The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-18
By D. MANUILSKY.

1t is the intention OIL LnlS drJlclS
to deal with two questions. The
first of these questions is the inter-
national Importance of the problems
which the present discussion in the
German Communist Party has
brought to the fore. The members
of the Presidium of the Executive
Committee of the Communist Inter-
national paid no attention to this
side of the question is their speeches
in the session of the Presidium in
which the text of the Open Letter
to the German Communist Party
was discussed.
The second of these questions is
that of the sterilization of capital
ism, for this question is of extereme
Importance for all sections of the
Comintern. A detailed discussion of
this question will create clarity and
will show clearly the revisionist char
acter of the attempts to interpret the
decisions of the Sixth Congress Of
the Comintern as though the capital
ist sterilization were permanent, IL
nal and capable of being maintained.
Such a discussion will arm us ideo-
logically for the coming revolution
airy struggles and show every MEM
Der of our Communist World Party
the necessity for a merciless strug-
gle against the opportunist epidemic.
l. International Significance of Open
Letter of E.C.CI. to German
Communist Party.
The Open Letter of the E.C.CI. to
the German C. P. in connection with
the attack of the German Right
wingers upon the decisions of the
Sixth Congress of the Comintern is
of the greatest international i'm
portance. Next to the G. P. of the
Soviet Union, the German c. P. is
the strongest mass party of the Com
intern. This mass-character of the
German C. P. goes hand in hand
with its fighting capacity. AS far
as the German c. P. is concerned,
these exists no disproportion be-
tween the two elements of Bolshe-
vization, the mass-character and the
fighting capacity, something which
cannot be said for instance of the
&c. P. of Czechoslovakia. The Ger
man G. P. was born in the fire of
the revolution. 1t grew and became
strong in the bloody struggles
against the white guardist bands Of
Noske, it was hardened in the civil
war and in heavy defeats which con-
tributed to its strength and expert
cnce. This circumstance distinguishes
the German C. P. from all other
sections of the Comintern in West
ern Europe, which have not gone
through such a bitter period of revo-
luton and civil war.
The lessons learned by the c. p.
of Germany in the most important
stages of it's development are in
some respects no less important for
the other Western European sections
of the Comintern than the expert
ences of the c. P. of the Soviet
Union. It must be borne in mind
that the German C. P. is party
fighting for the seizure of power in
highly developed capitalist country
possessing the strongest social de-
mocracy and the best trained reform
ism in the world. For these reasons
the conditions under which the c. p.
of Germany is fighting are more
typical for the Western European
Communist movement than were the
conditions under which the C. P. of
the Soviet Union fought before the
October Revolution.
The tremendous experience gained
by the c. p. of the Soviet Union in
the building up of Socialism will ac-
quire immediate and practical sig
Inificance for the sections of the COM
intern in Western Europe only after