1935 Comintern 7th Congress Part 3 Georgi Dimitrov Response.pdf

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" ,-"""'me so 10 SIJ, 11 mil:> ...... ~. • ~sional I)('OP t'. • {ronl of the proll!lRfint rut( I Ie anti· fn .rOSS" of the 1I1111{"(1 . Ulilliou .. o f toililn: po..'OI}lc the" ~I ' t'hehereIof-:leln'lt\". .or IIICI,I- . 0 . SlIC . II an athtud. nin geller:tl, III I e!lll .,.. ( I ) '1" •. '1 ,." der,"tS on the CrIIllIli al. tlpp (illS!! . 1(' fightersIsnnc"I UV f .' •... , . the VICtllllS of react lOll :"II\( I f aSC1:-;1 ··- 11 who a,. .of the wor"mg c nSS, . .. . . '\ torture chambers and COllcelltmtlOn cant""stllfenng :"I!:'ony 11 . . I Id I' . ''',.' I . nt s amI their fanlilles 5 lOll a meet WIth thepollllcn ellllgf:l · · . . fl''m ).1thetic care and soliCItude on the part 0 t Ie organls,1.~ost 5) Il'f"" etiollaries of the LL.D. (Pfolo"gcd applausl".) ihtlions nn 'll • better apprecIate . f1n( I ( I' ISC I large ItS . ( I Uly o(LL,D. must s t L . d . f ..' th fighters in the prolel:·.nan an a nI!· :lSClst 1110\'(,.nSSlstmg e I"t · I rl)' ,'n I,h)'sicnlly lind mom Y preserv1I1g thement pM ICU a ." f th labour movement. The COllllllUII15tS lind revolu.carcsO d e 10 ' .. ,. r ' ,,'ho "r' nctive in the J,.. . org:1Il1 5:ltloIlS mUSttlOnnry \\'or",-, :;.. . . ,. t e 'cry step the enormouS respolIstlJlhty they benr beforerelllSCn' " Ifthe workill ~ class nnd the COIllJ1lUIl1St Internatlona or the sue·"cessful fulfilment of the role lind t:lsks of the I.r., D. (A PPlflllsc.)Comrlldes, as you know, ('(Idres recei,'e their ~st training intil e procrss oj struggle, in surmounting difficulties and with·standing teslS, in studying Ja'i.'OIHablc :lnd IlIlJa, ' o llrab /~ eX:l.Inplesof conduct. We have hundreds of examples of splendid conductin times of strikes , durin~ demonstrntions. in jail. in court. Wthave thOll5.1 nds of instances of heroism , bllt unfortunately alsonot B few ('ases of pigeon-hellrtedness, lack of firmness, and evende~ rtio n . We often forget these examples, both good nnd bad,We do not teach people to benefit by these examples. \Ve do not.6IIII110\\' th.:1Il what should I,c clIlulated anel what rejected . We5 .\ 5Wtly the COllcl u(,t of our c(.tInradc'S and active kIII Ii!> n' t t · . ... • cia» ('a ll I('!I, at powar usICc COUlt heanngs III th ..\ ddurlfl . . , t: Jill 5 anncelltratlO~1 camps, III court, etc: , The good liides should bt:cO .. ht to h~h t ami hel ll lip a .. m()(lcl~ to be. folio' I h'\brotl & . ' , \ _. • .... e(."' II: 1111which I' rotU' lI , 110 11 · Jo "he\'lk and ,)hllbtilll': is , b. .th3 t . , , "' , OI!C:R~ tas" e SUICC tie .el l/Zlg tna we have l1 ',d {",,','" ' " b f. ' f , ' .. " mn (.:r 0cOfllradl'S appe arl~l J.:. be or.: bourgeOiS ll":d f a~iS l COllrts who haveShOI\'1I thnt, UUI\IHulh cadres ar.: g r~wmg up wi th an excc1h:lltullderS!:IlIdm g: of 1(./wl rea lly c:onstltllte .. Bobhevik conduct incOurt,"LItuhoW lIIany.evell, I of yOIl ' deh:f;: ates 10 the Con" .... tess . ' k nowtttede t ail so f .~hc tna 0 the railwa)'lIlc n in Rumania, kllOw abouth trinl of I'lete Schulz who W:"I S !'>ubsb luelltl" behe:\('ed bte . G t\' 1 ( . Y'thf~ists III crmany, Ie tria 0 ollr \'ahant J:tpant!M: comr:ld"'awn, the trilll of the Bulgarian re,"olutionarv soldiers ed'1 II" . , I . I I ' . ' , anIlla n)' other In ~ s at II' ~IC 1 nt 1I11mbie exampleli of proletarianberoism were displayed , (S~ o 'm of ~ppla u s c , all rise.) Such'orth)' examples o f pro\etan an hcrolsm m u ~ t he ,,,,pula,,"'·"mI . I I 'f . ~~,llstbe contraste( Wit I tIC lIlallI e~ t a t l o ns of faintheartednesshilistinism, alld e,"cry. kind of rot and frailty in our ranks andPhI' ranks of the \\'o rkm ~ class. These eXrll"plcs must be used~os t extensively il' CdUC3till:;.! the cadres of the labour 1ll0\,'C.nent.Comrades! Ollr Party leaders often complain that th crt. art.nO peoplo; that they are short o f people for agitational and propa.ga nda work, for t he newspapers , the trade unions , for workamong Ihe youth, .am? ng women , Not enough, not -c.noughthntis the cry. \\ e sun ply haven't got the ptople. T o this wecOuld reply in the old, yet eternally new, words of Lenin :" TIIHC arc 11 0 people-yet thae arc cno rm ous tlUlllb ers ojpeople. There are enormous, numbers of people, bcause theworking class and the ~n os t dl\'erse strata o f society, yellr afterrenr, advance from th~lr ranks an increasing number of discontentedpeople who deSire to protest, who are ready to render allthe assistance they .can, in the fi Rht again ~ t absolutism, theintolerableness of whic h IS not yet recognised by all, but is neverthelessmore ~lIld more, acutely sensed by increasing masses of thepeople. At the ~a.1l1e tune we ha,'e no people, because we have noluders, no poht.lc.al le adcrs~ we have no talented organiserscapable of org:ulIslllg extenSIve and at the same lime uniformand harmonious work that would give employment t o all forceseven the most inconsiderable. ".'Lenin, "What I s to be Done 1" Sclocted W orks, Vol. 11, p, 142,27'
, "" bo: Ih o roLl~hly f,:Taspcd by'rh' ~" words 0C ~ S :I "uiclt: III t I Cl f c\,cryd rlY ..,J elllll III . , . OUt"" . .. b,' them 1\. ,., I" "'Otlc, , '-.. nnd RPI)lIt".. ','h '," n ;;>ct-I",ui"isl method It") the concrete situlll~owin partic ul ar COun tr ies, to definite condition5, not to the1,0 11 . .. . • ...,.]t ng :l.I l1st an tnemy III I(eneral " hut agamst n partl(::ulnr,slru ..". ,- , ' . . ."tinite enell1Y· 'or 1 1.IS. purpost: . lt I.S .1lccessflry to study .n~td I,' the lcll c-r of l.c nln1sm , hut Its Itvl n~ r(!\'ol litionnr}' splnt.Illt re C " -There nre twO wa),s 0 Irflll ll ng c~ l(l res 111 our P:lrt y schools:Firs l method: h:ac hi n ~ people ah.,tract theory, trying to give:the ~r(' a tesl r)()ssible do'ic of dry learning, coaching themthefll to write theses and resolutions in literar y style, and only~l O \~de ntallY touching uron the problems of tlH: particular country1';C: he p:lrticul:l r l:lbour. rn O \'em~ l~t, !ts his.tor), an (~ lradit ions ,. an~o ,)l.'rie ntt of the CommulII ~ t I a rt)" 111 quest IOn . Only mCItheeXdentally! . ...Second method .: such t ~)~ore t! cal. tramlllg If) the hll~dflmen t a l, -pies of MarxIS]l)-Lell1ll1sm 3S IS based on 3 prac\1cal studypnncl . ., I e student of the c:ltdmal problems conct::rIl mg the struggleb~ ~I proletariat in hi s own country. On returning to his prac-0, t,' 'ork the student will then be able to fmd his bearingsile A \\ ,'ndependently, and becomc on illl/C/,cIld c nt /Hltclical o rRalliscr, d leader capable oj /eadil'R tllC masses to batlle againsl fhe'" clalS cllcmy.Not all graduates of om P:lrty sc ~ oo l s prove to be: suitabletun , b" e.. .• Many have phmscs, abstmctlOns , book knowledge: . . andshoW of lcarning. D,.t we need real, truly BolsheV Ik org?llIsers. d leaders of the maS5(!s. And we need them badly thiS veryd an .y,It does not mattcr if such studcnts be unable to write goodtheses (though we need that vcry much , too) as l o n ~ as t~eyknoW how to organise and lead, undaunted by difficulties ,C3pable of surmounting th~m. . . .Revolutionary theory 15 the generalised, Slwltl1anscd &xpen-Ice of the revolutionary movement. Communists must carefully~~i1isein their countries not only the experience of the past butalso the experience of the present struggl(!: of other d e tachl~l~nt~ ofthe international labour movement. H owe '~r, correct utthsatlonof experience does not by any means denote m ccllanica l transposilionof ready-made forms and methods of struggle from onf! set ofconditions to another set, from one country to another, as so oftenhappens in our Parties. Bare imitation, simple copying ofmethods and forms o f work, even of the Communist Party of theSoviet Union in countries where capitalism is still supreme, may\1'ith the best of intentions result in harm. rather than good, ashas so often nctually been the case, It is precisely from theexperience of the Russian Bolsheviks that we must learn to apply29
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