The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-09-19
By ]. LOUIS ENGDAHL

Two major features among
others characterize the Sixth World
Congress of the Communist Inter
national that met nearly two full
months-July and August-in Mos
COW. These are:
First:-The unusual number of
important questions placed on the
agenda of the congress, all of them
receiving careful and detailed atten-
ton, including the report on the in
ternational situation and the tasks
of the Comintern by Comrade Buk-
HARM, the program of the Commu-
mist International, the imperialist
war danger, colonial question, the
economic situation in the U. S. S. r.
and The situation in the c. P. S. U.
mountaineering representa-
ton from the colonial and semi
colonial countries and the vast
American Negro population, with
China, Indonesia, India and Latin
America, as well as the Negro prob
lem in the United States and At
RIGA being continually in the center
Of the discussions in the c--gress.
Ten Years.
The Sixth Congress assembled
after the triumphant celebration of
the glorious tenth anniversary of the
Bols!1evik Revolution, and on the eve
of the tenth anniversary March,
1929 of the Comintern itself.
In pointing out that the tasks of
the world Communist movement
have become extremely complicated,
Comrade Bukharin said, in opening
the congress. that:
"The decline of capitalism does
not follow a straight road. 1t pro-
cceds along zig-zag lines, through
partial improvements of various
parts of the capitalist system
through, what we CALL partial cap
italist sterilization. This created
for the Communist movement new
and great difficulties. 1t confronted
the Communist International with
new problems. 1t compelled the
Communist International as whole
and its parties individually to think
and elaborate very intricate tactics
Of preparation and mobilization of
the forces of the working class. 1t
compelled the Communist Interna-
tional to seek in everyday life, on
the basis of the development of the
contradictions of capitalist stabiliza-
ton, the means Of mobilization of
the masses for a new battle, for a
new, more sweeping and more de-
structive blow at capitalism"
Intricate Problems.
The entire discussion of the whole
congress was bent toward solving
these intricate problems; the task
Of this congress "of proletarian rev.
dictionaries. Thus the gathering
became a SERIOUS review of the
general staffs of the various detach-
ments of the International Commu-
mist army"
Unanimous on all the vital ques-
tons that came before it, the con-
gress also registered unanimity for
the declaration that at present the
principal danger in the Comintern
comes from the right tendency. This
danger is kept alive by the period
OF sterilization, the survival of par
liamentarianism, the influence of
ocial-democracy and certain speci-
fic peculiarities in trade union ac-
tivities. This danger, assuming
various forms in the different par
ties, manifested itself in the aspira-
ton to legality at any price, by ex-
cessive submission to bourgeois
laws, in ignoring the necessity for
accentusting the class struggle, in
wrong policies toward the social
democracy, insufficient accentuation
of tho struggle against the cleft"
social-dcmocracy, in the inadequate
Observation-Disclosures Of the parties