CRUDE LIES ABOUT TACTICS OF THE INDIVIDUAL TERROR OF THE KOMINTERN

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SOURCE: INTERNATIONALE
PRESSE-KORRESPON-
DENZ, No. 62,
Sixth year, April 23,
1926. Pages 906-90T.
(Translation).
CRUDE LIE, ABOUT "TACTICS OF THE INDIVIDUAL
TERROR OF THE KOMINTERN"?
The Secretary of the Executive Committee of the Kom-
intern, Comrade Kuusinen, informs us of the following:
The notorious lie factory of the White Guard Russian
emigr`s, has again produced a specially coarse falsification.
First, the newspaper of these emigres, "POSLIEDNIA ISVIESTIA",
published at Riga, invented the ghost story (on March 30) that
the last Enlarged Executive Committee of the Komintern had
decided to change to the tactics of "the individual terror**
Such a secret resolution is said to have been adopted at
the proposal of Comrade Zinoviev after a violent debate,
particularly over the resistance of the delegates of the
"Argentine" and "Brazilian" Communistic Party. Comrade
Zinoviev is said to have declared at the time: "Blood
demands blood", et cetera, et cetera. Being conoious
of the transparence of these stupid lies, the clumsy
falsifiers fabricated a nonsensical "document" as proof
and reproduced a photographic copy of it in their Paris
paper "POSLIEDNIA NOVOSTI"; this is claimed to be a"pro-
test" of the South American delegates to the Komintern
against the reported terror resolution of the plenary
session of the Enlarged Executive Committee. And now
attempts are being made through all of the bourgeois
presses to spread this falsification, particularly in
France and England.
But this falsification has caused a great deal of
trouble to the swindlers because of lack of knowledge of
some elementary matters, so that they can be convicted
of the crude falsification without more adow The first
of these matters is: at the last plenary session of the
Enlarged Executive Committee not a single delegate from
the Argentine or the Brazilian Communist Party or from
South America at all took part. Thus a protest of these
non-existent delegates was an impossibility for that
very reason. The second thing was: nobody proposed the
application of the individual terror in the Sixth Enlarged
Executive Committee, (neither in the plenary session nor
in the meetings of the Committees), or spoke in favor of
it. The third thing was: the last Enlarged Executive
Committee did indeed adopt unanimously a clear resolution
on this question but in Just the opposite sense to that
expected by the counter-revolutionary emigres n Riga and
Paris. This resolution is included in the political
theses which were adopted at the proposal of Comrade
Zinoviev. The corresponding point reads verbatim as
follows:
"In
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"In some sections of the Communist
International (Bulgaria and Poland) the
danger of going off the track in the
direction of terrorism has recently
arisen. In consequence of the regime
established by the hangman Zankov, a oer-
tain enthusiasm for the terroristic
counter-weapon took possession of the
Bulgarian laborers and found expression,
for example, in the bombing of the Sophia
church, in spite of the decisive attitude
of disapproval manifested by the Central
Committee of the Communistic Party of
Bulgaria toward individual terror. Ter-
roristic tendencies were also to be noted
temporarily in Poland.
The Communistic International most de-
cidedly rejects the individual terror. In
the rejection of this method of combat it is
guided solely by principles of revolutionary
expediency. However, the Communist Inter-
national has nothing in common with the
slacker attitude toward the problem of the
revolutionary use of force. Every class-
conscious proletarian knows that we cannot
overthrow the bourgeoisie without the revo-
lutionary use of force or free the world from
the yoke of capital. Only as an armed force
can the working class free mankind from the
shame of capitalism. But for that very reason
the Communists reject the application of the
individual terror, since isolated acts which
attempt to take the place of the mass combat
are capable only of demoralizing our movement,
dispersing our own forces and reducing our
striking power."
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