The daily worker., 1934-03-26
Need for Fundamental Discussions
With S. p. Workers

Let us take our Young Communist Interna-
tional. For number of years the Young Com
munist International under the leadership Of
the Comintern has trained a splendid genera
tion of young Bolsheviks who more than once
have proved their absolute devotion to the cause
Of Communism. But it has not penetrated deep
into the masses of working youth. Nor has
social democracy got this youth behind it. The
youth in the capitalist countries are embraced
by the million strong sport organizations Gre
ated by the bourgeoisie, by its military staffs
by its clergy.
In Germany a certain section of the unem-
ployed youth have gone into the fascist bar
racks. But the Y.C.L. members have not fully
grasped this lesson. They have fought cour-
ageously against the fascists in Germany; in
number of countries they are developing quite
good work in the army, receiving sentences of
many years hard labor for this work, but they
find it as difficult to enter, let us say, Cath
olic sport organization, where there are tens
of thousands of working youth as it would be
for the Pope to join an atheist league in order
to carry on propaganda in favor of Catholicism.
Oaughter) But then the members of the
Communist Party and the Y.CL. are not bound
by considerations of prestige similar to those
Of the Vicar OF Christ The Communist and
Y.C.L organizations must be mobile; they must
be everywhere where there are workers they
must be in the sport organizations, in such
organizations for workers reaction as the Dopo
LaYoro in Italy, in the forced labor camps, but
above all they must be in the factories.
During all the Is years of the Cominterns
existence the years of the crisis have been the
hardest years of work of the Communists in the
mo hoU odu
of the crisis in order to rid the factories Of
Communists. And despite this, during the past
year the Comintern has achieved great success
in work in the factories in Germany and Japan
But this cannot be said of other Communist
Parties, which have not yet overcome their
weaknesses in this sphere. And, comrades, we
must bear in mind that there is no place like
the factories for undermining the influence of
social democracy and winning the majority Of
the working class away from it. But even in
those places where the Communists are wag-
ing struggle in the factories for winning
over this majority, they are not always do
ing SO satisfactorily. The Communists are filled
with the most sincere organic hatred for social
democracy as the agency of capital within the
labor movement, but it is necessary to know
how to communicate this healthy revolutionary
hatred to the social-democratic workers.
1t is necessary that the treacherous role of
social democracy which is clear to the Com
munists, should be clear to the socsl-dem-
ocratic workers also For them this Is not yet
an axiom, but a theorem which has to be proved
We must not talk to them in the language of
our theses nor in polished ready-made for
mulas; it is often necessary to explain the most
elementary simple things, doubt in which would
cause Homeric language at one of our Party
meetings The honest Communist worker is
revolted at the idea of having to refute the
vilainous sophisms of social democracy; he
has refuted them long ago in his class con-
seriousness, but he demands the same resolute
consistency from the social democratic workers
too, who are only just beginning to waver
He knows that waverings are impermissible
in the Party, that they are nothing but mani
festations of opportunism that waverers in the
Party must be exposed as persons who retreat
from Communism; it Is difficult for him to
grasp that he must know how 30 win over the