The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-05-17
By ALExANpER RITTELMAN.

bodies. Each of these elections has a
story to tell, which is pregnant with
meaning and promise for the future
A story of decay among the ruling
classes. A story of the millions who
are oppressed, rising in anger against
things as they are. A story of a SPLEEN
did spirit Of rebellion that is once
again taking hold of the working mass
es Of the world, steeling their deter
mination for the fast-approaching day
Of reckoning.
MES, that day is coming despite all
the efforts of Morgan, Dawes,
Poincare, Ludendorf, Ebert, Gompers,
ETC., etc. The end of capitalist mis-
rule is coming on much faster than
even the optimistically inclined could
believe. Is not that apparent from
the elections in Germany? In France?
And even in Japan tho 1t still finds
itself in the clutches of a feudal-mili-
taristic oligarchy?
THE Communist International did
l not always calculate right, parti-
cularly where dates were involved.
But there is one Communist assump-
ton which today stands as fast and
impregnable as on the day it was
made, an assumption which is the
very soul of the international Com
munist movement. And it is this:
That the time we happen to live in,
also happens to be capitalism's last
phase Of development. That since the
last war, the world has entered a per-
iod Of social revolution, and that the
end Of this period will see the triumph
Of working class power in most Of the
capitalist countries of the world.
cermany-The Crucial Point.
IN the development of the proletari-
an struggle for power, Germany
plays the most important role. Events
in Germany have a determining effect
upon events the world over. 1t is real
ly the crucial point for ourselves just
as well as for international capital
ism.
When capitalist statesmen speak
of saving Germany by a proper solu-
ton of the reparations problem, they
really mean saving capitalism. They
wouldn't admit that in so many words.
They prefer speaking in terms of in
dustry, commerce, peace, internation-
al unity and what not? But it all
comes down to the same thing, which
is to save capitalism all over the
world.
GERMANY is the problem. If you
" can work out proposition
whereby German industry and COM
merce can begin functioning normally
and freely, without at the same time
hurting and Gripping the industry
and commerce of France. England and
America, if you have got that, you
have gotten hold of something which
nobody has been able to devise as
yet.
MANY had tried their hands at it.
IVI Just to mention few: Wood
row Wilson, Lloyd George, Clemen-
ceau, Orlando, BRAND, Poincare, and
all Of them went down in defeat The
job was beyond their powers, beyond
the powers of capitalist craftsmanship
in general.
Now Morgan is making an attempt.
Backed by the enormous resources
and wealth of American capitalism,
the House of Morgan is trying to i'm
pose upon European capitalism a new
life-saving scheme, the Dawes plan.
What is this plan? Nothing more
than a new variation of the old theme.
An attempt to enable German capital
ism to live without injuring the capt.
talist foundations of France and Eng
land. An impossible task, to be sure.
But the intentions of Morgan and Co.
are good, the theory behind these in
tentions being. let's try, anyway. And
having power enough to impose their
will the American bankers may sue
coed in putting their scheme over. But
what Of It?