The ever sharpening class struggles and the feverish preparations of the American capitalists for war against the workers' Republic of Russia as well as for war against their imperialist rivals raise most difficult and most important problems before the American Communists. The substance of these problems is the mobilization of the American workers for the class war.
A Bolshevik Party must be organizationally and ideologically a monolithic party, hewn of one piece. Our American Party is not yet a Bolshevik Party. It is rent by a factional struggle of years' standing. This factionalism has weakened the power of resistance of the Party against opportunist influences. The problem of mobilizing the American workers for the class war, therefore, presented itself to our Party, before all, in the form of a problem of mobilizing its own forces.
It was necessary that factionalism should be eradicated in order to establish the indispensable organizational unity. It was necessary to combat all influences in the Party of petty-bourgeois ideology, to fight against all opportunist tendencies and all right deviations in order to insure the ideological unity of the Party.
In our American Communist Party, however, the opportunist influences had grown strong enough to put up resistance against the process of preparation. To break this resistance, the leadership of our International Party, the Communist International had to help.
This little booklet contains a collection of decisions of our International Leadership concerning the tasks and the problems of our Party. We Communists must study them carefully. In the application of these decisions lies our preparation for the tasks ahead of us. The accomplishment of these tasks is our revolutionary duty.
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Part 1. Introduction
The ever sharpening class struggles and the feverish preparations of the American capitalists for war against the workers' Republic of Russia as well as for war against their imperialist rivals raise most difficult and most important problems before the American Communists. The substance of these problems is the mobilization of the American workers for the class war.
A Bolshevik Party must be organizationally and ideologically a monolithic party, hewn of one piece. Our American Party is not yet a Bolshevik Party. It is rent by a factional struggle of years' standing. This factionalism has weakened the power of resistance of the Party against opportunist influences. The problem of mobilizing the American workers for the class war, therefore, presented itself to our Party, before all, in the form of a problem of mobilizing its own forces.
It was necessary that factionalism should be eradicated in order to establish the indispensable organizational unity. It was necessary to combat all influences in the Party of petty-bourgeois ideology, to fight against all opportunist tendencies and all right deviations in order to insure the ideological unity of the Party.
In our American Communist Party, however, the opportunist influences had grown strong enough to put up resistance against the process of preparation. To break this resistance, the leadership of our International Party, the Communist International had to help.
This little booklet contains a collection of decisions of our International Leadership concerning the tasks and the problems of our Party. We Communists must study them carefully. In the application of these decisions lies our preparation for the tasks ahead of us. The accomplishment of these tasks is our revolutionary duty.
Central Committee of the C.P.U.S.A.