January 3rd. 1920.
Pare ht THE COMMUNIST When the Army Joins the Polish Revolution Good Night!
the Polish Socialist Party (P. the soThe progressing process of the revoluBE Communist Party of oland which tion leads in its development to an armed called Polish Social Patriots. The latter clash of the revolutionary proletariat with party, besmirched with the constant trcason White Terror of General Pilsudsky socialthe bourgeoisie. The possibility and sig to the interests of the workers and having patriotic dictatorship. has recently held a nificance of armed demonstrations depends sold itself out to the government and the secret congress on which, among other proupon the fighting readiness of the revolu bourgeoisie, is the most dangerous, because nunciamentos, the following resolution was tionary masses and the stage of development it rests upon such working class elements adopted: reached by the revolution in our country. is still retain the idealogy of the pettyIn the seriod of the Social Revolution Such demonstrations can assume the form bourgeoisic, and because by abusing revolucach struggle carried on by the workers of the decisive struggle only at the moment tionary phrases the social patriots disrupt must become a link in the chain of revoluwhen a part of the army joins the revolu from within every revolutionary action of tionary struggles which in their final issue tionary camp, this condition being necessary the working class, spreading nationalistic Icad to the overthrow of the present order for the overthrow of the ruling bourgeoisie and opportunistic tendencies in the ranks of and to the establishment of Socialism. The and for the capture of the power from their the workers.
task of the Communists is unite the hands.
The Left Wing of the which separate manifestations of the workers In the period of the Social Revolution are was organized through the splitting away struggle and connect them with the slogans brought to the foreground all the Councils of the more revolutionary elements from of the Social Revolution.
of Workers Delegates as the represent that party, still remains a group of heterThe strength and the attacking power of atives of the working class and as the organs ogeneous clement with undefined idcas.
the revolutionary struggle increase in the of revolutionary struggle. In the moment It did not as yet succeed in ridding itself same degree in which the revolutionary of the overthrew of the bourgeois govern from the nationalistic world conception, and action embraces ever greater working mas ment they must become the organs of the in politics is leaning towards opportunista ses, penetrates into the villages and engulís revolutionary power, regardless of its course which manifests itself in its relation to the the army. The party tactic must aim at the and the possible momentary quelling of the political and cconomic problems. The ide infusion of ever larger masses into the direct Councils.
ology of this party must be subjected to revolutionary struggle. Only by means of The uncompromising struggle that the criticism and in case of combined action we mass action can the working class batter Communist Party is conducting against the must emphasize the differences which down the existing reaction and repression. bourgeois factions and parties includes also separate us.
The Menace of American Capitalism.
one with the mass of his countrymen in his instinctive distaste for national or municipal enterprise. he steers clear (Continued from page 6)
of all criticism of the merits of private property as an instrument of human ing that labor bodies were not illegal combi United States, demand a flect which ought welfare. If he had shown the Icast nations in restraint of trade, and that labor in my judgment to be incomparably the inclination to dally with Socialism, he was inherent in a man and not a commodity, greates! navy in the world. and march at would never have been President of the and a tarifi revision law.
the head of a jingo parade in Washington.
The latter was really a capitalist remedy He it was who in 1912, urged so his adL nited States. The Peace Fresident. to abolish everything that bears even the mirer, Mr. Harris, informs us that we pp. 78, 79, 80. semblance of privilege or of any kind of arti must build and buy ships in competition He must ingratiate himself with the peoples ficial advantage, etc etc. as useless and with the world, and who, in country and and recommend the United States capitalinane as the Wilson fiat what labor should Congress, pressed for state aided merchant ist politician, preacher and welfare worker no longer be a cominodity!
ships as the only shuttles that can weave to the suspicious prolc:arians of every land the delicate iabric of sympathy, comprehen which may become a reservoir of cheap and Democratizing Capitalism.
sion, confidence, and mutual dependence in industrious labor and. spacious market for Then llison and his son in law, McIdoo which we wish to clothe our policy of tie surplus commodities of American quanpusdied through the Currency Bill. establish:America for the Americans. He it was who tity production.
ing the Federal Reserve Board and Banks to begged Schwab to take in hand the con give the business men ai this country 21 struction of his sluttles of Anglo amerThe Choice Before Us.
banking and currency systein by means oí ican capitalist concord, and who entrusted The world is so weary of Capitalism and which they can make use of the freedom of his shipping program to the corporation Militarism and of all their works that it is enterprise and of individual initiative. which wiose vice president exclaimed, We are no casy task to make it safe for a safe we are about to bestow upon them. This ready to begin our struggle for our place Democracy. Be Wilson as honest and as law intended to mobilize reserves and to upon the ocean.
disinterested as we cannot but feel that he prevent the concentration anywhere in a. Steadily, cautiously, skilfully, but with inis, there is no getting away irom the fact few hands of the monctary resources of the comparable pertinacity and determination, that he adiances a vain solution, providing country, or their use for speculative purposes this Imerican Cesar planed his political ons a convenient disguise for those who in such vone as 10 hinder or impede, or counterpart for the inighty cconomic conare using him to further the reactionary stand in the way or other more legitiinate, quests of the American International Corpo purpose of defeating Socialism. He gives muie fruitful uses, was designated to make ration. They may not operate in conscious tu a disreputable cause and an unprincipled impossible another financial catastrophe collusion, but the policy which Wilson cliquc an appearance of passabe honesty, such as almost occurred in 1907 when Mor pursues towards his League of Nations respectability and progressive intent. But gan and Rockefeller smashed a band of proves him the competent collaborator of not even Wilson can make the cosmopolitian rivals and consolidated their money power.
those master ininds of capitalist statesman cabal of reactionaries now professing to lay It was a measure to set up a national ship which Standard Oil has always the foundations of a Lcague of Vrtions other ecntrol of money, to make credit inore known how to retain and to employ for the than a self constituted preliminary sitting elastic by putting the Government attainment of its ambitions. This is the of a supernational capitalist excee coinbehind the doomed moncy system, and as academic mind, the professional attitude, mittee. The workers of the world have not Mr. Wilson Harris says. to legalize ani to the philosophic detachment and the patriot ridded themselves of the mitigated feudal help make a ne place for America in the vision which completes the daring iſ unro tyrannics of Tsarskoc Selo and Potsdam to fiel dof international finance.
mantic exploits of the Rockefellers, arri cntrust their lives to a camouflaged autocUnder this act, the National City Bank mans, Rogers and Vanderlips.
racy drafted in Paris, projected from Washimmediately pened up branches in South Mr. Wilson, says m. Ircher, is ington and inspired from Wall Street. They America. In that half of the Continent as far from coquetting with Socialism as Woodrow Wilson l an American realism will find no abiding grace and saving virtue any trust magnate in Imerica. He in the fine phrases and polished periods of has exactly coincided with Vanderlip does not for a moment consider the financial and commercial idealisin.
Woodrow Wilson. They have heard the policy of taking over the Trusts and direct challenge and the frank uterancas of So dic Woodrow Wilson foster the Pre working them for the benefit of the paredness agitation, make speeches conthe Soviet Commissary for Foreign Affairs.
people. The word nationalization finds eerning the need of a navy to protect shipWhich will they choose, the benevolent no place in his vocabulary. llc would ments of the wheat of the Kansas fields and autocrat of Versailles or the fenrless spokes.
have private enterprisc open to natlonal of the other great flowering acres of the man of Brest Litovsk. Woodrow Wilson, or state inspection, but he is quite at the Liberal, or Leon Trotzky, the Socialist.