The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-16

gIeS are alike lmpermlSSlDle. L ne
task of the party is-starting out
from these needs, to lead the work
ing class into the revolutionary
struggle for power.
When the revolutionary tide is
flowing, when the dominant classes
are disorganized, the masses are in
state of revolutionary ferment, the
intermediary strata are inclining to-
wards the proletariat and the
masses are prepared for action and
for sacrifice, the task of the party
of the proletariat is to lead the
masses into the direct attack upon
the bourgeois state. This is to be
achieved by propaganda in favor of
all transitional slogans (Soviets,
workers control of industry, the slo-
gan of peasant committees for the
seizure of the landlords land, etc. J,
and the organization of mass actions,
to which all other branches of party
work, agitation and propaganda, in
Guiding parliamentary work, must
be subordinated. This includes
strikes, strikes combined wi h
demonstrations, the combination of
armed demonstrations and strikes
and finally the general strike con-
jointly with the armed uprising
against the political power of the
bourgeoisie. This struggle must be
subjected to the rules of military
art; it must be conducted according
to plan of war and in the form of
a military offensive. 1t calls for
the devoted loyalty and heroism of
the proletariat. Such actions must
be preceded by the organization of
the broad masses in military units,
which, by their very form attract
and set into action the maximum
number of toilers Councils of work
ers' and peasants deputies, soldiers
councils, etc., and by intensified
work in the army and the navy.
In fulfilling these tasks and in
taking up new and more acute slo-
gans, the party must be guided by
the fundamental rule of the polit-
ical tactics of Leninism which calls
for the ability to lead the masses to
the revolutionary positions in such
a manner that the masses may be
convinced by their own experience
of the correctness of the Party's
line.
Failure to observe this rule will
inevitably result in the party be-
coming isolated from the masses, in
putschism and the theological de-
generation of Communism into doc
trinaire "Leftism" and petty bour-
geois "ultra-Left" adventurism
adventurism, which must be com
bated no less strenuously than the
right social democratic deviations in
the Communist movement.
If the revolutionary tide is not
flowing, the Communist Party, in ac-
cordance with the everyday needs
of the toilers, must advance partial
slogans and demands, develop them
and link them up with the funda-
mental tasks of the Communist In
ternational. Refusal to advance par
tial demands and transitional slo-
gans is incompatible with the tacti-
cal principles of Communism, for
this dooms the party to inactivity
and cuts it off from the masses. In
this connection the tactics of the
united front represent an important
part of the tactics of the Commu-
mist Party throughout the pre-revo-
lutionary period.
These partial demands and slogans
include:
In the sphere of the labor problem
IN the narrow sense of the word
the economic struggle resistance to
the offensive of trustified capital;
wages; the working day; compulsory
arbitration courts; unemployment
growing into problems of the gen
eral political struggle (big indus
| trial conflicts; rights to strike; the
political rights of the trade unions)
Then follow questions of an i'm
mediate political character (taxes;
high cost OF. living; fascism; persecu-
ton of revolutionary parties, white
terror; the policy of the government
In power etc..
Finally, these problems must be
linked up with problems of world
politics: attitude towards the U. S.
S. R.; Chinese revolution; fight for
the unity of the international trade
union movement; resistance to i'm
! perialism; combating the danger of
war and systematic preparation for
combating imperialist war.
The partial questions in the sphere
of the peasant problem are questions
connected with taxation policy, in
debtedness of the peasants through
mortgages, combating usurer CAPT
tai, the provision of land to poor
peasants, questions of rent and the
metayer system, etc., etc. Starting
out from these partial needs, the
Communist Party must accentuate
the various slogans and generalize
them into the slogan for the con-
fiscation of the land of the big land
owners, the slogan of the workers
| and peasantS' government etc