The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-20
BY Burck

Parties for definite actions against the bOurgeoisie
can be effected most successfully within the
bounds of the individual countries. The E. c.
c. 1. therefore recommends the Communist Par
ties to put forward proposals to the respective
Central Committees of the SOcial-DemOcratic
Parties affiliated to the Socialist International re-
garding Joint actions against fascism and the Of
fensve of capital"
Thus if Moscow" means the leadership of the
Communist International and not the Soviet gov
eminent, then indeed the initiative in this matter
comes from MOSCOW"
WHY WAS DORIOT EXPELLED
How then can we explain the alleged fact that
Doriot was expelled from the Communist Party of
France because he was in favor of unity of acton
though it is worth noting that he poured out
his heart before the correspondent of the fascist
Matin instead of lodging his complaints in Mos
cow" If it were true that Doriot had been eX-
PEELED because he was in favor Of the united front,
the leadership of the Communist International,
which, as the Social Democratic leaders alege,
gave orders" for the united front proposals, would
surely have received him with shawms and
trumpets.
So there must really be something wrong here.
Something must be wrong for the simple reason
that Doriot wanted not the united front with the
Social-Democratic Party but something quite diff
ferent, on account of which it was impossible for
him to remain in the Communist Party.
What did Dorot want? He wanted the Com
munist Party of France to pursue a Social-Demo-
cratic policy! How else to explain the great
sympathies felt for Doriot by the Socal-Democratc
Party leaders?
DORIOT DISTORTED C. P. PLAN
What did Doriot do? He distorted the plan
of action of the Communist Party Of France for
the establishment of unity of action; he distorted
it in order to use it against the Party; he gave it
NF rr1oY1
tried to incrinnate the leadership of the G. P of
France of being against unity of action at time
when Communists and Social democratic workers
were VIGOROUSLY defying the attacks of fascsm in
a united front of struggle on the streets of Paris
He wanted to disintegrate the G. P of France. How
else we explain the sympathes felt for Doriot
by the Trotskyites, who want to disntegrate the
Communist Party?
What did Doriot do besides? He violated revo-
lutionary discipline, Party democracy. He acted
contrary to the decisions of the great majority OF
the Party. He set his district against the whole
Party. He addressed himself to the bourgeois press
to the Social-Democratic leaders instead of apply
ing to the Party Conference and there submitting
himself and his views to the judgment Of the repre-
sentatives of the whole Party. He tried to split
the revolutionary party of the French proletariat
How else can we explain the sympathy felt by the
whole bourgeois press which fears revolution like
the plague for Doriot who has audaciousy followed
the path of BRAND, Merand and Vlv1anl-these
ex-socalists who looked after the business of the
French bourgeoise as prime ministers of the
republic?
HOW THE c. T. FUNCTIONS
The Communist Party is not a compulsory
society it is based on the voluntary obligation OF
its members to pursue revolutionary class policy
on the basis of the program of the Communist In
ternatonal and to subject themselves to revou-
tionary discipline and to the decisions of the
majority Of the Party.
1t has never occurred to us Communists to de-
mand of the Social-Democrats condition of unity
of action that they should accept principles and
subject themselves to Party discplines, to the
decisions of the majority of our Party But all the
more do we demand this of the members of our
Party and all the more yet of such Party members
as occupy leading posts in the Communist move
ment.
The expulsion of Doriot does not show that the
Communists are not sincere. 1t shows, on the con-
trary that the Communists take seriously what they
say and what they write. no matter whether it is
question of the internal affairs of their own Party
or of agreements with other Parties.
Ito Be Continued)