The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1935-08-23
Continued from last week
LETTER w

Continued from last week
LETTER Nv
Fellow Worker
You say that quite a few of the
men you have been talking to have
been impressed by my arguments
about the need of overthrowing |
the present economic system and |
of building a Marxist revolution
airy party to lead the workers and
their allies in doing the job. You
have, however, member Of the
Communist (Stalinist) party in
your shop and he says that the c.
P. is the only revolutionary party,
and the Third (Communist) Inter
national the only international re-
volutiorary organization. You are
against the Soviet Union, accord
ig to him, if you are against the
C. P. The c. P. is the party that
is doing the fighting for the work
ers, the Negroes, etc. Of course
it has made some mistakes. but
it has corrected them, and "any
one who attacks the C. P. or builds
another party now when the G. P.
is being attacked by Hearst and
others is helping Fascism in at
lacking the c. P. and undermining
the Soviet Union, and is no bet
ter than Hitler himself" The Wor-
kers Party is ready to meet that
argument and to meet it in no
uncertain terms.
We hold that the c. p. and L.
l. are no longer revolutionary or
CARNATIONS. They have in recent
years organized and are now or
ganiZing defeats and not victories
for the working class. Insofar as
they have influence, they retarC
the building of healthy and Wig
OrOus revolutionary movement
everywhere. Furthermore, the poll
cies of the Stalinist leadership
which dominates the Soviet TN
ion and the c. l. do not strength
en- the defense of the Soviet I'm
ion, the one workers state in tn,
world; they are weakening and de
strOying those defenses; they ar
preparing the way for the over
throw of the workers state.
We must not be deceived by tn,
) paper programs of the c. r, b,
the claims it makes for itself, o
the fact that it still has a con
! siderable number of members an,
. adherents. The Social Democrat
called themselves .Marxians an
claimed to have the only way t
, establish Socialism and maintaine
, big parties of the Second Inter
national In various countries al
D ter the betrayal of the masses In
to the hands Of nationalism in tn
Great War of 1914-1S. But tn
Social Democracy had ceased
g be a progressive force, had b.
= come a hindrance to the onWar
u course of the workers revolutio.
a The vanguard workers, the be.
- fighting elements left the S.
Under Lenin's leadership the pc
spective of building the new Thil
international was raised. Althoue
the number of those who accepts
this line was at first small al
n they were apparently isolate
from the mass movements viii,
Il had plunged into support of Il
e war activities of the imperial
Le powers, the future was with Il
forces loking toward the new
:, ternational. Very soon, in the Ct
IL sis in Russia in 1917, they demo
} strated their soundness by givil
u the final blow to Czarism, owe
n throwing the middle class and G
y tablishing the Workers Stat
le Even so, the future today is wi
the parties and groups looking
ward the Fourth international.
1 do not have the space in Il
letter to go fully into all the e.
dence to back up our estimate
the G. P. the G. l., and the Stall
list leadership of the Soviet UniC
We have dealt and will deal WI
them in the New Militant, the N
international and in pamphl'
and books. Here l want to ]
eu just a few points which l am 81
tie will convince you and which y
can use in discussion with wo
. ers who are still under official
IL P. influence.
We 1. The Third international ]
not had a Congress since 1872
av seven yearsI Why not? Back
-, the days when the Soviet
Nv ion was being attacked on q d
81 en- fronts World Congresses of
G. l. were held in Moscow ev
year. If the leadership of the
p. S. U. prevents the holding
World Congresses now, it must
fh because it does not care or d
va to face a World Congress-
both. What kind of a vangu
international party of the W.
ing class of the world is it WI
in these years of the triumph
40 Fascism, in these days of war
~ parations everywhere, holds
World Congress? What evidenC
there that the present leader
. of the Soviet Union is interel
in the world revolution?
many more years have to go
without a Congress Of the c
: before the G. P. will admit tina
reality there is no longer a
and will graciously allow tina
is not "counter-revolutionary"
the workers to build a new In
national?
2. Consider the debacle of
Communist Party in Germ
Here we had the mightiest c
munist Party in the capitl
world. Ever since the war q !
erful Communist movement
led existed h Germany Yet this m
an ment collapsed like q toy bal
at the advent Of Hitler-witl
Juc 4 ~aakure Of F@minkmncn .fkho,