The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-20

understanding of the Sixth Congress
theses, and a tendency to accept the
Interpretation placed upon these de-
cisions by the Right elements. We
learn once and for all. That this is
not way of fighting against the
Right danger, but rather OF ~trongth-
ening it.
Further, the former minority
must complete the understanding Of
their own previous factionalism, as
a means to its final liquidation.
While the minority had begun some
what hesitantly to develop what was
conceived to be a self-crit;cal atti-
tude before the convention, this was
not yet very real nor had it gon very
deep; on the contrary, as the Adj
dress declares, the minority was
more interested at the convention in
capitalizing the decision for group
vcntaca, than in unifying the
Party upon the basis of the decision.
And by this fractional attitude, tbs
minority contributed it's full part to
the grievous failures of the conven,
ton, which are so sharply charac-
terized by the Address. If there is
still any tendency on the part OF
any comrade to minimize this re-
sponsibility, by hiding behind the
statement that at is the fractional
leaders of the majority with Com
rade Lovestone at the head who are
mainly responsible for making use
of the convention for factional pur-
poses," then it must be declared
that any such tendency, substituting
the mathematical question of de-
grees of error for the political up
roofing of the sources Of error, must
be combatted as relentlessly as OPP
position to the Address, of which
it is a concealed form.
Exceptionalism and Right Errors.
There been some :. luctance
observable, among some former min
GRITTY supporters, to recognize that
their own errors also constituted a
part of the Right danger, and had
their roots in the theory of excep-
tionalism which was most clearly
developed by Comrades Lovestone
and Pepper. Because the minority
had crusaded under the banner of
struggle. against the Right danger,
it seems to be thought that thereby
it had some guarantee against itself
making Right errors. This idea is
one of the reasons why the minority
struggle against the Right danger
was not successful one, and that
it also remained in the swamp OF
opportunism. Failure to recognize
the opportunist nature of the minor
ity errors, will make it impossible
for such comrade to contribu, .
effectively to the main politicaI
tasks of the Party at this time.
One Of the most serious nantes
tations of the Right danger in the
ranks of the minority, was the fail
ure to carry on a proper struggle
against the Right tendencies in the
ranks of it's own faction. Following
the logic of faction struggle, the
Right danger was seen only in "the
ether faction" the struggle against
the Right danger was thus taken
from a political and Party place and
subordinated to the exigencies OF
faction warfare. All of us who par
ticipated in this error must recog-
nize it, in order to eliminate such
errors entirely from Party life in
the future.
The minority had campaigned
against the theory of exceptional
ism, and in this fact there was great
merit which no one could properly
wish to repudiate; but the trouble
with this campaign was that it it.
self was also operating within the