The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-24

il the persons but in the circum-
stances and conditions which entail
the Right danger The persons may
be removed, but that will not mean
that the roots of the Right move
ment have been eradicated from the
Party. The personal question does
not settle the whole matter, although
it is doubtless of interest.
In this connection l must call to
mind an episode at Odessa at the
close Of 1919 and beginning of 1920,
when cur troops were driving the
army of Denikin out of Ukraine and
caught up with the last stragglers
of that army at Odessa. Some of
the Red Guards sought furiously in
all Odessa for the Entente, being
convinced that if only they could
catch the Entente the whole war
would be at an end. (Laughter.) 1t
is difficult to imagine that the Red
soldiers could have found any rep
resentatives of the Entente at
Odessa, but if they had done so the
trouble with the Entente would not
have therefore been at an end, since
the roots of the Entente are not to
be found at Odessa, although that
city was the last foothold of the
Denikin army and Of the interna-
tional capitalists in Russia. The
same thing may be said in regard
to some of our comrades, who mar
row down the question of the Right
deviations to mere question Of per-
sons representing the deviations in
question, thus forgetting the condi-
lions which brought the said devia-
tions about.
We must therefore in the first
place clear up the question of the
circumstance under which both the
Right and the Left (Trotsky) devia-
lions from the principles of Lenin
first arose.
Right Danger Under Capitalism.
I Under capitalist rule, the Right
deviations in the Communist Party
consist in the tendency and inclina-
ton, albeit unexpressed and unde-
veloped, on the part of some of the
Communists, to depart from the re-
volutionary directives of Marx in
the direction of the Social Demo-
Gratis. If certain circles among the
Communists deny the practicability
Of the principle of class against
class" in the electioneering struggle
(as is the case in France) or oppose
an independent candidature of the
Communists Party Gas in England),
or prove unwilling to accentuate the
fight against the Left" Social
Democrats las in Germany, this
means that within the Communist
Party there are people who are anx-
| ious to adapt Communism to Social
Democracy. A victory of the Right
deviations in the Communist Parties
of the capitalist countries would en-
tail the theological breakdown of the
Social Democrats. And what is
meant by an enormous increase in
the strength of the Social Demo-
Gratis? 1t is strengthening and
consolidation of capitalism, seeing
that the Social Democrats are the
main prop of capitalism among the
working classes. Consequently a
Right victory in the Communist
Parties Of the capitalist countries
would lead to the development Of
conditions such as are requisite for
the maintenance of capitalism.
Right Danger in USSR.
The Right deviations in Commun-
ism under Soviet rule, in a country
where capitalism is already over
thrown but where the roots of capt.
talism have not yet been wholly
extirpated, consist in tendency and
inclination, albeit unexpresscd and
undeveloped, on the part Of some of