The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-04-12
Marxian Club Socialists
Editorial Committee:
KATE s. HlLLIARD.
81 {. A. BATTELL.
ROY E. SOUTHWlCK.


capture the working class with bonn.
bastic phraseology or momentary en-
thusiesm. IL cannot gain sound and
lasting adherents by a promise of po
litical victory only. A political VIC
tory for any party is sham as long
at the class 1t opposes holds the eco.
nomic power. While the Taft class
holds the economic power and moth
ing is done by the Socialists to secure
that economic power. so long will the
working class instinctively vote for
the Tafts because they know and feel
that the Taft class can and will throw
them out of employment and hence
make the political victory flat de-
feat A Socialist party can enforce
fits victory at the polls only when it
is prepared tc take and hold the in
dustries the day after election day.
Then only is the working class In a
position TO laugh at the Capitalists
threat to shut down industry. Then
only has the Socialist movement Sc.
cured, not only the ear and approval
OF the workers but also their real sup
port on election day, and the day af-
ter. But to avoid such (for capital
ism), disastrous unification Of the
working class, the representatives,
hirelings and servants OF capitalism
are straining every nerve and employ
ing every stratagem.
There is not force in capitalist
society that is not at war with the
Socialist movement The Socialists
continually use the phrase, the class
struggle BY the class struggle We
must not only understand the econom
ic battle that RACES between the cap
italists and the proletariat. The in
tellectual battle is as fierce. Capital
ism recognizes in the Socialist move
mcnt Its only and real foe. Some do
SO only instinctively, others do SO con-
sciously Some blindly hate, others
shrewdly carry on the battle. The in
QUESTION methods Of class In power
TO deal with rebellious subjects Is
obsolete. There is no better and more
effective method to shatter the rev.
oiutionary propaganda than by the in
lection of psychological poison into
It If the ideas Of the working class.
in general, and Of the propogandist. in
particular, are shattered. the organiZa
ton will remain divided. Keep the
organization divided and the revolu-
tlon is averted, and capitalism tri-
umphs
Anarchism, it has been we'll said,
is the most effective weapon with
which to fight Socialism. No one ex-
actly seems to know what anarchism
means. not even its adherelts. No
two of them ever agree upon a single
subject But just therein lies It's ef-
fectiveness as an antidote to Social
ism. The mentality Of every one over
whom Anarchy acquires an influence,
becomes hopelessly shattered. Anar-
chy is error personified, and error Is
so many-sided that it always has
something new for each conner. An
archism is distorted individualism, and
is the deformed child of capitalism.
which is the highest form Of social
indiyidualism 1t has ever been So
cialism's greatest foe. In the earliest
days of Socialist propaganda, in the
days of Marx and Engles, the An
archistic elements had to be CON
tended with. Then as now they
parroted Socialistic phraseology
and masqueraded under the name OF
Socialism. So ridiculously outlandish
were the ideas propogated In the name
of Socialism that the Socialists them
selves actually became ashamed to
hear the name. For this reason only
was the first Internationalist Organ
ization launched under the name of
the Communist League. But so far
from being discouraged by this car