A Crisis in the Party

Abstract

The problem introduced in the title has been worrying many Communists for some time now. And, although it has found reflection in the draft of the new CPSU program, an attentive examination of it is not only a very timely, but also a quite complicated, and sometimes even hopeless matter. After all, a more or less objective analysis of the situation of the Party satisfies neither the right wing nor the left wing. The right wing, flushed with the success achieved with the creation of the Communist Party of the RSFSR, is trumpeting a gathering of forces and an offensive under the combined banner of a class approach and a Communist perspective. The latter, who have left the CPSU en masse, are loudly declaring in democratic publications its criminal character, and the impossibility of remaining in it after the events in the Baltic republics.