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Bulletin of the IV World Congress of the Communist International - WORKERS OF THE WORLD. UNITE! LLETIN fTHE IV CCKERESS DF THE COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL Moscow. December 2nd, 1922. Twenty Third Session. November 25th 1922. (evening). Chairmen: Comrade Markhlevsky. Contents: on co-speration. Comrade Meshteriskoff.— Report Draft resolution on report on co-operation. Speakers: Meshteriskoff, Lauridan, Henriet, Khintchnk. opened 7. 10 P. Session M. "co-operative sector", but this process devel- oped with extreme slowness. On the other r I G hair m a n M n k h e v s k y : I declare band, parallel with this endosmosis there ssi ii open. 1 call on Comrade Meshte- developed an endosmos, a diffusion in another to report on co operation. direction. The deeply rooted opportunist M c s h t e r i s k o ft: Measured not by the ideas penetrated from the co-operative sector mor and discipline of its organisation but into 'the other part of the working-man's ic of its , i number members ho co opera- head and contaminated^ it with opportunism. ovemonl represents one of the strong- Up to the present co-operatives were a rm of I ho labour moveinent purely economic organisation, the ywere nev- ll is no exaggeration to slate that the co- er a militant organ of the proletariat. Ther- op-rative organisation has tons of millions of efore, the co-ope atives did not attract the Billion of members throughout the world. attention of the revolutionary members of flic co-operative is not merely a movement the working class who always preferred the posp members comhin • IV >m time to time for militant and exciting work in the political Baking necossary purchases in common, it is parties and in the trade union organisations. I organisation which endeavours to create This was used to the best advantage by ideology, flown to permeate all its work social-traitors of all types and descriptions. l,iV ideology, ami to inculcate it into the Meeting no resistance on the part of the re- ta members The view persistent- volutionary elements, they created for them- ' ! by (he old leaders of the CO- selves extremely powerful positions in the ,lUl ' "' 'vement, i e„ that the co-opera- co operatives and gained an undivided control k| (l bo >"' third form labour over their funds. They also utilised this for- m,, of the !l! " entirely independent from the two tress for poisoning the class consciousness of /'"^d bo Party and Trade Union orga- the proletariat bti the poison gas of their s > t^'dd t () ,,,,,,,, hl th „ mhld f opportunist social-traitorous ideology. They co op<operator a spe ial co-opera- were aide to reach with their propaganda | £™flomain wher< in the old co-opera tens of millions of workers. ' ; ,,, s ,' nii ''<) All this goes to show how important i"a', '!| supreme. 67 course', no l | M,ll!,] »itl! n be was for the revolutionary organisations to s divided by impenetrable ill . , o( enthvjy separa'e compartments. dislodge the old loaders of the co-operatives L' Ijtoi as their last refuge and to capture thi ,:il Of (ho revolutionary struggle from «i Hi,,,- w right «y even into this secluded fortress of the extreme opportunists. 1 . , BULLETIN OF THE JV_CONGRESS OF THE COMMUNIST_JN^ of organisation the development Russian revolution form theses growth and of new staff experience of the rtP of the entire revolutionary The the communist co-operatives ieS in the co-operatives, proletarian what colossal difficulties should irv ideas lovemen has shown clearly %\P of the country. Une feeding communist nu lei which shrndd volu admitted by all the of the most organisation of public lu^M tc unanimously tundainental aSe in the organisations principles of the revolutionary the district and also li the Communist parties of commodities, m case J' J %4 "T« that co-operative and exchange of the entire should be the closest contact of having and that movement a!1 dcieg devoted very little attention power without be ho 1 F Eurotie at tonus proMa at "captures ? of the revolutionary labour the the co-operative section of operative movement and to the move- control over the Coil ment their Preliminarily S^d M^co subordination to one centre, This section was instructed {0 ^ Communists in the co operatives. to con "H of anted action 1 and the co-operatives. ' 6 hegonomy of the First International Conference "'" ff0r reluctantly devoted space to uom- of Cot? f papers munist Party over the proletariat is ntI purty all the various forms of Under such conditions Co-operatives.-opera »% tionSi In many countries the reso- uie this proletarian organisations on the struggle for thcse Congress of the will secure compelled to carry In compliance with this nf the Third Comin- forces should instruction at a time when all its organisation ot communist nu.-lei position first international conference of intoZ-* Ton the owing to the alienation the retention of political has not been of the Party from be concentrated on cooperators conven d in Moscow 1 co operatives carried he Communist so- on Nm?! L the co-operators and vice the organisation of the new have not appointed comra- versa power and 1.1922. At this conference 36 The parties the movement of that the co- delegates! the revolutionary co-opera- it is imperative on work in the co-operati- tivs ciety, when resenting 20 countries wore ?c for carrying is developing per- present. DefeS unsatisfactorily in France, should immediately begin to little has been done by our operatives with voting power repres ntcd Russia, and very ihe Party Ukrjf yes has failed to render us the useful functions at the command gain control over them. The Com- form their ; a, Azerbeidjan, Armenia, s to assistance which con- Georg The e we expected of it",—says proletarian government. The ' did not endeavour to enlist the new r t Parties the report. of Eastern Republic, Germany, i S This is achie- France, nn why our influence has co operatives cannot be quest of the Switzerland, been less than it should during a be. blow. II is impossible ved at one The less attention the clean up Denma party pays to the period of time to thoroughly work brief nia, in the co-operative movement, the more co-operatives. Many swamp of the old diffused it the Angh will be and the more ditlicult remain for a the important co-operatives will it be of the co operative section oi me UoraiiM to co-ordinate it. In this respect, old co-opera- time in the hands of the l( ;'ioralivcs. Hence great confusion France offers Jong Of the coutrios with a larg a sad example. This is what enemies of the proletariat who «-uled among our comrades in the co-ope- we read, tives—the movement Czcehu SI .vakia and Heidi;- Jail-l for instance, in one of the letters organisation of ll1 ,rt uio (>,i a li work, and the l'- >' ltionu obli- oi the .' our sabotage >- ! French comrades. n)not represented. There was also no >v . ' * , \f" of commodit- , I raHmu' a is members to join the Ceding and of exchange r | eo-opera-c "At the public representative from Lngland co-operative congresses we witnes- inefficiently This arouses , and to work in Hum, lint this ies is carried on resolu- sed the following sad spectacle: as soon as conference runlinued for G masses bnt weakens The lion remained only oii paper. the resentment of 1he According to a communist comrade raised his voice aga- , ,. sess • two tj 1 holdim.' gover- v 1 r I St. — Oth., questionnaire, "the majority the power of the new revolutionary \ of "the inst the report of the reformists, some other day. Bibora Ihe Conmu.ni.si nement of Party are not member of the party got up and demanded the conference ts of the co The i of op.u-alives". "Only the (to the great delight of our Communist International is fully aware opponents) a The mist working lows: men belong to the co- vote of confidence in the leaders of the co- of the importance of the co-operatives. At in's" -is anolher dele fates. answer to the nuostion- operative movement. Thus it happened that . of the Comintern held i Seating the Third Congress of nire. delegates on most of the arguments against the statement during the summer of 1921 the question of 2. Reports by the N hhon again: "The communist party of the from ii communist came of I members OO-operalive in ivome the cooperatives was placed on the agenda Of fche Ullls far failed to a lopl a definite alii- our party. At every opportune moment the theses presen- and on the and the Congress adopted the fcive countries towards I the tendencies arising among reformists, inspired by the desire to split the co o| e al v&s. ted by the speaker on this question, Communists In ^-operators , affiliated to the Party". and weaken the communist party, pointed operation. chiefly dealt with the work which ;>,. and Co ''"''y llil1 These theses Communism I not 'exert any influence upon with glee to the differences of opinion existing carry in the co-opera- communist should on 4. Tactical questions. ^•operatives and did not endoavour to among us". question of tactics and of organi- t(l0 tives. The questions. control of this movement into its The communist parties must everywhere 5. Organisational i|t '- lho sation was dealt with only very g nerally. Communisl Party,- the answer devote the greatest attention to the co-oper- f.le tlons. 6. lt -rondora The theses mainly conveyed the idea that the no aid to the committee ative movement, otherwise the lack of disc- doiega,-ales bl of The reports ol the st co-operatives should cease to he "the third g™ co-operators.
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