The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-23

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against its own best understanding.
This means to declare the decisions
meaningless.
8. In addition to constituting
violation of discipline, the "criticism"
| made, while still afflicted with
fractional blindness, was, moreover,
totally unwarranted 1t is sheer
nonsense to pretend that the Con-
gress did not evaluate the American
, question properly, or divided it in
two: American imperialism on the
one side, and the situation in the
American Party on the other"
1t is sufficient, I suppose, to point
out the real grievance behind it and
to refute it without waste of time.
The Congress rejected the claims
of the faction l belonged to. So
the Congress must be wrong-that's
all. And, of course, as the Congress
did not endorse the faction which is
so valiantly fighting "the Right
danger" it was a Fright wing err
ror." What else could it be?
1t was typical bit of fractional
stupidity to claim to be the only
ones who know that at is impos-
sible to fight American imperialism
effectively without having the
American Party adequately pre-
pared" or that "there can be no sue
cessful struggle against world i'm
perialism without proper attention
to the main position of the imperial
istic front" But, being still af-
flicted with Bittelmania, I could not
admit that anybody understands this
situation of American imperialism
who does not know, "Why doesn't
the Party grow? . primarily for
the following reasons: (a) the Right
wing political line of the Political
Committee Majority, ETC." (Thesis
of the Minority.) You see, it is
primarily, according to the Minor
ity's gospel, the Majority OF the Po-
Etical Committee of the Party that
prevents from growing the only
force which is bound to deliver the
final blow to American imperialism.
The Majority of the Political Com
mittee, according to this conception,
is the best shield of American i'm
perialism. And the Congress failed
to see it and to act upon it!
Well, believe that if I had known
tnis Minority thesis of Dec. Is before
| concocted my CRITICISM" / would
have been prevented from doing the
most STUPID thing of my life. The
famous Bittelman- Cannon platform
of July, 1928, '1rhe Right Danger
in the American Party" was much
more carefully worded than this per-
feet product of Bittelmania. If not fol
this, | would not have had the only
one, very thin, though not unim-
portant reason of my Criticism,
namely: the lack of a political let
ter of the c. I. to our Party. deal.
ing exhaustively with the whole sit.
uation.
9. / am still Of the opinion thai
an exhaustive analysis of the short
comings of our Party should be
given by the G. I. I am of the opin
ion that such an analysis should
have been given Immediately after
the Congress. | am not afraid t.
state frankly that I consider it {
mistake to deal with such accusa
tons against the c. E. G. Of thu
Party as were voiced on the floor
of the Congress of the G. I. by the
spokesman of the Minority, in the
manner of summary denial. This
helped to maintain the confusion il
the minds of the Minority follower.
by creating the impression that the
refutation of the charge made
against the c. E. C. Majority of be
ing the Right wing in our Party a.
unfounded, does not mean that thi!
charge is not true; that it may have
been accepted as valid, if the Min
ority had been able to present more
evidence to that effect. At present
when the Minority from one side
cannon from the other, claim tn,