The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-12
1ovesoneBrandIer Groups Nov Seek Hide Bankruptcy
By Open Letter PROPOSING Collaboration With Comintern

| lrOtHkylJe estimate OF The nterDa-
tional situation and the Trotzkyite
SANDER of the U. s. S. r. and the
c. P. S. u; (b) the Brandler group
has revised it's estimate of social
democracy, and recognized that the
defeat of the working class in Ger
many and Aus ria is the result of
the social-democratic policy; (c)
this group has recognized that the
Left" Socialist Labor Party [of
Germany and Trotzkyites supply
the reformists with their theology
so as to keep the workers frcm
going over to Communism.
In reply to the proposal Of send
ing representatives to the Seventh
World Congress of the Comintern
and the high-sounding phrases in
which the proposals were made in
the name of the small bureau" the
E. C. C. I. points out that there is
no need to cover up the bankruptcy
Of the Brandler groups BY such
Understanding names, since they
will deceive no one and least of all
the Communist international. That
if these groups wish to "collaborate"
with the C. L, and if they recognize
their former mistakes, the Com
munist Parties of Germany, France,
the U. S. A. and Switzerland will
have no objections to the meetings
proposed by Brandler. But in view
Of the fact that the four Brandler-
tie groups differ to great extent
from each other, that they were ex-
PEELED from the Communist Parties
and the Communist International
for various reasons, the only thing
that could bring useful results
would be for each national group
of the Brandlerite-Lovesto as
ISOLATION to apply to the G. G. OF
corresponding Communist
Party"
The E. C. c. I. states further that
"the program, the chief decisions
of the Communist Parties and the
Comintern on tactics and prin-
oipleS, have been published in the
press and are known to everyone,
including Brandler, Lovestone and
Bringolf. They and their support
ers must clearly and plainly state
whether they can call these de-
cisions their own . they can only
return as its supporters"
Correct Comintern Policy
In the Lovestone press there Is
an announcement that the Brandler
group in Germany has decided to
collaborate with the c. P. of Ger
many on a number of questions.
From the above it is clear that If
there is truth in this announcement,
that such collaboration could only
be achieved on the basis Of the &C
ceptance by the BrandleriteS of the
line of the Comintern on these
/ questions.
Loyestone, however, true TO his
methods and policies, hastens to
save whatever followers he still has
/ for fear that the few honest work.
ers still in his ranks will return
to the ranks of the Party. He
therefore decided to take the of
fensive" in the form of an open
letter to the membership of the
/ Communist Party. This document,
which the Lovestoneites have dis
tributed in leaflet form, wishes to
state the impression that the Com
munist International has adopted
the Brardler-Lovsstonc line. Nat
urally, no one who knows the situ-
alton will take him and his group
seriously. BY this position, Love
stone only betrays a nervousness of
being still further isolated, and be-
ing forced into the open.
Lovestone knows, after seeing the
Trctzky renegade group going over
openly to the camp of the Second
International (France) and faced
with the reply of the Comintern
that he will be faced, on the one
hand, with more Gitlow-zam de-
sertionS towards the Second Inter
national and with the return OF
the honest proletarians to the fold
Of the Communist Party, on the
other.
Crooked Lovestone Methods
These Tammany Hall methods OF
LovestoneiS political struggle are g
continuation and further develop
ment of the policies which resulted
in his, expulsion from the Commu-
mist International. Perhaps most Of
the workers and even the majority
of the Party membership are MOI
acquainted with all the facts leading
up to the expulsion of Lovestone
from the Party The statement ir
the Communist International point.
out that "Lovestone, who defended
the bourgeois theory of American
exceptionalism and prosperity, wa
removed from the leadership of the
C.P.U.S.A. for introducing crooked
commercial methods of unprinciplet
struggle into the Party when defend
ing his bourgeois theories, and wa
expelled when he violated the ele
mentary obligations of a Part.
member by continuing, not only t.
advocate his right wing views, bu
also these methods. In search of I
platform, he joined Brandler for tht
struggle against the CPU.S.A. ant
the Comintern"
This makes quite clear how cor
rect have been the policies and tao
tics of the Lovestone group and hov
the "Comintern is now comint
around to the Lovestone posi-
| ton" Cd, as the renegade Loveston
5 now dares to claim in futile at
/ tempt to cover up the whole bank
5 ruptcy Of his group. Lovestone woult
now have us believe that he wa
: differing with the Comintern onl
on the question Of the united from
and the trade union policy, an
) that he YVES in agreement on tn
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