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Stalin on fronts
'''Communist front''' organizations are characterized by their common origin, the rigid conformity of these organizations to the [[Communist]] pattern, their interlocking personnel, and their methods of [[deception]].
'''Communist front''' organizations are characterized by their common origin, the rigid conformity of these organizations to the [[Communist]] pattern, their interlocking personnel, and their methods of [[deception]].
== Munzenberg on fronts ==
During the first few years of the [[Communist International]], immediately after the [[October Revolution]], its international appeal was stridently [[revolution]]ary. As world economic conditions improved following the [[First World War]], the international revolutionary movement began to wane. The Hungarian and German Communist revolutions failed and the Communist International began to lose strength. Hence it was deemed necessary to moderate the earlier revolutionary appeal, to adopt middle-of-the-road slogans, and to build so-called [[united front]] organizations, as bridge and supporting organizations in the interest of the international Communist movement.
During the first few years of the [[Communist International]], immediately after the [[October Revolution]], its international appeal was stridently [[revolution]]ary. As world economic conditions improved following the [[First World War]], the international revolutionary movement began to wane. The Hungarian and German Communist revolutions failed and the Communist International began to lose strength. Hence it was deemed necessary to moderate the earlier revolutionary appeal, to adopt middle-of-the-road slogans, and to build so-called [[united front]] organizations, as bridge and supporting organizations in the interest of the international Communist movement.
#We must build up our own organizations in order to counteract the increasing efforts of the [[bourgeois]] and social-democratic parties in this respect, and
#We must build up our own organizations in order to counteract the increasing efforts of the [[bourgeois]] and social-democratic parties in this respect, and
#Through these sympathetic and mass organizations we should train the cadres of militants and officials of the Communist Party possessing organizational experience.<ref>Speech before the Sixth Congress of the Communist International in Moscow, July 20, 1928. International Press Correspondence, vol. 8, No. £2, Aug. 1, 1928, pp. 751, 752.)</ref>}}
#Through these sympathetic and mass organizations we should train the cadres of militants and officials of the Communist Party possessing organizational experience.<ref>Speech before the Sixth Congress of the Communist International in Moscow, July 20, 1928. International Press Correspondence, vol. 8, No. £2, Aug. 1, 1928, pp. 751, 752.)</ref>}}
== Stalin on fronts ==
{{Cquote|We have fashioned a number of organization without which we could not wage war on capitalism: trade unions, cooperatives, workshop committees, labor parties, women's associations, a labor press, educational leagues, youth societies.
A often as not these are non-party organizations and only a certain proportion of them are linked with the party. But under special conditions, every one of these organizations is necessary; for, lacking them, it is impossible to consolidate the class positions of the workers in the various spheres of the struggle.
There is a veritable ant heap of independent organizations, commissions, and committees comprising millions of non-party members. Who decides upon the direction that all these organizations take? Where is the central unit of organization that wields sufficient authority to keep them within prescribed lines in order to achieve unity of command and to avoid confusion?
The central unit is the [[Communist party]]!<Ref> From the Stalin archives of the National War College in Washington, D.C., as quoted in ''Coronet'', vol. 29, no. 3 (January 1951), p. 23. [http://www.radiotimesbacknumbers.com/?page=shop/flypage&product_id=21190&CLSN_1667=12463736271667fc703a353a191b7737]</ref>
==References==
==References==