The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-03

The key to the position of the
majority of the Central Committee
is found in the statement:
"Trotskyism, in its last stage
of development. is the summing
up, is the unifying force of all
these opportunistic Right dan
gers"
By this statement the Polcom
says that the Trotskyist deviation is
the same as the present Right devia-
tions, that Trotskyism is the sharp
est expression of the present Right
danger and that therefore, Trotsky-
ism is the main danger in the pres
emit period. This is the meaning OF
the position taken by the majority
of our Central Committee.
This point of view is in opposi-
ton to the point of view of the
Communist international which
says that the Right danger (open
opportunism), as distinct from
Trotskyism (opportunism covered
by Left phrases), is the main dan
ger in the present period.
The Comintern repeatedly char
acterized Trotskyism as opportun-
ism which covers itself with Eeft
phrases, thus proceeding from the
analysis of Lenin that Trotskyism
is system of Right deed covered
with Left phrases" In the strug-
gle against Trotskyism in the last
several years, the Comintern has
characterized Trotskyism success
sively as a petty bourgeois devia
ton, social-democratic deviation,
and in the latest phase, as a force
helping effectively the counter rev.
olution. In all its phases of strug-
gle against Leninism and against
the Communist International, Trot-
skyism appeared covered in Left
garb, and thus assumed the distinct
Characteristic of Leftist deviation.
that is, a deviation. from Leninism
camouflaged in Left phraseology
To fight successfully Trotskyism
we must attack precisely this Left
camouflage of Trotskyism.
On the other hand Right devia-
lions from the correct feminist line
were characterized by the Comm
tern as opportunism which appears
! in a more or less open form. It's
manifestations are more or less
open tendency to make concessions
to the theology of social democracy
to slacken the struggle against il
and therefore against capitalism
Right deviations, the same as Left
list deviations are essentially oppor-
tunist leading away from Leninism
and the Comintern and to revision
ism and social-democracy.
To attack successfully the Right
danger, as distinct from the Trot-
skyist danger, we must understand
that the Right danger appears as q
more or less open opportunist ten
dency. The statement of the Cen
trail Committee repudiates this cor
rect feminist conception as to the
nature and manifestations of the
Right danger and of Trotskyism.
The objective meaning of the
stand taken by the majority of the
Central Committee is to confuse the
characteristics of Trotskyism as q
Left deviation, to. obscure the char
acteristics and most important man
ifestations Of the present Right
danger and thus to weaken the
struggle against both deviations
The result of such a line can only
be the strengthening of all oppor-
tunist elements in the Party.
The Basis of Right and Left Devia-
tions in the American Party.
The maturing of the inner and
outer contradictions of American
capitalism, which takes place under
conditions of continued upward de-
velopment Of u. S. Imperialism,
highly sharpened world imperialist
rivalries and the war danger, i'm
pose upon our Party the task of
reorientating it's general line to a
perspective of sharpening class re
lations and class struggles.