The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-27
Fifteenth Instalment)

Fifteenth InstaImenG
IN various countries there is a different situation
in regard to the Organzational unity of the labor
movement. How far the tactics of one of the other
party, of the Communists or Social-Democratic
Party, are correct in the common struggle of the
working class against the common class enemy
this is being tested by the historical experience of
the workers. We Communists have supposed
it possible to the split in the labor
ment through organzatonal union otherwise than
by way of the persuading and self determination of
the working as to which theory strategy and
tactics are correct-thOse of the Communists
those of the Social Democrats.
When unity of action of the Social Democratic
and Communist workers is required for concrete
but limited aims of struggle, the Communists say
that the working class needs the united front in
order to fight against the bourgeois and not in
order to colaborate with the bourgeoise; each re-
mains in his own party but fights in common
against the common enemy. But if it is a question
of organizational unity, then the Communists say:
The working class needs unity in order to conquer
the bourgeoisie and not order to attain respite
extra breathing-space for capitalism. In this
respect too the Communists are true to the words
Of Marx: they do not conceal their aims they do
not manoeuvre in regard to their class comrades.
They say quite openly before the Social Democratic
workers that they want to persuade the latter in
unity of action, in the common struggle that the
correct tactic Is not the reformist but the revou
tionary tactic it is not coalition with the bour-
geosie which leads the working class to power, but
the armed uprising at the right moment that there
is no such thing the growing of capitalism into
socialism through any spacious plans designed to
convince the bourgeoSe that socialism is useful and
necessary for the capitalist we'll but that it is
only the dictatorship of the proletarat destroying
as it does the forces of the capitalist class destroy
ing its means of influencing the petty bourgeoise
and small peasantsthat it is only this dictatorship
of the proletariat which leads to socialism.
g. UNITY OF ACTION AND oRGANIzATIoNAL
UNITY
The great majority of the working class-we
have always known and said this-will be able to
choose between the two theories, strategies and
tactics only in common struggle We have set
selves the task in the program Of Communist
International:
:. ITO lead the masses to revolutionary posi-
tions in such manner that the masses may, by
their own experience, convince themselves of the
correctness of the Party line"
We have always said and we repeat it today:
He who does not understand this is bad Conmu-
MIST enemy of organizational unity is he who
hampers the unity of action of the working class in
the daily struggle against the class enemy against
capitalism.
1t is no accident that Otto Bauer does not raise
the question of unity of action but the problem of
the Identification of Austrian Social-Denocracy
which has been not much routed as scrapped.
An idea of what this Identification would be like
may be obtained from the fact that he cannot find
even words of moral indignation against those who
by their conduct in the February struggles and