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The Establishment of Intellectual Orthodoxy and the Stalinization of British Communism 1928-1933

In January 1930 W. N. Ewer, the foreign editor of the Daily Herald, explained the thinking behind his recent defection from the British Communist Party (CPGB). The method of the Communist International (Comintern) and the CPGB, he argued, had little in common with the method of Karl Marx. Contemporary Communists appealed to authority immune to refutation, not to critical analysis of observable phenomena. In contrast, conscientious followers of Marx rejected authority, submitted every verdict to questioning and discarded theories which did not accord with rigorous examination of the evidence. CPGB members, he insisted, addressing the party’s intellectuals, rejected empirical data which clashed with the party line: