The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-12
BY BURCK

ladies belonging to the specified category
Which is quite in keeping with Gandhis fire.
quent apologies to the British imperialists for
the nationalist movement
The finishing touch to this disgraceful picture
is supplied by another article published in the
Revolutionary Age" of August l, $780, under
the caption: THE Tactical Problems of the In
dian Revolution" Here we read: 1.-THE Com
munlsts cannot draw in the bourgeois democratic
nationalist masses in revolutionary struggle
with slogans representing the maximum de-
mands of the workers and peasants. Above all
common platform must be worked out"
Lenin taught us that the "maximum demands
OF the peasants, i. e., the appropriation of the
landowners and the transfer of the land to the
peasants, the abolition of all feudal relics along
with the complete liberation of the country (self-
determination including the right of separation)
are the basic tasks of the bourgeois
revolution IN a colonial country. The whole
program of the bourgeois democratic revolution
represents only the minimum program of the
party of the working class, whose maximum de-
mands can never coincide with those of the
whole peaSartry as they are nothing short of
the abolition of capitalism and the establish
ment of socialism
What other common platform" with the
bourgeois democratic nationalist masses Ga
very suspicious entity? Is it not the national
bourgeosie that is concealed under this am
biguous phrase?) can be found by the workers
and peasants of India, except this program of
the bourgeois democratic national revolution?
The self-styled Communist Opposition" is
ready with its answer: THE Communists must
in the very beginning issue central slogan to
give positive form to its struggle for national
liberation. What should this slogan be under the
given circumstances? 1t must be the concrete
expression for the recognition of the right of
self administration"
To the Indian masses the slogan of self
determination" may sound rather vague like
Gandhi's mysterious Swaraj Not SO to the
Communist Opposition" author He knows his
mind. little earlier he explains that dom
lnlon status is complete self administra-
tion" Now we, too know why the Communist
Opposition" is so eager to find common" plat
form with the bourgeois democratic nationalist
masses" Their reason for doing so is the de-
sire to substitute for the slogan of complete in
dependence the slogan of dominion status!
When the Indian National Congress in 1928
gave up the demand for complete independence
put forth in 1927, and accepted the slogan of
dominion status the reason given by the Gan
a
common platform with the liberals, j. e. with
the big capitalists and landowners
The right wing renegades are now passing
through exactly the same process which marked
the capitulation of the Indian National Congress
IN 1923. Now one can also understand why they
consider the National Congress revolutionary
organization, so much so that they even fear a
premature clash between it and British imper-
ialism. The National Congress is now, at least
IN words for complete independence. The Ma
tlonal Congress is more Left than Brandler
Roy and their associates. Could anyone have
ever imagined greater degeneration for men who
were one time members of the greatest revolu-
tionary organization of the International work.
ing class-the Communist International?
There remains still the question of Constituent
Assembly (the slogan of Roy and Lovestone) as
against the slogan for Soviets in India +Impor-
tant as it is, there is use discussing this ques-
ton with these gentlemen. What remains still
to be explained is why at all do they call them
selves Communist Opposition? What on earth
have these foul liberals in common with the
Communist Party that they pose as opposition to
it? Fortunately the Lovestoneites themselves,
being ignorant of the very A. B. G.. of Commu-
nism, have inadvertently answered this question
when they stated that they agree with the Com
munist Party on fundamental questions of Com
munism, and differ only Cd in, questions of an
alysis. strategy and tactics. Revolutionary Age,
Sept L. 1900
Lovestone may not know, but the students of
our Workers School know that after deducting
from Communism the analysis strategy and tao
tics ofNthe class struggle, the remainder--accord-
ing to all rules of arithmetic-is zero. Zero
this is exactly what remains from Communism
with the International Communist Opposition
and its American section, Lovestone's Commu-
mist Majority" Group
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