The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-01-08

bourgeois Obregon, Gales, De Negri, etc, 1t
could attract into its ranks elements foreign
to the aims and methods of the proletarian
revolution. 1t was in this period that elements
like Diego Rivera Reyes Perez, Louis, Monzone
and others came into the Communist Party
and achieved prominence in it. These are the
gentlemen friends" who have made Lovestone
happy with a hundred dollar contribution into
his silk stockings. These are the men who
are so impressed with "the wonderful work
of Lovestone that they are even willing to
part with their "hard earned cash" to support
this wonderful work To understand this whole
transaction still better let US, remember the
fact that Diego Rivera and Bertram D. Wolfe
close friends.
In order to understand this whole transact
ton still better we must follow the recent
developments in Mexico. A fundamental change
has taken place in the lineup of the revou
tionary forces in Mexico. In spite of the lacL
of clear policy on the part of the Commn-
mist Party of Mexico toward the establishment
of proletarian hegemony in the revolutionary
movement in Mexico the very active participa-
ton of the revolutionary working class put
upon these struggles beside the stamp of
liberation movement of the poems and the poor
peasants from the exploitation of the land
barons, and beside the stamp of a movement
against imperialist aggression of foreign pow
er, also the stamp of revolt of the exploited
city proletariat against its eXploiter, the capt.
talist class. And thus events took turn not
contracted for by the petty bourgeois revolu-
zionist In spite of the most serious neglect
of the Communist Party in Mexico in not open
ly and consciously fighting the petty bourgeois
leadership of the revolution this leadership,
in its turn, began very openly and consciously
to fight the Communist Party. The obvious
and. inevitable tendencies of the revolutionary
movement in Mexico to take on more and more
of an nti-capitalist character turned the lead
ers of the nationalist agrarian revolution into
organizers of the capitalist counter-reyolution.
United States imperialism much quicker
to see this transformation than our own Mex
lean Communist Party. This was natural
result of the influence which the fundamentally
counter-revolutionary element like Diego
Rivera, Louis Monzone, and others had estab-
lished in the Party. A revolutionary reorienta-
ton of the Party was not possible with these
people at the head of it but could be achieved
only over their expelled bodies.
American imperialism represented by the
House of Morgan and Company reorientated
itself in its Mexican policy from counter
revolutionary alliance with the big land owners
to counter-revoutionary alliance with the
petty bourgeois leaders of the agrarian nation
ast revolution. American imperialism sees
great advantage in the exploiting OF the
revolutionary past of these leaders for their
counter-revoutionary purposes of today. These
petty bourgeois nationalists of yesterday are
expected not only to prevent further revolts
of the masses against Imperialism but also to
hitch up as great sections as possible of these
masses before the chariot of imperialism.
The first step taken by these new agents
of American imperialism in the government of
Mexico, the Gales. the De Negris the Portes
Gils', and Ortiz Rubios was to initiate the
most bloody persecution of the Communists.
In the initial stages of this campaign the Com
munist Party of Mexico, with the help of the
Communist international re-evaluated its posi-
ton and came to the correct conclusion that
its attitude toward the government was funda-
mentally wrong, that this government which
has enjoyed practically non-critical support
of the Party on the assumption that it is
revolutionary government, was in reality a..
counter-revolutionary government and had TO
be fought to the. point of revolutionary over
throw. At this critical juncture in the life of
the Communist Party of Mexico the counter
revolutionary lackeys of American Imperialism
at the head of the Mexican government were
we'll represented in the councils of the Party.
Diego Rivera, member of the Central Com
mittee, had accepted well paid job from the,
government; he refused to resign as instruct
ed by his Party on the ground that he could
not give up his mode of high living made pos
sible by the income from his government job
Monzone was promised by the government a
good position if he fought against the Party
line. He did fight and the government kept
its promise by making him "labor' attache
TO the Mexican embassy in Berlin. Fritz Bach