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

Inc rarity must formulate gen.
eral line, on the basis of the chang
ing objective conditions, which would
enable it to mobilize most effec-
lively and lead the masses in the
forthcoming struggles. In order to
achieve this end, the Party must
guard against both Right and Left
deviations.
Certain sections of our Party are
proving to be too slow and even
unwilling to reorientate the Party's
general line to these changing OBJ
iective conditions. This tendency
gives rise to Right wing deviations
and is at the bottom of the Right
danger in the American Party.
The might of the capitalist class
of America, the corruption of the
labor aristocracy and bureaucracy
the comparative political backward
ness of the American working class
and relative weakness Of our Party,
has given rise in certain sections
of the Party to a fatalistic atti-
tude toward American capitalism,
toward the possibilities of struggle
against it and the opportunities of
building up a mass Communist Par
ty in the United States.
This finds its expression in an
overestimation Of the strength and
reserve power of American imper-
ialism, an underestimation of the
maturing inner and outer contradic-
tons which are undermining the
strength of American Imperialism.
an underestimation of the depth of
dissatisfaction and of the extent of
the process of rehabilitation which
is slowly but definitely taking place
among the large masses of the
American working class. AS a re-
suit of such an attitude we find a
very strong tendency to minimize
the opportunities for organizing the
masses for struggle on the economic
and political field, hesitation to
place our Party in positions where
it can acquire leadership in mass
struggles and to actually partici-
pate in them, a serious underesti-
nation of the aggressive and pre-
ditory role of American imperialism
and the need for intensive struggle
against it, resistance to the deci-
sions of the r. l. L. U. on the Amer
lean question calling for the organ
ization Of the unorganized into new
unions under militant leadership,
lack of faith in the ability of our
Party to develop into the leading
political party of the American
working class, the theory that with
out a labor party there can be no
independent mass political struggles
of the American workers, ollie
tante approach to mass struggles
generally, a bureaucratic method of
handling the Party and the Party's
work, an underestimation of the
danger of reformist and pacifist
theology among the masses, etc.
The growing Right danger in our
Party is concretely shown by the
fresh Right errors made by the ma
jority of the C. f. c. in recent
weeks. The following are the most
outstanding mistakes: failure of the
Political Committee to direct the
Party fraction to urge the National
Miners Union to assume leadership
in the sporadic miners strikes
illinois, Wyoming, Kansas) to build
the new union, and to fight for the
defense and Improvement of the
workers conditions, resistance of
the Polcom to direct the Party frac-
ton to fight for the new Textile
Union functioning as an active fac
tor in the silk strike in Patterson,
lack of faith in the possibility CT
organizing a new textile union I'M
der militant leadership with the re-
sulting failure to prepare thorough
ly the National Convention, failure
to help the TUEL to step forward
as a leading factor in the struggles
of the workers and in the organiza-
ton Of new unions, failure to press
enorgetically that the Party frac
ticn fight for one union in the nee.
Gle trades, almost con.plct. alan