On the same day a sitting of the Eecutive of the III International took place

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Because the KAPD doesnt play along in this eunuchrole, it is persecuted with deadly hate. One reads only the most insulting aspersions, the poisonous libels and accusations with which one fights us without hindsight of the revolutionary situation in which we stand and of the effect which this vile practice triggers in our bourgeois opponents. Dr. Levi and Heckert must fling juicy couture sale at us every piece of rubbish that Radek and Zinoviev press into their hands. Thats what those boys are paid for. However because the KAPD doesnt give in nevertheless it ought to be censured by the Congress of the III International to comply to Moscows power ofcommand. It was all ecellently prepared. The guillotine was set up. Radek smugly tested the sharpness of the blade. And already the high court was sitting It should have been a grand scene. too beautiful to be accomplished. III As I returned from the Volga, Comrade Merges had arrived in Moscow. On the same day a sitting of the Eecutive of the III International took place. We werent invited. In our absence, the motion of Meyer KPD that we should be refused admission to the Congress was discussed. The motion was rejected. On this they called us to the sitting, and were so gracious as to grant us advisory status at the Congress. At this meeting we got to see the discussion guidelines which were to be laid before the Congress. They were intended to be the basis for the decisions of the Congress. Of which in his boastful manner Radek had already said to me earlier, that he had it in the pocket.

In the pocket! The discussion guidelineswerent these not old familiars? Indeed. We recognised in them the notorious Heidelberg theses repeated. They were only somewhat more elaborately set out, somewhat theoretically doctored, somewhat enhanced in Centralistdictatorial. They were made into theses of Russian powerpolitics out of theses of Spartacist divisionpolitics, and should now become theses of international violation by Russian methods. We sacrificed a night to their study, and knew in the morning what we had to do. We went to Radek, and put to him the question of if in the Open Letter which still hadnt been given to us the demanded epulsions of Laufenberg, Wolfheim and Rühle was an ultimatum, and if the Eecutive insisted upon the fulfilment of these demands before the KAPD would be admitted to the III International. Radek tried miscellaneous evasions, but we demanded a plain answer. Then Radek eplained It would satisfy the Eecutive if the KAPD promised that Juicy Couture Black Tough Utilitarian Daydreamer Bag they wouldat a later date, at a suitable opportunityfree themselves of Laufenberg and Wolfheim. Of my epulsion there wasnt any more question. This remarkable yielding to demands which had been raised with the truest ring of conviction as conditio sine qua non made us suspicious. Now we demanded to know which demands of the Eecutive concerning the admission of the KAPD into the III International were definitive. Radek eplained You must in the name of your party at the beginning of the Congress give the declaration that the KAPD will abide by all decisionthen youll receive voting status at Congress then nothing will stand in the way of your admission into the III International. Were we hearing right in advance most solemnly declare that we wished to submit to the Congress decisions, which we didnt even know. . . .Was that supposed to be one of Radeks jokes? Noit was serious. Now if the Congress were to decide upon the dissolution of the KAPD?. . . .Joking apart he did indeed have that intention. Thereby Radek was unmasked. What was in the theses then? Ah now. . The communists are dutybound to set themselves up in a rigid centralist, ironhard, militaristic, dictatorial organisation. . The communists are dutybound to take part in parliamentary elections, and to enter parliament to carry out a new type of revolutionary parliamentary work there. . The communists are dutybound to remain in the trade unions so as to help the revolution to victory in these revolutionarilytransformable institutions.

Each of the parties that are members of the III International is to call itself the Communist Party, consequently the KAPD has to sacrifice its continuing independence and dissolve itself into the KPD. Thus joking apart the Congress Juicy Couture Black Lip-gloss Pocket Daydreamer Bag actually should pronounce the death sentence upon the KAPD, and we, the KAPD delegates, should receive voting status, we should be able to help pronounce the death sentence, if we were to declare prior that the KAPD wanted to submit to the pronounced death sentence without resistance. Could there be a greater political comedy? Or a greater perfidy? We laughed in Radeks face, and asked if he was mad. A party, that on the grounds of the Heidelberg theses had split from the KPD, had constituted itself on a new basis, and had given itself organisationally a new structure, tactically a new orientation and theoretically a new programme, that vigorously stood on its own two feet, concentrated in itself all the active forces of the German revolution and in size of membership is far superior to the KPDsuch a party refuses, may, indeed must refuse, even once to enter into a discussion on the discussion of its right to eist. As a child can never return to its mothers womb, likewise the KAPD doesnt return to the KPD. Even one word of discussion about this is mischief, is absurdity, is a political childishness. We left Radek standing so, with the hangmans rope that he had intended to put around the neck of the KAPD, and went on our way.