By James P. Cannon
"The staff of the US have energy adequate to topple the constitution of capitalism at domestic and to boost the full international with them after they upward push, " Cannon asserts. at the eve of worldwide struggle II, a founding father of the communist circulation within the U.S. defends this system and party-building process the Communist foreign in Lenin s time.
creation by means of George Novack, picture, thesaurus, index. Appendix, "The struggle and Bureaucratic Conservatism," by way of James Burnham.
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In reality, his criticisms were directed not so much at the party regime as at the organization conceptions and traditions of Bolshevism. He began to express a great deal of concern over "democracy" after the revolution, somewhat in the manner of those democrats who identify Stalinism with Bolshevism. We were greatly disturbed by these manifestations. They seemed to indicate quite clearly that Burnham was moving not toward us, but in an opposite direction. Comrade Shachtman and I, who were working very closely together at that time, had jointly elaborated the organizational resolution against the resolution of Burnham.
From their unfortunate experiences, and supplementary study, they have learned to brush aside the claptrap about the regime at the beginning of every dispute; they have learned to probe to the bottom of the political differences, and to take their positions accordingly. The lengthy document of the opposition on the organization question was not written for the informed and educated cadres of the party. It was written for the inexperienced and uninitiated. * We, from the beginning of the present conflict, steadfastly refused to conduct the battle on this ground.
Burnham is concerned first of all with "democratic guarantees" against degeneration of the party after the revolution. We are concerned first of all with building a party that will be capable ofleading the revolution. Burnham's conception of party democracy is that of a perpetual talking shop in which discussions go on forever and nothing is ever firmly decided. )* Consider his "new" invention-a party with two different public organs defending ¥ This refers to a national conference of the minority convoked February 2425, 1940.
