THE POLITICAL CAMELEON The Comintern in Power Poll Politics
OAK, LISTON M.
THE POLITICAL CAMELEON The Comintern in Power Poll Politics By LISTON M. OAK THE political world ha* **en perfidy aplenty; but never anything that plumbed the depths as does Stalin's Comintern....
...CagatoHat political patty reflect the latere*!* of the exploiters, sad tt...
...We are ready to cooperate in making capitalism work effectively in the post-war period," Browder continued...
...The proletarian revolution was to sweep the world, abolishing national barriers, conflicts, and wars...
...We may also expect th* formation of a new flock of fronts—Lincoln Schools, Jefferson Clubs, Tom Paine Forums, Community Councils, etc.—under the aegis ef the camouflaged C.P.U.8.A...
...Even such elementary measures ss the nationalization of the banks, railroads, coal and steel, although they would obviously make American capitalist economy much stronger and more capable of solving it* problems, would be resisted desperately by powerful circle* in America...
...As the economic foundation of our nation...
...I unity," Browder adds, the USA must seek "hugo foreign markets and investments . . ." which "are unthinkable except under stable conditions, free from international or civil wars...
...the —Imilsm...
...Free enterprise is not an issue in...
...national unity and international, collaboration, cries Browder...
...agiaeer* *| Sects hem...
...On January 10 the American communists held a I>enfn Memorial meeting- in Madison Square Garden in New York, and announced that the name of their psrty is to be changed...
...is convention assembled, decs hereby cancel ami dissolve iU organisattonal affiliation to the «'•**• ' assist raternattonal...
...amoral war la...
...He abandons socialist principles, HI not Btj$k0tm tactics...
...Labor must go into politics in a big way," Browder dstnand...
...Hat co chosae, pies c'tif let me me c hot*" *T*HE more it changes, the more it n mains the tspi * Stalin liquidates the generation of Bolsheviks net made the- October Revolution—several thousand* of them—end likewise the r-rrolutirmary inU-rnattooil-ism of Lenin...
...Thi* historic task require* s niiaiMtiji vaagaarrd party .rgsarzatteat, highly centrall...
...Ultra-leftist or ultra-rightist, Stalin'* line has a single purpose—the defense of the bureaucracy and of totalitarian Russian Communism, and the increase of its influence throughout the world...
...Browder1'* speech on January 10, 1944, sharply contradicts what he said on November 16, 1940, when at a national convention of the CP...
...Everything for...
...Since the American people are not prepared for Socialism, to advocate it would divide us...
...And Roosevelt's Is test speech, despite hi* national service act recommendation, it radical compared to Browder...
...Bolshevism and Nariosaf Socialism WHATEVER Lenin's faults and errors—and they " were grievous—he shared with Marx and other socialist waders the dream of n Jauicuaeit sscesty of abundance, of production for use and net for profit, in which classes would he abolished, poverty and exploitation eliminated forever...
...reformists arp agents ef capitalism witht* the ranks ef Ute...
...The Communists are":more conservative than Wendell Willkie...
...vine Coiiimiipms* Hnnfui* will throw all their strength into the CIO Political Action Committee and gain control...
...Throughout the two decsew ¦lace Stalin .became the personal dictator of Russia, there is a herd core of consistent policy in all bit chameleon-like changes of line...
...The famous 21 point* required that all branch** *] the Second International,which desired to affiliate with the Third International must subscribe to Us above "principles" of Bolshevism as developed fcj Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin...
...Quoting the post-war plans of the National Association of Manufacturers, Stalin's stooge assured the big industrialists that "there is no unbridgeable difference of opinion on the government's role tin "realizing the huge foreign markets tha,t are absolutely necessary...
...but as Preeda proved in giving Willkie a slap in the'face, the Kremlin will decide unilaterally where the border* of toe USSR shall run...
...They will sow as much disruption and confusion as before the change in name...
...Thtrefore they cannot be the program for national unity...
...The entire structure of boar teak) society mast be ¦tterly destroyed and reslarsl by Soviets...
...Ittissian nationalism has replaced socialist intematlnnalismk.il Bolshevik atrategy...
...Lenin once thundered that "elate collaborationists, social chauvmittt, cattrate Marxism, rob it of Ut evolutionary living touL") • • » Dollar Diplomacy QTALIN'S gauleiter gave his blessing to imperialism...
...geverameet Is the executive committee of tea CpajtoHgl cms...
...They will always act, not as individuals, but as a caucus, a fraction under the same strict discipline as of old...
...Tutrtmmt he ne haataaiUrisa senUmrstalit) in dealing will class sa amiss—the' **ai J astute* the mesas...
...The mcamrdJI justify the end, but the ond is defense of Svvfct Russia and its bureaucratic ruling class...
...Putrieei*m is social chauvinism, a betrayal of Heri*l**t intentaUonalMB lB Uu* ere, every wag *s an Imperialist conflict and Um policy ef Bolsheviks should he revolutionary p...
...We can with good conscience, agree ¦ [with the N.A.M.] that tkt government sjtopflf #• us further [in regulation] than the exporUestpilaUsU themselves demand in tkt interest of rmUfajr getting tkt order* and obtaining payment therefor...
...as well as amy sad alt sther bodiea of say kind owtside the boaadaries of the United Stste* of America, fer the specific purpss* of removing itself from the terms ef the HO-c*llei Voorhis act, which originated hi the House of RepreaentstWse ee UM...
...Such measures would not hsve the united support of the labor movement...
...he declared: <• "That the Commsniat Party of the U.S.A...
...they will sneak into the major political parties wherever, a dead situation gives them opportunity, professing themselves good Republicans or Democrats as the case requires...
...Not one single great socialist before Stalin— Bolshevik er Mehahevih, ever envisaged any sort of national socialism...
...No more elsss struggles, no strikes, can be tolerated...
...temesi clsasm, the Machiavellian, unsrrapaltm pass sit *f power is a stela* srik duty...
...The foundations of Bolshevism, as stated by Stalin ***Mir*jt&;iim ****** .a, w<i gr^-d^^mmtm 9m;%dti, consisted .of ^ d\f*dMrpin^fie« fftatwie agists between th...
...General Marshall is right...
...that communists favor th* two-party system, and the continuation of free enterprise...
...A Pose my Amy Other Nome . ,. AN advantage gained by this diabolocally clever maneuver is that it facilitates communist penetration into and capture of various organizations, "boring from within" under the guise of an educational organisation...
...trace...
...whose htermZ *T*Il|t5e^^^^^w'Ml^aTr d*es^a^^,Uft^ esJy a preWtariaa aactotorahsp can abolia* Um tlHIIWOmp 'of eapHai sad achieve real IrmuZ Social reform can awry patch and bolster sp Ma* Ultem...
...It Is now necessary "to eliminate the use of violent struggle for the settlement of inner problems...
...It was an international vision...
...1—94, which hss been enacted snd gees Into effect in January lMfj ¦* which law would otherwise tend to destroy, snd ! weald destroy, the position of the Commsaist Party as a legal and open political party...
...THE POLITICAL CAMELEON The Comintern in Power Poll Politics By LISTON M. OAK THE political world ha* **en perfidy aplenty...
...Msmeriol fo Lesia—1944 *T*0 an apathetic audience Earl Browder confessed the ideological bankruptcy of tarn Communist Party...
...featism—4h* ssain enemy is at home Imperialist way and capitalism ran be ended only by via...
...He quoted with Jesuitical approval the postwar program of the Committee for Economic Development, a big business planning group, for maintaining free enterprise without governmental regu' tion...
...Browder declared that "Capitalism-and Socialism have begun to find the way to peaceful co-existence i a ViW*ia , " ^"i*"*-" r and collaboration...
...The new "educational association'* which replaces the party will support "free enterprise," during and after the war...
...The answer of the New York Tim** is a scornful history of the labyrinthine twist* and turn* of the party, and the statement that "the men who sneered at Britain's agonies in 1940 and called strikes in 1941 can hardly inspire confidence now...
...s stlhti ¦ tTanfhJtTmt as an army, with a general staff of ps*f>ssi*a*l revlati—i«u...
...We lock forward to practical suggestions from the capitalists who mutt find th* solution in order 4a keep {heir plants operating...
...Even agitation for a new New Deal "would divide and weaken the democratic and progressive camp...
...Even measures of social reform ere dropped, so anxious are the communists to win the approbation of big business snd government...
...the elections...
...t*+\*%*.mfc%p^^u\1...
...This applies immediately to the American Labor Party, which will be the first victim...
...Rule or rujin," will continue as a basic tactic...
...The changr—a shi-wd move in the political chess game seems to indicate that Russia wants stabilization, not social revolution, in the post-war period, and desires collaboration with the United State* and Britain...
...Stalin has of course abandoned the ideals which once motivated aU communist*- but Stalin hss ad abandoned the bask- concept of th* Communist Pari) a* vsMfMsrd, as a strictly diseipled centralized arm} employing Machiavellian tactics...
Vol. 27 • January 1944 • No. 3
