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We Want An Open Communist Party WOWA WOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOW our W04610. XXX. OXONACNOLOUHONOAUAONGAUNGWABUNUNUNUNCIONONONORONONONI MWAONGOOOOOOOOOOO DAY, to speak in favor of open propagation TO We do not deny that it is easier to maintain po THAT ARE BEING MADE, MUST STRUG expelled and delegates thrown out of the conof Communist principles by means of a legal litical purity in a body that is underground.
GLE AGAINST ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE vention.
political organization, is like carrying coals ITS VERY METHOD OF ORGANIZATION ODDS TO MAKE ITSELF HEARD AND TO The comrades who are prepared to join the open to New Castle, PRESUPPOSES BLIND FAITH IN ITS MAKE ITS INFLUENCE FELT.
Communist movement will have little patience with It is true, there is, in the Communist Party of such methods.
LEADERS AND America, still a strong sentiment against an open UNQUESTIONED OBE SUCH MEMBERS WILL BECOME DISMany of them are workers who went enthumovement.
DIENCE TO THEIR DICTATES.
COURAGED, WILL BECOME INACTIVE, siastically into one or the other of the Communist But in spite of this vehement dissension on the BUT IT IS THE PURITY OF SECT OF WILL EVENTUALLY RESIGN, WHERE parties in 1919, only to leave, after they had united, part of certain groups, the Central Executive ComBELIEVERS, AT TIME WHEN WE NEED THEY ARE NOT EXPELLED.
because membership in the United Communist mittee of the Communist Party has found that its THE UNITED THINKING POWER OF Party, as well as in the Communist Party, entailed first attempt in New York City to organize a EXECUTIVE OFFICES WILL BE FILLED a degree of self abnegation and submission to vehicle for public Communist propaganda, in reEVERY MAN AND WOMAN IN THE IN WITH MEN AND WOMEN WHO WILL authority that they were unwilling to tolerate, sponse to the instructions issued by the Third TERNATIONAL MOVEMENT TO STEER US TAKE DICTATION, WHO CAN BE RE But you will lose control of your organization (Communist) International, has met with such im CLEAR OF THE SNAGS AND THE ROCKS LIED UPON TO CARRY OUT EVERY OR if you throw it open to the entire working class, unmediate response that there can be no doubt as to THAT HINDER OUR PROGRESS.
DER THAT IS HANDED DOWN TO less you have beside it a secret body of tried Comthe success of such a move on a national scale.
munists who will keep it politically sound.
THEM, NOR ARE THERE ANY SERIOUS DIF. As the movement becomes larger you will have FERENCES OF OPINION CONCERNING CONDITIONS RAPIDLY CHANGING to deal with political demagogues, with would be THE THEORETICAL POSITION TO BE The greatest leaders have made mistakes.
TOO MUCH DISCIPLINE office holders, who will destroy its revolutionary spirit with their opportunism.
ADOPTED.
We are living in a world of adjustments. But you must have discipline!
Conditions are changing almost hourly. New un Was it not because the Second International MUST foreseen situations are constantly arising.
PROPAGATE PUBLICLY LET US BE CALM The greatness of events of the last two years has was afraid to impose its will upon the national So THE WORKERS COUNCIL and the groups distorted our vision, has often bereft us of our cialist movements that the great debacle took place Be calm, comrades!
in 1914?
that it represents have always maintained that sense of proportion.
Our movement will not grow so rapidly that the Communism can and must be publicly and legally Hun has nged, and it is often difficult to Is it not the duty of the Third International to education of its new members will not be able to propagated at the present stage of revolutionary interpret its temper.
keep strict watch over its component parts? keep pace with it.
development in the United States.
Let us concentrate Must it not guard against the disruptive inWe cannot judge world events by our old accuseffort upon our open It has opposed going underground for the pur tomed standards. Our new standard must be ad Huence of those who are anti revolutionary in organization, and there will be no need for outside pose of teaching insurrection and armed force, be justed to new conditions.
ought and action?
control.
cause such a course will ultimately make the propa The movement that is virile and alive will learn The party that must be controlled from without MOST ASSUREDLY!
ganda of violence and insurrection the aim and by mistakes, will live them down and be the greater is not worth having.
object of the organization.
BUT THERE IS EVER PRESENT THE for the fact that they have occurred.
THE MOVEMENT WHOSE MEMBERNow that the underground also admits the necesDANGER THAT DISCIPLINE BECOMES But when we give into the hands of a few. leaders sity of public propaganda and is prepared to assist SHIP UNDERSTANDS SO LITTLE OF ITS TYRANNY.
the power to dictate the policy of an entire movein the establishment of an open party, there will IDEALS AND PURPOSES AS TO NEED ment, these mistakes become dangerous.
MORE THAN ONCE, IN RECENT be no difficulty in uniting all of these forces upon THE WATCHFUL EYE OF SECRET They will become more numerous, for there is a theoretical program that will join under one banYEARS, PARTY AUTOCRACIES HAVE nothing more salutary than the knowledge that a CAUCUS, IS MENACE TO THE WORLDner all elements in the United States that support USED THEIR POWER TO EXACT OBEthousand critical eyes are watching every move REVOLUTION AND SHOULD BE ABANthe Third International.
that is being undertaken, that a thousand intelliDIENCE FROM THE MEMBERSHIP AS DONED.
AS MATTER OF FACT, THE ONLY gent minds are weighing the pros and cons of WEAPON AGAINST ITS MOST REVOLUA clear cut program that places the party unQUESTION THAT STILL DIVIDES THESE every contemplated action, TIONAY MEMBERSHIP.
equivocally among the world revolutionary moveGROUPS FROM COMPLETE AMALGAMAKarl Liebknecht failed to oppose war credits in ments, political campaigns that are straight and do TION IS THE QUESTION OF CONTINUED the Reichstag on August 4, 1914, because this fetish not subordinate the revolutionary purpose of the DANGERS OF SECRET CONTROL EXISTENCE OF SECRET ORGANIZAof party discipline was still too strongly imbedded movement to the need of getting votes, a press that TION SIDE BY SIDE WITH THE OPEN Their effect is more deadly, for they become an in his nature.
does not make concessions to its readers, these integral part of the organism, poisoning its vitals, Hugo Haase delivered the speech that justified must be our safeguards.
PARTY.
laming its effectiveness.
the position of the German social patriots in the They cannot be so easily remedied, for it is Keichstag, against his own conscience, because he MUST ALL WORK TOGETHER human nature to persist in one errors at all costs iad been taught, for more than a generation, that DOOMED BY TOO MUCH CARE This is by no means an unimportant considerarather than to admit that one has been mistaken.
arty discipline must be maintained under all Just as a child will not become self reliant so tion. The secret organization, as it is contemTHE UNDERGROUND FORM OF ORircumstances.
long as it is kept under the watchful eye of its plated by its sponsors, is to act in the capacity of a mother, so must our movement grow up free from GANIZATION PLACES PREMIUM ON controlling organ, directing the activities of the the surveilance of the parent body, free from a public party, representing it internationally, deMEDIOCRITY.
REVOLUTIONARY LABOR HELD BACK guardianship that will doom it from the outset to termining its tactics and its principles.
THAT PART OF THE MEMBERSHIP Their failure to break these bonds held back the ineffectiveness.
They insist on a system of parallel underground THAT HAS THE DESTINIES OF THE revolutionary proletariat for years, produced disOUR UNDERGROUND BROTHERS ARE groups whose membership shall, in all important MOVEMENT MOST AT HEART, AND couragement, while we needed courage, hopelessPLANNING SORT OF RADICAL PARTY questions, act as a determined unit in the open ness where enthusiasm might have won the day.
FEELS ITS INDIVIDUAL RESPONSIBILUNDER COMMUNIST DIRECTIONS.
organization.
The American Socialist Party used discipline as WE ITY MOST KEENLY, THAT CAN THINK its weapon against its own refractory revolutionists.
WANT AN OPEN COMMUNIST In other words, the secret organization is to be the mind and the soul of the public body.
FOR ITSELF AND SEES THE MISTAKES In the name of party discipline local after local was PARTY. )۱.