TWO International Supplement of THE COMMUNIST Political Parties in Great Britain unha descendant of the sD. Thas also under the GREETINGS TO THE HUNGARIAN OF THE THIRD INTERNATIONAL SUB B: REAU WORKERS REPORT TO THE AMSTERDAM the demand of economic readjustments, is driving Political assimillition is proceeding in Britain of the coalition and the petty and free trade in the bis interests to care for a further continuation By LENIN with a rapidity most remarkable in view of the vast amount of machinery through Social terests for the revival of liberalism The shadow of the revolution has been thrown Comrades: The tidings which we are receiving from the patriotism can be doached and crises fore energy Its climax during 1916. It had across their paths and all of them are calling for Hungarian Soviet workers in us with joy and swamped almost every section of society. Even Salvation to the same intensification of the class enthusiasm The Soviet power in Hungary is in existence ly pacifista anti war were in fact social patriots for only a little over two months, and it seems The class war was forgotten by the working class the largest of Socialist parties, was largely that the Hungarian proletariat has already surexcept a in sentiment. Its lack of clarity in the passed us in organization. This The political thought of the country was reflected of economics led it to social patriotism in popu.
because the general cultural stando comprehensible by the following parties: Liberalism Tractice. Traditionally reformist in character its lation is higher in Hungary (the percentage of Tories or Conservatives Tory Party leaders are strenuously endeavouring to lead it in the industrial is also higher letariatussia three millions in to the whole population. Liberal Party Labor Labor Party (Trade Untons, Fabians, L. Co Operative Soing intensity of the class conflict and the lessons Budapest to eight millions of the whole population cieties)
of the revolution in Europe are driving the rank in present Hungary. and, finally, the transition to the Dictatorship of the Labor outside the Labor Party: Socialist Labor to the Soviet order, and file towards the Third International. In this Party. South Wales Socialists. Workers Soc. Fedthere is great danger of an organized body accept Proletariat, was, in Hungary, far easier and more eration. Socialist Party Anarchist groups, ing new principles whilst their leaders think In peaceful Guild Socialist groups.
This last circumstance is especially important. The two parties, Tory and Liberal, reflect respectterms of the old The much less of. The mi social chauvinist and Kaustkinn Saurope of the Socialist leaders in Ively the Landed, Financial and manufacturing inof the terests. Labor and Socialist Parties reflect proleta variety of changes even though it clings to the are so sunk in the mud of philistine superstition. arinn interest, both agrarian and industrial pure and simple, brought on by tens of years of The Labor Party is yet young, the 1906 elections Labor Party. The first effects of the war was to create a split etween the social patriots, Hyndman comparatively peaceful capitalism, and of bourhaving marked its definite advent into British and Co. and the anti war elements.
geois parliamentarism that they cannot conceive politics and indicated the proletarian drift away Its next important change occurs subsequent to of Soviet power and the Dictatorship of the from the Tory and Liberal parties, the latter having Proletariat prided itself for many years fers as well as the it the traditions of parliamentarism cannot accomplish its worldcarried with The poliberating mission without removing express the interests of the workers historical It is a peculiar conglomeration of per from the and opposed industrial unionism.
capitalists these leaders from its path without pushing sons and interests and parties which has lod to them completely aside.
entirely or in part, the bourgeois lies about much confusion in estimating its capacity to ex because it possessed an alternative theory of organpress ization, as opposition to the idea of building organ: Soviet power in Russia, and could not differentiate Its primaveran interests.
action was to gather together ali izations external to the trade unions. Its nationa.
between the nature of the new, proletarian som: the elements which could lay claim to be focussing conference of 1918 showed a greater sympathy to the workers interests in order to express them Industrial Unionism, whilst the national conference ist democracy. incarnate in the Soviet power, and move towards the Third International led to the bourgeois democracy before which they servilely necessity and its platform equally indefinite. Hence resignation of two of its leaders and it stands democracy in the abstract in actual experience it is dominated by the heaviest much clearer towards a revolutionary policy both forces within it, the trade unions. Most of the imin personnel and tactics than at any time in its These blind ones. stuffed up with bourgeois portant trade unions are affiliated and put forward history. Its membership is estimated to be about superstitions cannot conceive of the universal candidates at elections under the Labor Party 6000.
historical turn from bourgeois democracy to proletarian democracy. from bourgois dictatorship to auspices. It has thus in spite of what may be Turning to the parties external to the the proletarian dictatorship. They confused one or termed the more radical elements within it, become most important is undoubtedly the another of the peculiarities of the Russian Soviet the political reflex of trade unionism. The intense Formed in 1903 it has steadily and persistently power of Russian history and its development development of the last few years has compelled focussed the class struggle, revolutionary parlia.
it to shape a policy and program which now over mentarism and industrial unionism, following on with Soviet power in fts International aspect.
The Hungarian proletarian revolution helps shadow all the minor political party elements such the lines of De Leon of America. It has never been even the blind to recover their sight. The form as the and large in membership but its influence has been felt of the ransition to the Dictatorship of the Pro Its program is essentially a reformist program, in every Socialist party in the country. It has its letariat in Hungary is far from being the same aiming at state control under capitalism. the de own press from which has emanated much good as in Russia: namely, the voluntary resignation velopment of the political democracy of capitalism, work. Vigorous and uncompromising, a pioneer of the bourgeois government, the momentary re and the industrial democracy of joint control by of revolutionary educational classes, its lecturers storation of the unity of the working class, the and literature have penetrated and It unity of Socialism on a Communist program. The of Nations and is affiliated with the Second Interalike. It had least to adjust when actual revoluessential point of Soviet power appears now ever national It gives lip service to the abolition of tion compelled all parties to review their policy so much clearer: No other authority is possible capitalism whilst the capitalists look to its deeds now anywhere in the world except Soviet power and practice. Even prior to the great event of to save them from their disaster. In its early 1917 a movement had made itself manifest within supported by the working masses with the proDonald and Snowden dominated the party. As it days the LLP leaders such as Keir Hardie, Mac letariat at their head except the Dictatorship the party for a new oriention of the party policy suitable to the conditions of Britain. It ran canof the Proletariat.
grew in strength trade union leaders such as Hen.
didates in the 1918 elections on a Soviet program.
This dictatorship presupposes the application of derson, Clynes, Thomas take their place. These are It is affiliated to the Third International. Its force, pitilessly, severe, swift and resolute to sup social patriots of the deepest dye.
press the resistance of the exploiters, the capital The party original looseness, nominally retained membership will be about 600 and its principal ists and landlords and their henchmen. He who actually steadily disappears and leaves the Socialcenter is Glasgow does not understand this is not a revolutionist The Workers Socialist Federation is of recent ist elements to function as protesting voices.
It has not become a party with machinery equal growth out of the Women Suffrage movement. It and should be removed from the post of leader and counsellor of the proletariat.
is now. definitely anti parliamentarian, proclaims to the traditional party machinery of Liberalism But violence alone is not the essence of pro and as it is inforced by the middle class elements the proletarian dictatorship and the Soviets as the learian dictatorship. nor is it mainly violence. of the old Liberal Party the voice of revolt within only means of achieving the triumph of the working class, Its main function consists in the organization and It is also affiliated to the Third International.
It but serves to stimulate and strengthen the hands discipline of the proletariat, the vanguard of the of reactionaries who lead the party. The movement Its activities are principally in London.
working masses, its only vanguard and leader. of the middle class elements referred to and the The South Wales Socialist Society is a small party Its aim is to create Socialism, to destroy the adjustment of the Labor Party machinery to accept akin to the and accepts the same prindivision of society into classes, to make workers them are indicative of the reaction upon the petty ciples and policy of all the members of society, to remove all bourgeoisie and labor driving them from the coaliThe Socialist Party of Great Britain is an inpossibility of the exploitation of man by man.
tion of the principal parties which was formed for significant group noted for their anti industrial This aim cannot be accomplished at once. it the conduct of the war.
polley and being the only true interpreters of Marx.
requires a pretty long transition period between In that coalition all Liberalism was lost by the capitalism and Socialism and for that reason centralisting and oligarchical control demanded by much active propaganda work in sympathy with the re organization of production is a difficult the war. After the climax of nationalism of social the Russian Revolution although their numbers are task: for that reason time is required for fundapatriotism had been reached in 1916. labor began not large.
mental changes in all branches of life; for that to assert itself, and as the class conflict became The Guild Socialist Groups are also doing much reason the tremendous force of habit to petty more manifest in the internal affairs of the nation propaganda for industrial unionism, whilst their bourgeois and bourgeois management can only the Labor Party was compelled to move away from theories, particularly in relation to the State, are be overcome by a long stubborn struggle. That the conlltion is why Marx always talked about the whole periIt moved not with a clear classreceiving much sympathetic attention in the od of the Dictatorship of the Proletariat as a conscious purpose, but under pressure with all the Dach of the organizations enumerated with the period of transition from capitalism to Socialism petty bourgeois thoughts of traditional trade unionexception of the have their own paper.
ism. Hence, Liberalism having been completely The The Labor Leader, the During this transition period resistance to the revolution develops not only from the capitalists Ohe only refuse of the lower middle class. The by the war, the Labor Party appears The Call. the SL The Socdalist, the but also from their numerous retainers and sycoWorkers Socialist Federation The Workers Dreadphants among the bourgeois intellectuals who recessation of hostilities with the Central Powers and nought, the of Gr. The Socialist Standsist consciously and from a numerous mass of ard, the Guild Socialist. The Guildsman.
workers too much stuffed with petty bourgeois Since the beginning of 1919 there have been efhabits and traditions usly.
the peasants)
In order to abolish classes a period of the who. very often, resist forts to fuse a number ofthese parties together Fluctuadictatorship of one class is necessary, precisely into a Communist Party tions in these spheres are unavoidable. It draws one of the oppressed classes which is able not In February of the peasant as a toiler, to Socialism, and he only to overthrow the exploiters, not only to pitiMarch the and met in conference to discuss unity. On the of the workers to the lessly suppress their resistance, but also to free this occasion the alone stood on the basis themselves mentally from all the bourgeois demois a weller of bread, sides with the bourgeoisie, cratic ideaology, from all the phrase mongering of the Third International. The Conference proved abortive, the delegation agreeing with the with freedom to trade, which means back to about liberty and equality in the who saw no reason to depart from the the traditional, ancient. good old capitalism. In fact, as Marx has shown, this phraserins designates the liberty and equality of the policy they had pursued for thirty years.
letariat, the dominance of one class, the power owners of of its organization and discipline, Its centralized equality of the odt, not the liberty and power, based upon the conquest of culture, of have met in conference several times and have enpitalist and worekr. is more, only that class of the opressed arrived at an agreement to the Third International, science of the tehnique of capitalism of the classes is able to destroy classes by its dictatorproletarian nearness to the of every ship which is trained, united, hardened by tens disagree on parliamentarism and affiliation to the worker, Its authority over the disintegrated, less of years of strike and political struggles with the The and are against parliacapital only that class which has village or in small industry it requires all this the urban, industrial and big capitalistered all mentarism and affiliation to the LP. The in order that the proletariat should be able to is for revolutionary parliamentarism but against the lend the pensantry and all the petty bourgeois preserve an develop elements in general. At this point we on parliamentarism but for affiliation to sorts of phrase mongerins about unity of the about democeave all in even them with all the people, all the only that class which will be able to about withstand all the hardships, 15, about democracy. about equalA recommendation from a recent unity conference ity of all those who toil, and so on all the and make those tremendous sacriciersen pitfalls.
placed by history on the shoulders of those who Chaumongering to which the philistine social.
formed on the basis of things agreed upon and Kautskians are and the points of difference on the be subbrenk forever with the past and bre: only inclined but for themselves the path for a new phrase. mongering will not help.
that class, which is most full of hatred and conThis babbling only serves to throw dust into has been formed, has resulted in the refusa tempt for all the petty bourgois and philistine the eyes, dulls the consciousness, fortifies the old those qualities which flourish to the even after the three months referred ing to accept the proposition of a vote on affiliation stupidities, inertia and routine of capitalism, par bourgeois clerks and intellectuele only that liguentarism and bourgeois democracy which has difficult and tenacious class struggle which ufter it is anticipated the party will vote in favor The destruction of classes is a matter of long, labor and can impressed the hardening schoothof the overthrow of the power of capital, after the work upon every toller, upon every honest man Without the nsree to fusion the W, world a better example than Soviet Russia in lishment of the dictatorship of the proletariat does not dissappear as the thinkers of believe The apparently will now have to choose the way you were able to unite at once all the between unity and affiliation to the LP The Sochin on a platform of real proletarian diced propa. chsification of the conflict and the extend.
Socialism and the old momocracy but only of all to defend it in a terrific war against the Ahead of you is the severest task becoming in many following the Russian Revolution had its effect on the in spite of its more obdurate Allies official declaration at the Scottish Conference of only by wasing the class struggle against the bourgeoisto, against the inertia, the routine and Be firm! If waverins will appear ith the Wational. It is doubtful whether this will be raentered its power, strengthen its organdeclared in favor of the Third Inter: the petty bourgeoisie can the the petty bourgeoisie suppress these wavering may be that it move will be made away from the of the influence, achieve the neutralization of ones pitilessly.
Second Intel and encouragement given to those elements who are afraid to break with coward in war.
the bourgeoisie and are following hesitatingly, the proletariat, strengthen the new discipline, the You are leading the only legitimate, just, real, revolutionary war. the war of the oppressed class demonstration line becoming more clearlsned comradely discipline of the working class, their Summins up the position therefore we find the iron bond with the proletariat, their fined in politics as in industry even though e neainst the exploiters that for the holeworkers around the proletariat, that new datlon in social patriotism: the British Labor Party be.
the Socinlism pretation of the social bond in place of the coming overwhelmed by the trade unions and the honest in the working class. is o of the middle ages in place of the discipline of hunger, the discipline of the Every month brings the universal proletarian repenery the Socialist parties into the background. free wage slavery of capitalism.
bourgeoisie and thrusting the weight of its volution nearer.
Be firm! The victory will be yours!
the revolutionary leraties move steadily towards really reflecting the same tendencies in industry This movement with and (Continued on page thwhich has the resolutenrther all its conquests, e culture ana inavoidably clear petty.
respects to changes its in the Dictatorship of the Troetariato com among January tified by the annual conference party. It To be shot is the fate of the the Longuet policy.
de.
All over the world, everyone that is on your side while the Socialist