The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-16
Article Three.
For Application of 9Th Congress
Decisions to u. S.


For Application of 9Th Congress
Decisions to U. S.
1t has been proven in the dis
cussion that the standpoint of the
Majority constitutes a refusal to ap-
ply the general analysis and tao
teal line of the Comintern to the
United States. This attitude of the
Majority is a continuation of its OPP
ON THE SOCIAL
1t must be stated at the outset
that the minority submitted no such
proposition as an apex THEORY
The theory" angle of it is a fac
tional invention of the Majority to
cover up the basic defects of its
own position.
What is the truth of the matter
For the last fourteen months, the
Minority was trying to draw the
attention of the Central Committee
to the fact that fundamental changes
are taking place in the world posi-.
ton, structure and class relation
ships of America capitalism. The
Minority demanded the formulation
of clear revolutionary perspective
and the shift of the Party's tactical
orientation to the Left.
A more or less complete formula
ton of the Minority standpoint is
contained in it's document to the vi
World Congress (The Right Danger
in the American Party. There it
says:
1.-TWO basic factors determine the
condition of American capitalism
in the present period: ~ the ma
turing inner contradictions of
American capitalism (dispropor-
ton between the rate of expan-
sion of productive capacity and
rate of growth of volume Of pro-
duction, disproportion between the
growth of production and con-
sumption, unemployment, the con-
tradictions of naturalization, capt.
tai export, polarization of wealth
and poverty, etc. are beginning
to produce qualitative changes in
the whole economic system; p
these inner contradictions are ma
turing in the surroundings Of a
declining world capitalism and the
Socialist growth Of the U.S.S.R.
which sharpen, intensity and &C
celerate the development of the
contradictions of American CAPT
talism, Fastening the coming of
it's downfall"
The above statement is essentially
correct. It takes sharp and definite
issue with the point of view of the
Majority which sees for U. S. i'm
perialism a new Victorian Age" of
practically unbroken and undisturbed
upward growth.
Events prove that the rate of eco
nonlic growth is declining, that the
instability CT the prosperity"
phases Of development is increasing,
and that it becomes ever more diff
ficult for American capitalism to
ON INNER AND OUT
The discussion has proven beyond
doubt that the Majority is making
on this question the following errors:
~ It considers the growing ag-
rressiveness of American imperial
ism in complete separation from the
sharpening class relations and strug-
giles inside the country.
By It continues to manifest "lack
Of proper evaluation of the inner
contradictions of American capital
ISM" (From Fright Danger in
American Party.w
q The Majority fails to realize
that whereas in the present epoch
Of crisis of world capitalism, the in
ternal contradictions of American
capitalism find their sharpest ex-
preston in the sphere of external
economic and political rivalries, yet
the basis for an understanding of
the perspectives of world capitalism
and the world revolution lies in an
analysis of the internal contradic-
lions of capitalism.
d) The Majority does not correctly
ON QUESTIONS OF IMMEDIATE
The discussion has proven that
the Majority still holds to the fol-
lowing wrong conceptions on this
question:
1t puts the main emphasis
upon those tendencies which make
for the growth of American CAPITA
ism.
cit completely underestimate