The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-07-09

Tie pONlSG OIllol are Apply 4llS IllS-
chanical methods. 1t challenges the
fundamental idea that bolshevism is
international in its principles and
tactics. AS early as 1921 Lenin in
his pamphlet on Left Wing Com
munism" combatted this legend
about the limited application of boil
shevik tactics and declared: 1--WE
have now considerable experience of
international scope which pretty def
initely establishes the fact that some
fundamental features of our revolu
ton are not local, not purely ma
tional, not Russian only, but that
they are of international signifi-
canoe. Not in the strictest sense OF
the word, that is, taking it in its
essence, or in the sense of the his
torical 'inevitability of a repetition,
on an international scale, of what
we in Russia have gone through, but
one must admit some fundamental
features of our revolution to be OF
such international significance. Of
course, it would be the greatest mis-
take to exaggerate this truth and to
apply it to more. than the funda
mental features of our revolution.
1t would be likewise erroneous not
to keep in mind that after the pro-
letarian revolution in at least one
of the advance countries, things will
in all probability take sharp turn;
Russia will cease to be the model,
and will become again the backward
lin the Soviet and socialist sense)
country.
"But at this historical moment
the state of affairs is such that
the Russian example reveals some
thing quite essential to all coun-
tries in their near and inevitable
future. The advance workers in
every land have long understood it
although in many cases they did
not so much understand it as feel
it, through the instinct of their
revolutionary class. Hence the
international significance, Gin the
strict sense of the word) of the
Soviet Power as well as of the
fundamentals of Bolshevik theory
and tactics" emphasis mine-W.
W..
Those who maintain a contrary
view to that expressed by Lenin
not only repeat the legend of me-
chanical application which all rene
gades have maintained against Com
munist international as for example
Levi, Hoeglund, and others, but
slide down to the position of Trot-
skyism, to the conception of ether.
midor.' We must frankly face
the fact that despite the struggle
against Trotskyism in our ranks
there are people today who are tax.
ing up the discredited weapons Of
Trotskyism and are repeating the
same slanderous accusations against
the c. P. S. U. and the Comintern
But this is not at all surprising
Those who take up the struggle
against the Communist Internationa
whether they proceed in their at
tacks from the position of the so
called cleft" or from the right in
evitably arrive at the same social
democratic opportunistic platform
and sooner or later will establish ;
common, united front against tn.
Communist International though
they be independent of each othel
at the present time.
''The Accusation of Putchist Tactics
The right are accusing the Com
munist international of putchist tao
tics in Berlin on May /. Where doe,
this accusation spring from? /
arises from the fundamental,
wrong conception of the rights re
garding the third period. These op
portunists view capitalism today a
growing stronger and is enterin,
into period in which the contradic
tions are becoming weaker. For tina
} reason, they do not see that tn
revolutionary tide is rising highe
and that the working class is as
Stunning the offensive against tn
| capitalists. In order to deny thi
fact, these opportunists seize upo
every weakness and shortcoming O
the struggles of the working class
weaknesses which the proletaria
will overcome in the course of fur
Their struggles and they overlook tn
gigantic fact that 100000 worker
demonstrated in Berlin despite tn
prohibition and violence of the polio
and that these workers showed
revolutionary will and energy whic
reminds us of the great battles O
the German workers during frs
post war period. The accusation
of putchism against the Germa
Party can come only from peopl
that see the strength of the enem
but are blind to the fact of tn
growing power of the working class
: The Theory Of Exceptionalism
: Do the events now transpiring i
the United States justify the theor
| of exceptionalism and that whic
flows from this theory, the exemr
: ton of America from the left swim
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