The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-09-07

the lneSeS on the war danger adopted
ut the Plenum of the Executive Com
mittee of the Communist international
on May 20, 1927. 1t gives the official
Communist viewpoint on this impor-
tant question.
Continuation
4. The slogan CT universal
militia" has not become obsolo'a but
should be advanced: 1. N colonial
countries which have not yet passed
through the stage of bourgeois demo-
cratic revolution (Syria, Morocco,
Egypt, etc.), 2. in capitalist countries
in which, owing to the existence of
feudal sIrvivals, bourgeois denlocra-
tic revolutions are possible With the
prospect of their growing undet
favorable international condi@ons in
to Socialist revolutions. liza num-
Der of countries, where the military
cast make coups d'e.at, as in Greece
and Spain; 3. in cap talist countries
which, although the bourgeois demo-
cratic revolutionary period has clos I'd,
had fallen into stage of semi
colonial dependence Uron world CAPT
tai, and in the event Of the exisrence
of powerful national Revolutionary
movement against oppression.
Sc. Communists are obliged to
support the partial demands of the
soldiers and sailors such as: the cleo
ton of officers, the territorial system
of military service, national forma-
ton, active and passive suffrage
rights, improvement of the material
conditions of the soldiers, support
for their families, prolongation of
leave of absence, etc.
Communists must link all these de-
mands up with their general slogans
EARNING the proletariat, a militia of
toilers, etc. in their agitation.
The Errors and Defects of the Com
munist Parties.
81. The Comintern as a whole as
well as it's separate Sections must ex-
pose their errors and remedy their
defects in an impartial manner in or
der to be able to cope with the task
of combating war.
i. The fundamental defect from
which all Sections of the Comintern
suffer is that they under-e estimate the
danger of war. The line of conduct
of all the Communist Parties is such
as to make one believe that war is
matter of the more or less remote,
future and not the bloody xeaftyr of
today. In some countries the Com
nlunist Parties let themselves be in
fluenced by the mood of the broad
non-Party masses who do not feel so
strongly the war in far off China,
and in other countries removed from
the great centres of world politics,
they allow themselves to be influenced
by the position of neutrality" deter
mined by the role played by those
countries in world politics (the
Scandinavian countries). In other
countries again they come to a GER
tain extent under the influence of the
bourgeois press, which maintains
that there is no war in China, that
there has been a mere preliminary
despatch of troops for the protection
of national interests.
2. A number of Sections of the
Conintern are unable to link up their
domestic problems with international
problems. Sometimes it takes the
form of a parochial provincialism
! (Czecho-Slovakia), the idea that little
countries are not concerned with
gre t questions of international
policy.
( 3. Another weakness revealed by
our Parties is the under-e estimation of
the role of the Imperialism of their
country (this happened in France and
Japan; they raise the question of
war in the abstract instead of giving
a clear reply to the workers to the
| question as to what they should do in
the present war conducted by the i'm
perialist powers against China and
how to fight against their own i'm
perialism. 1t is necessary in this re-
spect to draw attention to the mis-
takes of the Communist Party of Hol-
land, which after the rebellion in In
donesia confined itself to demanding
the despatch of a committee of in
vestigation whilst it forgot such ele-
mentary demands as the withdrawal
of the Dutch troops from Indonesia
and the recognition of Indonesia's
right to separation" effectively
such mistakes" are capitulation to
| imperialism.
4. theological confusion is also one
of the defects from which the younger
Communist Parties suffer Certain
prominent comrades founder on the
position of vulgar-pacifism Great
Britain). Many are inclined to draw
the conclusion from the fact that the
Soviet Union as workers and pea
SAINTS State in a capitalist encircle
ment take the initiative in limiting
ornaments, that this is a slogan for
those Communist Parties still fight
ing for power in their own countries.
5. Absolutely wrong conclusions
are drawn from Lenin's views re-
garding war The instructions given
to the Hague Delegation are interpre-
ted as meaning the abandonment of
the strike as such, as means for
] COMBATING war