The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-06-20
For Energetic Application OF the Ne1v Line

and discipline and by mobilization
of the working masses. This WIS
absolutely correct. And it was c..
tirely correct to desire to supper
the Central Committee of the G. .
S. U. in it's struggle against all t."
Right and conciliatory elements VIII.
were struggling against that line.
1t was further no error to oppose
most obstinately the international
orientation of Comrade Lovestone,
whose attacks upon the ECCI "rep-
resent a repetition of slanderous at
tacks upon the Comintern made by
right opportunists," or of Comrade
Gitlow, whose declaration "upholds
the slanderous attacks of the right
clements on the leadership Of the
/ c. P. S. U. and of the Comintern,"
/ for it is a primary duty of every
Communist u fight against this line
CT Lovestone, Gitlow, and others,
which has linked itself up with the
right clements internationally, with
/ all seriousness and to it's final liqui-
dation. But it was absolutely i'm
pcrmissable-an of this the minor
lty is criticized with entire correct
reas-to have attempted in the
slightest degree to make it appear
that as whole the majority of the
Amesican Party was supporting
consciously this international right
tendency, or that the minority was
alone the upholders of the C. P.
S. U. line. effectively this specula-
tive attitude gave aid and comfort
to the International Right.
The New Line and Our Prat teal
Tasks.
1t is necessary that our whole
Party be vivificd by a deep under
standing of the Ccmintern line, and
be modified for a tenfold-increased
activity fer its practical application.
Our discussion Of past errors, our
self-criticism of the sharpest nature,
has no similarity to Confessions"
and is not to satisfy the emotional
needs of any comrades. 1t is for
the attainment of political ends,
namely, the removal of those OBJ
stacles which hinder the develop
ment of the working class struggle,
and the development of it's leader
ship, the United States section of
the Communist International, to the
capacity of fulfilling it's role. Only
the petty-bourgeois cynics, the in
tellectual clowns of the opportunists
OF all varieties, can misinterpret the
Bolshevik self-criticism without
which a Communist Party cannot
come into existence, and attempt to
ridicule it as religious confessions. !"
But tie workers in the factories and
shops will see something diffe~ ut
from these petty-bourgeois critics
they will recognize in this very self
criticism one of the signs by which
they can be sure that there is grow.
/ ing up their dependable leadership
a Party which is able to cleanse it.
self from all corrupting elements
which is able to accumulate expert
ences and learn from them, which j,
proud to demonstrate its organic
unity with the workers party of the
entire world. And as the workers see
this, our Party will grow in size and
influence, and the proletarian revo-
luton brought nearer in America.
And, upon the basis of the line
and directives of our world Party,
we must really get the Party to
work on all it's multitude of prac-
teal tasks. Every member must as
sumo responsibility, every member
must be modified, and the Party
itself, as an organized body, mus
direct the great forward movement
for which the conditions are becom
ing ripe in the United States.
All together for a unified, mass
! Bolshevik Party!