The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-16

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DDS with which it succeeded in obtain
ing power. 1t still considers it worth
while to retain parliament and the
remaining democratic lumber as a
sort of screen, but only on condition
that parliament, as well as the other
so-called democratic institutions, shall
be submissively subservient to the
military Dictatorhip. The cabinet OF
Marx, which has succeeded to that
of Stresemann, marks a great step in
the degradation of parliament and OF
parliamentary government. 1t is not
only that Marx before forming his
cabinet, sought permission Of the
white General; the composition OF
the cabinet itself is in accordance
with the considered wishes Of the
white General. Social Democracy
was thrown overheard. Nevertheless,
the strivings of the junkers to obtain
possession of the Prusslan admins
tration, in consequence of the disso-
luton Of the great coalition in Prus-
STA were prevented by the General.
The reason for this is obvious. 1t
was not advisable having regard to
the government of Poincare, and also
the English cabinet to display, as it
were, the coat of arms of the feuda
junkers on the Reichstag buildings.
At the same time the General did not
deem it meet to present the bread
profteering junkers openly to the
workers. In return for this piece of
indulgence the General obtained the
appropriate recompense: the Cen
ire, Democrats and Social Democrats,
who in Prussia have such and such
number of administrative posts and
offices to defend against the Junkers
and the old Wilhelm bureaucrats, now
prove themselves to be so much the
more accommodating funkeys of the
mi itary Dictator. Severing and
Brauns fall over one another in their
eagerness to SANDER and prosecute
the Communist Party. In the Cen
tire and with the Democrats, the right
wings large capitalist and large
agrarian) have won the upper hand.
The effects of this were to be
clearly seen in the discussion of the
Special Powers Act. Not only the
governing parties, but the Social
Democratic so-called opposition has
tened to secure the Special Powers
Act for the cabinet of Marx. The
mere threat of the dissolution of the
Reichstag which, according to their
own reckoning would cost the Social
Democrats about two-thirds of their
seats, and which would sweep away
the old parliamentary leaders in ia
vor of the sO-called cleft" leadlrs-
this threat sufficed to bring the So
cial Democrats to heel and cause them
obediently to pass the Special Powers
Act, in spite of all the thousand oaths
sworn against the state of siege.
This means complete submission on
the mart of Social Democracy to the
military Dictatorship. 1t is submits
sion to victorious Fascism. 1t is char
acteristic that the sO-ca.led Social
Democratic Let's were, by the threat
of expulsion from the party, induced
on their part to submit to the right
wing faction majority. and thereby
also TO the military Dictatorship.
Petty bourgeois Fascism is also
being rendered incapable of doing
any harm by the triumphant great
capitalist Fascism Of General Seeckt.
A portion Of this wing has, after
the settlement of the Hitler-Luden-
dorf-Putch, completely capitulated to
the dictatorship of General Seeckt.
Another section is being rendered
doei by the repressions which are
bound up with the prohibition Of the
German Peoples Party. Seeckt has
attached to himself the organizations
grouped around the Bavarian die
tator Kahr, by admitting represent
atives of the Bavarian reaction into
the cabinet Of Marx.
Meanwhile, General Seeckt is Gag
erly engaged in extending and COM
plotting his own political apparatus.
He has brought together the old Of
fcers who served in the areas oc-
cupicd by Germany in Belgium,
France, Roumania, ETC., in the war,
and is using them to control the civil
administration and to form the ele-
tnents of an independent military
Dictatorship. The prohibition Of the
Communist Party is also being taken
advantage Of by the military Die
tatorship in order to still further