ABSTRACT
The United Communist Party expected to get a half million dues-paying members, a figure that was never reached. A special department for trade-union work was created at Communist headquarters, modeled after the pattern of the central board of the German Federation of Labor. Thus, from the beginning of the United Communist Party there was a sharp split of policy on all party levels. Levi’s reports had grossly exaggerated the forces of the new German party; according to them a few incidents would suffice to bring about the same lineation of forces as during the Kapp putsch. Lenin had taken rigid measures against the Workers’ Opposition groups and, as the outstanding leader of the party, carried the responsibility for them, attracting to his person the hatred of the opposition. Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg had fought all their lives against the discipline imposed by the National Executive Committee of the Social Democratic Party.
