Zigzags & Gasoline

POLICIES & PRINCIPLES

From a junket through Germany, a refugee reporter (Gerhart H. Seger) brought back a "secret document"--a directive to Germany's Communist Party workers. In essence it is a restatement of worldwide Communist strategy. It appeared last week in Manhattan's liberal-labor, violently anti-Communist weekly, the New Leader. Excerpts:

"Comrades! . . . We have to begin anew and to learn from our mistakes. . . . Which forces can we consider on our side? The still unorganized, suffering labor groups . . . part of the middle classes and the youth . . . part of the bourgeoisie which was cheated under the Nazi regime and is now afraid of being swallowed by American imperialism. All these forces must be combined for the struggle to reach the next partial goal, a democratic Germany...."

Democracy in Germany, the directive hastened to point out, is only a tactical maneuver in the fight for the strategic objective: "the dictatorship of the proletariat." To that end some "retreats, zigzags, and marking time" would be necessary.

"Were the retreats of the Red Army to Leningrad and Moscow a giving up of the strategic goal? ... No! ... From that we must learn. . . . Comrades! Don't be afraid and don't hesitate. . . . We have in this race for leadership [within a united popular front] by far the stronger driving force, the better gasoline. ... In open and honest competition, supported by our Leninist theory and practice, we shall arrive at the leadership without anybody accusing us of using unfair means. . . ."

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