THE COMMUNIST Page Two Communist Organizaton By Alexander Stoklitsky revolutionary organization. By the word centralization the Under the pressure of sharp criticism and finally the bourgeois conceives of all forces united in the hands of complete realization of the fact that the old Socialist Party dictator. The word when applied to the revolutionary move.
organization is not worth capturing the majority of the Left ment means that the workers consciously centralize their Wing Council, who had opposed the immediate call for the formation of a Communist Party, have come to realize their power by placing it temporarily in the hands of certain indi.
The iduals who are trusted servants of the membership and who error and have now changed their attitude toward us.
are thoroughly familiar with the problems arising out of the so called majority of the Left Wing has now fully accepted the class conflict and have sufficient historical foresight, initiative tactics of the National Organization Committee of the Communist Party; so the slogan of both groups, united as one, is and courage to function for the membership at all times. Does that mean the members have no right to criticize them? Cer.
now: Sever all relations with the old party and build up a tainly not! Any of the acts of officials can be criticized and nevy militant Communist Party.
But that criticiem must be based on Accepting this slogan, the National Left Wing Council should be criticized.
questions of principles and tactics and not against the party withdraws from the old party and joins the National Organofficials as individuals or the party orgawe as institutions. In ization Committee in its call for a convention to organize the order to immediately, or in a very short time, eliminate any new party. Issuing the joint call for the convention of Sepdisrupting elements or any traitors, it is necessary at all times tember 1, the National Council of the Left Wing comments: to be able to get the recall into action without delay. Officers Realizing also the futility of participating in the proposed are constantly under the surveilance of the group for which emergency convention of the Socialist Party, the Council does hereby join with the National Organization Committee in issu they function, so there is no opportunity for Mensheviki tendencies. Under those conditions opportunism is eliminated.
ing the following call for the organization of the Communist Centralization enables the Communists to present a solid front Party. Then follows the call issued previously by the minority Communist group and signed by both and which appears against the highly centralized and well disciplined bureaucratic organizations of the imperialists. Against the combion another page. Those who have the interests of the revonation of capitalists only a militant Communist Party, based lutionary movement at heart cannot fail but to feel elated at this outcome, as this action on the part of both groups and on the principles of democratic centralization and revolutionary discipline can succeed in establishing the revolutionary the determination to devote the combined energies of the members to the organization of the new party will mark the dictatorship of the working class. The party has to be built beginning of a new epoch in the history of the revolutionary as a revolutionary machine, which functions intelligently and moyement in this country.
consciously against the master class, caretally considering each step taken.
The revolutionary proletariat of America, passing over the ruins of the opportunistic party, faces today very vital The old socialistic party used to seeruit members from problems. One of the most important of these problems is the ranks of the petty bourgeois, rather than from the prolehow to build and how to organize the Communist Party so the tariat, as its propaganda was of a nature to appeal to the principles of Communist International can be interpreted to middle class element. It was never able to reach the masses conform to conditions of capitalism in America and put into of the proletariat where they spent most of their waking hours practice. in the factories, mills, mines, upon the railways and in the The majority of the readers of The Communist are faother industries of capitalism. We must anderstand that the miliar with the form of organization of the old Socialist Party, revolution by the proletariat must be accomplished by the with its state autonomy and its bureaucratic officialdom. Every working class itself, and that our propaganda should be of state is practically organized as an independent socialist party.
such a nature that it will have only a special appeal to the Official socialism of Milwaukee is entirely different from workers in each industry, but must be oz a general nature so official socialism in Ohio, both in regard to platforms and we can weld the broad masses of the workers into a unified form of organization. Every state has a socialism of its mass. In this struggle on the part of the working class for own brand, and even dues are not uniform throughout the emancipation, history places the Communist movement of the country. Official papers of the party are in most cases, world at the head of this mass, as the vanguard of the proorgans of independent associations, not at all affiliated with letariat.
the central party organizations. Such important weapons in the struggle of the proletariat are left in the hands of the petty The popularization of the principies of Communism and the idea of the necessity of a militant Communist Party as the bourgeois idealogists who, in reality, prostitute the labor press.
As examples, we have, for instance, The Milwaukee Leader, Shop committees for the purpose of disseminating propaganda vanguard of the working class must be our first consideration.
the New York Call, the Jewish Daily Forward, the Ap alone must be organized, so that each indiastry will be appealed peal to Reason, and many others scattered throughout the United States, and each contradicting not only the others, nacular peculiar to each particular industry. Such committo in language that the workers can understand in the rerbut containing in each issue glaring contradictions that an intelligent person who reads them becomes disgusted with the Party, so that they can always be under the direct control of tees are to be composed only of members of the Communist whole muddled mess. Such papers are even more vicious than the capitalist press, as they force upon the minds of the workers distorted ideas of the function of the proletariat. They are This work must be organized on a national scale, so that veritable poison to the minds of the workers. The Communist Party must have a uniform press so that a uniform program the central groups.
at a given date all the workers in a certain industry or all the industries can be reached. This form of organization makes every member of our movement an active participant in party can be intelligently placed before the workers of the country, affairs. Passive elements are not only uselesa, but in some cases and this press must be under the direct control of the party. a positive hindrance to revolutionary activity because of being There is only one revolutionary socialism, one Communism, out of touch with the trend of events. When this organization and whenever a reader picks up a Communist paper he will is perfected the message of Communism will reach every part then find invariably the same general principles expounded. of the industrial life of the United States and the mighty voice The Socialist Party as a whole is the best example of of the vanguard of the American proletariat will ring around pseudo democratic decentralization; in other words, it is a the world.
lame excuse of a mensheviki organization. The history of The time to think and aet is here!
the revolutionary movement throughout Europe, as well as the practical experience gained in Russia, shows how dangerous is this decentralized form of organization; dangerous because One of the Milwaukee socialist (dicials has been able to build up an eloquent defense of the actions of Scheideman, of its inefficiency in propaganda work, in educational work and in organization. The strength of the Communist Parties Ebert and their clique. Possibly he desire to defend his own in Europe is not only due to a clear understanding of the prin actions should something occur in this country, ciples of revolutionary socialism, but also to strict party discipline and democratic centralization of their organization. Unity is the plea of those who fear to break away from What do we mean by the words democratic centralization the reactionaries and dare not join with the revolutionary of our organization? Is this only an insignificant phrase? No, elements. The fence is awfully shaky, Juan; better climb off indeed! It is the most essential feature of the structure of a before you fall!