The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-25

When Kautsky condemns the
bloody terrorism Of the Communist
dictatorship in Russia, calling it
tyrannous rule of minority, we can
see how MARKHAM he becomes. When
he speaks of the glorious trinity of
Mussolini, Horthy and Lenin this
Judas links himself with such pure
democrats as Noske, Kerensky and
Macdonald (this latter now become
a militarist, butcher of Hindoos, and
a strikebreaker). In answer to Len
ms charge Of sophist and traitor,
he calls Lenin brute and says that
such strong terms should not be used
in intercourse between educated men,
between gentlemen!
cy?-Dictatorshipl
But both Kautsky and his satellite,
Hillquit, are beginning to make some
damaging admissions. They go so
far as to say that when brutal open
dictatorship of the Fascist confronts
us, we may not always be able to
avoid violence in retaliation and de-
tense. They would permit prole-
tartan dictatorship in Hungary, Spain
and Italy, and Kautsky will obligingly
allow the Soviets to be Overthrown
by force and violence. But where
democracy rules, in every other coun-
try in the world, the parliamentary
fiction which cloaks the dictatorship
of capitalism must not be disturbed.
Mussolini proclaims return to de-
mocracy (Which should bring him
back into the fold), plans to gerry
mander the proletarian election dis
tricts, and to demand one thousand
names for each nominee, with Fascist
supervision of elections. OF course,
Communist signers will not be perse-
cuted-none of them will be butch
cred when the Fascist fear their
victory. SHINES, against the great
electoral power Of the Social Demo-
Gratis, puts his puppet into the chan
cellorship. The Greek strong man,
Plastiras, confiscates all union bank
deposits, declares trade unions ille-
gal, and seizes their property, build
ings and press. Daugherty here is
sues injunctions and outlaws strikes;
the foremost democracy" in the
world uses agents provocateurs, raids
political meetings of Communists and
l. w. W., sends troops to break
strikes, attempts to f1ngerprint, pass
port and inclose within pale of set
Element all foreign-born, and even
naturalized radical workingmen.
80, Vol. 1, p. 400
Socialists Support Faseisn.
To consider for moment some of
the other advanced countries of Eu-
rope, where Hillquit's political de-
mocracy seems firmly established"
Germany is now under Seeckt's mill
tary dictatorship of capitalism, the
Communists are prosecuted and hunt
ed. The Social Democrats vote for
dictatorship-but for whose? Hill.
quit, writing in January, chose not to
know what had happened in Germany
months before. The Social Demo
Gratis ''Vorwarts" publishes false
| documents on Communists stores of
arms, and further incites capitalist
militarism against the proletariat
Poland is a democracy in which
strikes are savagely repressed and
the Socialist Daszynsky sells out to
military dictatorship; where thou
sands are jailed for being Compn'Nn'
lists or military unionists. -earia
is another Kautskian paradise where
democracy ravages the land. Social
list Minister Kasakoff, aided by Wran
! gels remnants is in government
that has executed $4,000 workers and
peasants, murdered treacherously the
imprisoned Communist leader, Bla
goieff. Roumania, Jugo-Slavia, Els
thonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania are
other countries where the Commun
lists are outlawed, jailed, murdered
by the thousands. And whatever hap
pens to the Communists, the militant
unionists share. Democratic Belgium
has four to five hundred prisoners
| In the face of this panorama
Of virgin democracy, our Hillqui
prophesies and hopes for electora
victories rather than revolution, anC
Kautsky tells us that democracy /.
making great progress on the main
land of Europe. When Macdonald
sells out to a capitalist dictatorship
as his threats to India, his naval pro
gram, and his strikebreaking indi
cate, then will go the last pretense a
democracy. What will Kautsky, Hill
quit and Company say then? The,
have given us hint. They will pra,
and work for the installation of de
mocracy in Russia. The ProletariaI
Dictatorship of Russia may ant
probably will fight it's way to an or
der of social democracy"
Let Marx reduce to absurdity tn,
reasonable pacifism, alternating witt
vicious militarism, which these Pre-
fessional students of Marxism exhibi
in counselling their ever-diminishinl
following of honest workers to be
lieve in democracy. while awaitinI
the glorious social revolution, tn