The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-12-07

the United States today as a Left
deviation.
In our fight against the Right
danger and its crassest manifesto
ton, Trotskyism, the Central Exc
cutive Committee is guided by the
following policy:
% Leading and responsible
Party members and non-prole-
tartan elements who consciously
adopt the position of Trotsky-
ism and support Cannon shall
be expelled from the Party.
(2) Crank and file proleta-
rian elements, who evidence lack
of clarity on the issue and hest
tate on it, shall be patiently
and persistently argued with
and persuaded to the correct
position on the question in order
to win them away from Trot-
skyism and whatever sympathy
they may have for the Cannon
opposition, but if any Of these
proletarian elements actively or
ganize for Trotsky, they should
be expelled from the Party.
'That all District Organizers
be instructed to refer final &C
tion against those declaring for
Cannon and Trotskyism to the
Central Executive Committee,
and the Central Committee shall
riaofln IN ooo h. I1e,~
of its merits"
Persuasion and not persecu Ion is
the policy Of the Central Executive
Committee insofar as proleta-ian
rank and file elements are con-
cerned. The main fire of the Central
Executive Committee is concentrated
on the conscious opportunists,
whether they appear openly as such
or whether they still camouflage
heir reformism with Left phrases
in the fashion of Trotskyism.
The Dilemma of the Opposition.
The Opposition within the Party
face to face with a terrible d.
emma. 1t charges the Central Exc
utive Committee with pursuing a
policy:
(which makes Trotskyism the
main danger of the Party and
obscures and weakens the strug-
gle against the Right deviations
and the Right danger"
Here we have more confusion in
he policy of the Opposition. The
very contrary is the case. When
he Opposition declares that Trot-
llyism is Left danger and the
Central Executive Committee is the
main danger, they are the ones who
weaken and undermine the fight
against Trotskyism. The Trotskyist
danger is today the danger of a
split. A member of the Political
Committee, several members of the
Central Executive Committee of the
Party, and of the National Executive
Committee of the Young Workers
(Communist) League, have already
aspoused Trotskyism. The Cannon
ties already have two papers in Eng
iish against the Party. Trotskyism
has a daily German organ and a
Hungarian weekly. Lore, Eastman
and the bourgeois press are working
severishly to help Trotskyism in its
attacks on the Party.
Consequently, the fight against
Trotskyism must be conducted under
the leadership of the Central Exc
cutive Committee. Any other atti-
tude is the negation of the very
basis of a Communist Party. If the
Central Executive Committee is the
main danger, as the Opposition con-
tends, how can any Communist Par
ty member fight to expel Trotsky-
ties who help to fight against the
Central Executive Committee &?
Again, if Trotskyism is Left-as
the Opposition insists-and if Trot-
skyism means split, as is obvious
then the main fight would have
70 be conducted against the Left.
This would mean a weakening of
the fight against the Right danger
But the Opposition holds that the
-sASAI behll6CI 10 bIS lUdlH uduSGE
and that Trotskyism is a Left dan
ger. ".us, the wrong tactic, con-
fused analysis and factional blind
ness of the Opposition serve only to
weaken the fight against the Right
danger and its crassest manifesto
ion, Trotskyism.
Clearly, the position of the
Central Executive Committee is cor.
rect when it declares that the main
anger is the Right danger and that
Trotskyism is the most consistent
umming up and rallying center OF
he Right danger. Therefore, in ac
e eordance with the policy of the Cen
tral Executive Committee there is ne
contradiction between the fight
against the Right danger and the
light against its crasssest expires
ion, Trotskyism. To intensity the
light against the Right danger
means to intensity the fight againsr
rrotskyism. To intensity the figh
against Trotskyism means to haster
he liquidation of the Right danger
What is the difference in ouI
Party, if any, between the Trotsky
ist brand of opportunism and tn,
outright opportunism which is sep