The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-11
FEMINIST CONCEPTION OF
SOME PARTY QUESTIONS
Workers Welcome What Bourgeois Hates
The Discipline of Communist Party
By LEON PLATT

By LEON PLATT
THE right danger and opportunism
4 presents itself in the Party not
only in political questions of our
everyday struggle, but also in i'm
portant questions of Party organiza-
ton. Basically, opportunism in or
ganizational questions flows directly
from a wrong political line, and OPP
portunism in questions of the Party
policy generally. The usual practice
of all opportunists in the Comintern
who were politically defeated and
their wrong policies rejected is to
tr,1sfer their opportunism also in
the sphere of party organization.
Insisting on their wrong political
line and refusing \ to subordinate
themselves to the decisions of higher
bodies and the majority Of the Party,
the opportunists are forced to resort
to such means of carrying thru their
policies which are in direct violation
of the most fundamental principles
of Party organization. To a Com
munist, therefore, the question of
Party discipline, inner Party democ-
racy, ETC., are not simple routine
organizational matters, but are
principled questions, the proper I'M
Outstanding of which is imperative
for the development of our Party
and the success of our struggles.
The struggle against the right
danger in the Party, particularly our
struggle against Lovestone raised a
number of very vital questions of
Party organization, which every
Party member must carefully con-
slider and draw the proper conclu-
sions.
feminist Conception of Party
Discipline.
Workers join the Communist Party
because they become convinced that
the Party and its program repre-
sents not only their immediate in
terests, but fights for the complete
emancipation of the working class.
Workers join the Communist Party
voluntarily; however, once one be-
comes a member of the communist
Party, he Immediately imposes upon
himself the duty to carry out all
Party decisions. The carrying out of
Party decisions is not merely a me-
chanical process. No Bolshevik is a
blind subordinate to party discipline.
Party discipline is based upon the
political conviction of the Party
members, on their conviction that
without the Party minority subordi-
mating itself to the Party majority,
that without the subordination of
the lower party organs to the higher,
it is impossible to have a strong
united Communist Party that will
be able to fight capitalism success
fully. Lenin considered Party dis
cipline one of the main prerequisites
for the success of the Party.
81 repeat, the experience of the
triumphant dictatorship Of the pro-
letariat in Russia has furnished an
object lesson to those who are in
capable of reasoning or who have
had no opportunity to reason on
this question. 1t proves that I'M
qualified GENERALIZATION and the
strictest discipline of the proleta-
riat are among the principal con-
dit;ons for the victory over the
hourgeoisie."
Oenin---Infantile Sickness)
Discipline in Communist Party
is maintained thru the devotion and
self-sacrifice of the membership of
the party for the interest of the
working class, thru the ability of
the Party to bring its policies to the
broad working masses and thru the
correctness of the Party policies.