The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-12-08
Statement by N. Bukharin

7. I therefore decisivey condemn IN particular
the activities of the LoveStone group in the
USA. which is conducting a struggle aaginst
the orientation of the CT. and the Communist
Party OF the U.S.A.. which Systematically OPP
poses itself to the Communist Party and con-
ducts a struggle against it thus turning into an
anti-Communist and an anti-proletarian group
playing in the hands of the bourgeois enemies
of the CT
8. On the question of so-caed organized
capitalism" 1 recognize the errors found by Lenin
in the Economics of the Transitional Period"
1920 In an article entitled Theory of Or
ganiZed Economic Chaos" I attempted to pro-
coed from the thesis of Enges and Lenin con-
tanned in their programmatc works l"Critique
of the Draft of the Erfurt Program" Notes to
the Second Draft of Plekhanov's Program"
state and Revolution" etc.. Inasmuch how
ever as I gave here Foundations going beyond
The framework of the just mentioned formu-
lations of Engels and Lenin, formulated in
greater or lesser degree disagreeing with them
l here too, recognize my errors. These errors
gave occasion to interpret my article in the spirit
of the bourgeois theory of organized capitalism
and they proved to be politically damaging, which
was correctly condemned in the resolutions to
that effect by the Plenum of the E.C.CL
9. Appraising the general situation the entire
current moment whole, it is necessary to
state growing tension of the class struggle both
within the U.S.S.R. against the kulaks and
damaging activities) and on a world scale
against world imperialism. The uncovering of
damaging and counter revolutionary band
(Ramzin and Co. Kondratiev and Coz which
have to be dealt with most ruthlessly by the
sword of the proletarian dictatorship, proves
concretely the degree of the sharpening of the
class struggle in the country and the degree
of the threat of the part of the capitalists
against the proletarian dictatorship. The coun-
ter-revolutionary damaging bands have served
in the role of agents of world capital which is
obviously preparing hangplan's intervention by
means of economic blockade military prepara-
lions, disorganizing activities within the USSR
At such time, the greatest devotion to the Par
ty and maximum of discipline is particularly
required of every member of the Party Every
kind of speculation on the difficulties and on
the sharpening of the class struggle is crime
against the Party and against the working class.
We have to throw in all forces to repel the class
enemy and to defend the dictatorship of the
proletariat. Raying around the Central COM
mittee of the Party which, in struggle against
deviations. is carrying out the general line of
the Party. securing the building up of socialism
in country; mobzational readiness; unity
of orentation, of will and of action in the ranks
of the Party and the Comintern must serve for
as the obligatory prerequisite for the victory
of the proletariat under all conditions of tomor-
row. The defense of the dictatorship of the
proletariat and of the entire grandiose socialist
construction, the fruit of heroic efforts of the
working masses and the Party is for us the
highest law of the proletarian revolution to which
everything must be subordnated.
November 10. 1880
(Signed) nj. Bukharn.
Decision of Central Committee of C.P.S.U., adopt
ed November FL, 1880.
l. To recognize In the main as satisfactory
the statement Of Comrade Bukharin which ap-
peared in the November 20 issue Of the Pravda
Q To consider an absolutely incorrect and
as reflecting anti-Party "leftist" moods, the ed
itorial which appeared in the November 81 issue
of For characterization The editorial. which
under the headline-"Double bookkeeping plus
policy of a long range perspective" which
chars cterizcs tie declaration of Comrsde Bulk
sllrin. recognizing his right wing mistakes as an
"act of double bookkeeping" The same holds
true for the article which appeared in the "Trud'
on November 81, which In the main gives the
same estimate Of Comrade Bukharin's statement
The Central Committee also considers the article