The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-05-13

1 never agreed with Lenin,"
declared Berger in congress. more
over, would rather use a hundred
years to bring about new world, a
better world by evolution, with all the
blessings of civilization, than bring it
about by the bloody revolution"
Which would indicate that the ex-
school teacher Berger needs few
elementary lessons in the definition
Of the two words evolution" and
revolution"
But instead, Berger continues with
the usual broadside against hhe Soviet
regime, concluding with, "In America
also we shall soon have to decide the
question whether the English or the
Russian method is to be followed.
What is it to be-a Macdonald or a
MacLenin?"
Berger made his speech before the
recent elections in Germany. Other
wise he would have had the answer
Of the workers of Germany, who have
had half a century's trial of Berger's
brand of socialism in all it's phases.
In connection with his speech Berger
published in the Congressional Rec
ord table showing the parliamentary
representation of the socialists in the
various countries. Germany he lists
with 173 seats in the reichstag. But
the workers revised that a week ago
by cutting the socialist representation
in half and turning it over to the Com
munists. The German workers will
give Berger lot of this peaceful
evolution" And they'll give him real
revolution, too.
THE German workers set the pace
/ for labor in other lands outside Rus
STA. The British workers will follow
their example. They will in time put
their stamp of disapproval on the Mac
Donald regime, that urges increasing
the British navy to defend British i'm
perialism, that threatens force against
the restless and oppressed masses of
India, Egypt and other colonial de-
tendencies, that seeks to arouse the
backward peoples of Afghanistan in
Asia against Soviet Rule in Russia,
and that is an instrument for breaking
strikes at home.
Just as socialists in all parliaments
are an ally of capitalism against Com
munism, so Berger in congress warns
his fellow republican and democratic
spokesman of Wall Street, that:
Poverty is the mother of misery
and the grandmother OF revolutions.
Again say, then, gentlemen. our
main fight ought to be to combat po-
verify. Poverty is a curse Poverty is
the mother of ignorance, of crime and
disease. Poverty is dangerous to every
body, but it is especially dangerous to
the ruling class"
lDERGER is like the bird in the
- jungle that warns the hippopo-
tamus, uncouth monster of primeval
lplaces, of the approach of his enemies.
Berger tries to warn capitalism of its
emy-Communism. But there is a
big difference. The hippopotamus,
numbering along, has a chance of es-
cape. But the capitalist system is
here and it can't get away, it cannot
escape. except thru its complete ex-
termination.
All the dangers that Berger warns
capitalism against are inherent in it.
graft, corruption, war, militarism,
child labor and all the rest. Capital
ism cannot escape from them, any
more than pre-war socialism can es-
cape from the treason to the working
class inherent in it, and that is work
ing daily for it's complete elimination
from the field of the class struggle.
-
DUT Berger rattles on. Corruption
- must be eradicated. in his own
words, in the name of 'the beautiful