The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-19
World Party of Lenin
Growing in Strength
New Forces Must Be
Developed AS Vital
Party Task
Rv E BROWN

By F. BROWN
The Eleventh Anniversary Of the
death of Lenin, the greatest leader
Of the working class, the builder Of
the World Communist Party, finds
Lenin's World Party stronger today
than ever before. Let the enemies,
the counter-reYolutionary Trotzky-
ties, and the renegades of all stripes
talk about the destruction of the
feminist Party. The pupils of Lenin,
following in his path, steeled in
class battles all over the world,
in the struggles against capitalism,
in the struggle for building So
cialism on one-sixth of the worlds
surface, are marching forward,
guided by the theoretical and or
ganizational principles laid down by
their great teacher
Cleansed Of the renegade elements
who for years fought against the
principles of Lenin-either by try
ing to revive inside the Communist
International distortions of Marx
ism or by smuggling in (under the
cloak of Communism their petty
bourgeois theories the feminist
World Party stands today rock,
challenging the waves of attacks
from the Fascists, from the cap
italists and combating within the
working class ranks the attacks OF
the Second International, the rene
gade groups, and all other concilia-
tors to capitalism. 1t is strong be-
cause it is unified by the theoretical
and organizational principles of
Lenin.
"Lenin, while establishing the
theory and tactics of the proletar-
ian revolution in general, and the
dictatorship of the proletariat in
particular" (Stalin) in the struggle
against the Mensheviks, against the
revisionists of the Second Interna-
tional, gave to the working class it's
iron Party, able to readjust itself
quickly to the demands of the cur
rent struggle, able to lead the work
ing class to victory.
1t was at the time the parties of
the Second International, following
their revisionist program, were re-
duced to an electoral campaign APP
paratus, to an organization unfit for
the revolutionary struggle of the
proletariat that Lenin developed
the teachings of Marx and laid
down the fundamental principles of
the Party of the working class:
1.-The Communist Party as the
vanguard of the working class.
2-The principle of the forms-
ton of cadres of the Party, the So
called professional revolutionists.
3-The principle of making of
each individual Party member an
active, direct participant in the
work of the organization.
4-The principle of laying the
basis of the Party organization in
the factories, in the form of shop
nuclei.
5-The principle of establishing
Communist fractions in the non
Party workers and. peasants or
CARNATIONS (through which the
Party is cosely connected with the
organized masses of workers and
peasants) and participating &C
lively as the driving force in all
their struggles against their OPP
pressors.
6-The principle Of democratic
centralism in the Party and the
Communist International.
THE principle Of iron discipline
of the Communist Party.
Self Criticism
1t is along these fundamental
principles that our Party, like the
other sections of the C. l., is or
ganized. 1t is by following these
principles that our Party has gained
in strength, and in influence,
among the masses. Our Party is
the organized detachment of the
American working class, guiding the
proletariat in its daily struggles,
and becoming more and more
strongly connected with the toiling
masses. Yet, the moment that we
analyze the conditions and activities
of our Party with the yardstick
Of the fundamental principles of
Lenin, we can Immediately see the
many weaknesses still confronting
us.
While Il is true that in the last
few years we have made a gigantic
step forward in the development OF
new cadres, these cadres are, how
ever, insufficient. The cry for ca
dres, for leaders, able to strengthen
the Party in the concentration dis
tricts, to build the Party in hun
dreds of new places, continues. Our
National Training schools, district