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Comintern th World
Congress Part 3: The
Working
Class
Against
Fascism Response
Georgi Dimitrov
1935 London: Modern Books
32p.
SEVENTH
WORLD CONG
R SS
OF
[HE COMMUNIST INTERN TION L
G.
IMITROV
The Working Class
Against Fascism
SPEECH IN REPLY TO THE
DISCUSSION
MODERN
OOKS
LIMITED
LONDON
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I
The W orking Class Against Fascism
lllrade Oilllil , o
...
's
Spuch
i t R e
ply
10 t il e Dis
usio
n
Co
mr
ades T h
e: \' ( ry
full
d isc llss ion on my r Cl)Or t
ShOW5 th
e:
. lW
el1
SC
int er es t taken by Ihe Congress in the fund:lmental t ac:o
I problems and tasks
of the
s
trugg
le of
the wo
r
king
class
tl
C:ins t
t
he
offcn
siv(' of capital
and
fa
sc
ism , agains t
t
he
th reat
of
ptrin
li
st W: l T.
1111 S
UlIlI
n ing
c i g h l . d ~ r
~
we
can
sta
te t
ha
t all t
he
. cip:l l
pr
oposltlollS
contained
n
t
he
re
po
r t
have met
wi
th
the
ri ll ' I
h e
n
iOl OUS
ap l)TOV:l 0 t e ~ o n of l hi:
speake
rs
una . 1 I h
ob 'cC
ted to t
he
ta ctlca me we . ave proposed or to t
he
rcsolu -
• J
o
which
ha
s
bee
n s
ub
mi
tt ed.
11
0
I
ve
nt
ure to say tha t at no ne of the previous Congresses of th e
c ommunist I nternatio
nal
has
such
ideological :l.Od political
so
lidarit)' been e v e . l ~ as. at
the
prescnt Congress.
lA
pplause.l
'The
l 1 1 p 5 p l a ~ e
at the
e s s
indicates
he necessity of revlsmg our pohcy and tact iCS accordance With
'he ch anged conditions and with due rega rd for the most abun -
, (
da
nt
and ins
tru
ctive ex pe ri ence
0
t
he
past few years , has co
me
be fully recognised in o
ur
rank
s.
10 This
cua
ni mity may und
oubtedly
be regar
ded
as one of th
l.
most
im
por tan t pre requis
ite
s
Jc
:·
u c ~ e s s
in so\ving.
th
e
para
mount
·
nifll
ediate
pr
oblem of
the mt
ern atlonal prolet arian
move
me
nt
,
lamely,
u tab/islzillg u
nit)
of
ac
ti
O
I
of
all
sccliolls of
th oU/o rk
ing
i Hie
stru
gg
lc again st fascis m
The successful so lution of this problem requi res , first, that
communists s
kilf
ully
wi
e
ld th
e wcapon
of
Mar;
dst -L
ellillist
111141 ,sis. while
c
arefully
s
tu d
ying t
he
specific co
nd
itions a
nd
the
alignment
of
cl
ass
forces as t
hey
devel
op
. and plan
th
e
ir
ac ti
vity
and s
tru
g
gl
e accord
in
g
ly.
W e must
me
rci lessly root o
ut
the
,,·eakness . not
infrequently
observed
in ou
r
com
rad
es
, for c
ut
and-dried
scheme
s ,
li f
eless formulas and r
eady-
ma
de
patterns.
We must
put an end
to the s
tate
o f affairs
in
which Co
mmuni
sts,
when lac
king
the knowledge
or
ability for
Marxi
st-Leninist
analysis, substitute
general
p
hr a
ses and sl
oga
ns s
ll
ch as "
the
revolutionary
way out
of the c risis /
with
o
ut
making the slightest
serious
attempt
to
explain
the c
ondition
s , the
relation
ship
of class
forces, the
de
g
ree of revoluti
o
nary
maturity of
the
proletariat
and
the toiling masses,
and
the
lev'el
of influence of the Com
munist
Party necessary to render
s
uch
a
re
v
oluti
o
nary way
out
of
the crisis
possible. Without such an analy
sis
all the
se
catcb-
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.. t JI5 t ' m p t) p h r n wh ich oUly ob
words
bt<'Om
..... dud S II
co
ncrete
our
~ S k 5
of the
( ~ : ;
be Rb le co rrectly to c i ~ n Rn d IIOh t
I ' t
Analysis we h n ~ 1 lie (he probl
em
of the prolcl.:mnn frOlit a
nd
I
ht
roblt'nI o f f
n ,c
lsm. I problem of
ou
r
(1,1111\1(1('
tow ar ds I . lit
PI s ro
nl, t ie
..
t l lcrnl (>COp C
I
elll o f th e
Pf OCCSS\ S
/{OIl1j:
Oil
W'th '
... . tht prol l I Soc' l III
- 4 : 1 c m ( ) ( ' r n c ) . t " lI larl)' IHI\OIlG: I IC
-mI. DeIl\
O('
"
. 1).1r
I
311e
the wotlons: c.,. ,
f
ulli tc·d front
.':O
\'NIlIlU'
Il
I , or nny of
h
h
r
ob lcUl oa
hi ' I I
t
workers, I t P I
"om
p1cx pro ems
wi t
I WIIch life
it
neWnne .. I
f
It
numt'rolls 01 r f the claSS S
lrU
gg e co n
ro
nt s
us
now
d
ht devclopment 0 and
nil
t
in the future.
will confront
liS _ ••1 , ' . , p.
o
pf r . I
X OP]
C who
h:1\'c
grow
n
d
we nC'."'U I . ~ f I ' up
Secon ,
I
.' .
,.s hr
1\'c r u l I ~
rO
Ill
t
lCl
r cver)'d
of t lc wo .... · ay
fTonl
r '1 ( act
io
n c ~ l r t
d l y
d'- \ 'O tcd to th
)1,::0l11
l l a
.
II
•
Slrugglr,
pea
l ' pt'Oplc whose brmlls
:lIle
IUnd
s will gi '
caUse
of t
he l e l ~ n n t ,
of our
Congress.
With ou t
h C \ i ~ e
~ f f ( d
to t
he
. ( ~ e c i s
~ n s
\"e sha ll
be
unable to so lve
the r I l l O ~ '
Leninist.St:lhnlst
cn
res
h
(oilers in the fight against fa SC ism
S
h I
co
nfront
t c .
problems
t :1 Ie
rquipped wil h the
COIIIP(I.$S 0 / J /a ,x ifl.
Third, we llced
ptop Ie
who arc unable to make skilful US(
of
Lenillist tll eo 'y. fO.r n 'ow make-shift polit ics . Inke d,
. . t shp
10 0 ' -
thiS
mstrumen
(0
caSC
and
lose
the
br
oad pc:rspcctiv'\
of
, ' on l)'
fr
o
ill
ca se . • I '
CISIO
II S
• . h h ws the maSSes w .let'C we
arc
gomg and
t h ~
s t r u g g l ~
\\ hl c s o .
whither
arc lcading tbe tollers . .
• the o
rg
luzisalio
t 0/
tile ma.{ C S 11\ order to PUt
Fourth, \\e Il l 'CU 'd 1
I
d ' ,
, ' ' practice. Our
I CO
oglca an poli tical
our
deciSI
Ons
m
'
I
' ,e n
ough, We must
put
n s top to ro:: mllee on
influence a one IS no h h I
" ' 'he mO :lemttlt (on the ope t at t Ie movement
sPontantl y
In
h' h '
r r
.,..'ould
de\'elop of its own accord), w IC IS 0 our .unda.
k
l
Ye
must remember
that
Witho
ut
persIstent
menta.l
wen "oesseS. •
I
ed
nt and sometimes
apparently thankless
organi
sa.
proong , p a l e , 11 k r ic
, I k
ou,
po.'
the masses
WI
nev
er
111a
' C or t
1e
om·tiona wo
r on
.
h In
order to
be
able to
orgamse
the
ma
sses we mUSt
mumst sore . k, .1
. .
acquire
L ~ n i l l
and Stalin's art rna mg
our YCCISlo
ns the
proptrty not only
of
the Commumsts
but.
also
of the b r o a d e ~
masses
of the
toilers. We must Jearll to talk to
the ~ a s s e s .
not In
the
language
of book
fonnulas, but in
the
lan g
uage of
fighters in
the
cau5'C of the
masses, whose every. word,
every
idta
reBeets
the
innermost thoughts and
sentiments of mllh
o
ns
.
I t
is with tb ese problems that I should
like
to
deal
in my
closing 5peech.
Comrades
J
The
Congress
has
w ~ l c o m e d
the
ne\\'
tacti
cnllines
with
great enthu
siasm
and
unanimity ,
Enthusiasm and
unanimif)'
\
NY
well , of course;
but
it
is
still better when these are
ate ~ i n c d with
n well ·con
si
dered and crit
ic al ~ l I > l ,
to the
coP]s th at confront us . with n proper co mprehension of
the
io
ns ad opted and
a r
eal u
nd
erstanding of the mu ns an
d
dtC
1S
h'
I I I ' ,
ethod lS
by W
IC I t I(
Se.
(
CC
ISIOIl S arc
to
be
nllplied to the
III 'c ul
ar
ci
rcu lIlst:\I\ces of eac h country .
pa
rtl
J ((cr
a ll. we have before no\\' IIn :minv)\\-;ly adopted Rood n:s.o
• o S bllt th<: trouble WIIS that 1I0t infrequently after
hl
tl o
,
d ' ,
ad pting these
CCl
sLons. w
e;
at best made them
the
l)fOpe rt y of
nfr th e sm:lll vanguard of the working class, Th ese decisions
not b
ee-o
nle
fle
sh and blood of the broad mas les; they did not
~ m a
guide to
t
he action of the millions.
CaD
we
assert tha t we
h
:l\ c
already finally ab:ln(loncd this
lonn
al
:lpproach to adopted decisions?
No
. I t must said th
at
'e
n at this Congre"s
the
speec hes
of
some of the comr
ade
gav e
~ ~ i c a t i
of remn
ants
of formalism; a desire made it<;e
1f
fel t
:1t
:inle
s
10 subs
titut
e for
the
concrete analysis of rcali ty :lnd
life's
eXperience .some so rt of new scheme, some sort of new, over
'rt1plificd hfeless formula, to repr
esent
as
actu
ally cxis/i 'l
g
what
desire.
but
does not
yet ex is
l.
The S tru
gg
le Again st Fascisltl u sl De COllu d i st d ,
No general chaTacteriS3.tion
of
fascism ,
hO\\"i:
ver co
rr
ect
in
'
t,elf,
can relieve us of t
he
need to study and
a ~ e
in to account
:he speci
fic
d e v e , l m e n t of fascism
and
the \'3rious form s
of
fasci
st ~ t o r h l P 10 indivi
dual count:
i( s a ~ d at its
variou
s
stages. It IS llCCCS$.'l ry 10 eac h counlrr to IllVcstlgate, study and
ascerta iD the national peculiarities , the specific national fea tu res
of bscis lIl
and
map ou t acco rdingly effect ive mi:thods
and
form s
of struggle agninst fa scism.
LeKin
per
si
sten
tly
warned us agaiu
st " ste re
otype
d
methods
and mechanical levelling , ag
ain
st
rend
ering t3ctical
ru l
es , ru l
es
of struggle, identical. Th is warning
is
Jl:l
rt i
cul:1rly to the
point
v.oben it is a
qu e
s tion
of
fi ghting
an enemy who
so
subtly
:lnd
Jesuitically
exploit
s the
nati
onal
sentimen
ts
3nd prejudi
c
es of
the
masses
and their
an t i·c
apitali
st
in
clina tions
in
the
intere
st s
of big
capital .
Such aft
cnemy
musl be kll
ow n 10 p crf ection,
f rom
O ,Juy
Gnt
le
.
We
mu st
without any delay wh a
tever
re
ac t t o his
various
manetu\' res, discover his
hidden
moves, he
prepared
to repel bim
io
any
arena
and at
ally
mom e
nt.
\Ve must not h esitate
even to
li6rn
from
the enemy
if
that
will
help
us
more quickly and more
effectively to / .Irillg
is neck. (Applause,)
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t HI
,o rg:lIuse< n
til
we
h tl \ e ,
front un . blis
lullcnt
of
th
e
ullIted
pro.
proletariat. • that, since th e of
Social
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ra
cy in a
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eets with
the rC
SISIr
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o n
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build in g
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ter to
sa, k '
let
:trJa
tri es it
IS l'
I the unit< d wo r ·1Ilg
·e
lass
umber of coun
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thcn dc\'c
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n Ie's fro
nt
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th
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nt on
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t are mtcr·
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tl
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f t
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t e ' a
ss
in g IIltO t Ie 0 ler In
tht
letari3n . .J ro
n
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ll
se
quenct
c o n n e c t ~ an gg le a g a J l l ~ , .
f the practic
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Ie
and th at th e re IS ce rta inly
process.
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tics of
al
e
slrug e
of th e
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w l la
rc
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3p:lrt,
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' .. wall to keep t u ~ m posed that it IS Im poss ible to
no tne..... 'o
ll
sly sup , I '
F
't cannol be se
rl
. Ie 's front Wit lout securlllg
' or I • f
aSCIs
t peap
d ,
,
blish a genuine nn
I-
k' class itself, the gUI fig OrCf
es
n f the
wor lng . " [ I
the unity of action 0 [ At
the
smu e ttm e, Ie urt l ~ r
[
rOil .
d nd s to a c
of
th i
s
an
ti ·
35C
IS 1.. .....
ed
roleto.rian fron,t e ~ , , o
n,
deve lopment of the 1100t. P [ormation II1to a people s front
po
n tts trans
siderable
degree.
u
agai nst fa5Ci sm. . ourselves a
devot
ee of cut·and,
Comr3des
Ju
st ptc
ture
to.y
upon our
resolution and con.
dried
th
eo
ri
es
o{
th i
s
k i ~ d h
t ~ o . e z : ~ 1
of
0.
true
pedant:
trh,jng his pet s
c1,)eme
WI
,
' , . front from below;
First loco.l umted
pro
e o.na
• 8
1'
hcll, rC.::;Qnal,
united fr Ollt
from
lI
elo\\';
'
fh
crNlfter, lIIlIh:d froll l
fwm
nbo\'c ,
1l
,,
>o;
illg
th rough
t
he sa
llie
'
l'S' .. , I '
'f hen , II m ly
HI t i
C tnl{ C lillian mov(:ment;
After t wt, the e nlis tmcnt of o
th
er anti ·
fa
'>C
ht par ti es;
to he foUow(:d by thc
extcnd\:d
peo l,lc's front. from
bO
\'t and bel
ow
; .
I J\ft c
r
wlllch t it(:
111
0\'(:II1(:n l IllU
>
t
be
ral scd to :1 lIgher ev(:l .
lidealiSCd, rc \'olu lio ni
:.cd,
and ~ e)\1 and so fort h . (l. :lUghteT.)
pO
y ou will say ,
com
ra
de
s , t
ha
t
th
is
I>hc
er
l\(II
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e , I
agree
, h , '011 .
lIut
the Ilufo rlunate t h i n ~ i . that in some f<lrm or
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this kUl( 0
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sense
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olh
t
. k
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entl
)' 111
ou
r
ran
·s.
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th
e mattcr rcall), s tand? Of
cou
r:.c,
we mu ::.
t s tr ive
, r
), whcrc for a br
oad
anti· fasc ist
loC
ople's
front
of s
trugglc
e\ ' \ ls t fascis
m.
B ll t in a Illimber
of coun
t
ries
we
shalt
n
ot
gct
a g ~ ~ l 1 d general t alk about the people ' :-. front, unles:, we e c e c in
be)bilisillS'
th
e ma
:,:-.
es of the workers for t hc purpost of brenk inK
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th
e r< sistallce of
Soc
ial · Democracy to
the
fo rmation of :I
do\\ . 1
f
f j'," , I
oh:t3r in n Ulllte(
ron
t 0 st
ru
gg e, liS IS lOW t Ie ma
t t
er
Ilr ods
above
n11 ill Creat
IJ rit:lin where
the
w
r k i n ~
cbss
com
s t ~ s e s
'th e
maj
o rity
of the
po
pulati
on and
wherc
the
bulk of th
e
P ~ \ k i n g class fa Uon's
thc
lead o f the trade ullions
and
the Labour
r t }
.
, That is ho w m3tt ers s tand in
i l l m
and in the Scan
d'nnnvian co u
nt
ries
wh e
re the numerically sm all Commu
ni
st
p ~ r t i e s mu s t a c ~ st;on ?, ma
ss
trade ullions 3nd numerica lly 13rge
Social-Dem ocrattc 1 3rt1es,
In th ese coull tr i es t he Communists would comm it a "''ery
rious
political
mi s take if t
hey
sh i r h d th e
struggle
to es t ablish
se
united proletarian fron t
under
co\'er of gcncro.l t3lk
about
:J
~ p l e s
(ro nt which C3nnot be formed \\ ithotl t the pa r t icipatio n
of the mass w r k i n g c l a ~ o rga
ni
sa ti o ns,. In order t o abou t
genuine
people's fron t In these
coun
tn es , t he Communtsts must
~ a r r ) out
an
en
o rm o us amount of
poli
ti ca l and orga
ni
sa ti o
nal
\\'o rk
m
th e
ma
sses of the
worker
s. Th ey mu st
ov e
rcom e the
preconceived i l , l e a o£ th e se lU3
SS\ S who
.r
ega rd
th e i r m ~
reformi st org3
1l1
sa t
IO
Ils as
already
the
embodllnen t of proletanan
unit)', They mu st co n
vince
t hese
ma
sses th a t
the
es tablishment
of:1 united front wi th Ole
Communists
m ean s a sh
ift
on t he pa.rt
of those tt1o.
ss
es to the position of the
class
s tru ggl e, and
that
this shift o.lonc will guarantee c ~ s s in the s trugg
le
a
ga i
nst the
offensive o{ capital
and
fas c is
m. \Ve
s
hall not
overcome these
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Iy
small
in
numbers , whtrt
l'Iowe\'er, . omp.'lratl
ve
1 '
he proletariat
IS
c
t _b
o
urge
ois s
trata
pre(
om1na
le
where t try and the urban pet Yd every effort
to
set
up
a firrt
the
p e a ~ ~ l e
more nccessary to b
e
\ elf so that it may be able to
it ~ : : i l f r o n t of the
w o r k ~ n g ~ I a ~ ~ r l i t l ; regard to all
the toilers,
link' 't
place as the leading
a,c
the
problem
of
the p r o l e t a r l ~
ta
-e 1 s , a\lac\-ang
l
hus comrades,
11l
h can
be no
genera
panacea
sun·
t
t
nd
the
people's
f r o n l ~
t
erIe
peoples,
In
this matter uniHt.
ron a . II
untnes,
a - II I '
bl
for all cases , a co d
the
same recipe to a coun ntS
a e . .
of one an
I
'
the
apphcatiO
n
to
say so to Ignorance:; ie.
sa
Ism,
alloW me
' b
is
equivalent, if
you \\1 ed even when it st3lks
a. out,
nay ,
ignorance
should
f l o ~ g
bo
t
in the
cloak
of
u1llversal ttt,.
" I I when It stalks aU
p a r U c ~ ar Y
APplause.)
3ud-dned schemes.
10
T/tll R ol li oj
Socia
/-D ctlloCFncy
and it l
A
II
it
4 de T O,,,llrd, the
U i/ccl
F,
tnl/ oj tll ll P, oltJta ,ia l.
COlliratk s, in "iew of Ihe IflCtic:l1 problems con front ing \1 5 , it
,
,e
r)' im
po
r
tant 10
gile fl correct reply to the quest
io
n of w
heth
er
e \ l l o C r n c y a l Ihe pre ;,cnt time is
:;
till t
he
p ri nci lml
bu
lwark
f tho.: bourgeoisie, aud if so, where?
o
Some of the comr:_des who par ticipated
in
the discussion
(Col1lr
ades Florin , D
utt)
touched upon this quest ion,
but
in
vi
ew
f its illlllOrt:lUcc a fulle r reply
u
be given to
it,
for
it is "
O
ue
st
o
n
wh ich
wo
rker
s o f
all
trends , par ticula rly Social ·
bel\lOC r:ltic workers , are askillg' and cannot
he l
p ask ing.
I t llIust be
borne
in
mind
that in
a number
of
countr i
es the
:
)Osition o f Social-Democracy in the bourgeois state , and its a tti
~ u d e towards the bourgeoisie , h3vc becn undergoi ng :1 ch :lnge.
In the first pl:'ice, the crisis ha s thorough ly shaken the position
f even
t
he 1110st secu re sect io n of th e wo rking- cl:l
ss
, t
he
so-called
:ristocraCy of labour , upon which , as we
kn
ow, Social-Democ
ra
cy
elies for suppo
rt.
T his sect io n, too , i ' begi nn
ing
mo re a
nd
more
revise its views : lS to t he e:>.:pedi -::ncy of the policy of class
collaboration with
the bo
ur
geo
isie,
Second ,
as I
IlOil1ted
ou
t in my report,
th
e
bo
ur geoisie in a
number of co
unt
ries is it self compelled to abandon bourgeoi s
democrac y
a
nd resort to the ter roris
tic
form of its
dic
ta
to
rship,
depriving Socia
l-
De moc racy no t on ly of its prcv ious posit ion in
the politica l system of fi nance cap ital, b
ut
al so ,
under
c
ertain
conditions, of its l
ega
l status , persec
utin
g
and
even su p
pr e
ss ·
ing it. .
Third, und
er
th
e lIlfluen
ce
of the lessons
learnt
from t1, .:
defeat of the work ers
in
German y , Au stria and Spa in, a defeat
which waS brg
ely
th
e result of
the
Socin.l-Democ
rati
c policy of
class collaborati on wi
th
the b ou rgeoisie , :md , o n
the other
hand,
under
the
influen
ce of
the
victory
of Soci
a
lis
m
in the Soviet Union
as a result of Bolshevik poli cy :md
the
applicat ion of
living,
revo
lutionary Marxism, th e Social·Democ ratic workers are becoming
revolutionise
d,
are beg inning t o
tum
t o
the
cl ass s
tr u
ggle against
the bourgeoisie.
The joint effect o f all th is
ha
s been
to
make
it increasingly
difficult, rind in some countries ac
tually
imposs
ible,
for
Social·
Democracy to pres
erve it
s form-cr role of
bulwark
of
the
,
bourgeoiSIe.
Failure
to
unders
tand
this is
parti
cularly
harmful
in those
countries
in
which
the
fa
sc
ist
di
c
tatorship
has
deprived Social
Democracy of it s legal status ,
Fr
om this point of view
tbe
sclf
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'
who ;n their
peechu 1Tlen.
n
C'O
l l lnH
C • I I
b
t
' C GenUll I, " " 10 I Ie
elt
Cf 0 0 SOle"
0 " · '
1g
to C ...
c
nl l
CIS
n1 ("6Sit)'
o f C(,:&
:.11
.
of
c
easing
t l ~ 1 the ~ S i O t
C O l l c c
l l ~
kl
' lI pln ec
in
it s pos it ion, Wa l.
{ormulM
an
(1Iall "e5
IUlI
h:'l,"(' 1.1 t
he
se c
han ge s
,
it
w ill lend
to
, ,ore the C .,. , gnore
.'
I '
to
11;1
' , \cM th at I w\:
f
c .l l
bil
shmg t II un ity of thl
C(l
rrc<:t . . I t ('
I I f
policY in
f
a\ ,
O
Uft b o t n o f the un
it
ed frOtH
l di stortIo n 0 d will i l i t t Ie s . I.OclllOC ru1ic lenders ,
k ' d [ \ ~ al l f th e
Soc l l
l
WOf ' ln : ', 'onar)' cleme nt s o . . " th e rl
lllk
s of th e Social.
b
'
,he
reac I , • ' 311011 11
.
I
) ~ . , of rc" O u tlOlll :.o . n
il
CO\l llt
nc s
IS (c \'clopin .
The
pro«"'"
. g
on
In
. .
I 0 •
ic Parties noW g O I ~ . led thnt th e SocIa - c m
OC
ratic
Dem
ocrat I, IIlUSt not be
11\1:1.$:11 ,
,sed will at l
ce
anc.l on a
• ,tilly c \'olutl
On
I
1I11\:\, ;\'ho nrc c c o m { C < > l l cb ss strugs c
, :\ 1\(1
workers I
:\(I
opt the posItion 0 C 1I 1l11ll is ts without ally inter_
ma SS c
h
""
'") ' unite with the
0 1 ",ies
this will be a 1Il0re or
" II st,ntg .
.
_. o {
coni ,
\\ 1_ ..1 ' s"ges In a lIu
ll h
,..r I'e" ed and
pro
long
e
( < > < : e s s
1 '\.latc . ' I
colllJ}'
f '
m
d'm
a
Ol
orc or eS5 , the co
rr
ectnes...
.
0
ou
r
POlicy
less I ICU , , rntc, 0 1 'bT h '
" tially dependent,:tt nn) . kOIl
wi
th
the po
SSI ,I lty
t a t ,
m
es.'tCn , \Ve
lIlu
st e\'en ree Ilnborntioll w
ith
the bour.
and tac
ti
CS , , ' { claSS
co
I ' ,
, {rom the posItion 0 t u g ~ l c agall1st the )OurgC<lIS
le,
P . \ ~ I ? g ,he
I
>os
ition
of
claSS s r, orgnnisations
will co
ntilltlGto
geD
ls
le
0 , p' tics all( " '
0
__ '"
DemocratiC
.11'
orgn
ni
satlonS
or
pa.rt
le
s , In
n t ~ . , ,
"'ude
nt . f I 0 _ _
, f
n time nS l i t ( e
l....
I
.ft
nO th o
ught
0 S
li
C I
I a l .
eXIst or
f
co urse, ..,.. d
h
'cnt therc cn.Il, 0 be
ing
regarde
:"IS:l
1\1 wa rk
suc C\ , ' tions or partIeS
Democrat
Ic o r ~ a , 1 l I S 3
,
of the
bourgeoiSie, h ,,., Social.Democ
ratlc
workers
t
ed
that t o ~ I' be '
t cannot be
e.
.. t
JCC
h 'deology
of
class co a ration
, fl
ence
of
tel d h ' h
v o are under
the
III u , h been instille l i l t .em In t e
" vhlch as f I '
vith
the
b o u r g e o l l ~ , \ ,'th thi s ideology 0 t
IC'lr
o\\:n accord,
cou
rse
of
dccades,
\\'111 p a ~ t
I
No I t
is
our bu
s
me
ss , the
b
' live
causes,..
' ,
f
actuated solely by 0 Jcc , to help th em free
th
emse ves
rom
business
of the
C o n ~ m u ~ l s t s
The
work
of explaining
the
the hold of
rc f
ornllst Ideol
OrgyC'
lmunism
must be carried
on
IIImeO on d
principles nnd progra f
h' and
mu st
be ndnpte
to the
patiently,
in a comradelY or i ~ ~ t , individual Social·Democratic
degree of d e \ e l ? ~ n : e n t
Social.Democracy
mllst
become more
workers, Our c f l t l c l m
ofd
must be ba
sed
on the
experience of
s ,>CCific
and
s),st-c
mat lc , an
1
, . masses themse ves.
the
Soc
ial-Democ
ratic,
. d
that primarily by utilising
their
t
must be
bo:n,e m
nun
I 'ith the
Communi
s
ts against
the
experience in
t?e
J,omt
s t r u g ~ b ~ e
\\nnd necessary
to
fa c
ilitate and
class
enemy
will
It be
~ s s t
development
of the
Social,
accelerate,
the
revoluTl1honarrS
no
more effective
means of the
Democratic workers. ere
I2
I
5 o C i B I _ D e l l l r n t i
. r k < : ~ nbando
ni
ng their vncillntion and
d ubts th all P:Ut Clpatlon
11\
the prolda,ian united front.
o \V e sha ll do all in our power to makr: it easier, not onl y fOTthe
S o C i a l c t l l r a t ~ r ~ e r
but also for those leading members of
SoCi:tI . Dcllloc
ra
tl c r t l ( and orglmi sntions who sincerely dc:sirc
to
adOJlt the revolutionary
cla
ss
position, to work and fight with
,
ng:tinst the c
Ia ' '
enemy.
At
the
5.
lllle time we dec10re
that
any
. '
oCial -Dcmocratlc l l a r y lower official, or worker who con·
tin
ues
to uphold th e disruptive tactics of the reactionary Social
J}eOlcrat
ic I
cadc:
s, ,who ~ e out against the
united
front and
thuS direc
tly
or
II
l(
lircc
tly
:
ud
the
class en..:my,
will
t
he
reby inc
ur
t
le: .
st equal guil t before
the
wo
rking
class as
th
ose who
are
~ i s t o r i n l l Y for having supported the Social·
Democratic policy
of
class collaboration, t
he
policy which
in a
nutUber
of Eur
opean cou
ntrie
s doomed the revolution in 1918
and cleared the wny for fascism,
The nttitude adopted t
owar
ds united front is the dividing
line between the reac tionary sec tions o f Soc ial-Democracy
and
the
sections that are
becoming
revo
luti
onary . Our assis tance to the
latter will
be
the more effectiv
e, the
more we
inten
sify
ou
r fight
against
the
rea c
tionary
camp
of
Social.Dem<><:racy participating
in a bloc
with
the bourgeoi
sie,
And within the Left camp the
self_determin
atio
n of the various elements will
take
place the
SOOner, the more determinedly the Communists fight for a united
front with the Social -Democratic Parties ,
The
experience
of the
claSS struggle and the participation of the Social
-
De m
oc
rats in
the united front m
ovement
will show
who in that camp
will prove
to be
f
lef t
merely in words and who is
really
Left.
Tile
United
FT
ont
m
cTumenl.
While the
attitude of Social.Democracy tow
ards
the
practical
realisation
of the united
proletari
an fro
nt
is ,
generally speaking,
the
principal indic
a
tion in
every co untry of whether the
previous
role
in
the
bourgeois
state
of
the Social-Democratic Party or
of
its
individual parts
ha
s changed, and
if
s
o,
to what extent, the
aUi·
ude oj tllc Sociai·Dem
oc Tals 011 the
issue oj Q.
united
Jront
gO VCrIIlJlcnt
Will
be a particularly cle
aT
test,
When
a situation ar is
es
in
which
the Question of creating a
united front government becomes an immediate practical problem,
this issue
will become
decisive, the touchstone for the
policy
of
Social-Democracy
in
the
given country:
either jointly with the
faSeist-bound
bourgeoisie against the working class, or jointly
with
the revolutionary
proletariat against
fascism
and reaction,
.
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r Utl II r J ,. t (' 5,'1C
rI
f .
...
1l5
How grcal wefC t I h I to s trike. R
kgal
. > ta tu s o r Its
t t ~ t 1 t
. u r e d
th
e
rig
I II (rc{'dom of the p
rc
l is , CXtCIl > I
II ".... ( s:;t ' l I lb) ' 1111 011
the
r i ~ h I
0
(l •
hiS I How llIany
IlU. >
0 t
hou
s,lnd
1II1iO
Il5
(, chist
ond
olhc r Ihc re \'o lu t ionary battl es f
OIlR
ht .
of
the
ran 'h
'
11\ •
I I In
t .
r5 gi l
' '\
t cit ry to obwtll t Ie
l.'
emcn ta,), ti t'hl
of wor",(' . nth cenl
U
. . I ' ( • ,
'n ,hc nUlett'e . ( or"'a lll
:'
lIlg
t
IClt fo r
th
Frl ln« I rtUnlt)' 0 l > • I
I •
I h I"wflll oppo . "
The
pr
ole
tariat 0 a
CO U
lilri l" i
am
t I ' .goinst the es ploltr
r ;
·: n bourge o is-delll
ocra
t ic libcrtil"
strugg .
bl
ood
10
\\1
• I " ,
sh
ed much of It5 . II . (5
SlrenJ1;lh
to ret:lIn I len} .
h
II fi"ht with I .
d will
na l
ura
)'
Ie.
eo is democracy
IS
not the
S.
llllt
on Our 3lt itudt o \ \ a r d ~ ~ U ~ l g : t n nt the time of
the
OCtObet
. . J·or
ln
; '
1 ' 1 ( I
ullcltr nil C ' O n d l Bolshevik s ru ga, .:.:(
111
a I c-al\( ·dcath
Rc,.o lut ioll, the RUS iIll.
I
.
I
p:lrties whit-h o p p o the establi
sh_
stru/:/;Ie against ~ h i p uncier t h ~ sios,:an of the
'.
lIt
of
the
proletarlRn (
'fhe
B
olshe
viks foug ht Ihest
II
)..; •
democracy. I
d
ddt'llce of bourgeoiS r o f bourgeois democ racy la
at
that
I
mr lies
be<:II
U
se
Ihe b:l
llll
l
'
nd which :lll
cOLlIl
\e r
-
revolut
io
ll
:
lry
• th talld:ltt aroll ( I I , '
li
me ~ I l l C
e ·
he
victory
0
t
Ie
pro
e
:lnat. Tht'
'1 I
to ch:llleng
e
t . . .
forces mobllse< • . I copi tahst CQ lIntnc :; :It prescllt
. . .
IilTer
ent In
I . I . . .
d .
situation IS qUltc ( .
I
, ·on is atln d:lIIg uomg<''Ols ~ m ( ) .
(
. counter-
re
, 0 11 I • • ( •
Now the aSClsl bl" h most barb:mc regIme a ex ploIta.
cracy in au cffort est
tl
( ~ o i J i n g masses. Now the taili ng
lion and
supp
ression 0 t ~ , I·st co
untri
es
arc
aC'<'d with the
. mber of capi a I . . I
masses 1Il n nu .
fill
ite choice,
and
of ru nklllg
It
to ·(
ay,
not
necessi ty of a h'p and bourgeois
dem
oc racy,
but
~ t \ \ e t ' n
proletarian dictators I d f scism
b
be
geois democracy an n .
ctW("C1l
ur . ' tulltion which difTers fr
om
l
hat
whi ch
we have n o ~ , a :
1
poch of capitalist st
abi
lisa tion . At
eX is ted, for example,dill t e c •
s
1101
"S acute
3S it is to
-day
. At
. h f ist
auger
\\ ., •
that ~ m e e asc . dicilltorship in the (orm o f bourgeOis
th at tllllC It \h
vas
bo
h
ur
g
eo,v: lutiol1ary workers
we
re fac
ing
in a
delllocCDcy t at t e r . . d h
number
o( cou
ntrie
s
and
it waS
agamst
bourgeoiS em,ocrac{y t at
I
n<enl
rating
their fire.
In GermAny,
t ICy o
ught
t ICY
were
co . bl' b
. h
IV '
ar Rel>ublic
not
because It
wa
s a reJlu lC, ut
agalllst t e elm ., .
•. . bOII,g.OI·,
repubhc
which
was
s
llppress mg the
u = u ~ l l w ~
., .
r
evolu
tio
nary
1Il
0\le
ment
of
the proletllnat, espectnlly
III
19 18
-2
0
and in 1923. .
But
could
the
Communists
maintain thlS stand also when the
16
,
I
I
. I 1I 10VClllell i hega n to raise its head, when, for illstllnee . in
f
,' C
IS
the in C enHlln), were organ ising an ti arming
9 J ~
t( l s of thousnnds of storm trooper:. IIgaiullt the workillg
hUrl;
Of course li n
t. It
w ns the mi stake of the CO llullu nist
i
in
clasS
lber of cn
unl
ries , p:l rli clliariy
in Cerma
ny , I
hat
they failed
• int O accoun t Ihe ch:lngc>; which had tllkclI place, but con-
to t.I" I I " I . I . .
d to repeal t lose s 0K:l II
'I
, 11I:llIIlalll t 1
0ll
e ta ctlca poSIuon5
lin
uc
(I .
II h
I
h
had beel cor rect a ew years }c ore , espeCla y
w
t n t
",hie I ' d ' , I ' . d ' .
Ie
for tile pro etaTl:l n IC li tor
i np
was nn IIll1ne la
le
~
stt ugl) .
G I . II .
I wh en th\: entire er n.lan cou lltcr-revo ullon was ra
yln
K"
11
11
' 1 r the
ball ller
of the Weima
r RepUblic , a5 it d id
in
19 1
8-20
.
\I11 ( C
Anll thc circlllll
o;
t:ul ce Ihat c\·
cn
to.d:. }' we mu st still nl
ake
.{crCII CC to fear ,
in
o
ur
.rank s ,
of
l
aunching
positive:
democra
tic
r
l
.nns ind ica tes how
little
o
ur
cO lllr:.<i':
i ha
ve mas
tered th
e
S
t
g
xi st .Lenini
..,
t mdhod of approaching such impo
rtant
problems
tac- t ics . So me So l y tha t the st ruggle for
democrat
ic right5
Y
d iver t the wo
rker
s from the s
lr
ugRle for the prolet:lrian
111(1 . I I ' II I , .
'd
t l t o r t Illay not )c l : I 1 I \ 1 ~ to tecn W lat _cnm S.'l l on
this question :
" Jt would be a fundamental mi stnkc to suppose that the
st ruSf,: le fo r democracy call di ve rt the
prole
l
n-
r iat from
Socialist revolut ion, or
ob
sc ure, or o vcr
:;h ad
ow
it, etc
.
On
the
co
ntr
:
uy
, j ust as soc ialism ca nn ot
he
vic tOriOliS
unless
it intro
duces
comp
lete
dem
ocra c
y,
so the IlfOld a ri
at will be unable
to
p
reJ ):l
re for victo ry o' ·
cr
t
he bourgeo
isie
unless it
\\'3ge5 a
many-sided, consistent and rcvolutionary s
truggle
for
...
em
ocracy.
These
word
s sho
uld be
firmly fix ed in
th
e me mo r ies of
all
our
~ l I l r a d c s , bearing in m ind t hat in hi story the g rcat
revoluti
o ns
hnve
grown Oll
t o f sm:
\l1
m
ovement
s for the de fe
nce
of the
elementary ri
ghts
of
t
he working
c1 ::J.SS.
But
in
o
rder to
be
able
to link up the s tr ugg
le
for de m
oc ratic
rights with th e s
trug
g
le
o(
the
working
cl
ass
(or
socialism,
it is nece
ss
ary first and fo
re m
os t
to discard any
cu t-and-dried
appro
ac
h to the qu es
ti
on of defence
of bourgeois de m
oc
r
acy. (Applause .)
A
Co
rrect
LjllC
A
10 llc
Is Nol ElIougll.
Comrade
s, it is clear, of
COl1r$C
,
th
a t fo r
the
Communist Inter
national nnd each o( it s Se c
ti
ons ,
the fundamental
thing is to
work out a correct
line
. Dut a correct line al one is not enough
for
concrete
leader
s
hip
in
the
cla
ss
struggle.
-
-,.......-::-:--:-:::-:--: -;--:-;-..: ..: .,,,--_
.
_--
•
Lenin, Selected
Works,
Vol. V •
p .
268.
.
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,
,
C'(Ult
li l ioll'" Inu ,< ' he fulfil
J.
:d ,
abo
Fl
lf
th Rt , It 11l1m wr 0 Vit 111\
Ih
(' (nllo\\,jll/,:. :. ,"'111 .... ..
1.,' 11/.·0
tll:11
h ' J l I ' ~ d c c i
\\ill
F
in-I,
orgMIISn'l . rlllt 111M al\
nh';lndcs III the WII)' Wi',
. , I
in
p
rn
.' UC'c .,. , . . , 0,
Cl l f l1 l'(
( I l l
\ VII II C(II lIr lhlc ;,\11
11\ :\1 t
he ~
r('
solu
l l:ly 0" ('1
('''>1
11
, '
' , • COllllllllni-.t Part)' or t
he
Sovie t 1 J \ ~
" "
I'\.
..s <' I h " . , 111 011
teenth .... on ... i
lf
" 10
,-a
ny
ou
t t
It' III(
: 0
the
I),
,
{'()n
ciili
o ll
<>
11.:(· . :-. ..• . , , "
tty
l loon t e . ' \
l
'l I
t i
rd v, (,bo 0 11 t Ie l (':<:ISI01\5 wh' '
",HI sho
uld
IW (
l f
. III
I
...
•
Ich
c
an
;' .
Co ,
, " re ss
IIdopl:o;
.
o u r .. .
Comrade
Stal
in
: . .
I
. " •. t h '
lt
it j",
-1I0U
, CII I
to draw
l ip a ('Qt r
.. Some IXO ll l.· I
lin..
. . t t l
" I ' "
fr
o tH t
he
ho u
sc
to PS, l'IHI1IClah::
it
in I\.
P
.
li n
e ,lroc l1I1I I . " '"
l ~ " ,,,."solu t lo n
..
(nil carry
t
le ln
Un,
.
f
\ 'rIIl th es(" l' :I t . . " n,.
f
orm
0 e
t .
,id o
"\
' com
(" of
It se ,
:llI
tonHl.tical'
,
.
or el
er to
n Ht C \ . - , , .
y
moUS
), 11\ • f -,
i
.
wrong .
lo
se w to
thlnk ,k'
_
TI I":' 0
COUf
1'C.
- . "
t
so to spct\ .. ·
1
'.
._ .
On l \' i n c o r r 1 ~ : l b l c bll
f
cauC
rt\ls
and
"
')'
1I11
<: I:I .. e\1.
r
f ,
thnt lICe g: . k th at. Att.:l l1I :ltte " o . t\ct, t lCSC ~
office rt\ts . I n tllll
b
.....
1
not
au
t
omallct\lly, bu
t as a rt slIl
I
· - were 0 t:lllh",- . " \ ,. t
t\n( , Ict
on
c:. _ p '
out the
Pa rt y
m c .
Ictor)'
n C\.t
of
a fierce
l l . ' ~ I ~ ~
r t ~
be df:l.' scd by the
h
an
d .
~
COnles by Itself- I; a;'OI1S in favour of the gencrn llinc of tllt
reso
lut
ions
t\lI
d dcc
: I ~ t \
I .
p '
the ,erely
ex p
r
ess
the
de
s
ire
••
, 1\' a hegulIlIlll>' " W
Part
y
arc
01
. ' • • After
t
he co
rrect
me ha
s bt
. .
. b "t i- not V
Ic
tor}· , b
W in ,
\1t
I :'; .
I
t ion of th e problem
la
s ~ n found
given
,
after
a
r f ( ~
so
\Inner in whi
ch t
he wo
rk
is
organiStd'
d )enels on t e lila I ,'
su
ccess el .
f tl
e s ~ : : l e
fo r
t ie
t\l=':llen hon
of
on the orgalllsation 0 tlhe l r O p ~ r se lec tio n of
workers
on
the
line
of the Part}fi"10 , of th e decisions o f the leading
. . th e full
men
supervlsmg
.
his the correct line
o f t
he Party and the
org
an
s. Without t .
I
"
ge
r of
being severe
ly damaged
lutions nre
111
(a . ,I .
correct so 1
rre
c t poli ticnl 11Ile
la
S
lce
n given
Mo re
than.
n f t e ' ~
~ r l ~
~ c c i d e s
e
ve
rythin
g,
including
th e I' ' t
self i.c. wh e
ther it is fulfilled or
(nte of the poht lcnl IOC I , ,
no t ." •
t
dd nnything
to th ese s
triking
words
I t
is hardly h n ~ Y h be
co
me
a
guiding principle
in
all
of
Co
mrade Stalin,
w IC
I
the work of o ur r t i c s : th abi/il)' to
CC
l lCr t d cc isio
)ls
oj
Ikt
An oth er condItion IS e . 5 ,. ,'n'o d llc isions 0/ , ~ ,
, . I
MId lis
ec lOri S
Communist t urla I lla • . ,
he
broad masses
fl,
tmsci Vts.
1
hIS IS all t more necesSary now,
•
Stali
n,
"
Report
on
the
W o
rk
of the
Centm\
Committee
."
See
Socialism Victoricus, pp
. 78-9.
18
\'e lire ftu:ed w ith the tnsk o f
o l g a n l ~ i
a united fr
o
nt
of
-hell \ . " . b b "
\ oletarHlt allt
(r :
lwlIlg t Ie road masses o f t e ~ e In to
,he pr,i
.
fa
sc h t p
eop
le's front . The f)()l it ical
lind
t:lct icnl
genius
1
11
: n
ill
:'11,,1 SIIII i is c\'in..:cll lI10s t c\curl y :lml most vivid ly in
of r f u l ahilit), to
ge t
the ~ - ; e to llllder:.tnnd t
he co
rn
.
C.t
hClr
n
,
t.
e all
d
t
he s logan:. of
the
l'
ilrty
th r
ough
the
ir ow n
experi
ence .
lin . folloll' up the hb lory of llo lshe vh m , that Rreatt'st of
If \ \ \e houses of
the
poli t ic:.1 s
tr
at
eH
Y anel tactics o f the revo lu ·
tr
eaSlly
movemen t , we Cl l n see for ou rselves t
hat
t
he
Bolshev iks
liou
nr
" , ' ad f
ne\'e
r
subs
tit ut
l.'{
lIlet U
X.:i
0
C:l Ing th
e
P:lrty
for mf:th 5 0
ding
the
Jll:l
:.-
.
es .
lea
<.: , . • " , h , " .
f
h
comr
ade III pOlll t
e{
Oll t t la t o
ne
0 t c: pecu lnntles 0 t e
'cs of the Ru >:.;inn Bolshevi
ks
in
the
period of prC l1a
ra t
ion for
ta
cU
" , . ' , ' , ' b ' , '
ctober
,eva
II tlOIl
COlls
lste(
11\
t lelr a • tty co
rre
ctl y to
the
....
in
e the Il:l th al1(l the turn s
which
nalur:lll)' \c3d the masses
de
te
. .. p ,
the sloga ns of the a rt y , to the vcr}' ' threshold of lh e rc\'olu ·
t? ,J
helpin.':
th em to .:i
cn sc
, to test
and
to r c a l i
~
fro m
their own
0 ~ r i e
t
he corre
ct ness of
th
ese They d id not con·
~ : s e leadershi p
of
t
he
Pa rty
wit
h
Ic
ad
cr ::.hip of th
e mnsscs, but
,
,Iy
53W the diffcf{:nce betwccn le:ldership of the fir.;t kind and
C ea
, , •.' , , .
1
cership of t H secont
" l I l e .
n th iS
way
th ey worked o ut
efl
tics as
th
e
sc
ien c
e,
not only of
Part
y
leade
rs
hip,
but
al
so
of
the
,ac
I ' ,
,'
f ' ,
le
adersh
ip of
t lC IIlI Ions 0 t OI Cr >.
Furthcrmore,
it mu s t
be bo
:'oe
in mind that
Ihe
br
oad I114SSt:S
(a nnat ass
imilat
e o ur d u isio tu ulI
less we
l
ea
r to s peak
IIl
e
Ian·
uage
w
ll i
cll tll£:
Hi sses IIlId n sta tld .
\\ l
e do
11
0t
alway
s kn ow
~ o w to spea
k s
im
p
ly, conc
r
etdy
,
in
imag
es which
a
re
familia
r
(ld intelligible to th e ma sses. W e arc stillloalh to d
ispense
with
"bstract fo rmulas
whi
ch
we
have learnt by rot e . As a matter of
~ a e t if you sc
an ou
r
leaflet
s , neWSpapers , r
eso
lut io n ::. and
theses,
.you'will find th a t th
ey
a ~ e ofte n
written
in a la n
guage
and s
tyle
SO
heavy
thnt
t
hey
are
diffi
cu
lt
for
even
ou
r P
nrty
f u n c t i o n a
10 under
s tAnd, let th e
mnk·and·filc wo r
k ers. -
If we reflec t, co m
rade
s , thnt wo rkers , especially
in
fas c
ist
countries,
wh
o di stribute or only
read
th ese leaflets
ri
sk their very
lives by do
in
g so, we s
hall
rcalise s
till
mo re clearly
the
need of
writing for the ma sses
in
n lnnguagc wh ich they unde
rs tand,
so
that the
sa c
rifi
ces
made l1Iay no t have
been
in vain .
The same
applies in
no
less de
g ree to o
ur
or a l agitation and
propaganda
. \Ve must admit quite frankly
that in this
re s
pect
tbe fascis
ts
have often prov en more dexterous a nd
flexible tban
many of
our commdes
.
1 recnl1. for ex a mple, a meeting of unemployed in Berlin
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. to I>owe r t was
at
Ihe time of the
~ o r ~ Hitle
r' :J nccC'$Slon .
,"
Ars
~ n d
the
Sk, ttilll
ious SWill
.. . .
att (
of o ~ o r n ed on for scvcrlil months. A Nation
brother
s, whi ch
1;1;" c " ing
the
meeting
Illnde
demagogic
III
' c n k c r l l l n « r
~
f ' "
s,
oc ia
1St :;1> I " OWII
cu ds. H
(' re cH e( to
I IC sWi
nd
oClha
trial,
to
further
I ~ \ e s committed by th e S
kJarck
bro t es ,
' I.
1(\
othe
r
Ctl1l . •
f l e t s
th e bnlJcr), ar h ' rll had been l t \ g or Illonths •
h
' d th at t en . , , ' f (jill
emp IlSlse
•
I
tlndrcd
s of t
iOusaIH S 0 marks
it I
ii
g'ure<1
O l l t
how 11
11\11) 1
oo,)le T o th e
:l c c O l l lp:lniIllC
n t
of I
l
ad
d
t the Ge
rm
an p . b GlI d
nlrea Y cos ker
decln
red
th
nt
such n l l t
I t s
li
S the Sklarel(
npplRuse the spen
e
shot without an)' ado , and
the
me
brother
s
shou
ld
~ ~ 1
have gone to th e unemploye d.
ney
wasted on the tna s ou
I
':"ked fo r the floor . T he chainnan
A
C
unist rose an< "" lit
omOl
.
him
but un der the pre ssure of
th
first refused to recog
d
llls
, ' hen; from the Communists he had "
d' vhich wante 0 . I 0
au Jenee \ \VI the COlllltlUllIst
go
t upon tIC pl at forrn
let him spenk . .
.1 l ~ n
t"nsc e.''\"pectfttion what
the
Communis,
bod)
' nW3Ih
::
u wll I .. ·d h '
every . Well what (II c say.
, ker would h3"e to
sa). .
. : ; p e ~
.. he began in
a
loud nnd
t r o ~ g
VOICC,
tht
Comrndes , ,s' Internation:ll h3s lust
clo
sed It
PI of the Comnlun .
I .
enum th salvation of the worklllg e ass.
The
chitf
showed the way
to
e rades is '
to
1uill
tllc majority
01
th
task puts before Y?U'(r::lgilter.') The plcnum pointed out
wo rklllg class. . . .
f ' ( ' I
d lent must be po Itlca
IS'C( •
L a
ug
Iter 1
the unempIOye" moven to r aise it to
a
,iglltl r
/
cl)cI.
(I...AlIgltte;)
The
Pl enu m ea s on us •
h ' ne strain evidently uuder the Impression
He went on m t e s:u , . . f h
P'
" ., g " authentic deciSions 0 t e enum.
that
he
was exp alOm , .., C Id
C
'd
h
speec
h appeal to the unemp oYI:U . ou they
ousuc a , ' t d d "
. f ' . the fact that first
,,
·e 111 en e to politi.
lind any
satls
actIOn
. .
h .
calise then revolutionise, and finally moblilse t em In
order
to
, 'h'
t to
a
higher
level?
(Laughter, applause.) .
raIse t elr mo\'emen .
h
h '
5
·,
mer
of
the
hall I
obs
erved
Wit . c
ag
nn
how
Ittmg
In
a co
' e '
h
'd
'ho had been so
eager to
hear
a ommUlllst
in
t
e
unemp
oye ,
n b
order to find ou t from him what to n c ~ e t e l y I egan
to
yawn
and display unmistakable signs of dlsappomtment..
And
I W
s
not at all surprised when towards the end the c h a l r m ~ n rUdely
cut Ollr speaker s
hort
without any protest ~ th.e
m
e t m g . .
This
unf
ortunately is not the only case
of
It s kmd In OUr ngtta.
tional work . Nor were such cases confined to
Germany.
To
agitate
in such fashion means
to
agitate against one's own cause.
It is hig h time
to
put an end once and for all to these, to say the
least childish methods
of
agitation.
During
my report, the
chairman,
Comrade KUlisincn, rece ived
20
I
I
,
I
I
h
rnctcristi e lette r from the floo r of the: Congress add re:sse:d to
• c , , '
l
et me real It :
me.
[n
yOllr spce<:h at the Congress, Illeasc take up the follow
. g (IU< >t ion,
1l :ll1l c ly ,
th at all resolutions
and
decisions
o P t e d in the
fu
ture
by
the Communist lnterulltional be
n'rittcn so th at not olily trained Communi sts can get th e:
, k ' , '
t
call
in
$::
, but t lal ally war 'lIlg man readlllg the materia
0
"', ,.
Comintcrn might without n
ll
y prcliminnry training be able
". , ' C' '
ec nt once w ll.t t I t.: ommullIsts want , and of what service
~ o r n l l l l l l 1 i m is to n ~ a n k i n d Some Party leaders forget th is.
They
I 1 l U
be remindcd o
f
it ,
and
very str?lIgly, too. Also
thot agitat ion for CommulIl sm
be
cond ucted I I I unde rstandable
. "
longu
ng
c
.
1
do not know exn ctly who is the author of this
letter, but I
e no doubt
that
comrade voiced in his letter the opinion
b a ~ desire of millions of work ers. Many of our com rades think
1 ; 3 t
the more .
hi.
gh-sounding word s , and the more r m ~ l a s ~ n d
h ses
unintelhglble to
the ma sses they usc, the
better
their aglta-
t.
and
propnga
nda,
for
getting
th
at
the
grcnte
st leaders and
o e o r e t i c i a n
of the working c1n
ss
of Ollr epoch,
Lelzill
and
$
Ialill,
e always s
poken
nnd written
in hig
hly
popu
lar
language
,
:W
dily
understood by the br O1d
ma
sses.
rea Everyone of li S mu st make this a
1:1w,
a Dolshev
ik
law, an
elementary rule:
Wh clI
writing
or spcakillg ahva)rs
lla-vc ill
mind t.he rank-and
f l
worke r
who
lIIust u uderstalld you, must beli ctre in )'ou,
alld
be r
ead r
to lollow
you
Y ou must ha
l)o
in mind
~ / I o s e lor w ll om you
.vritc
, to whom yo u sp e
ak.
(Appla u
se
.
Cad r
cs
·
C
omrades,
our
b
est
reso
luti
ons
will
remain
scraps
of
pape
r
11
we
Jack·
th
e
people who are
to
put them
into
effect.
Unfortu
nately, h
owever,
I mu st state
that
the problem
of
cad res, one of
the most
important
qu est ions
that
confront
us, received prac
tically
11
0
attention at th i
s
Congress. The
r-epo
rt
of
the Execu
tive Committ
ee
of
the Communist In.ternational
was
discusse
d
for
seven days. There were Illany spe
aker
s from
various coun
tries,
but only a few, and they on ly in passing, di scussed th is questi.on,
SO extremely v ital for the Commuuist
Parti
es
and the labour
movement. In their practical w
or
k our
Parti
es have not yet
• Cadres-here re ferring to
active
Party wo rkers and tunc·
tionaries,
Or
officials.-Transl.
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ich
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Ill fr
la
('
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01
( li
ll
)
I
fi nd
prol
>e
l'ly o ver
come
. Bu t
II
sunll
li
St
be
laken nllo n
('('OlI
lI Y
le-c l
to
do thi s alto
ge
th er .
eg
/ '
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JIl
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n :l :;$ I
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cc IIh
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s)
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ill
in struct IOn, ("a
mm C)
'
con tro ,
toke the (orlll o .
and
mista kes lI ml
cO ll
c n 'le, eVe r .
'
tion oC shortco
l1l1n
::I • Y a)'
guicln
ncc
. lor Ili r rrsfJ r
:.'
otiol/ 0/ t:ad , rs. \Vc II
Six
th
prop
rar
e I lUSt
. • . to wit hdraw Pnrl)' workers to I
Ie
ren r whcucvc
le
arn
prompt ) ' re and rcplllec them by o
th
ers. \V c
rill
r
c i r c I l U l s h s o , ~ c q t h i p JlM ti
cu
lnrlr
in
cO ll ll tr ies
whe
SI
demand that l e ar
·
" '" "
, " " a
SS Ullle PMMll
Ollnt
Ity for th
the Pnrtles are I ega , "" . ,
.
( cn dres.
(APP/llI
l
s
t
' . )
Ie ,?h:serva tlo
ll
of
pre5('n at 10 11 0 " highl)' efliciell t org:lIlls:u lo li of secre
cadres also presupposes . d Oy
, t 1\ of o
ur
Par lcs lIIa
llY COli
lr
a es thin"
m the Par ty . 1\ ce
r 1\1
(
'
, "
""'
jelltly prepared or till erg ro
und
exist
Ihat
the
Par le5 nre 5U .. . d , '
h
,
thc)
'
h3 \ 'C
rcorga lll se t l emsd\'es on'
ence
even t Oil S I ' . . ,
y
f
d
Og to read)"
1U
3dc rules . Wc 13d to P3y vcr),
ormn
y
aC'('()r I
k (
dearly
{ ~ r
having "ta
rte<
the real wor ' 0 reorg
3111 :,"
, tlo
ll
only
( h
P
'
I
gonc underground, und er
the
<hr ee
henvy
a
ler
t
e
arty
lac , . . t l C
b'
(
th
n. ,
n,
' Rcmcmber the se\'crc o
ss
es
IC
Ollllll
ll
nist
0 \\ '5 0 e C "
.
P
(
G
' " ,(fcred d uring
Its
trallSltlon to un d
crg
round
nrty 0 erlllon)
.
co
ndit ions Its expe rience should c r ~ e 3S n serlOliS warll lllg to
those of o
ur
llarties
wh
ich to·dn),
arc
s till Ie-gn l b ll t
Il l
:'
) lose their
legal s tatus to
·mo
rrow. .
Only
3
correct policy in regard . to cadr es WI ll e
na
b le OUr
Pnrtie
s to dcvclop nnd utilise all n V l U l ~ b l force s to
the
lltm
oS
t,
nnd ob tai n (rom the enormouS r
e.se
n ·olr of
the Ill
ass mo vement
e er
fresh rei
nf
orcements of new nnd better tlcth'e wo rk ers.
Wh at should be o ur IIIa il cr
it e
ria in selec tin g' cad res ?
Fir
st
abso
lut
e
devotion to
the cau
se o f
the
wo
rkin
g c lass
,
,
loyally 10 tile Pari' tested in face of the enemY- lIl ba
tt l
e , in
pr ison, in
court.
Second,
the closest poss iblc contact
'willi
the masses. The
comrades
co
ncerned must be wholly absorbed in t he in teres ts of
the masses, fecI the Jife pulse of the masses, know their senti.
ment's and requirements. The prestige of the leaders o f Our
Party organisation should
be
based, first of all, on the
fact
that
the masses regard them :lS their leaders,
and
are convinced
through their own experience of
their
ability as leaders , and of
their
determination and
seH·sacrifice
in
struggle.
Third, Gbilily independently to
/illd
olle's b04rings
and
not
...
I
I
I
be afrn id of
tl
u u
mir 'J.'
. i ll takins dec/l io" s. He
l?hO fellr. to tnkc , l l I 1
1 no t
II leader. 11 f: who 1Io unabl e
II displaY
li
ll·mlme. who :o-.ayli: . . ,
I I
ill do o nly \Iha t I am told
,"
not I I IInb lll: \'ik . Ouly he i
:-l
II rCl l Bolshcvik lend er who does
I
t
loSC hi
"
hcad at mome lL ts of
de fe
:' t, who
does
not g
el
a swelled
,, 0 d
nt mome nts o f
SUCC(:
5'I
,
who di splays indo
mi
tl\ble fir mness in
ht
ll
t
Cd
,
rying out ( ee1
M0
1l5. a rell
(c
\'e101) and grow best whe n the y
cur pille-cd in the IlOsit ion of hnv in g
to
solve concrete problems o f
"Ire. str uggle illdependelltl y, and are aware tha t they arc fully
t' cpOnsi
IJte
for thei r decisions.
Four th , disciplirlt and Bolshevik I,a rd t " ing in the s
tr ugg li':
lIinst th e cla ss enemy
ns
we ll
:1$
i l l thei r irreconcilable 01>p05
i.
to all dcviat ions fr om the Dolshc:vik line.
We must
pl
ace
all
the more emphas is 0
11
these condit io ns
wh ic
h the corn. <: t : c1<:ction of cadres , bec
au
se in prac·
tict pr
ef
erence IS \:cry o
ft
en glv(: n to a co
mrade
\\'ho , for
examp
le ,
mil)' be :
Ibl
c to
w ~ I l C
and be a
o o d
speake r
bu
t i s not a man
or womall o f action , IS not as SUIted for the struggle as some
ther cO llr:' de who perha ps may not be able to wri te or spt:ak 5 0
°,,
bu
t is a
comra
de , initi
at
h '(: and cont acts
, ,
with the
m:t
f,ses , a
lH IS
capable
of
goi ng i
nt
o ba
ttle
and leading
thers juto battle. (App/nll
s
.) H
:' \
'e
th
ere not been ever 50
~ l I n y
cases of sec tarian s ,
i n a ~
or moral be rs crowd ing ou t
loynl mn
SS
wo rkers , ge nu llle worklll j:t
·cla
ss leaders?
O
ur
lead ing c
au res
sh
ou
ld c
om
b ine the knowled
ge
of w hat
they mu st d
with .Bolsllev i sta Ill i
lIa ,
t c Volu tiona , > st rength 0/
'haracl
or
4 d t ile 'w I Il p O'WC t to can y it tllfougll.
10 connec tion w
ith
the q ues tion of cad res pe r
mi
t m
e,
com
rlldes, to dwell
nt.
so on the
gre
at rotc wh ich the
lrti c,nalional
ta
bO
llr
D,
/CllC
c· IS called
up
on to Ilia), in relation to the c
ad r
es
of Ihe tabo
ur
mo vement. The material and moral ass is
ta n
ce
whi ch the I. L .D. or gani sa t ions rend;;: r to ou r pri soners and th eir
families, to po
liti
c
al emi
g rn
nt
s , to
pe
rsec
ut
ed
re
volu t
io
narie
s
and
anti·fascists , ha s s. ved th e H\'es and prese r ved th e streng th and
fighting capacity of tho usands upo n th ou sa nds o f m os t valuable
fighters of the working' class in man)' co untries. Those: of u s
who
b:\\'e been ill
ja
il h
a\'e foun
d o ut d irec t } ' th ro ugh o
ur
ow n
experience
the
eno
rm
ou s s ig ni
fi
can ce of th e ac
tivity
o f the LL
.
D.
(Appla. ,)
By
its
activity. the LL
.D.
ha s won the affection, attachment
and
profound
g
ratitude
of
hundred
s
of
th ousands
of
proletarians.
and of revolutionary elements am ong the peasantry and profes-
--
-
-
-
--
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h
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IS
\'x t , '
,'
o"s when bours:cols rea ction
IS
J: ro\\,,'
,
(' '
{'nt
con( I I . . n (t
Vu( t'r ,Pf :>.
•
and
t he
d n ~ s
s
tr u g l::
I.
. IS
bccomi
n .: III •
IS
r:U:
:
Jn,c
• . '
I
ore
\ \ ' h ~ n .. f 'h , I) in crells lIIg I
lII
llh:n ;.C y. rile t" ,.
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nellie, t Ie 1 1 0
j -
to become II ge lllll l\c mass r g a l l i n t i
'- -fore the
. ~ .
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noW IC
. "
p't:llist countries p..ulleu nr y
III
(ab '
h
lo' lers
III
a ea I . .
.....
ISt
of
te l
· , 1St
ac1:Wl
il :;..:lf to
the
l a l conditio
countries where
II n i l . '
P
e\, 'Iiling there) .
I
r . l .t 0"" a- categorically nnd as s I:lrply
:\S
I
pO
And here n1ll :; . , I ,.
,
., bllrl (WC
fa
tic approllch all( a at t '
'bl ' ean Ihllt \1'
11
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51
) , ' 1 '5 dc<;"icable in the
lahour
' ~ l l l e l l t
tak e
tude toward
I } \ . ~ J >
e I - . . I I I
0 .
I . n
. h here of :le
ln
'lt\" or I IC , - . . SlIC I
an
athtud
in geller:tl,
III
I e lll . ( I ) '1" •
. '1 ,." der,"tS
on
the CrIIllIlia l. t lpp (il lS . 1(' fighters
Isnnc"I UV
f
.
• I f ·· - .
... , . the
VICtllllS
of
react
lOll :"II\( aSC1:-;1
11
who
a,.
of the wo
r"mg
c
nSS,
. .
. . . ' \ torture chambers
and
COllce lltmtlOn cant""
stllfenng :"I :'ony 11 . . I Id I' . ''',
.' I . nts amI
th
eir fanlilles 5 lOll a
meet
WIt h the
pollllcn ellllgf:l · · . .
fl '
'm
).1
thetic care
and
soliCItude on th e part 0 t Ie organ l
s,
1.
~ o s t 5)
Il'f"" etiollaries of the LL.D . (Pfolo gcd
applausl
.) i h t
lions nn • . I I' I . I
t
' ll
better
apprecIate f1n( ( I
SC
large ItS (
Uly
o(
LL ,D. must s L . d . f .
. th fighters in the prolel:·nan
an
a nI · :lSC
lst
111
0\'(,.
nSSlstmg e I I"
t
· I rl)' ,'n I,h)'sicnlly lind mom Y preserv1I1g the
ment pM ICUa .
d
" f th labour movement.
The
COllllllUII15tS lind revolu.
carcsO e 1 0 ' .
. ,. r ' ,,'ho
r '
nctive in the J, . . . org:1Il15:ltloIlS mUSt
tlOnnry
\\
'or",-,
: ; . .
. . ,
"
. t e 'cry step the enormouS respolI stlJlhty they benr before
re l l lSCn'
"
I f
the w o r k i l l class nnd the COIllJ1lUIl1St In te
rn
atlona or th e sue·
cessfu l fulfilment of the role lind t:lsks of the I.r.
,
D. (A PPlflll sc.)
Comrlldes, as you kn ow , ('(Idres recei, 'e th eir ~ s t training in
til e procrss oj struggle, in
surmounting
difficulties a nd with·
standing teslS, in studying Ja'i.'OI
Hablc
:lnd I l I l J a , l l r a b eX:l.Inples
of
conduct. We have hundreds of examples
of
splendid co
nduct
in times
of
s trikes , d u r i n ~ demonstrntions. in jail. in co urt. Wt
have thOll5.1 nds
of
ins
tances
of heroism , bllt unfo
rtunately
also
no t B few ('ases of pigeon-hellrtedness, lack of firmne ss ,
and
even
We
of
t
en
for
ge
t
the
se
examples, both
good
nnd
bad,
We
do not teach people to benefit by these
examples.
\Ve do not
.6
I
I
I
I
110\\
' th .:1Il what shou ld I,c clIlulated anel what rejected . We
5 .\ 5
Wtly
th e CO llcl u(, t
of
our c(.tInradc
'S
and acti
ve
k
III Ii
> n'
t t · .
war us
. • cia» ('a ll I(' I , at po ICc COU lt heanngs III th .. d
du
rlfl
. . , t:
Jill
5
an
n c e l l t r a t l camps, I I I
cour
t, et
c:
, The good
liide
s should bt:
cO
..ht to ami hel ll lip a . m ( ) ( l c l ~ to be. fol io ' I h ' \
br
otl
& . ' , \
_.
• .... e ( . ' I I : 1111
t
whi
ch I ' rotU' lI , 110
11
· Jo "he\' lk and ,)hllbtilll': is ,
b.
.
th 3 . , , ', O I C : R ~
" e SUICC
t i
e .el l/Zlg tna we have
l1
',d {", , , '" ' " b f
as
ll
.
' f , ' .. " mn
(.:
r
0
cOfllradl'S
a r l ~ l
be or.: bourgeOiS ll":d a ~ i S COllrt s who have
ShOI\
'1I thnt, UUI\IHulh cad res ar.:
~ w m g
up wi th an excc1h:llt
ullderS :IlIdm
g:
of
1(./wl
rea lly c:onstltllte
.
Bobhevik conduct in
cOurt,
"LIt hoW lIIany eve ll of yOIl deh:f;: ate s 10 th e Con" . ' k
u
. ,
I ' .... tess now
t t t e d ~ h c tn a 0 the railwa)' lIlc n in Rumania, kllOw about
h
t
rinl of I'l ete
Schulz
who
W:"I
S '>ubsb luell tl" behe:\(' ed b th
t e . G t 1 ( .
Y
f ~ i s t s III
crmany,
Ie tria 0 ollr \'
ahant
J :tpant M: comr:ld
1
"' awn, the trill l of the Bulgarian re,"olutionarv sold iers ed'
II" . , I . I I ' . ' ,
an
Illa
n
)' ot her s at
II
1 nt 1I11mbie exampleli of proletarian
beroism were displayed , of ~ p p l a all rise.) Such
'orth)' exa
mples
o f pro\etan
an hcrol
sm
he
,,, ,
pula,,
'·
" I . I I 'f . ~ ~ ,
m
llst
be con tr aste( Wit I tIC lIlallI
of
fainthear
tedne
ss
hilistinism, alld
e,"
cry. kind of rot and fr ailty in ou r
ranks and
PhI'
rank s
of the
cla ss.
Th e
se eXrll"plcs mu
st be
used
~ ex tensively il' CdUC3till:;. the cadres of the labou r
1ll
0\,'C.nent.
Comra
de
s Ollr Pa
rty
leaders of ten complain that
th cr
t
art.
nO peoplo; that th ey
are
short o f people for agita tional
and
propa.
ga
nda
work, for t he
new
spape rs , t
he
tr ad e
unio
ns , fo r
work
among Ihe you t h, .am? ng w
om e
n ,
Not
enough, no t
-c.n
ou g h -
thnt
is
th e
cry
. \ \ e sun ply have
n't go
t the ptopl
e.
T o th is
we
cOuld
r
ep
ly in th e o
ld,
ye t
eternally new,
wo
rd
s of Lenin :
TIIH
C arc
11 0
people
y
t t e arc cno
rm
ous
tlUlllb ers
oj
people There are
en
o
rmou
s,
number
s of
peop
le, bcause
the
working class and the dl\'erse s
trata
o f so
ciety
, yellr after
renr,
advance from t h ~ l r
ranks an
in c
re a
s
in
g
number of discon-
tented people who
de
Sire to protest,
who
a re ready to render all
the assist
an
ce they .can, in
the fi
Rht a g a i n
ab
so
luti
s
m,
th e
intolerablene
ss
of which IS no t ye t
recogni
s
ed
by all, but is never-
theless more ~ l I l d mo re, acutely s
en
s
ed
by increasing masses
of the
people. At
the ~ a . 1 l 1 e tune
we ha,'e no people,
be
cause we have no
luders,
no
po h
t.lc.al a d c r s ~ we
have
no talented o rganisers
capable of org:ulIslllg
extenSIve and at
the same lime unifo
rm
and harmonious wo
rk
that would
give employment
t o all forces
even the
mo
st
in
co ns
id
er a
ble.
. '
'Lenin, "What I s to be Done 1" Sclocted W orks Vol.
11,
p,
142,
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, bo:
o L l ~ h l y
f,:Taspcd by
C
J
elllll
III . , .
OUt
wo
rds 0 S :I
"uiclt:
I I I
t
I Cl f
c\,cry d
rlY
..
"" .
..
b,' th em 1\.
,., I
"'Olc
, , ' -..
nnd
RPI)lIt".. ', 'h '," n ;;>c<i only
:x:
( IMo
vered in
.
I a T h ."
f ~ i > l e
. " .
OU
r
There
nre
p\ell
t
)
0 .
tr
ike.; nnd d ..m on sl
r.1I1
0
1l
s , III va rio
~ " l n i dutlng s • .-. :s ill
111Ii
tcd fronl bOdi
.:
s
. 'l'h"'
0\\,
11 '
" . f the wo r ... , • . • "
O
.
«nni
l\.lUOIlS 0 .
I
co
urse of
th C
IT
w a r ' an d S
l tu
• • 1
nlllSS ' . r o W III t Ie I "
lSI be helped to _ " co
nditi
on s
where
I H:y c all
Teally' h'
1111 lUI
III
:oIlC I
t
th
ey must be I . rs
caUse
. .
U
S{'fu \I
O
the wor ke
' -, s
arc people
o f nctlOll. OUTS is
th
CommunI
>
•
IT
, ' ,
C '
Co mT:1c1cs , we. I t l'si{le :Ign ins the 0 ('nsn c 0 caPital
ob
lcnl of pr
l<'
tl(' 3 .s
f
h
, of impcri t,ii st
W3r, the s
tr
ugg
le
f '
p1
.
d the t
re3 .
I I ' _
I
' . ,
'n s l (flSC1501
an .
I t ; ,
,JrCclse
r
t l lS no c
it cal
t
. I.
g
Ill
' C
ita
ll
s
1l1
· bl " ..
t
he overthrow
0
cap
C
unist cadres the
a
If,;ntlO
n to equip
n
t
he
Ol1l1n
, - 51 "
that
i m p o ~ I ~ P O I 1 '0 11(11 )' tl l /'O ' Y, 'o
r us
a In ,
that
t
hemselves
WIth r(.110 II I . , ,
nction , h
:l
S t:lught us; theory
f
rcvolutlon.
C
g
reatest master o . " ' 31 work tbe power
0
O
1
cntatio
n
'
edulprflc l , ·
C-
I ' I '
g
i\'('s
those e
ngflS
. ,\'ork
bche I I I t
Ie trnun )
1
of
ou
,
. . Irnn
ce
m '
clarity of \'
IS
IOI1, a5S \
cause. . r th eory is irreconci
i.abl
y hostile to
any
But rC1l1 re\
·o lu.tl
.ona ~ n y futile l
oying wllb
nbstra ct 'defini.
emasculated h e o f 1 S . I I 1 ~ ~
a dogma, bi l l a
g ui d e
to nct in
l1
lenin
lions.
O
llr
III
co
ry
IS
h
....
that our
cadres
need,
and
they
It
'
sl4
ch a
t ea.:
I
used to
S.1Y · IS . cd
the ir dai ly
brcad
, ns t
ICY
need air,
need
it
as badly as the) ne.
I
to rid
our
work
o f deadeni n
...
lIy \VI S
les .
6 ,
W:lter
. \Vhocver
rca . '
s
s,
ho
ln
sticlSIll,
mu
st scnr the
..
, of permc
lOu
. '"
stereotyped schemcs: both by real,
praclical ,
actIVe struggle:
out
with a
r e d - h
Iron,
d
at
the
head of the masses ,
and
by
waged t
ogether \\lth
an . ht . fe rti le, all-
powerfu
l Bolshevik
ulltiring
elTor t a s ~
~ ~ : r ~
~ ; l s
Lenin,
St llin.
A pplnllsc.)
th eory, th e
teachlilgo
'd,"
,'t particularly
nec e
ssary
to draw
b
· t"on I conS
I .
· .
In
t
IS
connee
I
k 1 r Pa.ly sc
hools. I t IS
not pedants
. th vor'
0 ou
,
your attention to
e ' uotin
that
our schools
mu
st
train.
No
1Il0rali.sers
or
adepts
at
q
...
h g ,
th ' cause
of
the
wo
rking
class
. .
I f t ankug
tersm
I t IS practlca
ron
or
.
II
· pcol) e who
are
front-mnk fighters
tilat mu
st leave
thelr , ~ a
5-
ld
d
readiness
f
or se
lf- sacrifice
I
be
f
their bo
ness
an
. ,
not on
y cnuse 0 f
ther thnn rank-mal-file workers
and
but
also bec3use
thh'Y s,': pU:
th
that
leads
to the emancipation
of
kno
....
better
than
t
eye
, I
, All ,'ODS
of the
CommuOIst nterna
lona
must
the
toiler
s. sec I . f h
, h d ' il ,. [Iy,
ng
seriously
take
up the question 0 t e
Wit out
any I .
y-ua
, h '
" 1
P,r 'y
schools 10 order to
turn
t
em 111t
o
proper
org:ulIsat1Oo
o.
'
be
f d
smithies, where these
fightmg
cadres
are
to ,
orge .
.
TI
I'
k
01
our
P,rty
schools It
seem
s to
me, IS
toIe
pnn
c
lpa
as
' ,
teach the Party aod Young
Communist League
member
s there
28
to
appl), thc
Muxi
t-I",ui"is l method
It")
the concrete situll
~ o w in part
ic ul
ar
COun
tr ies, to defin ite condition5, not to
the
1,0
11
.
. .
. • .
..
,.]t
ng :l.I
l1 st an
tnemy II I
I(eneral " hut agamst
n
partl(::ulnr,
slr
u
.". ,- , ' . . .
"tinite
enell1Y· 'o
r
1 1IS.
purpos
t:
. lt
I.S
.
1l
cc ess
flry
to s
tudy n ~ t
d I,'
the lcll c- r of l
.c nln1
sm , hut
It
s I t v l r( \ 'ol litionnr}' spl
nt
.
Illt
re
C " -
Th ere
nre
twO wa),s 0 Ir
flll
ll ng
111 our
P:lrty sc hools:
Fir s
l
met
hod:
people ah
.,
tra ct
the
ory, try ing to
give:
the
r
)()ssi
ble do'ic of dry learni
ng,
coaching them
thefll
to write t
he
ses and resolutions in literar y style,
an
d
on
ly
\ ~ d e n t a l l Y
touchin g u
ron
t
he
problems of
tl
H: pa
rt
icular coun try
1 ;
C
he p:lrticul
:l
r l:lbo
ur.
' e m ~
l ~ t ,
t
s hi
s.
t
or
),
lr
adit ions ,
o ,)l.'ri
e ntt
of the C o m m u l I I
I
a rt)" 111 qu est IO n . Only mCI
the eX
dentall
y
. ...
Second meth od .:
suc
h
~ ) ~ o r e
c a l .
tramlllg I f )
the h l l ~ d f l m e n
, -pies
of
Ma
rx IS ]l)
-Lell1ll1sm 3S
IS
based
on
3 prac\1cal s
tudy
pnncl . .
, I
e s
tudent
of the c
:ltdmal
problems conct::rIl mg
the
s
truggle
proletari at in his
ow
n cou ntry. On return ing to his prac-
0,
t,'
'ork t
he
stu
dent
will t
hen be
able
to fm
d his
beari
ngs
il e A \\ ,
'ndependently ,
and
ecomc on
illl/C/,c Ild c
nt
/H ltc li
cal
o rRalli sc r
, d
leader capable
oj
/
ea di
l'R
t l lC masses to batlle againsl
fhe
'
lalS cll cmy.
Not all
gradua
tes
of
om P:lrty prove to
be:
sui
table
, b
Man
y
have
p
hmscs
,
ab
st
mc
tlOns , book kn
ow
ledge:
and
tun
e.. .• . .
shoW
of lcarning. D,.t we
need
real, truly BolsheV Ik or
g?
llI
sers
. d
l
eaders
of t
he maS5(
s. And we need
them badly
thiS
very
d
n I t
doe s not
mattc
r if
such
s
tud
c
nt
s
be unable to
writ
e good
.y,
theses (t
hough we need
t
ha
t
vcry mu
ch
, too)
as as t ~ e y
knoW
how
to organi
se
and
l
ead, un daunted by
difficulties ,
C3pable
of
s
urmounting ~ m .
. . .
Revolutio
nary
the
o
ry 15
t
he generalised
,
Slwltl1anscd
xpen-
Ice
of the revoluti
o
nary
mo
vement.
C
om
muni
s
ts
mu
st
carefu
lly
~ ~ i 1 i s e in their countries not
on ly
t
he
ex per
ien
ce of the past
but
also the
experience
of the present struggl( : of o ther t a c h l ~ l ~ n t ~ of
the
international
l
abo
ur
movement.
' ~ r , correct utthsatlon
of
experience
does not by any means de note
m ccllanica l transposi-
lion of
ready-
made fo
rm
s and meth
ods
of
st
ru g
gle
from onf set of
conditions to another set,
from
one co untry to another, as so often
happens
in
our Parties. Bare imitation, simple copying
of
methods and fo
rm
s o f work, even of the
Communi
st Party
of
the
Soviet
Union in countries
where
ca p
italism is
st
ill supreme, may
\1'ith the
be
st of intentions result in harm.
rather
than good, as
has so
often nctually
been the
ca
s
e,
It
is
precisely from
the
experience
of the Ru
ss
i
an Bolsheviks that we must learn to apply
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NC\'
er ha
s ~ n } '
. t e r n a t i o l l a
cO
Il
R
r<,ss
of
C
IIlUl
IISls MOIISNI s
lI
ch keen I I I t e e ~ 1 0
11
the p.l n of wor ld
0111.
opinion as \I'e \ \ i l l l ~ S S now in ~ l : : J r d ollr
pre
s<'lIt n P ~ b l i
We llIal' S3}' lI'ilholt[ fCM
of ~ R ( ' r : l t l
th ai Ih ere
i g
l'o5."
. ' I ' I S
nOt
ingl
(
se rious n('wspapcr, not a Sill
:" e
po I
II
C.1 pa rty ,
1I
0 t
a a
more or less serious polilical or puh ic pcr
so
ll:lgc
that '
{ollow
in
g t
he
co
urse
of
ou
r
Cons,:rc.<;s
w
ith th e
closes t a tt ell tionnO
The cyes of
millions
of
wo
rker
s ,
p c a ~ a
s lllall to wllS
p(:
,
office work ers a nd in te
ll
ec tua ls, of colo
ll
lll l pcop lcs an d oPp r:OPlt,
nationalilies arc turned towards Mosco\\' , the g
reat
capila l
o ~
ji rst but not lasf ut
ate
of the interna tio
ll
al
pr
olet
arint.
(A PPla tht
I
· fi · f I '
l
iSe)
II Ihls we sec a CO il Irnlat/on 0 t Ie
en
o
rm
ous
l l c e ~
urgency of the qu estions disc ussed at the
Con
greSS alld of , d
decis ions. Ti le frenzied howls
of
the
fa sc
ists
of
a
ll
CO
Unt
. lis
parti
cu larly of
Gu
mnn
fa sc
ism fumin g a t
th
e mO
ll th,
o
nly
fI
<'S,
firm us in o
ur
belief th at
our
decisions
hav
e
ind
c
ed hit th
e
~
(Applalwl ,) ,
In the
dttrk
ni
g
ht of
bourgeois re
ac
tion
an
d fa
sc
is
ul, in
wh ' b
the class enemy is endeavouring to keep the to iling lIlaSSes
cap,itali
st
co
untrie
s,
the
Communi
s t
Iu t
e
rnati
o
nal
,
th e
intert
nahonal
Party
of
th
e Bolsheviks, s
tand
s O llt like
a
betlcoll sh
.
.
II
•.. d h . h " 0\\_
I ~ g a , ; ~ t I l l l f r t
. o n ~
n
g
b
tw
a
'
to em
t
Hl
c
ipatl
on
fr
o m
the yokt
o caplla ISIll, om asclSt arbanty a lld the hor rors of imperial .
war,
lSt
TI,e es tabli
sh
ment of
unity
of a ction of
the
\\'o
rk
in g class .
d 4 '
' •
IS l\
, l eW .
e
s tage on ~ h a t road , Yes, UllIt) ' of action by the orga nisa,
tlons 0.£ the lVorklllg c J a ~ s of v ~ r y trend,
the
cO ll
so
lic1 ntio n of it
s
(orces I I I all
spheres
of Its activity a
nd
at all secto rs o ( th e cl
s
trugg
le, ass
The wo
rking
dass
mu
s t
achieve
th
e
unitu of it
s trad
.
J mo s,
.. 3
0
I
I
•
, d SOllie r
dormi
s t trade
u n io n
h:adt'r8
attempt
to
l e n
I n \,.,
k:r l with t h ~ sp<:c l re of a Irnde union dt:moc rn cy
Ihe
by
the interreren ce.-
o f
the CO llilHunist
Partie
s in Ihe
dc5Iro') 1. ,1 the II lIit<'"d tr adt' un iOIl", hy Ihl.' I.'x ist(:nce of Co mllll1 l1 ist
1 1T'urs 0 d .
, " s within the t ra
UIll
OIl'i,
(r/lClon.
To clt-pict us COIlUHU
Ili:-.
ls :I . OppO llent
"
of union demo
, '5 sheer non
.. \V
rHl\,
oc
atc alld t ~ n t l y uphold
' ,rile),
lilt o f the tra de un
iO
Il
'i I r)
lleciflc th eir
problem
s for th em-
t It: rig , , , . C
, ' ~ s , \Ve MC e\'1.'1I
p
re:p
ar
..
< r ~ , " o , t
I(
ea
0 crea
ting
a m ·
. ,
/"
. ,i
OIlS in
the tr
ade \lIuon"
I
t
w t , .
ne.-ceS5a
r}
'
to
promo
te
mUIll
S
. ,
,
u io n
IInity ,
\
Ve are: pre pa red to cOlne to term s as to
t h ~
Ira< e u
' I , . ' ,. . , .
. , _ ••d,Uce of the ulllte< Ira(e lIlIlon,., 0 a po Il lca r t l ~
Il
l(
1.'1
.....
D
'
we are decidedly opposed to any
d o; p r
lld
e ll
ce of the t r a d ~
" d · b ·
io
ns 011 the
b
ou
r .s;:<:,obie ,
and 0 110 1 g i ve up our
aSlc
poin
t of
::iew thnt it is impcrmi >sible for
trad
e u
nions
to
adop
t a
II r u lr
li
posit ion in to the class s tru gg le bt: tweell the prole tariat
lind
the bourgeoiSIe: ,
Th e work in g class mus t s
tr
i
\'\
to secu re
th
e nmalg llllla f ioll of
a
ll
forc('s of the \\'orking-cb ss youth and of all org'lIlisaliolls of
the allli.fascist yo ut
h, an
d wi n o\'('r that sec t ion of
the
lo
iling
),outh which
has
come
under
th
e
dem
o
rali
s
ing
influen
ce o f
f:l
sc
iSIll
,;;,<1
o
th
er cllemies of t
he people,
Th
e work ing cla
ss mu
st
an
d will achievc unity of :Ict ion in 311
spheres of t
he labour
mo velllent. Th i s
will
come about th e
soo
ner
the more firm ly a
nd
r('so
lutcly
we
Communi
sts and
rev
o·
lu t
ionary worker
s o f
all ca pitali
st
cou
ntri
es ap
ply
in
p
ra
ct
ic
e
th
e
new tactical
line adop
h:
-d by Oll
r Co
ng
r
ess in
rel:tt
ion
to
th
e
mo
st
importa
nt
urS{cllt {Illes t io ns o f
the in t
ernatiollal la bour
mo\'
ement.
\Ve kn
ow th at
th ere
are many diffic
ultie
s
ahead, Ou
r pa th
is
not
a
s
mooth,
asphalt
road;
our
path
is no t s
trewn
with r
oses,
The class
will h
ave
to
o\'e
r
come
mn
n)' al\
ob"o\a
cle,
obstacle
s in its 0\\'11
mi
dst , as
we
ll ; i t
st
ill f
aces the ta
sk
above all
of rendering comple
tely
ha rm less th e di s ru pt ive role of t he reac4
tiona ry el
eme
nt s o f So cinl·Democracy , Many are the 5.1.(.'r ifices
th at will be exac ted undc:r
th
e hammer blows of bourgeo is reac
tion and ~
Th
e reVOlutionary
:;;
hip of the
proletarin
t will
h
ave
,to IHlVlgate
am o
ng a multitude o f s ubmerged rock s before
r
eachm
g
safe po
rt.
But
th
e \\'
,orking
,
cl ass in
th
e capita
li st co u
ntri
es is lo-day
DO
wh
at
It,
wa
s
I,
ll
1914,
at
the
beginning
of
the imperialist
\\ a
r, nor what,
It
,,
:a5 111 T9 1S, nt th
e end o f the W3r,
The
working
class ha
s behl11d
I t
tw
e
ut)'
years
o r
ri
c h experience
and revolu•
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greet;
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T h ~
entire
co
urse of historical
p m c n t cOlll
r:ld
f:w
ours the causc of the working
class. III valli are the
efio
rt
ts,
the
a r i ~ s ,
the fascis ts of every
~ H l C ,
the
C
l l l ire
wO
rld
~ 1 J ~ f
geoisie to turn
bo
ck the wh eel of history. No ,
that
wheel
.-
turning forward and will co nt
iU
lie to t t ~ r n {orwllrd Ull til a \\'or l'5
w i d ~ Union of Soviet Socialist
R p l ~ b l ~
sh
a 1
h:
we
been l a ~
Hshed until the final victory
of
Socm
il
sm
l l ~ h o u the wh I
world.' (
Loud,
prolotlgcd applause. )
0
t
Th
er
t> ;s but
otle
thi"g Ol
at
ti,e
~ j J o r k i n g
class oj
"'e ca Pital
'
co
uII/rh's still lacks- utdt,.
ill Us
O:llll r
anks.
1ft
So let the clarion call of
Marx
aud
En ge
l
s, Lenin an
d
Star
the
battle
cry
of t h ~ Communist Interna tio
nal,
ring o
ut
aU
tl:
more loudly from this platform to the whole wo
rld
: t
W o,kers oj th e World,
Ullile I
(Loud prolonged applause.
The
vnst hall reso
nn d
s to shouts I
Hurral.
" U
Rot Front "
B a n z a i All
rise and
sing
In ie
,"otion
ale." 1'he
German
delegation o ffers a triple R
Fr
o
nt
n
Shouts oj
Long
live
Co
mrade S ial;"
"
H
L
o'fl°
I;
ve Comrade
Dimitrov
"
are
heard in
many Inng u:lges.
'fb'
delegations
of the
various countries in turn
si ng
th
ei r
son
gS
s truggle . When
the
singing
and cheering
subside for
a moment'
Comrade Manuilsky exclaims: '
" Lo
ng
li
ve Ill
e /aitll/ul and Icsted co
mpani
o/l·at-arms
0/ th'
gre4l Stalin,· lo
ng
live ti,e helmsman
0/
lI, e
Commun;st
,tc.
nalionol, Comrade D;lIIitr(1)
, "
Renewed enthusiastic applause and cheering, culminating io
m ovation
las
ting fifteen
to
twenty
minute5 .)
, »'00 Prtnlllll 00. (T.O'.>,
He'ttm
P1&ce.
Cayton
Street.
E.C.t ,
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