Dear Comrades,
It's difficult finding articles on the call to Bolshevization on the Internet.
This excerpt I typed out of a book titled: The Communist International in
America, Documents 1925-1933; put together by the Bolshevik League of the U.S.
It speaks for itself.
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THESES ON THE BOLSHEVISATION OF THE PARTIES OF THE COMINTERN
Adopted by the Enlarged Plenum of the Executive Committee of the Communist
International, March-April, 1925
[excerpt]
Part 1
The Presentation of the Question.
2. The slowing down of World Revolution and the Slogan of Bolshevization.
"..... A Bolshevik is not one who joins the Party when the revolutionary wave
is at its height. A Bolshevik is he who participates in the work of building a
Communist Party during long years and if need be, decades, in years of
depression, and in years of slow development of the revolution. this does not
mean that those comrades who join the Party when the revolutionary tide is
rising are inferior to those who already joined the Party previously.
A Bolshevik Party does not spring up suddenly when the revolutionary wave has
reached its climax. A Bolshevik Party participates in all struggles and is
formed during the process of such struggles. Right Wing and wavering elements
in the comintern and amongst those sympathetic, are of the opinion that the
slogan of Bolshevising the Party is inopportune, since revolutionary events are
not developing rapidly. They fail to understand that if the tempo of
revolutionary development flags, if in connection with this, vacillation among
certain sections of the proletariat increases, and the tendency in favour of
counter-revolutionary Social democracy increases, then the necessity for the
slogan of the Boshevisation of the Party becomes all the more actual. It is
precisely under these conditions that Communists must work with greater
perseverance to create that the bulwark against this wavering, to retain the
best elements of the proletarian vanguard in
our ranks, increase their number, hold aloft the banner of the proletarian
revolution, and in this way be capable in very difficult circumstances to weld
together a proletarian nucleus fitted to prepare for, and organize the
proletarian revolution under all and any conditions. The communist Party must
be sufficiently flexible to go underground, when circumstances demand, in an
orderly manner and withot panic, not to surrender its legality easily, it must
be able to combine illegal work with legal work, to utilize every every, even
the most insignificant "legal" hock in order to break through the limitations
of underground work, it must take the lead in public mass movements,
preparing the road for revolution, remaining all the time true to its
fundamental revolutionary tasks.
In such circumstances, Communist Parties must bear in mind two fundamental
dangers: on the one hand, the danger of becoming a small sect of "pure"
Communists with
excellent" principles, incapable of establishing contact with the contemporary
mass movements of the workers. On the other hand, there is the danger of
falling to the level of an amorphous semi-Social Democratic Party, when the
Party fails to combine the fight for winning over the masses of the workers,
with the maintenance of loyalty to the principles of Communism. To be able to
avoid the Scylla of narrow sectarianism and the Charybdis of amorphousness and
vagueness means to facilitate the Bolshevisation of the Party....."
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