The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-10

our political army;
go Organize our Party into a
mass Party on the basis of inner
Party democracy, based on iron
discipline, into a revolutionary staff
of this political army;
"a Enlarge, strengthen and re-
new our Party general staff.
1t is obvious that these tasks
must be pursued with the greatest
determination if we are not to be
placed in the position of having
the mass upsurge sweep past u.s.
At this historical moment, at the
end of capitalist sterilization, with
the revolutionary upsurge as the
most important factor, it is not
sufficient for the Party merely to
hold its own or only advance slow
ly. If we are to keep pace with
events, we must advance rapidly,
otherwise we will be further sep
arated from the basic strata of the
American proletariat. If we are to
fulfill the task which history has
imposed upon us as the vanguard
of the American working class, we
must advance at great speed.
STACHEL DISCUSSES
IMPORTANT PROBLEMS.
This fact is recognized by Com
rade Jack Stachel, who, in his ar
ticle Struggle for Elementary
Needs-the Main Link in Winning
the Masses" deals with strikes and
unemployed struggles in the U. S.
A. in the light of the Twelfth
Plenum resolution on this question.
He correctly criticizes and stigma
ties as a social-democratic sur
vival the division between trade
union and Party work that exists
in our ranks. He emphasizes that
part of the resolution which de-
clareS that the Communist Parties
are responsible for the organization
of the economic struggle of the pro-
letariat against the capitalist Of
fenSive. Many important problems
are raised regarding the prepara-
ton for strike struggles, the ques-
ton OF concentrating on basic in
dustries, united action of employed
and unemployed, the shortcomings
of our work in the concentration
districts, the confusion existing re-
garding new unions and old unions,
the task of combating the maneuv-
erS of Green, Music and the social
fascists generally in regard to the
thirty-hour week agitation, the I'M
employment insurance schemes,
and other tricks calculated to dupe
the workers and sidetrack them
from the mass struggle. In his
article Comrade Stachel correctly
insists that departure from the
past be made and that resolutions
of the E. G. G. I. and the Red In
ternational of Labor Unions be
discussed in the lower Party or
CARNATIONS and decisive steps be
taken to correct wrong practices.
THERE are number of other fea-
L lures in the January Commu-
mist, among them an excerpt from
Comrade Manuilsky's speech at
the Twelfth Plenum, under the
caption "Stalin Develops the
Teachings of Marx and Lenin",
showing how the period of Social
ist Construction and its victory in
the U. S. S. r. is linked with the
name of Comrade Stain. "Spinoza
and Marxisn" is the title OF a
translation from the Russian of
M. Mitin. Full credit is given to
Spinoza as the foremost intellect
of his time, but at the same time
Mitin assails those who, like De-
BORN, gloss over the idealistic ele-
ments in Spinoza's materialism and
try to make of him consistent
materialist.
A contribution that is particu-
1arly welcome and that has al
ready attracted wide approval is
that of V. j. Jerome, entitled "Un-
masking an American Revisionist
of Marxism." This article deals
with the vagaries of Sidney Hook,
exposing him as a wilful perverter
OF Marxism, shallow vulgarizer,
an insolent, muddled pretender, .
who strives to tear Marxism to
pieces by separating the doctrines
of surplus value, the class strug-
gle and the materialist conception
of history.
Hook and handful of muddled
individuals who pretend to some
knowledge of philosophy and who
echo Hook and Max Eastman (the
original exponent of Trotskyism in
the U. So llaye too long been car
rying their poison into the ranks
~ those syrnpathetir 10 orr Party,
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