The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1917-04-19
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lplodcd dogma. we took his word fot
it that he desired our slant al The
question briefly stated. Accordingly
we devoted the second. third and
fourth paragraphs of our article on
"Who said barrcadc science" to that
particular bit of controversy. When
Waynick comes back on April 18th
he scmi-deliriously fans like FLYER
at bat and tells us that the second
paragraph is "no answer at all" It
must have been convenient for him
to do this and ignore the third and
fourth paragraphs; the fourth para
graph in particular.
If those II rec paragraphs, in their
order, were the three letters II, |
and 7 ,Nayiick would likely tell us
that al" d not spell anything.
We would suggest a little original
thinking along natural and social
laws Get in touch with these laws
and leave dogma alone.
Would further suggest that Way
hicks straw man about Bills exper-
fence, the absence of his primitive
craft union environment and how he
has repudiated political action, etc,
can be made into very much more
easy hitting if our critic will only in
hate his dummy enough so he can
not miss it at all,
The Paris Commune would have
stuck if the necessary industrial de
velopmcnt had been sufficiently ad-
vanced at that time Likewise the
Caranza dual organization" will
stick if the necessary Industrial de
yclopment in Mexico is really there;
Just like the revolutionary capitalists
Of Russia; their new government will
stick if capitalist industrialism, built
up under autocracy, is sufficiently
developed The workers of Russia
have also been developing their in
dustrial or economic power under
autocracy, (even before Bloody Sun
day. and the Duma) but they have
much to do yet before theirs is the
stronger power in the industrial and
political struggles that are to come.
The workers of the past have al
ways fought the battles and helped
to win revolutions for some other
class, and they will continue to do so
in the socialist movement of Ameri-
ca if some of our less advanced
thinkers succeed in having their Eyes
terday" dope coined into action.
Since labor power is the life energy
of the workers, even though it is
yet commodity, some may wonder
how Waynick will succeed in separat-
ing this commodity from the life
when he balks on defending com
modify"
Talk about humorists. This re-
minds US of the comrade that tells
us that mo one can give the working
class a classical or scientific educa-
ton after the fundamentals have
been denied them in youth" and that
IF any one is trying to educate the
working class to a point where they
will understand MARKHAM or scientific
socialism, then | am afraid the pro
fessor and his class will all be dead
before they finish the first lesson.
"Wonder where his class conscious
Socialist candidates came from. Yes,
the working class was all born fifty
or more years ago and all of US that
have "been denied the fundamentals
in our youth" have been in pickle
all Of our lives. OF course, we know
better.
The Idaho comrade evidently has
not had a great deal of experience
in working class education; and when
he thought Of it, enormously as
sumed that every lump of atavism in
the street is to be reached by our
science on a dead level. Many of
those Jumps Of atavism belong to
the working class and they will still
be part Of the working class after
the backbone of our class has been
educated and has won to economic
freedom with those backward units
enjoying their new freedom Just as
the atavistic portion of the capital
lists Of Russia are about to eniov
their new freedom which perhaps
some Of them believe dropped from
heaven.
Back to Idaho again: We are lust
humorous enough to appreciate that
comrades predicament and we are
also serious enough to suggest that
tie new working class is being born
every minute and we should see to
it that these youngsters are NOT
denied the fundamentals in their
youth" Except for the weed seed
there are many fertile fields I'M
sown today.
PROLETARIA BILL.
April 10, 1917.
IMPORTANT!
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