The daily worker., 1932-01-28

International and founding the III. Interna-
tional The fear of the Lefts of split and the
belated creation of the independent Communist
Party have rendered exceedingly difficult the
path of the German proletariat in the fight for
power during the revolution in Germany Q918-
19.
1t is now clear to everybody that Lenin was
right in his criticism of the centrist mistakes of
the Lefts in the II International All attempts
now to represent Leninism as weapon suitable
only for backward" oriental countries and Lux
emburgism as consistent BolShevism which is
alone worthy of the advanced proletarians of
the civilized" west appear ridiculous.
In the January days the world important role
of Bolshevism which right from the first days
of its existence submitted the chief problems of
the proetarian world revolution dictatorship of
the proletariat, hegemony of the proletariat in
the revolutionary fight the allies of the prole-
tariat, colonial and national problems, the
teachings regarding the role of the Party) to the
Labor Movement of the whole world, will become
still more known. Nobody will be able to cloak
over the Bolshevist path Of struggle against op-
portunism not only on national but also on an
international scale. Already before the war
Lenin placed on the order of the day the fight
against centrism as well as the question of unit
ing the Let's in the II. International. Lenin
prepared the splitting OF the II. International
as the only way out of the opportunist blind
alley into which the Labor Movement had been
pushed by reformsm.
The world historical role of Lenin as the or
ganizer of the G. P. S. U. and of the Comintern
is SO universally known that nobody will succeed
in falsfying it. The Justification of the history
of the Conintern pursues a deliberate task of
uniting the vacillating Communists, weakening
the influence of the Comintern and il this way
diminishing the power of the proletarian revolu-
ton.
The names Of Rosa Luxembourg and Karl
Liebknecht will be dear to the Comintern
and the broad proletarian masses as the names
of great revolutionaries, for in spite of their
mistakes they finally, although belatedly, aban-
doned the path of the II. International, firmly
proceeded on the path of the proetarian revo-
luton and fell at the hands of the social demo-
cratic murderers, fact which once and for all
identified them with the proletariat and with
Communism.
Those, however who under preSent-day condi-
tions make use of their names in their fight
against Communism cannot be separated from
the whole social fascist counter-revolutionary
camp
The January campaign will be used by the
Communist Parties for the purpose, by means of
Bolshevist self-critcism, of exposing a whole
number of mistakes and incorrect views of in
dividual comrades, the roots of which to be
sought before all in the remnants of Luxen-
burgism. Among such mistakes are for example
the incorrect estimate of the present crisis and
in connection with this the incorrect tactical at
titude. Under the blows of the crisis a COM
mencement has been made to substitute the
right-opportunst estimation of the capt.
tast "stabilization" and the under estimation of
the present crisis especially the theory of the
exceptional position of the u S. A. by the Left
theory of the impossibility of the bourgeoisie
finding a way out of the present crisis This
theory which is especially elaborated by the
LEFT" social democrats is cropping up here and
there in Communist literature.
The theory of there being absolutely no way
out of the crisis" is connected with the incor-
rect Luxemburgian estimate Of Imperialism of
the Luxemburgan worshipping of spontaneity
and its underestimation of the role of the sub
jective factor.
This theory which gives rise to fatalist moods,
by weakening the vigilance and fighting capa-
city of the revolutionary advance guard on the
one hand, furthers opportunist passivity and the
tactic of "spontaneity" and on the other hand
serves as a justification of Left and anarchistic
exaggerations. Against these exaggerations there
stands an exact feminist analysis of the epoch
of dying capitalism-the standpoint that l.
though the capitalist system is doomed to de-
cline that for hte bourgeoise there are no alb
solutely hopeless situations" q cnir) that the
task Of the proletar1at consists in making this
situation finally hopeless These theories are
also opposed by the decisions of the XII Plenum
of the E. c. G. l., which addition to stressing
the intensfication OF the crisis, pointed to the
1r fOr tIa
final victory over the bourgeoisie.
In the fight against these and other mistakes
(some of which are mentioned by Comrade
Thalmann in his article) every effort must be
made for real serious elaboration of all inn
mediate political problems.