The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-18
The German. Party Discussion

portance for the Communist move
ment that without absolute clarity
concerning them there can be no
healthy theological life in the Com
munist Parties of Western Europe.
The question of the character of
capitalist sterilization, the question
of the estimation of the role of re-
formism, the estimation of the speed
of the process of rehabilitation
amongst the workers, the problem of
the united front tactic under the
present circumstances, the attitude
of the Parties to the opportunist
slogans of the transformation period
(the slogan of the control of produc-
ton, which is based upon the fas-
cist slogan of the social democracy,
the slogan of economic democracy") },
the problem of consolidating the
Communist Parties without at the
same time obscuring the theological
differences of opinion, all these ques-
lions are of urgent and immediate
Importance for the German G. P.
and for all other sections of the Com
intern in Western Europe.
The discussion of the TX Plenary
Session of the E.C.CI. concerning
the new electoral tactics to be adopt
ed in Great Britain and France was
also practically based upon these
questions. This became still clearer
at the last plenary session of the
Central Committee of the French c.
P. when Comrade Renaud Jean rep
resented a standpoint with regard
to the sterilization of capitalism, to
the speed of the process of radicali-
cation amongst the workers and
concerning our attitude to the
left wing" social democracy,
which approximated to the stand
point of the German Right wing
group. Similarly, tendencies are to
be observed in the French c. P. in
the question of the COMMITTEES of
Action" and the united front tao
tic, approximating the st n d.
point of the group of conciliators
around Ewert in the German C. P.
In a whole number of Parties we
can meet with remnants of the So
cial democracy, for instance in
Czechoslovakia in the instructions
given by the "ultra-Left" Comrade
Neurath to the local organizations
of the Party in connection with the
elections. In these peculiar instruc-
tons Comrade Neurath gives the
following analysis of the relation
of the G. P. of Czechoslovakia to
the social democracy in the question
of the application of the united
front tactic:
Every attempt of the C. P.
CT. to win not only the socialist
and non-Party workers for the
extension of the mass-struggles,
but also to interest the socialist
leaders in these revolutionary
struggles, met with the resistance
of these leaders who fight against
any attempt to turn the parlia-
mentary oppositional struggle
into revolutionary mass-strug-
gle of the exploited masses of the
population"
This one quotation is sufficient
to show that there are still COM
rades in the ranks of the Comm
tern who attempt, after the Sixth
Congress of the Comintern, to Gin
Iterest the socialist leaders" in re-
volutionary struggles, and who be-
lieve that the treacherous parlia.
mentary policy of the social demo-
Gratis is a parliamentary opposi-
tional struggle" and that all that is
wrong is that the social democrats
refuse to go further and "turn the
parliamentary oppositional struggle
into a revolutionary mass-struggle.'
The instructions also contained
other gems of similar nature.
(To Be Continued)