The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-29
Right Wing Renegades Continue
SpeCulati0ns on BuCharin

THE LoveStonlte renegadeS conceal their
chagrin as best they can at the recent capt.
tuation of Comrade Bucharin, and continue to
speculate with the name of Comrade Bucharin
to bolster up the morale of their small and
disintegrating group. recent circular letter
of the renegades, which treasures their follow
ers that, although Bucharin has capitulated on
Russian issues yet:
"To date Buchar9e has not net made a
statement on the situation an the COnlintern
and particularly on the situation in the
American section. The comrades should keep
in mind that tremendous pressure is being
ererted to force Bucharin to make state
1nent condeH,njng our position. Whether
or not he wW giUe in to the demand to at
tack the opposition IN the Comintern and par
i. ticularly as IS to be seen. The comrades
should realize that If such statement does
come and to date there is 10 indication that
it aejH. that such statement further en-
poses the unprincipled foctiondl course" etc.
This Omen continuance of the use of the
name Of Bucharin as banner of the Lovestone
section of the international of renegades must
he noted and recorded by the Party. It con-
firms the correct judgment of our brother
party of the Soviet Union, and of the United
States Party, that the recognition of errors
on the inner questions of C.P.S.U. of Conlrade
Bucharin was far from meeting the necessi-
ties OF liquidating the anti-party struggle of
the opportunists. The specuations openly put
forth by Lovestone based on Bucharin's silence
on intnr1c.e ocel questions, raises in a sharp
form thN ston, of what exactly is the posi-
tion Of 7 I'm towards the Lovestonites. The
Party ed the Comintern is entitled to know
clearly and definitely.
Loyestone walls about the tremendous
bai,, T+ad 70 RnoL o1iY, IN
make his position clear This is continuation
of the same counter-revolutiona demagogy
which made Lovestone the darling of the white
guard press of Europe when he "fled' from
the prosecutions of the Soviet Union at the
time he made his great adventure" of splitting
the Party. 1t is a self-understood duty of
Communist leadership to define most sharply
one's attitude toward every political question
and tendancy-that is a first principle of Len
inisnl.
Unprincipled factionalism is characteristic
of opportunist groups, such as that of Love
stone. One of its indispensable weapons is the
use of pure lies and rumors of confidential
information which is being concealed" etc.
An example is the statement in the circular
letter that: "The CT. had occasion to criticize
the leadership of our Party for the thesis
which they adopted at the October Plenum.
leCJef 10 TINS erect was sent TO Ine AlneIiCdH
Party This letter has not been made public.
1t is being withheld from the Party member
ship Further on the resolution on the eco
nomic crisis DAILY Worker January 11) is
spoken of as corrected thesis" resulting
from the Suppressed letter."
Because Lovestone, when he was secretary
of the Party, concealed CT. documents from
the Party it comes very easy for him to hurl
such charge at others. Because Lovestone never
openly corrected an error or exercised self
criticism, he cannot conceive of the Party do
ing so unless under what he and Norman
Thomas both call "orders from Moscow But
his speculation with lies and rumors have only
the effect of further exposing his social-demo-
cratic political soul. There has been no letter
from the CT. withheld from the Party. Our
October Plenum thesis was fully confirmed by
events, with such speed that the Party within
three months had to register this confirmation
in detailed analysis of the economic crisis
which shattered Lovestones platform to bits.
Our criticism of certain journalistic parallels
If The Daily Worker, used in describing fas-
cist development in the United States, was in
cidental self-correction by the Party whose
political line had been proven a thousand times
correct against the Lovestonite capitulaton to
social-fascism. Lovestone, in his political Tilt
e~- rv 4-trs this as correction" of the Oc
.ouer F;enu.a.
Love ona's slanderous falsehood that the Party
carries on negotiations with Cannon may
perhaps be dismissed as a smoke-screen to
cover exactly a political rapprochment between
Loyestone and Cannon. We have registered
publicly the similarity Of their slogans and
practical conclusions on all questions Of the
day: and above all we see their international
brothers-in-arms in Europe openly uniting.
America will be no exception"
Lovestone's circular letter disclosed the in
teresting fact that ION January II. a special
meeting of the (Lovestone) National Buro will
take place at which meeting the question OF