The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-20
feminist Conception of Party Questions

But what does democracy mean?
Democracy for whom? If by democracy
is understood freedom for couple of in
telleceuals who drfted away from the
revolution to blabble without limit, to have
their own printed organ and so on, then
such democracy" we do not need, because
this is democracy for insignificant min
ority breaking the will of an overwhelm-
ing majority"
LOvestone's Predictions of che Approaching
"ThermdOr"
Lovestones conception of inner Party demo-
crazy is best rounded out in the article of
M. n. Roy-the leading theoretican of the
International Right Wing--as appeared in the
Revolutionary Age, No. 5. Trotsky's predic-
ton of the approaching Ahermidor stage of
the Soviet Union are today being repeated
and re-echoed by Lovestone and Roy. Love
stone and Roy repeat the publications of the
French bourgeoisie after the defeat of the
French Revolution that the: "REVOLUTION
EATS ITS OWN CHILDREN" Lovestone and
Roy state that this is also true concerning
the Russian Revolution:
-. The bourgeoisie gleefully watches
the operation of the regime of terror in
side the Communist Party of the Soviet
Union. They hope the Revolution
may once again "eat its own children"
THE MARCH OF EVENTS GIVES THE
BOURGEOISIE APPARENT GROUND
FOR THIS HOPPE
From the above, the conclusions are to be
drawn that the Communist Party of the Soviet
Union is not leading the Russian workers and
peasants to Socialism. On the contrary, like
the French Revolution, the October Revolution
is approaching its Thermidor, when the Revo-
luton will be destroyed by "eating up its own
chi or
tionary poison is being repeated in period
when even our class enemeis have to recognize
the success of socialist construction in the
Soviet Union under the leadership of the Com
munist Party of the U. S. S. R.
What, according to Lovestone, is the regime
of terror" The refusal of the Russian Party
to accept the political platform which de-
manded the slowing down of the tempo of So
cialist Construction, the slowing, down of the
attack of the Kulak and other capitalist ele-
ments in the country; platform that spreads
pessimism and underestimate the revolution
airy forces of the Soviet Union and their
ability to build Socialism. Such platform, if
accepted, would have mea ntdisaster for the
proletarian state and has already today been
repudiated by the leaders OF the right wing
themselves. Lovestone considered it as a
regime fterror when teh Comintern and the
that American capitalism is exempt from the
general developent of world capitalism, or
that we are entering in America in a Victorian
Age" OF that the opinion of few factional
leaders is above the opinion of the Com
munist International and the Party member
Ship 1t is not regime of terror IN the
Party when we resist with all our might
against those who try to impose upon the
Party social democratic, anti-Lennist, Hoover
ian ideas, and try to undermine the very foun-
dation for those unprincipled opportunists who
have lost their revolutionary consciousness and
are going into the camp of the bourgeoisie.
In place of feminist determination and merci-
less struggle against all opportunism, Roy and
Lovestone propose
The weak and wavering can be shifted
to a less difficult point of the battle
frount Why submit them to the sedge
hammer of terror, thus making them ir-
revOcably lost to the revolution"
Opportunist and anti-Lennst views, wrong
political line, is not to be corrected by the
Bolshevik method of openly admitting the
mistakes and correcting them, but thru shift
ing to less difficult point" With leader
ship that is wavering, Lovestone thinks the
Party can lead the working class in the strug-
gle against capitalism. Furthermore, Love-
stone and Roy also think that the Party has
no right to use disciplinary measures (Which
they call 'terror) against those who refuse TO
accept decisions and follow the line of the
Party and the Comintern, and insist on their
wrong position. Comrade Lenin explained wei
the reasons why the Party must fight against
those who INSIST on their wrong political plat
form, why the Party must determinedy fight
even against the slightest deviation and mis-
take:
"A small difference may acquire TIRE
MENDOUS significance if it becomes the
starting point for definitely erroneous
views and if these erroneous views, being
reinforced by fresh differences. are &C.
companied by anarchistic action WHICH
MAY LEAD TO A SPLIT IN THE