The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-14

organizations, the leadership OF the IouHS
Communist International must, without delay,
liquidate these mistakes and enter on the path
of active struggle with the Left" danger. By
this very fact the leading Young Communist
members will overcome the main hindrance
which now interferes with it's entering on to
the path of mass work.
4. The main reason for the unsatisfactory
situation in the Young Communist International
should be sought in the sectarian isolation
and separation from the basic mass of the
working class youth which dominates in the
organizations of the Young Communist Inter-
national. In spite of the decisions Of the
Fifth Congress, the Young Communist Inter-
national has not begun to work among the
broad mass and undertaken the winning over
of these masses, of drawing them Gnto the
general revolutionary struggle, on the basis of
their elementary needs and immediate inter-
ests. The fear of the masses which exist in
the Sections of the Young Communist Inter-
national has not been actually eliminated. The
cadres of the Young Communist International
organizations have still frequently covered up
with petty bourgeois radical phrases their poll
teal passivity and organizational helplessness.
Narrow secterianism, isolation and the abb
sence in the organizations of the Young Com
munist international of a general line favor
ing the real winning over of the masses of the
working class youth to the side of Communism
is expressed in:
a. A systematic detachment of the Lea.
que from the daily questions arising from
the struggles of the working class youth;
this separation is due chiefly to the fact
that in the present period the majority of
strikes and activities of the working masses
and the youth are taking place unobserved by
the Young Communist Leagues.
b. The absence of firm and consistent
course for the c0nquest>of large enterprises.
@ The absence of serious stubborn daily
work in the various mass and auxiliary or
CARNATIONS of the working class youth
Grade unions sport, educational, etc..
d. neglect of systematic work of dem.
oralization Of the opponent mass organiza-
ton Socialist, catholic and the other religi.
Gus societies, sport organizations, partcui-
arly in the factories, fascist groups etc..
e) No connection between the upper and
lower organizations, inability of the leaders
to draw the entire membership into the
everyday work and to make the daily tasks
of the League accessible to every Young
Communist in his work.
- The discrepancy between words and
deeds. between phrases about a correct poll.
teal line and the ability to apply it in prac-
tice.
The social composition of the League is I'M
satisfactory. AS in the past, most of the men,
bers are recruited in the small and medium-
sized enterprises, sand in some countries Eng
land, America, Czecho-S lovakia, China) the
Leagues have considerable petty bourgeois
percentage. The influence of these strata is
manifested in substitution of the actual
struggle for the masses of the working class
youth by radical phraseology.
The revolutionary phrase" wrote Lenin, "is
most frequently a malady Of revolutionary
parties when these are directly or indirectly
connecting, uniting and INTERVIEWING proletarian
and the petty-bourgeois elements, and when the
course of revolutionary events effects big and
rapid changes" Work among the Masses to
the extent that it has been carried on, never
theless, was more for show,.it was done for it's
external effects, without making use Of the
results. The system Of leadership also cor
responds to this: there is no deep study of
the processes in the movement and among the :
working class youth, stereotyped methodssand
hackneyed pharses predominant. Party for
muas are mechanically repeated and there is
no live concrete leadership; circulars and
bureaucratic methods Of work prevail: the
rank and file is not drawn into work; there is
no systematic promotion of new cadres; all
work lays on the shoulders of small section
Of active members who are heavily overbur-
dened and among whom there are also oppor-
tunist elements who in a concealed and open
manner hinder the promotion of new cadres,
who frequently cover up their opportunism
with radical phrases; there is no mass self
criticism or control Of carrying out Of deci-
sions; the work proceeds for the most part Of
itself and often the machine works without
results, and even the very best decisions re-
main dead letter. And finally, there is no
due attention, assistance and leadership from
the Communist Parties.