The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-04-21

Party tendency profoundly hostile to the in
terests of the proetarian revolutionary move
ment, is incompatible with membership in the
Communist Party" (Tenth Plenum resolution).
Conciliatory tendencies toward right-wing op-
portunsm are merely trying to cover up the
counter-revolutionary character of the right
devations. Of these co1ciliators it must be
demanded "That they openly and emphatic
ally dissociate themselves fro mthe right deva-
tions; that they conduct an active fight not
merely in words but in deeds against the right
deviations; that they submit implicitly to all
decisions of the Comintern and of its sections
and actively carry them out. Failure to carry
out any one of these conditions will place the
cu1prits outside of the ranks of the C,mmu-
mist International" (Tenth Plenum resolu-
tion.)
The roots of opportunism were very deep in
our Party, as they are deep in the American
working class and only the most conscious and
stubborn struggles against every manifesto.
ton of opportunism, which is especially dam
gerous in the present period, preserve the
revolutionary policy of our Party and guaran-
tee its continued healthy growth as the leader
of the class struggle of the workers.
32. The Address of the Communist Inter-
it to full realization of the dangerous oppor-
tunist factional situation within its ranks. The
inner-Party campaign based upon this Ad-
dress uprooted factionasm, consolidated the
Party and replaced fractional clique rule by q
collective leadership. 1t began a process of
training of the Party in the spirit of politics
based upon principle, the training of cadres in
the spirit of honest proletaran, uncorrupt rev.
olutionism, free from false diplomacy and I'M
principed combinations (Stalin). The Trot-
sky-Cannon group and the Jilek-Brandler-
Lovestone group continue their struggle
against the Soviet Union, against the Comm
tern International and the working class. Bat
the political and economic developments in the
Soviet Union and in America, as well as in the
rest of the world, have so obviously proven the
opportunist unprincipledness of their plat
forms that they can no longer successfully ap-
peal to revolutionary workers. Both of these
groups are now integral parts of the capitalist
anti-Soviet front The Party has decisively
defeated them. There is danger, however,
that our Party sees in them the sole embodi-
ment of the right danger This tendency is
wrong. Right opportunism still manifests it.
self in our Party in its various fields of &C.
ton, especially in a general tagging behind
the developing mass movement of the work
ing class 1t raised its head in clearly social
democratic form in Superior, where Halonen
defends the thesis of class neutrality of the
co-operatives with vicious struggle against
the Party. In the language press, in the
language groups, remnants of federationism
still supplied powerful protection to serious
opportunist tendencies (Rovnost Ludu). The
under-estimation of rehabilitation still para
lyzes Party work and especially Communist
activities in the trade unions. Opportunism in
practice is apparent everywhere. This mani
tests itself in:
/. characterization and neglect of trade
union work.
2. Inability and unwillingness of Commu-
nists in the trade unions to get out of the rut
of old trade union habits to revolutonize the
forms and the tactics of the economic organ
izations of the workers.
8. Formal acceptance of decisions, but lax
ity in execution.
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a. Resistance Of the language fractions to
Capitalization and to effective carrying out of
Party campaigns in language mass organiza-
tions; resistance of the language press to the
campaigns of the Party.
These opportunist attitudes and practices re-
suit in habitual pessimism which constantly
looks for reasons why things cannot be done in
stead of looking for ways Of how to do them.
33. Right wing under-estimations, because
extensive in the Party, manifest themselves
also disastrously among the comrades directly