The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-08
Nearing Excluded From C.P.
us. A.

The Central Committee of the Communist
Party of the United States issued the follow
ing statement concerning Scott Nearing's rela-
tons with the Party:
1.-The Central Committee of the Communist
Party of U.S.A received communication from
Scott Nearing concerning his membership in
the Communist Party. In this. communication
Nearing states that he had prepared a manu-
script on the historical and economic corela-
ton between ancient, classical and modern
Imperialism This manuscript was submitted
by him to an authoritative MARKHAM body in
Moscow and was rejected. This rejection,
Nearing states, presents him with the follow
ing possibilities: r
"'1. To abandon the idea of publishing tie
manuscript. This, do not care to do. as
believe it presents an important historical syn
thesis heretofore unstated
"'2. To publish the manuscript outside Of
Party channels This action might lead to
additional inner Party controversy Already
we have had too much of that
3. To resign from the Party and to publish
the study
S"Scott Nearing informs the Central Commit
tee that he decided to follow the third course
and to resign his membership in the Party, al
though continuing, as in the past, to ,iphold
the principles of the Party and to support the
Party work
MS coplmunlcation, together with letters
OF resignation sent by Nearing to number Of
proletarlan revolutionary organizations. show
how little fit intellectuals of the type of Near
ing are to stand the pressure which the duties
OF the revolution put upon revoutionist.
Scott Nearing was never a MARKHAM. But
ms subordination under Party direction and
dsciphne could have made him of service to
tne proletarian revolution. But he wants to be
only a friend But no member of the Connu
MIST rarity can be mere friend of the revolu-
ton; he must be an active soldier in it. To
be friend of the revolutionary working class
is to be fighter in its ranks To be a friend
of the Party is to be soldier in its lines, Out
side the ranks of the Party the friend ceases
TO be positive factor on the side Of the work
ing class In the revolutionary struggle and
therefore, strengthens the enemy of the prole
tariat, the bourgeoisie. .s.A
The revolutionary party of the WORKING
class cannot be satisfied with sympathy fror,
its members. 1t must demand subordination
OF the individual to the line and to the activ-
tiles OF the Party and the revolutionary work
ing class. $50
For the working class, disciplined advance
guard is the question of victory or defeat. for
Scott Nearing the publication of one Of his
painphiets or DOCKS which was refused pubi-
cation by most authoritative BODY as non.
MARKHAM takes precedence in Importance over
the discipline of the advance guard. In his let
ter of resignation from the Executive Commit.
tee of the Workers School, Scott Nearing de-
velops the idea that Is years as a revolutionist
is enough. He doesn't know that the proietarian
reVolutionlst serves cause and does not
merely serve time. The active services Of In.
proletarian revolutionist continue until he is
either physically or politically incapacitated.
The visbly sharpening struggles pass up
such elements as Scott Nearing and .deposf
them. on the scrap heap Of the revolution.
Meanings non-Marxian conceptions disable him
from giving the self-sacrificing service which
the hour demands. He himself recognizes that
the duties which this period places OF, the mem.
bers of the Communist Party are burdens that
cannot willingly be borne by him.
"A proletarian revolutionist does not con.
slider such duties as burden, but he considers
them as service which he enthusiastically
volunteers to his principles and to his class.
'In consideration Of all this the Central
Committee of the Communist Party Of the
U.s.A. decides to drop Scott Nearing from the
list of its MEMBERS"