The daily Nome industrial worker., 1916-03-24


 were socialists, they earned no fine spun theories fr ,E: the works of Marx, nor did they consider such elevating problems as the emanci- rating influence of the 1rama. But they did realize the facts of .h~ir exploitation and the grating grab tery of their employers who were proiitting from the war. The fact Is that the position they held in society, not that of trained econom- ists or dialecticians, not any intel ,lectual theorists with hair splitting casuistry, but plain workers with the problem of the job before them ai- ways, made them in truth and fact the only opponents of militarism per SC as well as jingoism.
 And in considering the failure of the socialists as anti-militarists and paciflcists we have to face the fact that quite a large number of them did not stand in cocicty as members of an exploited working class, but as members of bourgeois class who had exploited with their able in- tellects the labor movement, while the bourgeois instincts they ima gined suppressed were not suppress
 s8l at all, but upon great prOvoca- tio4 and stronger stimulus came to the front end wiped out of existence what had been merely class abcr- ration.
 Why the socialists failed therefore iS~because they were capitalist po-
 ans with near-socialism as theis ciid and aim, an why the anarchists failed is because their views were identical with the individualism of capitalism extending warranty to the system because of it's individual ism. There was no economic orga- nization which professed really strong radical opinions in any Of these countries-that is radical opi- nions born of the job environment characteristic of the interests that wage environment involved, and bent dirctly towarsds cultivation of the ego of the work CTS as workers, and not as mon who were part of the machinery of d capitalist and military civilization.
 It has always been peculiar that the socialist politicians who took part in capitalist cabinets should themselves be anxious to take a hand in capitalist legislatures, auG we should long ago have inquired why was this. That inconsistency alone should have provoked some suggestive thought which might have prevented the socialist papers today cudgellng their brains SO severely now to hammer out an explanation of the insufflciency of faith that filled the comrades so their ere the war cock crew they had denied thelI own cause not thrice but a dozen times.
 Wo think that the cure for the failure of the radical movement is to take it altogether from the hands of the wind tanners and the theor- ists and rest it upon the mon who are on the job-the wage workers The movement will then reflect the discipline of the wage working on- vironment and will, being controlled by it, evolve with tho workers therein.
 If anything shows clearly enough that the basis of the radical move ment is the economic organization of the workers, it is this failure of the socialists to live up to their principles in trying as well as non- critical times. And it shows us that without the radical industrial movement fine spun theories have no salvation and inspire no faith in the truth that makes men dare ana compels men to do.