any time be disturbed in one of its corners! And a disturbance of peace
does threaten, in the first place, there where the fate of a great people is
directed by men who, owing to their hopeless ignorance and to the doctrine
they espouse, consider themselves having been called upon to rule the whole
world. This ought to be clear to every one.
These lines had not yet been printed when time brought with it new
material which is sure to convince those who still believe in the evolution
of the Bolshevics. Read the account of the session of the VI Congress of
the 3rd International which took place in Moscow during the second half of
July, 1928, and later. Read the speech of Bucharin, of this great
Soviet authority, who is at the same time a member of the “political
bureau” which actually rules Russia at present. Very expressive are even
the headings of different paragraphs of this extensive speech.
We shall mention some of the headings: — “Contradictions of
Capitalism are developing themselves in the acutest way’, that means
in Marx's idiom that explosion of the capitalistic world is near. Another
heading: “Under the flag of preparation for the war’. Third: —
“Questions of the revolution in colonies and semi-colonies.”” Fourth:
“New processes in India.” Fifth: “Our essential problems and defects.”
What do you suppose these defects are? It appears that internationality is
not sufficiently intensive enough in the 3rd International! “When the
military problem becomes a central one, chief attention must be drawn to
the question of the international education... we no doubt have obtained
rather significant results in the Bolshevisation of the communistic party, we
have made rather important conquests, we can state the growth of our
influence, we have ideologically gained new territories for communism.
Nevertheless, the intensity of the internationality of the communistic party
is still too small when compared with the tasks of the Communistic inter-
national and its sections.” Examples of this insufficiency are also men-
tioned: — “During the strike in England many parties (i. e. the com-
munistic party in many countries. J. B.) had not rendered a sufficient
help to the English workmen with exception of a few parties with R.C.P.
‘Russian communistic party) at the head, all others had not sufficiently
supported the English proletariat.” And another transgression: “such
events as the attack of U.S.A. of Nicaragua had not evoked a sufficient
reaction on the part of the American party”, i. e. the communistic party
in America.
Sixth heading: “Tactics of a common front — only from below”,
and that means the following: “The last conclusion of this tactical line
is a course towards the explosion of the bourgeois state government, a
course towards the revolution.” Seventh: “The work in the trade-unions
— a very important problem’, not in the Russian trade-unions. natu-
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