude on the question of further
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