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We thank for this draft of a poster from the US-Section which however does not match correctly the standpoint of the Comintern (SH) We published it anyway - namely to learn from it.
First of all, we like to thank the comrade who drafted this poster.
He has already drafted a lot of excellent posters for the Comintern (SH). Concerning this recent draft above, we like to inform the readers that this comrade asked beforehand for our opinion how to put anti-revisionism at best into artistic expression for a poster. Of course there are the well-known excellent examples from Socialist Albania (The Magazine "Hosteni"). As a suggestion, we have published an anti-revisionist cartoon by a Russian comrade and, following on from him, two cartoons created by the Comintern (SH) - Molotov/Molotov-Cocktail/peaceful-coexistence. As far as his own design (above) is concerned, it is fair to emphasise the artistic value of his method. The three black arrows are the "antifa" symbol of the social democrats in the beginning of the 1930s. (However, in the original, the three arrows of the "iron front" symbol were pointing downwards to the left and not to the right). The comrade added three hands of the Hitler salute to the other end of the arrows to express the twin nature of fascism and social fascism. (showing into the direction of the picture of the world imperialist planet) - Very good ! This would have been just a good poster for that time. Who was behind the social-fascist "Iron Front" at that time? The Iron Front was a German socialdedemocratic (reformist) alliance founded in 1931 of the Reichsbanner Schwarz-Rot-Gold, the Allgemeiner Deutscher Gewerkschaftsbund (ADGB), the Allgemeiner freier Angestelltenbund (Afa-Bund), the SPD and the Arbeiter-Turn- und Sportbund (ATSB). The Iron Front saw itself as an alliance for the "preservation and fulfilment" of the bourgeois constitution of the Weimar Republic and its defence against radical "anti-republican" efforts, namely not only "against" the fascists (in contrary, the social-democrats paved the way for fascism!!), but above all this symbol of the three arrows was directed against the Communist Party of Germany (KPD). The KPD chairman Ernst Thälmann aptly described the "Iron Front" as a "terrorist organisation of social fascism", which it really was. And if you look around on the internet today, you will come across international social democratic forces that have carried over their three arrows from back then into the present. It's not bad to polemicise artistically against this. However Socialdemocracy was only then the main enemy within the ranks of the working class movement. In time of Enver Hoxha it was modern revisionism and in our time it is neo-revisionism. So far so good. Now let's move on to our critique. In the historical context, the design may be an excellent one, namely the artistic design of the twin character of fascism and social fascism. But before the form of representation comes always and in principle the correct content. We must start from what is now. We must not conceal from the worker what the social-fascist of today looks like. Can one equate the social fascist of then with the social fascist of today ? Is the social fascist of today represented by the three arrows all alone ? What about the modern revisionists ? And above all: What about the neo-revisionists ? Do they belong to the three arrows of the social-democrats? No. The Stalinist-Hoxhaist artist has the task of artistically representing the political attitude to the Social Fascists of the Comintern (SH) in such a way that the worker not only recognises the current Social Fascist more easily, but also understands his danger to the revolution. Unfortunately, this problem of necessary updating has not been solved with the draft poster. It is precisely the revisionists who arbitrarily misuse history to keep the proletariat away from the world socialist revolution and to steer it into bourgeois channels and equate it with us in order to mislead the proletariat. Which social fascist is more difficult to see through - the reformist socialfascist or the revisionist/neo-revisionist socialfascist ? The Comintern (SH) has defined neo-revisionism as the ideology that is most dangerous for the world socialist revolution today. The main blow must be struck against the neo-revisionists - precisely also in artistic form, of course. Thus, the poster design does not correctly reflect the anti-neorevisionist line of the Comintern (SH), neither in terms of political content, nor in terms of artistic form. At worst, this poster design could point the worker into the spider's web of neo-revisionists who allegedly "oppose" the reformist "anti-fascism". If the poster design draws main attention to Social Democracy (Reformism) instead of revisionism, it does not direct the worker's attention towards the anti-fascism of the Comintern (SH), but away from the Comintern (SH). And basically, anything that directs the worker in a direction away from the Comintern (SH) cannot, of course, be supported by the Comintern (SH). Now, in the end, we do not want to discourage our artistically gifted comrade from the USA by any means with our criticism. On the contrary, we would rather encourage him to first familiarize himself with the ideology and politics of the Comintern (SH). If he orients his artistic talent to the ideological line of the Comintern (SH), artistic successes will certainly be forthcoming in the future - guaranteed ! ____ By the way: We call ourselves "Communist International (Stalinist-Hoxhaists)" Wolfgang Eggers 07 - 05 - 2023
