Discussion on MacFarlane's Paper.

This article presents a discussion on the article 'The Communist Party in the Twenties," by L. J. MacFarlane. Kendall questioned whether there would have been no third International without Lenin. Prynn recalled J. T. Murphy's admiration of Russian discipline and intellectual-working-class alliance, contrasting them with the weaknesses in these respects in the groups that formed the C. P. G. B. Pelling drew attention to the Syndicalist and Guild Socialist ideas. Hunt stressed several points outside the speaker's terms of reference. Mrs. Cole thought the Russians had no alternative, in protecting their revolution, but to form the Comintern.