The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-10-05

become, can only degenerate further
and further That is the only form
of motion open to it.. -Abstaining
from all the struggles of the work.
ers, it attacks those who participate
in and lead these struggles. 1t splits
up into small squabbling sects within
the Sect. between whom there are
only differences in the degree Of de-
generacy. The present leaders of the
S. L. P. have even descended to the
role of provocateur in the labor
movement by trying to create dis
trust in the Communist Party and
its leaders. When they can sink to
the depths of issuing a pamphlet
charging out of whole cloth that
William z. Foster as a spy, there
is no telling where they will end up.
Whenever they are confronted
with activity the S. l.. P. hastily
beats retreat. Its leaders hurriedly
withdrew into their cubby-hol when
an opportunity was offered to the
S. l.. P. to enter united front strug-
giles with the Communists and other
workers against war, for unemploy-
ment relief and insurance, against
fascism, etc. I'VE are PROUD OF our
revolutionary position" they shout.
But that position is like that of the
famous Humpty Durnpty who fell
from the wall and landed on the
other side. ~
Lenin and DeLeon
Was Lenin Influenced by DeLeon7
Tho NcT nn71itac %,.,. g.,
their exceptional FORM" have cried
that while the Communist Party of
the Soviet Union is not so bad, the
G. P. of the U. s. A. stinks to high
heaven. We have indeed made ap-
plication to the Communist Inter-
national, they exclaim, and in fact
we should be its recognized party.
But they always forget to add that
they wished to join the G. 1.-lninus
the 81 points of admission In other
words minus the program of the
Communist International.
These artists of the word have also
claimed that Lenin recognized the
greatness of DeLeon and gave him
credit for having invented the sys-
tenn of Soviets. This contention is
basd primarily on the report of a
bourgeois newspaper correspondent,
Ransome, who said that Lenin had
told him that after reading the
works of DeLeon this was not until
after the Revolution) he expressed
admiration for him and gave him
credit for his position on industrial
unionisrn and his forecast that in
the future governmental representa-
ton would be, not from geographic
areas but from industrial units, which
has something of the idea of Soviets.
How much of this was actually said
by Lenin and how much was the inn
agination of the newspaper corre-
spondent will never be known.
But Lenin has set down in writing
his opinion of the S. L. P. During
the war, in his letters to Kollontai.
who was at that time in the United
States organizing the opposition
within the S. P. to the inperialist
war, he referred to the S. l.. P. as
having yellow sectarian streak"
Aren't these people hopelessly sec.
tarian?" he asks in another letter.
"Or are they maniacs of the fixed
idea about special economic organ.
ization of workers." yellow sec.
tartan streak" "hopelessly secta.
r1an' "maniacsg of the fixed idea
this was Lenins Characterization of
the S. L. P. And time has only
served to develop these characters
tics even further, to make out of the
S. L. P. not only hopeless sect"
but an anti-working class sect.
Workers who are blinded by the
revolutionary words of the S. L. P.
leaders should measure. these words
against their acts. This is a true
test and, if honest, they will find
test and. if honest, these workers will
find that their place is in the ranks
OF the Communist Party.
(THE END)