Communism vs Opportunism: An Examination of the Revision of Marxism in the Communist Movement of Canada

INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER I.
THE REVISION OF MARXISM IN THE USA
Duclos’ Estimate of American Revisionism
How Leading American Communists Viewed Browder’s Revisionism
Gilbert Green’s Estimate of the Liberal Bourgeoisie
Should the Proletariat Work Together With the Liberal Bourgeoisie?
CHAPTER II.
THE TACTIC OF BLOCS WITH THE LIBERAL BOURGEOISIE
Liberalism and Revisionism
The Advice of the Authorities of Marxism to the American Labour Movement
The Tactic of the United Front and of the People’s Front
A Mass Workers’ and Farmers’ Party in the USA
How Browder Applied the Tactic of the People’s Front
The Tactic of Coalition with the Liberal Bourgeoisie
Vulgarization of the Term Sectarianism
The Misuse of Compromises
The Perversion of the People’s Front Tactic
CHAPTER III.
THE INTRODUCTION AND DEVELOPMENT OF REVISIONISM IN THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF CANADA
The New Tactical Line Proposed by Dimitrov in 1935
How the Tactical Line of the Seventh Congress Was Distorted
How the Liberal Government Became a Barrier to Fascism
The People’s Front Is Further Vulgarized and Becomes the Democratic Front
From Gross Right Opportunism to Ultra-Left Adventurism
CHAPTER IV.
HOW THE COMMUNIST MOVEMENT IN CANADA REVISED IN THEORY OR PERVERTED IN PRACTICE EVERY FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLE AND DOCTRINE OF MARXISM
The Spectre of Communism is Exorcised
A Pseudo-Marxist Program
Revisionism on Organizational Questions
The Right of Self Determination as Applied in Greece
Buck Attempts to Prove That Class Collaboration is the Very Opposite of Class Collaboration
The LPP Program for Making Capitalism Work
The Communist Leaders’ Campaign for Ministerial Posts in the Capitalist Government
Should Communists Enter Coalition Governments?
The Coalition Governments of Europe in 1945
Why Coalition Governments in China?
The LPP Leadership Repudiates the Class Struggle
The Theory of imperialism
Theory of the Agrarian Question
Theory of the National Question
The National Question and French Canada
Theory of the State
The Theory of the Party
The Theory of the Proletarian Revolution
CHAPTER V.
THE ORGANIZATIONAL POLICIES WHICH FOSTERED REVISIONISM AND ITS EFFECTS
The Unprincipled Tactics of Forming Blocs with Social Democratic Parties on the Basis of Purely Parliamentary Arrangements
The Glorification of Bourgeois Democracy by the Canadian “Marxists”
The Hepburn-Duplessis Axis Is Replaced by the Hepburn-Buck Axis
Revisionism, Reformism and Opportunism
The Results of Revisionism in the Trade Unions and in the LPP
The Selection and Promotion of Party Leaders
The Reason for Liquidationism
The Substitution of Centralized Bureaucracy for Democratic Centralism
How National Policies Were Arrived at in the Labour-Progressive Party
Opportunism and the Domination of Party Leading Committees by Paid Officials
Some of the International Aspects of Revisionism
The Economic Roots of Opportunism
CHAPTER VI.
WHAT IS TO BE DONE AND WHY
The Need of a Marxist Party of The Working Class
The Attributes of a Marxist Party
The Program of a Marxist Party
1 . — THE INTERNATIONAL CHARACTER OF IMPERIALISM.
2 . — TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT AND ITS CONSEQUENCES.
3 . — RECOGNITION OF THE FACT THAT “A PEOPLE WHICH OPPRESSES OTHER PEOPLE CANNOT THEMSELVES BE FREE.”
4 . — DEMOCRACY AND RACIAL EQUALITY.
5 . — CANADA’S PARLIAMENT.
6 . — CANADA’S CONSTITUTION.
7. — TAXATION AND NATIONALIZATION.
8. — THE PHYSICAL AND MORAL WELL-BEING OF THE WORKING CLASS.
An Agrarian Program
The Fight Against Opportunism
To Abolish Capitalism Becomes “Contrary to the Interests of the Working Class”
Evolution and Revolution
The Theory of Coalition with the Bourgeoisie
Bourgeois Idealism versus Dialectical Materialism
The Crumbs of Religion
Communism Is Replaced by Bourgeois “Socialist” Reformism
For a Marxist Party of the Canadian Working Class