The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-06-19
By EARL BROWDER.


THE renegade cliques of Lovestone and Can
non, fulfilling their function of official
slandecers of the Communist Party, and upon
whose ,ffusions all enemies of the workers
now depend for their ammunition, have ad-
dressed documents to the Seventh National
Convention of the C.P.U.S.A. These docu-
ments mark further stage in the crystalliza-
ton of complete social-democratic line by
the Lovestone group, and a further Identified
ton in program between it and the Cannon
group. The renegades expose even more fully
their opportunist nakedness.
The Thesis of the self-styled Majority
Group" (majority of what?) is perhaps their
most vulgar opportunist product In the face
of the catastrophe economic crisis, it still
sings hymns to "the growth in American i'm
perialist strength" to the rapid develop
ment of American capitalism" which sis still
upward" still progressive" But the eco
nomic- crisis has further deepened the ideolo
gical crisis of the opportunists, and their
comic wrigglings to reconcile the upward de-
velopment" with the present crisis, produce a
most marvellous dalectical exhibition.
The Thesis is examining the relations be-
tween U. S. and world economy, and their in
teraction in the development of the world
crisis. 1t assures US that the causes of the
crisis in the U. S. "are international in char
acter" Does this mean that the crisis began
abroad and then spread by contagion to the
otherwise healthy" U. S. capitalism? No,
not even that! Just as it is 'the very
strength" of U. S. economy that throws it
into crisis (D, so also it is "the very sta
bility" of the capitalist world as a whole
which has caused an INSTABILITY" in the U.
S.! This wonderful, brilliant, profound, ESQ.,
teric thought is elaborated in thousands of
words! Listen, ignorant workers, to the
wisdom of these "Marxist-Leninist" horse
doctors!
Capitalist economy in the United States is
becoming fundamentally less stable than be-
fore the war, precisely because of the very
advance in sterilization on world scale"
Well, well, we'll! World capitalism is be-
coming more stable than before the war, with
the result that u S. capitalism is becoming
: less stable! That must mean that world
capitalism" is stablizing itself at the expense
of U. S. capitalism England France and
Germany growing more stable than before
the war by making the U. S. less stableD But
even for the unfortunate U. S. the general
trend" is still upward! Therefore, for
"world capitalism" the situation begins to
look rosy indeed!
What is the meaning of all this nonsense?
The explanation is simple Lovestone has
simply applied to the whole capitalist world
his glorious formula of "the very strength
of U. S. capitalism" bringing about "crisis
of growth" And after all, what is logic
among charatans?
The Trotskyites in their Manifesto" es-
cape swamp similar to Lovestone's, on the
question of the crisis, by very simple expe-
dent. They just say nothing about it! Bet
ter safe than sorry!
What They Think of the Communist Party.
The renegades wall and weep about the
terror" which drove them out of the ranks
IL
admittance into this Party. Why do they
want to be inside the Party? Do they think
so highly of the Party that they cannot live
without it? No, not at all. Their opinion of
the Party is very low, much lower indeed than
that of Congressman Fish. Here is Love-
stones description of the Party:
at has been many years since the Commu-
mist Party has been so divided and shattered,
had such weak roots in the ranks of the
workers, had such a false line The tao
tics. and policies of the Party no longer have
any connection with the actual conditions and
class relations in this country. The Party is
fast declining into an impotent sect"
Cannon paints similarly dismal picture of
disintegraton and decay but is equally anxious
with Lovestone to get back into this Party
which is so rotten and wrecked.
1t happens, however, that never before has
the Party been so completely unified. For
the first time in years, every district conven-
ton in the country has been unanimous in sup
port of the Thesis of the Central Committee.
Never before has the Party had such mass
sympathy among the workers. never before
has it been able to mobilize in action such hun
dreds of thousands. Never before has the
Party been such an immediate moving force in
the political life of the country. Never before
did it have such a firm and correct line of
policy.
The fundamental condition for these achieve
ments of our Party was, precisely the driving
out of the opportunists of the Lovestone and
Cannon breeds And they want to re-enter the
Party, precisely for the purpose of again
creating the old factonal struggles, and breed
ing the old opportunist corruption. But today
the Party and the workers generally know
them for what they are-miserable agents of
the bourgeosie, Shiny scabs upon the working
class.
Rewriting of History.
In his latest Thesis, Lovestone re-writes the