The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-21
-. By MAX BEDACHT.

DISCIPLINE is an essential of Leninism. 1t
is one of the most assaed essentials. No
petty shop keepers mind will ever comprehend
this essential.
Discipline is not a mere technical qualifica-
ton of a revolutonist; but it is rather an in
dispensable political quantity in the revolution
airy movement.
Lenn approached the problem Of the prole
tartan revolution in a concrete manner. For
Lenin the period preceding the decisive strug-
gle for power was an integral part of this
period of decisive struggle. While the tactics,
the slogans and the methods of struggle may
differ, yet the necessity for revolutionary pol
itics and pilicies is not any less urgent in the
personal---very. period than it is in the period
of the final conflict. For Lenin the division of
the activities of a oScialist Party into periods
of exclusive agitation, or propaganda, or organ
ization, or political action, etc. was always a
manifestation of opoprtunism. For him all of
these activities were different manifestations
of life which the revolutionary part had to
produce Simultaneously at all times. At the
Stuttgart Congress of the Second International
in 1907 Lenin clearly formulated this concep
ton in hi sstruggle against the attitude of the
social reformists and the centrists. The Con-
gress discussed the attitude of the Irternation-
al Socialists toward war The clouds of an
imperialist conflict were Their already gather
ing upon the capitalist horizon. What was the
international to do in cose of war.
1t was finally agreed that the international
was to do something. But about what this
something was to be no agreement could be
reached. Some maintained that it was impos-
| sible to decide this since one cannot know what
| the circumstances would either demand of per-
| nit Others maintained that decision on the
| question would only warn the imperialist en-
| emies; and the later's counter action would
make the action impossible. The Germans de-
| clared: "We need no decision; when the hour
| comes we will be there; and we will 10 just
| the things that the occasion will require" At
| present we are only in the propaganda stages"
| In the light of what happened later it is clear
| that this whole approach was merely method
| of evasion. But Lenin saw it even then. lie
protested against the artificial division be-
| tween propaganda and action. He declared
| that the decision of the Congress could not
| result in revolutionary action in the event of
| war. Such action necessitated careful prepare
| ton of the working class and especially of the
| advanced guard of working class of the Party.
| Whatever the socialist parties expected to do
| in case of war they had to begin to do it right
| then and there Otherwise revolutionary ac-
ton against war was impossible. Agitation is
method to recruit masses fo1 action. But
whatever masses were ready for action had to
| be kept in action at all times. According to
| this feminist conception the revolution cannot
be sub-divided into mere propaganda and a
| mere action stage. The revolutionary party
| must always be in action or it ceases to be
| revolutionary. The methods of the action and
it's character may change; the immediate aims
| of the action may change; but the necessity
for action never changes.
Out of this fundamental feminist approach
Boshevism was born The Bolshevist concep-