The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-02-11

the Comintern and above all for the transform
alton of the Communist Parties on the basis
Of the factory nuclei This requires not only inn
mediate experience derived from long years of
Party WORN 10 the ranks TO the Party Of Lenin,
but also an exact knowledge of the popularity
Of every Communist Party and it's cadres its
membership, its conditions of work and strug-
gle. 1t also requires a thorough knowledge Of
the policy the methods Of organization and work.
of the enemies OF the proletarian revolution
above all of the social democracy and Of the
reformiSt trade unions
Revolutionary trade union work as an i'm
portant constituent part of the mass work of the
Communist Parties has in the last few years
come directly and permanently within Comrade
Piatnitzky's field Of activity. Comrade Plat
nitzkys sharp criticism of all those who do not
fight hard and persistently enough for the trans
formation of the Communist Parties upon the
basis OF factory nuclei-who point to the exist
ing difficulties and hindrances in order to justify
their weaknesses-has always been based on an
all-round knowledge Of an exact control Of the
facts on a Bolshevist estimation Of the connec-
ton between politics and organization and at
the same time takes into account the popularity
of the sector of the front.
To enable the Sections of the Comntern really
to carry out a Bolshevist policy to make them
capable of crushing the social democracy cap
turing the majority of the working class or
ganizng and leading the decisive fights for pow
err to render them capable of achieving victory
in the revolution-this has always been the lead
ing idea in the whole activity of Comrade Plat
nitzky. In order to be able to carry out the
complicated task OF Bolshevizing the Commu-
mist world Party, it was necessary further to
develop the leading bodies and the apparatus
OF the Comlntern from a body which mainly
made propaganda and agitation work, into or
gans of politically and organizationally differ
entiated leadership. Comrade Piatnitzky's revo-
lutionary sense Of reality is rooted both in the
long years of feminist schooling in the correct
estimation of facts, the political linking UP Of
the same and the extremely concrete approach
to the questions well sin the extraordinary
knowledge of the whole international labor
movement. This sense of reality remained the
most important prerequisite for the correct lead
ership of such complicated sphere of work and
struggle as the international revolutionary move
ment.
to the questions we'll as in the extraordinary
This Bolshevist sense Of reality, coupled with a
make all sections of the Comintern capable OF
mastering their historical task is clearly express
sed with Comrade Patnitzky In hit hatred
against every Right opportunist adaptation in
words to all decisions, against all passivity
masked by Left" phrase mongering Therefore
OoiAihoSAS
of any incongruity between word deeds. fighter
for revolutionary realization of adopted decisions
Hence his speeches and literary works are al
ways marked not only by the concrete putting
OF questions but also by the effective manner
in which he always laid bare and grasped the
essence of things
Our Comrade Piatnitzky is a grant fike Boa
shevik, an exemplary leader OF the international
Communist movement.
wilhelm PECK Germany, Manuilsky (CP.-
SUI, Wan Ming tChina), Kuunsinen (ECCL),
Thomez France, Svabova (C.P. of Czecbo-
slovakia), Knorin Losovsky, Browder (CP-
U.S.A), Bella Kun, Gopher, Saslavski (C.P.
Poland, Sen Katayama, Gussev. Hathaway
(CPU.SA); Kolarov, Okano Japan; Mitxkc-
witch, Manner (C.P. Finland; Chemadanov
tECY.C.L); varga, Angaretic (CP. Lithuania):
Codovilla, Chakaya, Trilla fC.P. SPAIN Isskrov
(cf. Bslsaria), Masgi (C.P. ItaIy)s Hansen
lC.R. Norwayl.