The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-29
RIGHT LEFT ATTACK ON
THE C. P. of y. S. S. r.
BY MOISSAYE ]. OLGIN.

UHEN the working class is building socialism
" amidst bourgeois enlightenment the way it is
lone in the U.S.S.R, the bourgcoisie has many
gays Of putting obstacles in the path of Socialist
construction 1t may attempt intervention. 1t
nay practice sabotage. 1t may organize the
surviving bourgeois and petty bourgeois elements
or everyday struggle against the revolution
And it may try to break the morale of the
vanguard of the working class, the Communist
Party. This is achieved not only through the
medium Of consistent anti Bolshevk propaganda
md counter Revolutionary action but also through
the very existence of a capitalist system on the
one hand and the difficulties inevitably encoun-
tered by Socialist construction on the other, This
breaking of the workers morale is as indispen
sable for every other attempt at breaking the
workers rule.
Bourgeois influence in the ranks Of the Com
munist Party expresses itself in deyiatons from
the correct Party line. Bourgeois work of de-
struction in the ranks of the Communist Party
is carried out by anti-Party factions fighting
the feminist Party line. Bourgeois theology, in
order to be effective among the workers and
their vanguard, r'S7t necessarily clothe itself in
Communist phrases If need be. the bourgeois
devil will even quote Lenin i'll order to corrupt
the n1ird of the workers. For what is more clear
that TIE working class should clearly see the
road Ahaed, trust in their own proletarian pow
ers attack obstacles with tremendous concen-
tration Of effort. develop creative initiative on
a,niass basis and rally around the proven, IRON
clad leadership of the Communist Party?
This is exactly what the bourgeoisie is anXi-
Gus to undermine. And this undermining has
become the historical task of all sorts OF devia-
tion-preaching and deviation practicing tactlons
When the individual member Of Communist
Party becomes infected with the bourgeois virus
1t happens mostly to intellectual and mostly to
those remote from the actual experiences OF the
workers, he can, generally speaking. develop two
kinds of ideoloeical- political diseases; he can
become so frightened by obstacles, so crushed by
the magnitude of the tasks and so frantic with
dispear that everything the Party does would
seen to him to be trivial, slow and full Of vici-
rus corruptions: or he can become so Weak-kneed
{ the sight OF colossal tasks and superhuman
lass efforts required to maintain the onward
ush of the Revolution. that he would begin. to
lead in a tilnid voice: For Bolshevisms sake,
low down this break-neck tempo" In the for
rier case he will blame the Party for not being
decisive enough in the latter, for being too de-
tisive ii the forlne- he will cry about the Party
being beurgeoiss- ridden in the latter, about the
Party attacking the bourgeoise too strongly.
The former will be a cleft" deviation; the
latter right deviation That both are OF the
same origin and serve the same class purpose,
goes without saying. That they are bound &C.
casionally to combine in order jointly to attempt
70 undermine the Party, is obvious from their
class characteristics and has been proven by such
events as Trotsky- znoviev or Lovestone-Can-
non united front.
The Communist Party of the U.S.SR. has had
20 contend with both kinds of malady.s Trotsky
las been the champion of the left' opportunist
'leviations; Bucharin, Tonlsky, lRykov have led
he right opportunist deviation. Both groups
ried to undermine the unity of the Party and
9th have been ANONYMOUSLY defeated among the
ank and file Party members, ana Inc workers
generally Trotsky is entirely out. Bucharn
las publicly denounced his -anti-Party errors.
romsky and Rykov have lost their standing
nlong the masses. The glorious progress OF the
Tive-Year Plan, the unusually rapid tempo OF
disqualification and collectivization, the Social
st rivalry, the energy and impetus of the work
ng masses in league with the peasants, the con-
inuous and rapid Improvements in every realm
Il workers life-sll sl1is has defeated the right
nd cleft" groups, defeated them by ndsputable
historic facts.
Yet the bourgeois world still persists, although
n very miserable shape; the bourgeoisie in