The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-19
By D. MANUILSKY.

The wavering attitude of the Po-
Ilitical Bureau of the Swiss G.. P.
must also be reckoned to these rem
nants of Brandlerism. In an official
document addressed to the E.C.CI.
referring to the German Question"
the Swiss Polbureau adopted an at
titude approximately halfway be-
tween the position of the Brandler-
list Right wing and that of the Ewert
group of conciliators. 1t often hap
pens that these important questions
in the practice of the parties are
raised in connection with perfectly
fortuitous or quite incidental mat
tiers.
1t is quite clear that the German
question" is becoming the crystalliz-
ing point for all the tendencies in
side the Comintern after the Sixth
World Congress. Those tendencies
which were in more or less en-
bryonic stage at the Sixth Congress,
are ripening today to the extent of
factionaL platforms, lie, the plat
form of the Right wingers around
Brandler and the platform of the
Iconciliators around Ewert. This is
the new element in the life of the
Comintern since the Sixth World
Congress, and all sections of the c. |.
must take it into consideration. No
single section of the C. l. may remain
indifferent to the discussion in the
German C. p, for the open rebellion
against the decisions of the Sixth
Congress of the Comintern and the
Fourth Congress of the Red Inter
national of Labor Unions on the part
of the German Right wingers, and
the peculiar Interpretation given to
these decisions by the, group Of the
conciliators around Ewert in their
platform, raise the discussion in the
German G. P. to a matter of the
utmost international Importance.
Today it is more necessary than
ever to obtain theological clarity.
Only widespread enlightenment work
and the thorough discussion of the
questions raised in the discussion in
the German c. P. can raise the ideo-
logical level of the membership of
all sections of the Comintern. This
is all the more necessary because to-
day the sections have to deal with a
bad heritage from a past period in
the development of the Comintern
which, had it been disposed of in the
past by the sections, would have
saved them in the present repetition
of the Right wing errors.
We refer in particular to Radek's
utterances at the Third and especial
ly at the Fourth Congress of the
G. /. concerning the questions of the
workers government and of the con-
troll of production, which unfortun-
ately received no effective rebuttal
at the time and were responsible for
the later errors Of the Right wing
group in the G. |.
The definition given by Radek of
the workers government was closely
related to the definition advanced by
Brandler at the Leipzig Party Con-
gress. Radek's definition contained
the idea of "a coalition of all work
ing class parties" and the idea that
the workers government was a stage
towards the dictatorship of the pro-
letariat ("the ante-room"), and also
the belief that the workers could
force the social democratic leaders
to conduct a revolutionary policy.
The same is true of the slogan for
the control of production. The inter
probation Radek gave to this slogan
at the time differs in nothing from
the standpoint which is now defend
ed by the Brandlcr group Later on
Radek defended the same ideas in
the collected material relating to the
program Of the Comintern. This
circle of ideas is closely connected