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Stalin's Speeches on the American Communist Party University of Central Florida STARS PRISM: Political & Rights Issues & Social Movements 1-1-1931 Stalin's speeches on the American Communist party Joseph Stalin Find similar works at: https://stars.library.ucf.edu/prism University of Central Florida Libraries http://library.ucf.edu This Book is brought to you for free and open access by STARS. It has been accepted for inclusion in PRISM: Political & Rights Issues & Social Movements by an authorized administrator of STARS. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Recommended Citation Stalin, Joseph, "Stalin's speeches on the American Communist party" (1931). PRISM: Political & Rights Issues & Social Movements. 727. https://stars.library.ucf.edu/prism/727 *-5 .-4 15 Cents -; STALIN POCKET SERIES Just offthe Press STALTN'S POLITICALREPORT TO THE Ih PASTY C~GRESSOF THE COMMUI~PARTY QF THE Sovm UNION........... L; ....., . ,. ;. .SO THELIFE OR STALIN ...................... .SO STALXN'SSPEECHES ON THE A MERICAI COMMUNISI' PARTY ...............................-15 FIGHT AGAINST HUNGER Statement drafted by the Central Committee of the Americaa Communist Party and presented hy William 2. Foster to the Fish Committee, (m December 5, 1930. Tkk prmpMet mud k +cd in tk hmd of tlPe miG 6tu of exwed workm and fmmms, whit& md blntk, w-ve md f weign born Answer the vicious attacks of the Fish Committee and the big capitalit who btough t: this committee into existence by spreading this pamphlet. BUY QNE FOR YOURSELF AND SOME FOR THE UNEMPLOYED WORKERS. 5 CENTS PER COPY. $3.00 PER HUNDRED > - .- Sad dl ordms to thy WORKERS LIBRARY PUBLISHERS STALIN'S SPEECHES ON THE Odkered is f/re .AM~R~CANI:uMulSStON oj ths Prcridiuwr of 3c Exccrrti~rc C'o~nWBjttee 01 th# CO~IIIUII~J~inl617u1fiomiI May 6, 1929 15 CENTS CONTENTS I. SPEECH DELIVERED IN THE :\MERlU.IN COMMISSION OF THE PRESIDILTM OF THE: E.C.C.I., {May 6, 1929) . 11 11. SPEECH DELIVERED IN 'WE PXESLDIL'M OF THE E.C,C,L ON THE .WERIC.W QCESTIOK, (May I+, 1929). 21 111. SECOND SPEECH DELIVERED AT TILE PRESInIUM OF THE E.C.C.I. ON THE AMERICAN QUESTIQK (May 14, 1929) . 36 , PREFACE &on-fuxther dewy of capitakt of inner d outer contradictions Wjg$Blgwbo3.tbathe -p&. ~peecheaof Comrde BWn.- *+ the Wt agatrst Right wingem in America was pwk and parcel of the benekt proeesa of clemdq the m&iona F of the Communist International of opportunist and waver- ing elemenh. Comrade Stdh showed how thia deandug was a McaI mnc1usion dictated by the whole malph of the worId hiitulttion. a ~ammanywhofhinkthatnothhghatlthangedin the inhaatimal aitaation of kte, that wmythhg has re- mahd aa of old. Thia in not he, comrades, % fact of themattsristhatwe~wan~centua~wafthe~strog- im ~IIUPW wmtti~,a growing mtio- criria -4 in Europe, growing conditirmrr of a new mdtltionaiy upward dng. Soon the ground will k too hot for worId.cmp1- Wm. A Ybdub of the Qmmtmht Party is at once ta begin ww work for the coming clw smgglea, to prepare worm cFaarr and the erploited maam for new revoltrtlw- w &agglas. But in order to earry out thi Wk, it IS nemssmy at once, without the loas of a a-le mom for doas not wait, to set abut cl- the GO& 2Lfi Of Right and wncfiationbt dements, who objewr 4 regmwnt the apnw of social-dem- within the raarrs of the Communist Party. And we mnst set abort this ma- mot at the mud pace, but at an uccelerated pace, for, I repewt, the doas not wait and we muat nof allow everits to cat& u# --m The political roots of opportunist errors and theorielj, which flourished in the American Party, are dearly ma- bed and ex- in Comrade StaIin's speeches. At the be- ginning of his $rst he say0 that both groups in the American Party, that- the majority and minority, "are guilty of the fundamental error of exaggemthg the mpeciik fea- tures of American capitalism." This generaI grormd of all oppoTtuni~tmistakes in the Amdc8x1 Party as &own by Comrade Stah a year ago, has been proved by the subs* quent poHtical evolution of the eounh-revolutionarg Love- atone group, aa well M by the newest manifesktions of opgortunt3tic tendencies hide the Americm Partg. It would be sd&imt to cite Lovestone'e mncetption d the economic mi& in the United States as a mere ~ltockex- change crmh md hia continued pane,worthy of a -. 7--7 -: , -LL. ,< -.: . - '? STALIN'S BPEECBEEI ON G.P:& SP.: I backward shopkeeper, before the American capittrxim, even while f :. nomic diewhich shakea its :. show the n-ity for Stah's analyak. It wotdd b@l- d% ci- to point out the underestimation, whiclr atill' Q- - ist;9 m the Party, of the depth, duration and poHWb& -A nikmce of the present economic crisia as well ~SEI ths - etrtimation of the radicalization of the workem, sultm in our lagging behind the wesin econo g1~,in the organization of the unemployed, a ,preparation for May Day, in order to under& . importance of Stah's analysis of the Right the American Party' of the very clearly fomuhtd distinction between specific particubitiea of AmdCsu~ capitslimn which the Communist Party mu~ttake into a& count in ita work and the general featurea of capita&& + to 1 which are common all countries, which are the bad z- all our aetivib and the very foundation of internationalis& This didindon, which is the dividing line between 130m- - mUtsand oppdd8tamust be leaned by every mbmb of the Party and redy applied in all our everyday work - The @cuIar featurea of opportunbm in the . a Party were the seal of unprincipledneaa md ah= , - ! veloped factionalism. Naturally the fight of the omm mu^^- . niat International against opportunism in the American Party muat have been directed bmtthis parkicuIar ex- 1 *: pression of American opportunism. The politid blows of -: Comrade Stalin'e -ha were dixected againat rmprindpE : .! ed fddsmof both factions in the heriaPey 'I the former mrjorily and minorib groups. One of the e'; m01W feahof this unprincipled factionaIiam was W speculation w the divergendes In the Communist Party 03 # the Soviet Union, and in this respect Commie Stalin memi- , i Iwdy ummaked pretensiom of the former minority to -k.7 "Stalinites" in the United States as well ss Lov&mef~ &&&*.. 1 . exchange speculation at the Sixth Party. Convention on W - I -, -1 ' I Bukhsrin qtie&n. b,{ Blinded by factionalism, both factions not aarly Wr@ 4 see to opprrkmi8ti-& or did aot ahow the Party the - -<$ ,. I STALIN'S SPEECHES ON THE C.P.U.SA takes of their ''own" group^, but failed to kdan escape from the yeam long factional strife which disarmed the American Pa* in the face of the clw enemies and corn- promiaed the Party in the egm of the American workers. I1 Comrade Stalin rrhows how the minority saw only one mIu- tion-to give the leadership of the Party to the mlnorib faction. And the majoriw faction, headed by ]Lovestone, de manded only the whitewashing of majority leadera of dl op portunistic mttakes and the strangling of the minority. The solution given by the &&tern, aer Iaid down in Comrade Stalin's speeches, waa : a mail= flght againat the oppor- tunistic ~~ of both groups, decisive organhtiona1 mezbsura to stop once for dl the factiod fight in the American Party, and the unification of the Party, not on the platform of the majodh or of the mino*, but on the baais of the C. I. he. 4 Per- the most atrfldng p& of Comrade Stalin's ier his analysis of factionalism in a Coxxzmunist I Party. With cIear and rrimple words, with formrrlat;ions sharp as a razor, Comrade SMn opens thb "running sore" of factionalism in a Communist Party and, in a way un- derstmdablle, to every worker, shows the nemsity of pub tian end to the crime of fwtionaLism, Many political prognwea made by Comrade Stalin in May o year ago, now appear as fadpredictiom. Hia mdysh of the crisia of world capitalism which develops with quick tempo and which must involve Ammican capitdim, and his htement that the 3,000,000 of unemphyed were but the fir& swdows of the crisis maturing in America; all these prognoses were not mere gumgas, but inevi-le mnclu8ione drawn from a Madan aaalyaris of the whole world aituation. With the aame historical accuracy, Comrade Shlh'~prog- nosis of the future fate of the Loveatone group has been fulfilled. Amwering Loveatone'e pretentions that he was defending his opportunistic conceptions and factional WCtIvikie~ "in the name of 99 per cent of the American Communist Party," Comrade Stalh pointed out that Love- done "ia indieputably an adroit and talenW factional wire- pull&* and had w majoriw in the American Corn& .. -..-1. .-.-- <; <; -$-'-b= ., ,, *, ISTAXIIN'S BPFECHES OH THE W*Vs& 4; -5 5 , -,. party, msinly ~uaethe membenhfp m~ ;% - ' : . ? ' : of the majority "ps the determined an- of ..- + , munht In~tionaLf' . I, b _ 4q - . * To the gloomy predictiom of Lovahne and GiWi iW6 r the Comin.W Addreaa will destmy the wc .::I 4 CommieStalin89~wd: - A%. ._ "No comrades, the American Communht Pe,win 4 perish. Xt will live and flouriah to the of the ppre- - ' miw of the working clas. Only one sdfactional M wilI periah if it continues tm be stubborn, if it does I& submit to the will of the Cornintern, if it continuea to I here to ib errors." These words could be written upon the plied me, or better mid, on the Brandldte politid sewer in which now rests Loveistone, Gitlow $ Go. Still timely are the ta~ksof the American Commd A mweplent laid down by Comrade Stah in his @a: blshevimtion of the American Party, forging of red WO- 1utIomry cadres adof real revdutionary Isadem of the - W 1, proletmiat, strengthening of the fight again& ref& and aaciddemmmy, and preparing the working chs8 ad the exploited waeafor the new revoIutionary fighter.
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