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

Lovestone jubilantly informs his herd that
the reputation of his activities has crossed even
the closely guarded line of the Rio Grande and
has penetrated into Mexico The echo, so Love-
stones information continues, came back in
form of hundred dollar donation and prom
Use for more, Lovestone naturally expects that
this news will enthuse his herd, especially since
in the long years of existence and struggles of
our Party it never melted rich Mexican, or
for that matter a rich American in Mexico,
into the extravaganza of such a substantial
donation. The exploited masses in Mexico are
poor, very poor indeed; and what they can
scrape together out of their poverty to con-
tribute to the revolutionary movement they
contribute to their own Mexican Communist
Party.
To appreciate fully the donation received
from Mexico by Gitlow, Lovestone, Wolf and
company it is necessary to throw little light
on the donors.
Our Mexican brother Party is at present
prosecuted to the point of complete illegaliza-
ton. It's leaders are murdered or otherwise
spirited away; its paper sci Machette" is sup
pressed; membership in the Party and activity
for the Party is an invitation to death. In
this hour of the most serious battle for life of
the Mexican section of the Communist Interna-
tional some 'phanthropist' sends donation
of one hundred dollars mot to the Mexican
section of the Communist International, butt
to the American section of the enemies of the
Communist International.
For the last twenty years and more there
existed in Mexico a revolution in permanency
of the agrarian masses In this highly agri-
cultural country the Communist Party has to
mass itself in its activities very much upon
these revolutionary agraran masses. The revo-
lutionary proetariat under the leadership OF
the Communist Party could never influence
this revolutionary movement and gain leader
ship over the broad revolutionary agrarlan
masses without active participation in the lat
ter's struggles.
With the imperialist penetration of Mexico
especially by the United States capital the
revolutionary struggles of the poems and poor
peasantry took on a clearly antl-lmperlalst
character. This was inevitable first because
American Imperialism in its concession hunger
for oil, ore. and other natural resources ap-
reared as an additional expropriator of the
already appropriated agrarian RAISES and, sec
ond because American imperialism just natural
" appeared on the plain as the powerful ally
of the great land-holder class, the immediate
enemy Of the revolutionary agrarian masses.
Before the appearance of revolutionary
nroletarian movement in Mexico and before the
organization of the Communist Party of Mex
leo the leadership of the agrarian revolution
was in the hands OF the petty pourgeoisle'
After the Communist Party of Mexico appear
ed it made the mistake of contending itself
for a long time in the role of an ally of that
leadership in the revolutionary struggles OF
the Mexican masses. 1t neglected its duty OF
an independent fight in the revolution for the
hegemony of the proletariat. 1t failed to orlen-
tate its activities toward definite challenge
of the petty bourgeois leadership.
As long as our Mexican COMMUNIST Party
practically accepted the slogans of the petty