The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-03
For Correct Bolshevist Line in the American
Party Against the Right Danger, and Against
the Cannon Trotsky Opposition
Statement by the Minority the Central Executive Committee of the
Workers Communist America

we take the Communist Interna-
tional as a whole.
'"The Right danger is assuming
considerable proportions just now
and it is but natural that after
smashing the Trotskyist OPPOSE
ton we must adopt very definite
policy against these Right ten
denotes and small Right opposi-
tional groupings"
This point of view was incorpo-
rated in the Congress decision on
the question which is that after the
defeat and disintegration Of the
Trotskyist Opposition in the Com
munist Party of the Soviet Union as
well as in the Communist Parties
as a whole, the main danger comes
from the Right, while at the same
time we continue to combat the OPP
portunist deviations that mask
themselves in left phrases. This is
the point of view of the minority
on the question. 1t is not the point
of view of the Central Committee
which makes Trotskyism the main
danger in the Party and obscures
and weakens the struggle against
the Right deviations and the Right
dangers.
In the present struggle of the
Central Committee of the Commu-
mist Party in the Soviet Union
against the Right Danger on the
one hand, and against Trotskyism
on the other hand, the same Com
intern line is being put into effect
This line has been given fresh ex-
preston to in a speech by Comrade
Stain on October 10, 1928 at the
Plenum of the Moscow Committee
and Moscow Control Commission
We quote from Comrade Stains
speech:
"The question of the Right an
Left deviations in our Party can
not possibly be considered as
trifling matter. What are the
characteristics Of the openly OPP
portunist Right deviations in our
Party? They consist in the fact
that they underestimate the
strength of our enemies, the cap
;ta1;e+. ,-of,,ea IN coo tho dopuar
of the reestablishment of capital
ism, fail to understand the dynam-
les of the class struggle under
the conditions of proletarian die
tatorship, and therefore, easily
agree to make concessions to cap
italism by demanding the slowing
down of our rate of industrial
development and facilities for the
CAPITALIST elements in town and
country, thrust the question OF
collective and Soviet undertakings
into the background, demand
restriction of the foreign trade
monopoly, etc. The victory of the
Right deviation in our Party
would doubtless combine the forces
of capitalism, shatter the revolu-
tionary position of the proletariat
and enhance the chance of reestab-
lishment of capitalism in our coun-
try.
"And in what does the Left,
Trotskyist deviation in our coun-
try consist? 1t lies in the fact
that the representatives of this
deviation overestimate the forces
of our enemies and the strength
of capitalism, that they are blind
to all save the possibility of
restoration of capitalism, especial
" blind to the possibilities of So
cialist construction on its own
merits and prone to comfort them
selves with lot of twaddle about
the Thermidor of our Party, From
Lenin's statement, that as long as
we live in a petty peasant coun-
try there is in Russia firmer
economic basis for capitalism than
for Communism the Left devia-
tors draw the conclusion that in
the Soviet Union generally it is
impossible to construct socialism,
that nothing can be obtained from
cooperation with the peasantry,
that the idea of an alliance be-
tween the working class and the
peasantry has been superseded,
that if we receive no help from a
victorious revolution in the west,
the dictatorship must necessarily
come to grief, and that if the fan
tastic plan of overindustrializa
ton, even if executed at the cost
of rupture with the peasantry, is
not accepted, the cause of social
ism in the Soviet Union must be
considered lost. Hence, the dam
gerous character of the left devia-
tions and the tremendous leaps
noticeable in it's policy. There
can be no doubt that a victory of
the Left deviation in our Party
would have led to the isolation of
the working class from its peas
ant basis, to separation of the
vanguard of the working class
from the rest Of the working
class, and to more favorable pros
poets for the restoration of CAPT.
talism."
The line of the majority of the
Central Committee of our Party on
the Right danger and Trotskyism is
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