The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-03
PARTY RE-CONVENTION DISCUSSION SECTION

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struggles, by moderating, weaken
ing the striking power of the work
ing class and of our Party.
The same tendency to capitulate
takes also the form of outright pes
simism, Of tendency to give up, to
become passive, to withdraw from
the party. This tendency, which
cloaks itself in left phrases and at
present in our Party adopts Trot-
skyism as its platform, is harmful
and deadly to the growth of our
Party. While pretending to strive
for an improvement in the Party's
policies and processing to fight for
stronger Communist Party, in
reality it spreads pessimism, lack
Of faith in our movement, demor-
alization, etc.
The Party must therefore wage
a merciless struggle on two fronts
against the open Right danger and
against the Trotsky Opposition led
by Cannon. 1t is only in the strug-
gle against the Right and Left
deviations that the Communist
Party Of America will be able to de-
velop correct line and to crystal
ize Bolshevik proletarian leader
ship.
Only Correct Bolshevik Line Can De-
feat the Right and Trotskyist
DeviatiOns.
The struggle against the Right de-
viations on the one hand and Trot-
sllyist deviations on the other hand
is struggle on two fronts against
the influence of opportunism in our
Party. This struggle can be waged
successfully only through the adop-
ton by cur Party of a correct Boil
shevik line.
The remedy against the Right
danger is not Trotskyism, and the
remedy against Trotskyism is not
n Right wing line.
To fight successfully against
Trotskyism the Party must be
strengthened in its Bolshevik ideol-
ogy. 1t must reject all theories
which are cultivating a fatalistic at
titude towards the power of Amer
lean imperialism. 1t must condemn
and defeat all such ideologies as I'M
derestimate the revolutionizing in
fluences of the outer and inner con-
tradictions of American imperial
ism. It must clearly see that while
American Imperialism is still de-
veloping upward there are matur-
ing internal and external contradic-
tons which are sharpening the class
relations and class struggle in the
United States. 1t must orientate it.
self primarily on the unskilled, I'M
organized and most exploited sec
ton of the American working class.
1t must make its work among the
Negro masses, the exploited of the
exploited, a major part of its ac-
tivities. 1t must proletarian;ze in
This sense the composition of the
Party as whole and its leadership
from top to bottom. 1t must reject
the dilletante and bureaucratic APP
proach to the working class and to
the class struggle. 1t must also re-
ject the bureaucratic handling of
the Party and the practice of re-
ducing to caricature the much
needed self-criticism in our Party.
In short, it must adopt a correct
Eolshevik line in order to defeat
Trotskyism and to build our Party
into a mass Communist Party.
To fight successfully the Right
danger the Party must reject and
defeat Trotskyism and the Trot3lly-
ist Opposition led by Cannon. The
Party must hold fast to the Lenin-
ist theology and line of the Com
munist International. The Party
membership must not be swayed
into pessimism, adventurism, and
opposition to the Comintern, be-
cause of the difficulties in the
process of crystallizing a correct
line aud building up a Bolshevik
proletarian leadership. The Party
membership must see that the road
of Trotskyism leads not only out
side of the revolutionary class
struggle, outside Of the Communist
international, but directly into the
camp of the enemies of, the working
class into the camp of open counter
revolution.
1t is not through the acceptance
OF Trotskyism but on the contrary
through a decisive rejection of Trot-
skyism as well as the rejection of
the fatalistic attitude toward
American imperialism that our
Party will defeat both the Right
danger and the Trotskyist danger.
The Fight Against These DeviatiOns
We urge the Party to wage a con-
sistent struggle against the right
danger in our Party as well as in
the Comintern generally. The Sixth
World Congress has pointed out the
existence of serious Right devia-