Stanley Disappoints Lovestone BROWDER GETS THE CALL same. Only the costumes are slightly To make up for Browder absence (and changed. The only part played by our there is only one Browder, for which one Right wing liquidators was to drum up may be thankful in these hard times. trade for the reformist montebanks in the The current issue of the Lovestone veritable shock brigade has been mus approximates a Communist position. Not sheet, under the title Militants Colhope of making some political capital out tered out of ambassadorial service and rea single word about how the minority leadof the affair for themselves. They foresaw lapse at City Meet; Fully Endorse Hillturned to the domestic front. Scanning the ers were abusing the discontentment of the quit Stand. begins its comment by say.
nothing, or more accurately, they analyzed, ship lists, we find among the returned workers following them; not a word of ing: As reseen in foresaw and foretold incorrectly. They simcolumns of the warning about the counter revolutionary atsuch lights as Bittelman, who is to take Revolutionary Age (we shall soon see what ply repeated on a small American scale Browder place on the secretariat; our tack on Bolshevism for exterminating this foresight consisted of. the the policy of Menshevism pursed by the the Mensheviks, which Stanley made in his long lost friends Juliet Poyntz and Dunne.
Stalin Bucharin regime towards failure of the militant movement in the the naand resolution; not a word to distinguish the it is said, Krumbein. With such a tional bourgeoisie of China and the Left Socialist party to make a vigorous strug.
cast, one can look forward if not to drama, workers from the leaders; not a word of gle along the entire front against the leadwing labor fakers of the British General criticism or warning, in short, of the whole then to lighter forms of entertainment.
Council of trade unions. The consequences Is Foster star all set for ership of the and against its antirise?
reformist character of His Majesty Hillof Lovestone blunders in this field are socialist policies and for a policy of revWill he henceforth be able to make a quit Loyal Oposition. Just the opposite. olutionary socialism has led to a decided less, it is true, but no slighter in their a deliberate exaggeration of its radicalspeech without submitting the outline for treacherous contempt for Communist prindeterioration of this movement and to the Harrison George approval? Will Bittelism. a glowing embellishment of its vir ciple.
success of the efforts of clever Hillquit tues.
man, who pushed the Canadian party a foot Those who believe Lovestone has learnburenucracy to kill it with kindness.
deeper into the morass on his way home, Now, after weeks of tooting the horn ed anything from the miserable debacle return to his compulsorily adopted home The article goes whimperingly on to for the militants. the Rev. Age collapses with the New York militants are doomed where he has been teaching the Kirghiz explain how the recent city convention of like a pricked balloon. Overnight, the to the same disappointment as Lovestone about American imperialism, or will be the adopted a disgracefully reform virile revolutionists of the have de himself suffered. In the same issue where stay here with the hope of swimming in a ist resolution on the city investigation cidedly deteriorated. In less time than it Lovestone so pitiably bewails the collapse smaller pond but in a bigger way? What, with the support of an alliance between takes to tell, Hillquit has succeeded in of his white hopes in New York, he pub even though it doesn matter much, will the militants and Hillquit.
killing it no less. The difference that lished a laudatory footnote on a new set Johnstone and Stachel do, following their The fact that the same individuals could not be reconciled within the realms of militants. this time in Virginia, where record of successively running to earth who voted for this resolution, continues of one party are. reconciled. In tend the state convention, following the every job with which they were entrusted?
Lovestone, only a mont in of approximating a Con munist position. Stanley policy of dumping their radicaltroduced a resolution criticizing the reAnd above all where is the luminary of Stanley and Co. are bitterly reproached by ism abroad at cheap prices and leaving yesterday, Weinstone, who is as lean and formist character of the socialist party their eulogists of yesterday for adopting none for domestic consumption, passed hungry as Cassius and ambitious as election campaign, that they spoke openly a. Hillquit position. Those funda resolutions of pious praise for the Soviet Caesar?
of the proletarian dictatorship, of the dev mentally distinguished from classical Cen republic. The real political caliber of these But all these questions are secondary elopment of socialism in the Soviet Union trism turn out to be to Lovestone am Virginia militants of the is known and tertiary in comparison with the quesand of the necessity of ending. the re azement blood brethren to Hillquit and Co. to almost everybody even slightly acquainttion of Browder future. He worked his way formist rôle of the socialist party, in How could so monstrous a transforma ed with the composition of Hillquit party. right up from the very bottom. Is he to be dicates the truth of the contention of the tion take place within so brief a period But for Lovestone, it is any port in a sacrificed just for the sake of soup kitchens. Revolutionary Age. Either a consistent Nobody, least of all the Lovestoneites, can storm.
How many weeks will it take this Such a course would be unworthy of Stalin and logical struggle against the reformist solve this conundrum, because it is falsely time for the Rev. Age to discover that who is himself as pure and transparent theories and practises as a whole and thus put. There has been no transformation, the Virginia port was a poor one, after all; as a crystal. Since Browder received the an approach to Communism or back to the at least no radical one. The essence has in fact that it was no port at all, but 18 call we tremble for his fate. Is he swamp of Hillquit Thomas reformism.
remained the same. The actors are the ther another social democratic swamp? be made a scapegoat merely for doing what One can scarcely have imagined so raStalin expected of him? Or if he is to be pid a denouement of the tragi comedy staged turned out in disgrace will he, like his pre by the leaders of the Lovestone group and decessors, be the only one to bear the the ridiculous disappointment of these MenThe upper circles of the party burcross? Is he to pass into the great unon its head with the advocacy of soup kitshevik impresarios at the unexpected turn eaucracy are once more aflutter and agog.
known from which there is no returning taken militant actors whom they chens. cheap meals, and charity relief for In the circles of the second, third and to the Stalinist apparatus. the We shudder unemployed. thus had advertised so widely. From the Comgoing Norman fourth series, the turmoil is accentuated by Thomas one better. So ardent in his adat the ghastly thought.
munist viewpoint, the Stanleys, the Mcthe prevailing uncertainty. The realizaAllister Colemans, the Leonard Brights and vocacy of this immediate relief was BrowBut after all, perhaps he has only himtion is coming over them that a jump is self to blame. He might have known that their stock company were dismissed at the der who knows the meaning of hunger so soon to be made, but Alas. the unceronce he assumed power, he would have to well from the famine years he lived through very outset as frauds masquerading as ratainty lies precisely in the fact that the run the risk of being caught up with by dical politicians. From the standpoint of under the Lovestone dynasty that a stir willing and even anxious functionary does the inexorable juggernaut of the Stalinist the Lovestoneites (i. e. of the epigones of of protest passed through the party ranks not know yet which way to jumpand apparatus. Should he fall into the list of Communism. the militants were played and even created a ripple in Moscow.
guessing has become a hazardous business Those Who Are Missing, we shall say up as just a shade or two short of being especially for those who guess wrong.
Result: Browder has received the call! sadly of him what the ancient Romans perfect Communists.
The facts of the situation available at He is on his way to Moscow to defend the said: Sic transit gloria mundi. which How and what did the Revolutionary this writing are far from promising any soup kitchens as superior to the capture translated for the benfit and instruction of Age foresee. It foresaw nothing. It did convulsive changes in the course of the of the streets. What will happen on his Jack Johnstone. You re here today and not warn the Communist workers, and party. The ideological struggles which return, if he returns, is open to conjecture. gone Monday.
even worse, it did not warn the workers in were once source of progress and loking for a way out of the reformist clarity in the Comintern have swamp, that the militant group. com debased in recent years to the level posed of a clique of second and third class of petty clique tights out which he leaders would only keep the workers an. issues victor who guesses best what new chored in the swamp. On the contrary, the wind is coming from Moscow. But even whole policy of Lorestone faction was calthese faint squeaks in the apparatus are The International Secretariat, after a demonstrates the lack of understanding by culated to keep the dissatisfied work not without their instructive features. and study of the publications of the group or the Weisbord group of the role of the Left ers tied to the Left wing reformists is the clique fights are not barren amuseganized in the United States by Weisbord Opposition, which consists of working as perpetuating their illusions about the latment.
under the name of Communist League of a faction of the Communist party with the ter. The Lovestone policy was calculated As has been known for some time now, Struggle. considers that this group does aim of correcting the political line of the upon recruiting support for Stanley, Porter the party leadership has actually been con not stand on the platform the Inter and of the and Shapiro (who are in turn the props of centrated in the hands of the Marxist national Left Opposition, although it makes Proceeding from this idea of mass Hillquit, Thomas and Lee. and not upon Center (or, as it is more popularly known use of its name and declares itself in agree work. the Welsbord group regards as Right winning the workers away from them. For in the party, the Swamp. composed of ment with it on the principled divergences wingers those who do not know how to do the Lovestoneites to speak of foresight Browder, Hathaway. Bedacht, and the which oppose it to Centrism (socialism in it and as Left wingers those who do.
and the truth of their contentions is a doughty master of Marx and Joe Miller one country, Anglo Russian Committee, Consequently, he categorically denies the perfectly shameless gambling upon the who is known as Harrison George. It has Chinese revolution. Outside of this agree existence of Centrism, finding between the short memories of their readers.
been functioning with benefit of clergy and ment in principle, the theses of this group, latter and the Right wing tendency only What did these chagrined and disap the assistance of Foster as a subordinated, the points of view expressed by Weisbord differences of quantity, and not of quality.
pointed Mensheviks say about the M111 and therefore unwilling. window front. are filled with confusion on questions no From this fact, the Welsbord group not tants and their activities a brief three or Foster position has thus been a mortify. less essential for the Left Opposition. only does not act as a faction of the party four months ago? From Herberg: The ing one: humbly taking orders from those The Weisbord considers that but further places the latter on the same resolution on Russia introduced by the he considers unfit to be his own second there is no Communist party in the United plane with the Right wing faction (LoveStanley group was thoroughly pro Soviet lieutenants. In an endeavor to find some States, that the one recognized as such by stone. not merely in sentiment but in revolution political basis for separating himself from the Communist International is only an4. The Weisbord group extols the unary class content. It is clear from a the swamp and eventually rising above other Communist group, favored over other ited front in order to realize mass work.
mere reading of both resolutions (Lee and it, Foster has developed an ultra Leftist groups by (better material advantages But as a consequence of the position of rival Stanley s) that on this question the differposition. Foster an ultra Leftist? it will militants, greater numbers, better connectand not of faction which it adopts towards ences have already. reached the point be asked in amazement. Isnt that imposed with the labor movement) but not by the party, it declares itself ready to realwhere they cannot remain within the bounds sible? Doesn it fly in the face of all the a different political situation, as a conse ize the united front with any group whatof one party. The Left group manifests laws of nature, of biology. of science? We quence of the support of the Cemintern and soever. This results in bringing him to as its chief feature continuous ever will admit that these are hard questions to the Russian revolution. The Weisbord realize not the united front but political changing dynamie character. This funda answer, but the fact remains that this is group which declares itself in a general way blocs, for example, a bloc with the Right mental feature also distinguishes the left the position Foster has taken, to the vast as constituting a faction of the Communist wingers against the Communist party ward movement from classical centrism amusement of the party members who are movement refuses to consider itself a fac(speech of Weisbord before the New York (No. 7, Rev. Age. in the know. In addition to this trouble, tion of the Communist Party of the United branch of the Communist League, January From the editorial: The Stanley res the gwamp is further tormented by the States.
1931. This tactie is contrary to the tacolution) basing itself on the proletarian position of mild hostility taken by John2 The Weisbord group considers that tic of the International Left Opposition tocharacter of the Soviet state very closely stone, on the one hand, and Stachel, on the task of every Communist group is to wards the Communist parties.
approximates a Communist position. No. the other. What they tand for known do mass work and that if it knows how The confusionist points of view in the Rev. Age. by very few today, just very few ever to do it and to extend it to every branch of Weisbord group can only lead it into a From Gitlow: But the differences be knew what these two stood for. But they are activity, it then becomes the Communist blind alley, and use up the activity of the tween the Militants and the Oneals, Hill to be seen constantly in back rooms, along party. It is immediately apparent that this few militants which it has grouped around quits, Lees and Thomases are differences of corridors, behind screens and similar safe group further, makes an abstraction of itself as a total loss to the working class.
principle of such a character that they can places shrugging their shoulders, lifting the existence of the Comintern and that it The Communist League (Opposition. which not be reconciled within the realms of one their brows, and whispering cautious considers the Communist parties as having is THE ONLY ORGANIZATION IN THE party. No. 9, Rev. Age. syllable or two about the source of all evil to form themselves outside of the revolu UNITED STATES ADHERING TO THE bare four months ago, therefore, our in the party coming from the top. tionary forces existing in our epoch. In INTERNATIONAL BUREAU OF THE LEFT foresighed politicians solemnly estab To cap the confusion, the center of addition, under the formula mass work OPPOSITION, will strengthen its work of lished the militants as: Distinguished wisdom, Browder, has disappeard. Many which it defines as the work of a group persuasion among the revolutionary workfrom classical Centrism by a fundament will remember this name as the author of which fights for the deep needs of the mass ers of the United States party members, al feature. Having differences which the conquest of the streets and the es, the Weisbord group understands an ac adherents to the Weisbord group, Communhave already reached the point and are theory that we are on the eve of a rev tivity entirely independent from that of ist sympathizers. in order to convince them of such a character that they cannot be olutionary crisis in the United States the the Communist party, deeming it necessary of the correctness of the points of view reconciled with the standpoint of HI only man who ever went Bittelman to address itself to all the workers with of the International Left Opposition. In quit: Having a position on the proletar apex one better. This same Browder, its own program, its own aims, its own its turn, the latter will give its full coian dictatorship in the Soviet Union which however, recently did a somersault with all methods. It reproaches the Communist operation to its American section (Comde thoroughly pro Soviet in its revolu the skill of a trained acrobat. From con League (Opposition) in the United States munist League of America. ry class content, and very closely quering the streets, he turned the party as being only a propaganda group, which THE INTERNATIONAL SECRETARIAT a been Resolution of the International Secretariat on the Weisbord Group