PROTECTING DEMOCRACY FROM FIFTH COLUMN
I Wm Framed, says BrowdW BROWDER WAS FBAMED by his comradet, he complains, who ousted him from the secretaryship of the CP, and resorted to slander, espionage, and character assassination to...
...After Id years as party spokesmen, I was faced with the necessity to find private employment...
...WHAT IS BROWDERISM...
...When, Comrade Browder, did you permit any criticism when you were the boss of the CPT Browder's circular letter to the members of the CP makes it clear that "all criticism has been silenced" in the party, and that "inner-party democracy has been destroyed...
...Insisting thst he is a loyal Communist, he asks only "for the right to be a rank-and-file member . . . end for the right to raise my voice in criticism...
...Esrl msde these accusations in a circular to party members, in which he charged that he was not permitted to defend his position before the party...
...Earl should be deeply grateful to bourgeois democracy: in the USSR he would be summarily thot, or at least deprived of the possibility of earning a living except in a slave labor camp...
...His predecessors—such as Jay Lovestone— were given no more opportunity to plesd their esse thsn Browder was given...
...Hence he ie now a traitor in the eyes of all fsithful Bolsheviks...
...Our esteemed contemporary, The Nation, phoned Earl Browder to ask, "What is Browderism...
...Evidently Browder really believed that and refused to accept the Stalln-Duclos-Foster doctrine that capitalism is essentially evil, aggressive, and imperialistic —and plans the encirclement and conquest of Soviet Russia...
...They should have phoned The New Leader...
...how many thousands of rank-and-file members have been lost, Foster will not tell...
...Ah, well...
...They got no answer...
...Cartels and Free Enterprise (Continued from Page 8...
...I Wm Framed, says BrowdW BROWDER WAS FBAMED by his comradet, he complains, who ousted him from the secretaryship of the CP, and resorted to slander, espionage, and character assassination to discredit him...
...within a few weeks the CP has lost ths editor of the Daily Worker and its "beloved" secretary...
...He does not admit that he ran the party in the same way during the years that he was Stalin's trusted and glorified representative in America...
...Before him, Trotsky and many hundreds of former Bolshevik leaders made the same complaint—forgetting thst Lenin himself began this process in 1920, when all opposition groups in the CPSU were dissolved...
...He is merely the latest victim of the Bolshevik totalitarianism which he helped to build...
...Browderism is a conception of what Communism is to which the editors of The Nation and New Republic still hopefully cling: the idea that Communist Russia and the democratic capitalist world (as well as labor and management) are net in conflict...
...So he took to editing a bulletin of "Marxist analysis" -for capitalists...
Vol. 29 • March 1946 • No. 10
