The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-19
THE RENEGADES UNDRESS
THEMSELVES

history of his split from the Comintern. Also
he INDUCES in "self-criticism." All of which IS
very interesting and instructive.
Previously, Lovestone had maintained that
he was fighting for the Sixth World Congress
against those who had organized palace
revolution" within the Comintern. Now he
must drop this camouflage, because his cronies
Brandler and Roy have always fought against
the Sixth Congress line, against the Fourth
R.LLU. Congress and the Ninth E.C.C.!.
Penum. So Lovestone must re-write his his
tory. confess that his line one of concilia-
ton before our Sixth Party Convention,
changed to militant Cancellation" (active fight
under a mask) at the Sixth Convention, and
only now, with the publication of this Thesis,
has he come out in all his glory frank and
unashamed Right Wing Opportunist
Lovestones confessions should be used as
texts for the training of Bolshevik leadership
in the necessity of mistrusting words until they
are backed up by deeds. He says, for example,
an spite of all the endorsements and
condemnation and 'acceptances and agree
ments' in the resolutions of the c. c.. Major
ity, the new leadership in the E.C.C.I could
have no confidence in the old Party leader
ship to carry out the new ultra-left line.
And correctly so-for the new line
tirely opposed to the political ideas and tradi-
lions of the old leading group in the Party"
Making allowances for Lovestone's special
fractional vocabulary, this is an excellent des-
cription of how he attempted, by hook and by
crook, to deceive the Comintern, by agreeing
to anything and everything but carrying out
nothing.
Opportunism Expands in Freedom.
For years Lovestone has felt "stifled" in the
atmosphere of the Comintern Always his style
was cramped by the calculation of What will
the E.C.CI say?," so that he was never able
to develop his opportunist line in freedom to
its full flower. Now. in his "self-criticism,'
he sets as the major task for him and his asso-
ciates, to get rid of all thought of What will
the E.C.CI say?" or "What will the Daily
Worker say? No restraining influence is
longer to be recognized in any form! He says"
while the remnants of this theology have
not yet been entirely liquidated, considerable
progress in this direction has unquestionably
been made"
Yes, unquestionaby, great progress has been
made by Lovestone upon the path of complete
departure from all relationship of any kind
with the Communist International. So much
progress, that he is openly aligned with the
most bitter enemies of Communism and the
working class.
The Lovestone Cannon Program.
1t is not only in their common language of
SANDER against the Party that Lovestone and
Cannon find themselves at one. In their whole
political orientation, both approach the Party
from the sam. angle, finding its policies ultra
left" Both place as the first point in their
program of action the slogan: "Intransigeant
struggle against the Party. leadership" Both
agree upon all practical issues before the work
ing class. Thus we may list a few outstand
ing points:
Revolutionary Unions: These. they think are
a mistake which should be abandoned as quickly
as possible, in favor of quick retreat back
into the A. F. of L., there to organize nice
comfortable cleft wings" without any embar-
RAISING responsibilities of independent leader
ship.
Organising the Unorganized: This slogan
must be raised in the old A. F. of L. unions
which will be the principal instrument for
carrying it out.
Work in the A. F. of L.: This should be done
in united front with the "progressives," the
Musteites, who are the natural leaders of the
leftward moving workers.
Unemployed Workers: The unemployed must
not be organized around and under the leader
ship of the T.U.U.L.; that is sectaransm. We
must bring the unemployed into the A. F. of
L., who will be able to get something "practi-
cal" for them, such as a soup kitchen or open
ing OF the JallS Tor them TO sleep IN!
Struggle Against War: The slogans in this
struggle must be such as to play upon the
cupidty and greed of the capitalists, and fool
them into thinking that they make more
profits by trading with the Soviet Union. The
slogans Persuade the Macdonald Govern
ment to arrange large credits for the Soviet
Union" (Trotsky); Billion dollars credit by
the U. S. Government for the Soviet Union"
Uovestone), etc. Show the capitalists how they
can solve their own crisis by trading with the
Soviet Union. For Gods sake, don't talk so
much about the class struggle.
Labor Party: "The struggle for Labor Party
is next stage in the advance of the Ameri-
can workers towards full class consciousness
(Lovestone). "The struggle for Labor Party
is part of the struggle for the development of
a class movement of the American workers"
Cannon
And so on and so on!
So do the renegades undress themselves, dis
playing their opportunist nakedness before the
world.
Let the contempt of the workers be their
reward