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THE OPEN COMMUNIST PARTY THE TASK OF OF THE HOUR!
OOOOOOO OO OOOOOOOOO HE Russian proletarian revolution could hardly built their platforms. In principle there was no dif THAT ITS ADHERENTS CARRY THEIR TH FEELING OF FALSE SECURITY have come at a more critical time in the history ference between the two parties. The difference lay AGITATION INTO THE STRONGFinally, the secret organization is its own greatof the socialist movement.
almost wholly in the temperament of their respect HOLDS OF CONSERVATIVE UNION est enemy.
ive leaders.
ISM.
In the main its secrets, tho carefully kept from All over the world the revolutionary proletariat The Communist Labor Party still tried to adjust had lost its faith in the old methods of the SocialIT OPENLY CONDEMNS THE AGIthe membership, become, in a short time, the propDemocracy and in its leaders.
its activity somewhat to American realities. The. TATION FOR ARMED INSURRECTION erty of the authorities, thanks to the espionage Communist Party thought and acted as if the Rus AND OPEN REBELLION IN COUNsystem that is its inevitable accompaniment.
It found them suspicious of everything they had sian Revolution had been bodily transplanted upon TRIES WERE THE REVOLUTION IS ON THE OTHER HAND THE FEELupheld in the past, because the past had brought American soil.
STILL IN THE DISTANT FUTURE, ING OF FALSE SECURITY THAT SUCH about the demoralization of the socialist movement.
These parties had barely begun to organize when The pendulum of socialist opinion, which had AND INSISTS THAT THE COMMUNIST AN UNDERGROUND ORGANIZATION the well known persecutions and raids (January 1, MOVEMENT, IN EVERY swung so far to the right, was about to swing COUNTRY CREATES, OFFERS RICH FIELD FOR 1920) descended upon their headquarters, their equally far to the left.
MUST PROCEED AT ONCE TO THE THE NUMEROUS ROMANTIC IRREAll over the world the working class was drifting, meetings and their individual members.
CREATION OF AN OPEN, ABOVESPONSIBLES, WHO WILL BECOME The first attack drove the communist movement rudderless.
BOARD MASS MOVEMENT for the purPARTICULARLY ACTIVE IN MOVEinto hiding. And up to the present day, it has not MENT OF THAT CHARACTER.
THE APPEAL FROM RUSSIA pose of educating the proletariat and peremerged from its hiding place.
ILLEGALITY BECOMES THE END meating it with communist ideals.
Into this situation the November (1917) RevoluAND AIM INSTEAD OF NECESSITY.
tion in Russia burst like a bomb shell.
THE ROMANTICISM OF REVOLUTION MENACE OF SECRET MOVEMENT It carried us off our feet by its daring. It gave The idea of a secret organization was not forced Nothing could have done more harm to the ComTHE WORKERS back to us our lost ideals.
COUNCIL OF THE upon the communist movement by Palmer and his munist movement in America than the secrecy Its powerful romantic appeal bore us away from cohorts, however.
UNITED STATES, therefore, while it is fundawhich the action of the Department of Justice pro mentally in accord with the position of the Third a world of hopeless, cheerless realities, in a flood It had been lurking in the minds of most com voked it to adopt.
of enthusiasm.
munist enthusiasts ever since the outbreak of the International, as formulated in its recent Third ConA secret movement under the conditions that exist IT WAS THE ONE POSITIVE POINT Russian Revolution.
gress at Moscow, and while it is in agreement with at the present time is a menace to the mental inthe theoretical position of the communist moveIN WORLD OF NEGATIONS, THE The Russian movement, which had just achieved ONE RAY OF LIGHT IN ALL THIS so monumental a victory, had been a movement of tegrity of the party organization. crisis, such as ment in America, emphatically denies the wisdom the one thru which we are passing, demands consecret organizations.
HOPELESS DEMORALIZATION.
and the need of secret organizations for the propaant re orientation and readjustment on the part From the beginning of the war, even the sanest To that part of the international movement that gation of Communism in America at the present of each and every member of the organisation, as time.
had been inclined to flirt with the idea of an underhad definitely severed its allegiance to the socialwell as in the organization itself.
ground movement.
It calls upon the membership of this movement, patriotic leaders of the war period, Russia became TO DEMAND UNSWERVING ALLE to join forces with them in an earnest attempt to what Germany had been in the past.
It was a part of the atmosphere of revolution and GIANCE TO SET OF DOCTRINES create the open, above ground organization, that Just as the German movement had been the romanticism that the Russian upheaval had created.
THAT TO MORROW MAY PROVE alone will be able to reach the masses who still turn alpha and omega of socialist wisdom in the Sec But even in Russia, romance has had to give way FALSE, ENCOURAGES UNTHINKING, a deaf ear to our message.
ond International, so now Russia, its methods, its to brutal realities. The world revolution failed to SLAVISH OBEDIENCE.
FIELD OF GREAT POSSIBILITIES experiences, its theories, stood in the foreground of materialize. Instead, world imperialism has emerged, socialist thought.
for the moment more powerful than ever before.
To permit a small group of officials to dictate Before us lies a field of unlimited possibilities.
LEFTISM AN INFANTILE DISEASE these doctrines to the organization, by giving them The Socialist Party is rapidly disintegrating. The The fantastic dream that a small minority of de the power that they necessarily must have in an When the American Socialist Party was divided men and women who are leaving its ranks are ready termined revolutionists may overturn capitalism and inderground organization, means to establish a to join us.
in Chicago, in 1919, and the Communist and Com lead the proletariat into a communist state of soThe thousands who have fallen by the wayside munist Labor Parties were founded, this Russian party hierarchy that will sooner or later demoralize ciety, has vanished into thin air before the bitter the best of its leaders and dangerously weaken the since the split in Chicago, two years ago, will rally influence had already been condensed into a con experiences of the German and the Italian comto our banners.
crete philosophy.
vrility and stamina of the movement munist uprisings.
The newly organized Third (Communist) InterMUST REACH THE WORKERS Let us call them.
DEMAND MASS MOVEMENTS national had adopted a platform upon which it LET US OFFER THEM AN ORGANFrom the point of view of propaganda, the step hoped to unite the revolutionary minorities all over Russia, too, is paying the price. The great mass IZATION IN WHICH THEY CAN DO the communist movement has taken is equally diof uneducated, indifferent and even counter revoluthe world.
EFFECTIVE WORK, WORK THAT sastrous.
An outgrowth of the first epoch of the Russian tionary workers and peasants is hanging like a millCOUNTS, WORK THAT WILL REACH TWO YEARS HAVE TAUGHT US Revolution it stressed those features of the revolu stone about its neck.
THE MEN AND WOMEN WHO ARE THE HOPELESSNESS OF REACHING tionary struggle which Lenin later described in his SPENDING THEIR LIVES IN HOPEIn Russia the period of the proletarian dictatorTHE AMERICAN WORKERS THRU SOfamous pamphlet Radicalism, the Infantile Disease ship, that necessary and inevitable forerunner of a LESS DISSATISFACTION WITH CAPCALLED ILLEGAL ORGANIZATIONS.
of Communism.
ITALIST EXPLOITATION.
communist society, will extend over many years, This radicalism spoke contemptuously of mass perhaps over decades, because the November Revo In Russia, under the regime of the Czar, the secret There could be no better time. Raise your voices, movements and called for small, intensely classlution found the masses of Russia unprepared to organization prospered and grew because the great Comrades. Come out of your cellars into the open.
conscious organizations that should take upon them receive its message.
mass, however indifferent it might be, was secretly Go to your brothers in the mills, the mines, and the selves the leadership in the approaching struggle BY THE SAME TOKEN THE THIRD in sympathy with every revolutionary movement factories, and talk to them openly, fearlessly.
against world capitalism.
that threatened its oppressors.
INTERNATIONAL HAS LEARNED. IT BRING THEM INTO YOUR MEETIt demanded the organization of new, class conNO LONGER DREAMS OF SMALL In America, the great public has no patience with INGS. GET THEM TO JOIN YOUR scious labor organizations, that should completely MINORITIES BUT DEMANDS MASS Secret political organizations.
MOVEMENT. FOR THE WORDS OF demolish the old, existing bodies.
MOVEMENTS.
It still believes that the Constitution provides opKARL MARX STILL HOLD GOOD: TWO COMMUNIST PARTIES HERE IT HAS DESERTED ITS POLICY OF THE OF EMANCIPATION portunity for the outlet of all shades and variations THE This program was the basis upon which both the SPLENDID ISOLATION ON THE IN. of opinion, and is definitely out of sympathy with PROLETARIAT MUST BE THE WORK Communist Labor Party and the Communist Party DUSTRIAL FIELD AND DEMANDS any movement that fights behind a closed visor. OF THE WORKING CLASS.
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