The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-07-28

China and Persia, without any as
sumption of the existence of prole-
tartan dictatorship in these countries.
You will therefore realise that this
question too has its place on our
agenda.
l must pass over a number of other
questions of lesser significance and
shall turn to slogan which appears
at the first glance to require no al
terations conditioned by the develop
ment of present events. The elemen-
tary and specifically Bolshevist slo-
gan of determination This slogan
was of far-reaching significance for
us for our fight against war during
the years of the first great interna-
tional massacre.
Whilst the Executive Committee
was working, we asked ourselves
whether it would be necessary to I'M
dertake any alterations in this slo-
gan as result Of the present situa-
ton. Can we proclaim this slogan I'M
der all and every circumstance, as
we could in the years between 1915
and 1918? We came to the conclu-
sion that the present situation de-
mands certain corrections in this slo-
gan. We applied the experience gain
ed in our own civil war. The slogan
of determination in the trenches"
played role of enormous Importance
when the armies of the imperialists,
the Czarist army, or Kerensky's army,
fought against the imperialist coali-
ton headed by Germany. But when
the Red Army was fighting against
Yudenitsch, against Koltchak ETC., did
we then proclaim the slogan of fra
termination? No, we did not proclaim
it. This is a plain fact which we can
all remember.
How did it happen that the slogan
of determination" played so great
part during the imperialist war, but
vanished as soon as the Red Army
was formed, and this Red Army
fought against our antagonists? We
came to the conclusion that the slo-
gan of determination is slogan i'm
plying the disorganization of both par
ties thus fraternizing, and when two
imperialist armies confront one an
other, the slogan of determination, in
so far as it is actually realized,
shakes both sides. This being the
case, it is clearly comprehensive why
we did not proclaim this slogan after
we had our own revolutionary army
fighting against the enemy. This
slogan is a two edged sword, Gnd
those fraternizing on our side must
be really firm in their convictions II
the slogan of determination, and the
process of determination itself, is not
to shake our own revolutionary dis
cipline.
In this question we have adopted
the standpoint that in the case of a
conflict between two imperialist OPP
ponents on the one side, and, let us
say, of proletarian army and ma
tional revolutionary army on the
other, our slogan must be a slogan
calling upon the soldiers Of the hos
tile forces to come over to us, not q
slogan of determination, but slo-
gan calling upon the others to join
US. This does not exclude the process
of determination, but it must be very
differently organized. We must not
induce the whole of our forces to
i creep into the trenches, but must have
our special propagandists, who must
/ be scattered about among the camps
! Of the enemy, and undermine the
! ter-revolutionary discipline of
/ the enemies of revolution.
Thus the present situation, the
existence of the proletarian Soviet
/ state. of the national revolutionary
organization in China, etc, forces us
I to undertake certain corrections of
even such an elementary slogan as
that of determination, a slogn APP
parently perfectly clear and unequi-
vocal.
The Fight Against War and Against
the Opposition.
In connection with the war ques-
ton l must deal with the platform
of our Opposition with respect to this
question. The general estimate of
the international situation laid before
the Plenum of the E. G.. C. l. by the
Opposition concludes that at the
present time we are weaker than we
were before. The comrades of the
! Opposition have cited a number of
defeats: the defeat in Bulgaria, in
Esthonia, the defeat in Germany in
1923, the defeat of Chang Kai-sheks
change of front in China, etc. The
final result and the final balance is
to be summed up in the conclusion
that we are weaker than before.
ITO Be Continued.
Gary Too Sick For His Dividend.