The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-06

Flenum OF the Executive Commit
tee Of the Communist Interna 20
tionsl. 90 pages. Price Is cents.
Reviewed by
n. SPARKS
IN 1920 the Second Congress Of the
l Communist International. q little
more than year after the end Of
the imperialst war and in the midst
Of the first revolutionary wave. the
Resolution on the Fundamental
Tasks of the Communist Interna-
tiOnal, basing itself on the expert -
ence OF the victorious Bolshevik
Party Of Lenin. drew a picture Of
what a Communist Party must be if
it is to lead to actual victory.
Only the Communist Party, il
1t really is the vanguard of the
revolutionary class. if it contains
all the hest representa- tives Of that
class, II 1t consists Of fully class
conscious and devoted COMMIT
nists, educated and hardened nv
the experience Of stubborn rev.
Olutionary struggle. If this Party
has managed to link itself insep-
arably with the whole life of its
class and through this class with
the whole Of the masses Of the
exploited, and II it can Undue this
class and these masses with COM
plete complementary such a
Party is capable Of leading the pro-
letariat in the most ruthless, deter
mined and final struggles against
all the forces Of capitalism.
"On the other hand, only under
the leadership Of such a Party
can the proletariat develop the
whole might Of its revolutionary
onslaught
At the 18th Plenum, fourteen
years later, the Comintern points
out that We are again rapidly ap-
preaching a new round of world
wars and revolutions. After the
last World War in every country
except the Soviet Union the workers
were defeated as a result of the
treachery Of the Social Democrats
and the absence of Communist
Parties. Today however, we have
the Communist International which
has won tremendous prestige and
loyalty among the workers and
farmers all over the world. Today
we have Communist Parties in over
sixty countries, colonies as we'll as
imperialist countries in the East as
well as the West. Today we have
the glorious living example Of the
Workers and Farmers Government
and Socialist Construction in the
Soviet Union.
But the Comintern's duty towards
the international working class per-
mitS of no satisfaction. Com
rade Piatnitsky places soberly before
the Plenum the basic question:
Have we in the capitalist coun-
tries, after fifteen years existence
OF the Comintern, such parties as
fully satisfy all the above emu
merated requirements? The reply
to this question must be in the
negative. But although not a
single Communist Party in the
capitalist countries completely
satisfies the requirements laid
down in the resolution Of the
Second Congress, nevertheless. in
number Of countries China,
Germany, Poland, the Commu-
mist Parties have come close TO
them during this period"
HEROIC guarantees have been
IL given by the Communist Parties
of China and Japan that the work.
ers will continue to receive reyolu-
tlonary leadership in the midst of
the next imperialist war. Heroic
guarantees have been given by the
communist Parties of Germany, Po-
land, Japan and China, that no
amount of savage repression will
still the voice and the active lead
ership of the Communist Parties.
The Comintern can definitely state
that the revolutionary workers all
over the world look to the Com
munist Parties as their sole leader.
that the Communist Parties are
monolithic parties and not a bloc of
trends" that all Communist Parties
are pursuing the uniform line of the
Communist International.
Why then do these Parties still
fail to come up to the requirements
OF the Second Congress Resolution?
Because they have not yet succeeded
in thoroughly acquiring the expert
ence of the Bolshevik Party of the
Soviet Union. Because they have
still not thoroughly enough. not per-
sistently enough, not systematically