The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-07-11

This is how Lenin. proposed to develop and
conduct the struggle in the colonial countries,
This is also pointed out in the Program of
the Conlintern adopted at the 9th Congress:
"The Communist International considers
the following to be the most important of
these special tasks: To establish the demo-
cratic dictatorship of the proletarat and
peasantry on a Soviet basis"
According to the Comintern and Lenin,, the
most democratic and broadcast organ of power
in India is the Soviet.
What does Lovestone and the international
right wing propose? They propose the estab-
lishment, in place of the Soviets, a constituent
assembly.
"The basis for that popular organ of
power, the Constituent Assembly, should be
laid now :, for deciding the political
future of India. The election of a Con-
stituent Assembly on the ground that let
the entire people of India give their verdict
regarding their own future. Along this
road will revolutionary India . win
complete independence" Undia in Revolt
special Lovestone document on lnda.)
Who will call this Constituent Assembly
together Who will participate in this Con-
stituent Assembly and make up the majority?
Since when do Bolsheviks call upon the masses
to consider Constituent Assembly or other
bourgeois parliamentary institution as place
where "the entire people give their verdict
regarding their own future?"
1t is understood that King George and his
Majesty's government will have to call this
Constituent Assembly together, and the feudal
landed aristocracy, the national bourgeosie,
the treacherous social fascist labor leaders
will make up the majority.
Are these capitalist feudal interests con-
cerned with the struggle against imperialism
and capitalist exploitation and liberating the
working class and peasantry? No one would
believe that. Such Constituent Assembly. how
ever, will be the most effective means to en-
slave further the working masses and per-
petuate the existence of British imperialism
in India.
Not without reason did Lovestone- Roy state
in the same document that: According to
all established principles of democracy, it
(meaning the Constituent Assembly. L.PD
will have the force of the law of the land"
But this will be the law of British mper-
ialism and feudal capitalism directed against
the working class. In Czarist Russia in 1905,
the Cadets in order to prevent the independent
revolutionary activity of the working class
under the leadership of the Bosheviks. also
demanded constituent assembly. Lovestone-
Rows proposals for constituent assembly in
India differs today very little from the pro-
gram of the Cadets. Not even the Tseretellis
and Martovs spoke so brazenly for the coal-
ton with the capitalist parties as do Love-
stone and Roy.
1t is clear that this represents clear re-
lection of the very fundamental principles of
the program of the Comintern and a reiec-
ton of the feminist policy on the colonial
question
1t is no accident that Lovestone- Roy adopted
the program of the Cadets. Their very con-
ception of the class role of the bourgeoisie
leads to that Lovestone and Roy pretend to
believe that the Indian bourpeosie today can
play revolutionary role and in fact can be-
come the backbone of the revolutionary strug-
gle. Roy stated:
"The various social classes taken to-
gether, constitute the strength of the bour-
geois democratic revolution. The alliance
of these classes is consequently necessary
to the development of the revolution" (Volks-
recht No. a. June, 1929.
More than that, to disarm the proetariat,
to conceal the treacherous role of the bour-
geoisie in the anti-imperialist revolutionary
struggle. Lovestone built up theory that as
the revolution develops and the working class
is assuming an independent role and becoming
the major factor in the struggle. the bour-
geoise is becoming more revolutionary and
more determined. The international right
wing declared:
Independent revolutionary activity of the
working class not only encouraged the
petty bourgeois intelligentsia to raise poll
teal demands but even section of the big
bourgeoisie stiffened its back" (Lovestone
document, india in Revolt."l
Where does such analogy lead to? If the
Indian working class and peasantry is made