The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-09-08

Plenum OF the {. L. and the 4. 4. T.,
after hearing Comrade Bukharin's
report of the 9th August, 1920
Continuation
The E. c. c. l. has very rightly
rejected the abstract slogan of peace
for the coming period, and has chosen
the concrete slogan of the defence
Of the Russian and Chinese revolu-
tions, the preparation for the pro-
letarian general strike and insurrec-
ton against imperialism, and the
combating of that strike phraseology
adopted by the reformist leaders who
are in reality supporting imperial
ism.
IA. The issue of the coming war
will depend in the main on the COM
parative class forces in the West,
and still more in the Soviet Union
and in China. The estimate of the
situation formed by the opposition
("Swing to the right on the part
Of the working class in the West,
actual degeneration of the govern
ment of the Soviet Union, or in other
words the denial of the actual lead
ing role played by the proletarat
both in the sphere of economy and
of the state policy of the Soviet
Union in generaD, is in its essence
false and defeatist standpoint to-
wards the Soviet Union. (The main
trend in the Western proletariat is
towards the Left. even though this
is accompanied by a Right trend on
the part Of the leading aristocratic
elements. The main trend in the
Soviet Union is the process of the
firmer establishment of socialist
economics, even though this is ac-
companied by a greater activity Of
the strata hostile to the proletariat,
the Nep-men, the bourgeois intel
lectuals. nationalist counter-revolu-
tionary tendencies, etc.. The theo-
ries of the opposition are equally
wrong when they assume a rupture
of the bloc between workers and
peasants in the case of war, and
when they oppose proletarian war
to a peoples war,
AS a matter Of fact, the prole-
tariat will not carry on a war forced
upon it as an isolated class, but as
a hegemonic class, carrying with it
the broad strata Of the masses of
the people.
Is. The opposition is endeavoring
to circulate the SANDER that the
blame for the approach of war dan
ger is to be attributed to the wrong"
policy pursued by the Party, and
that imperialism is preparing to at
tack us because we have become
weaker. Such an explanation" as
this of the war danger betrays not
only to a maximum of fractional
blindness and fractional madness in
the opposition, but a complete lack
Of comprehension Of the objective
reasons rendering an aggravation of
the antagonisms between imperial
ism and the Soviet Union inevitable
in the given stage Of development.
(The sterilization of capitalism, &C
companied by constant crises in the
background, the Chinese revolution,
our GROWTH
Such an analysis" of the causes
of the impending war against the
Soviet Union, in fact, weakens the
forces of the international prole-
tariat, places a trump in the hands
Of social democracy, and actually
helps the bourgeoisie by it's distor-
ton of facts.
16. The social democrats are en-
deavoring, by means of propaganda
for cooperation between the classes
and for coalition. by means of par
ticipatiOn in the League of Nations,
of active participation in war prep
arations (Boncour law, and of sys-
tematic agitation against the Soviet
Union, to secure for themselves, with
the aid of the so-called Left" wing,
the leadership Of the growing cadre
of radically inclining workers While
the Right social democrats, who are
openly hostile to the Soviet Union
and openly commemorative
(Kautsky, Macdonald, RenaudeD,
are falling more and more into dis
credit with the working class, the
LEFT" lotto Bauer, Levi, Longuet,
etc., pursue a much more skilful
policy of deception of the working
class, and even defend" the Soviet
Union at times in words, only to take
sides with the bourgeoisie when the
decisive movement comes.
The exposure of the Left wing
is one of the most urgent tasks of
the Comintern. The betrayal of the
general strike and the miners strug-
gle in Great Britain, and the social
chauvinist attitude adopted with re-
spect to the question of imperialist
war against the Soviet Union, have
unmasked the LEFT" members of the
General Council and the leaders of
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