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

with the whole Brandler theory of
development into the revolution"
which is represented in another form
by the social democratic theory of
the development into Socialism via
democracy.
This lesson, which is connected
with history of Right wing devia-
tions, must be kept in mind in order
to mobilize our sections for the liquF
dation of these deviations from the
line mapped out by the Sixth Con-
Igress of the Comintern. In the pc
riod of the rising new revolutionary
wave, in the period of coming bitter
collisions between the workers and
the capitalists, vigilance with regard
to these deviations and theoretical
intolerance towards thefl are pre-
requisite for the Bolshevization Of
the sections of the G. I. and for their
preparation for the great role which
they will be called upon to play.
The circumstance that the Right
wing deviation and the conciliatory
attitude towards it in the Western
European sections of the G. |. have
developed smostly in Germany, lead
ing to a Right wing crisis in the
German C. p, and the circumstances
that these related tendencies in Ger
many have developed into a sort of
theological center towards which all
other ideologically related tendencies
in the Western European sections of
the C. I. orientate themselves, are
also to be explained by the special
conditions under which the Commu-
mist movement in Germany has de-
veloped.
The German G. P. has to work in
a country possessing the strongest
and best organized social democracy,
a social democracy which is more
closely connected with the bourgeois
state apparatus than any other. The
pressure exerted by this social de-
mocracy, which has the whole weight
of the economic and political APP
paratus of the bourgeoisie behind it,
upon those elements in the German
G. P. which are least capable of re-
sisting in revolutionary sense, is
not less than the pressure exerted
by the petty-bourgeois elements in
the Soviet Union.
In countries like Austria, the pres
sure of the social democracy, which
| is numerically strong and powerful
upon the Communist Party, which
is numerically weak, leads to pc
Iculiar form of Austro- Marxism with
in our own ranks, producing a pes
simistic estimation of the role OF
the Communist Party which con.
dennis our Party to follow in the
wake Of the social democracy and
allots to it the modest propaganda
tasks of an exclusive circle, instead
of the tasks of a revolutionary in
dependent Communist Party (the
group around Comrade Schlamm is
the chief representative of this ten.
dency).
| In working class movement like
that in Germany, where a bitter
struggle is constantly proceeding be-
tween our Party and the social de.
mocracy for the leadership of the
working masses, the penetration OF
our influence into the ranks Of the
social democratic workers has its
counterpart in the penetration of So
cial democratic influence into oul
own ranks. Although we have in the
group "Einheit" ("Unity") in Ger
many weapon for extending our
influence to the best elements in the
ranks of the social democratic work
ers, the social democrats have in the
Brandler-T halheimer group also a
weapon for carrying decentralization
into the Communist ranks. The
Brandler-T halheimer group has be-
lcome nothing more nor less than a
Left wing social democratic Srous