The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-17

was NAAN VI elEll1CL anu ACduGI u
the first victorious battle in the
international pr.letarian revolu-
ton. Lenin was the organizer and
leader of the Bolshevik Party of
Russia. Leninism is the very es-
sence of Bolshevism. The Commu-
mist Party cannot become the or
ganizer and leader of the proleta-
rian revolution until it becomes
BOlshevist-a feminist Party. Our
adherence TO Leninism must here
fore manifest itself in the contin-
ued revolutionary improvement of
our Party. Our feminist under
standing of the revolutionary tasks
before US must show itself N
progressively closer adaptation of
our Party to these tasks.
Does our Party pass this test?
Our international leadership, the
Communist international, in its
letter to our Sixth Convention,
formulated the main task of our
Party as its marked transforma-
ton from propaganda sect into
a mass Party of revolutionary ac-
ton" This transformation. pre-
supposes Bolsheyization. The Boil
sheyization of our Party is exactly
the process of making it into a
mass party of revolutionary action.
This Bolshevizatiol necessitates
the change of the relations of the
Party members to, each other, the
change of relations of the Party
members to their units and to the
leaders of the Party, and finally.
the change of the relation of the
Party to the masses.
In the last year our Party die
make substantial Roadway in this
direction. However, the progress
was insufficient and in many in
stances unsystematic.
The first task to be considered
is the activization of the Party
and the politicalization of it's ac-
tivities. This change is not Nero
mechanical one. 1t presuppose
already partial penetration b,
the Party of the working class
An active Party member, or an
active Party unit, are not the ones
that participate in or hold many
and long meetings, but the ones
that reach many workers and that
have their contacts organized and
systenatized. The political char
acter of the activities of a Party
member or Party unit are not
proven by the political nature of
the subjects they discuss in their
meetings but by the influence they
exercise upon the political activi-
ties of the workers with whom they
have contact. The activities of the
Party members and Party units
s'sd the political character of these
activities must at once be the ce-
ment which binds tie Party with
the working class and the magnet
which attracts the working class
to the Party. The Party can reg
lister some progress in this field.
The unit meetings which in a
not far distant past, have been
immune from any influence that
important events in the. class
struggle might exercise, have now
opened their doors to let the storm
of the class struggle enter. The
unit meetings become more and
more the training ground for the
members to fit them for their agi-
rational and organizational tasks
among the workers. The unit
meetings also become more and
more the sounding board of the
feelings and reactions of the
workers in the shop to events of
the class struggle. In this direc-
ton the recent campaign of the
Party for concentration has con-
tributed much, bur a completion
of this process is possible only by
a transformation of the basic Par
ty units and the shop nuclei. The
political work of the Party uEit
in the working class as well as
the chance of the Party unit to !
fail tba .,s1JSn of tho svorL.oc, ,loce