The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-01-19

would facilitate greatly the fight for
the dictatorship on a national scale.
In the south of Germany, in Bavaria,
there was the seat of the peasant
counter-revolution. In the north and
northeast, in Mecklenburg, POM
mernia and East Prussia, was the seat
of the land owners counter-revolu-
ton. Both constitute the mass basis
of the Fascist counter-revolution of
big capital. The way of their union
lies over Middle Germany. In Middle
Germany with its crowded laboring
population. the leaders of the right of
the Social Democracy went bank
rupt. The policy of the Social Demo-
cracy was influenced here much more
powerfully by the sentiments of the
Social Democratic workers than was
the case in the bureaucratic centers,
in Berlin and Hamburg. The forma-
ton of the workers government in
Middle Germany was to give us the
means of power for beginning the
struggle for the dictatorship on
national scale. Middle Germany was
the marching ground of the working
class, just as Bavaria, Mecklenburg
and East Prussia are the marching
ground of Fascism. Wherein does
the victory of Fascism iquidate this
tactic? What are the main features
of our tactic in the third period which
we now enter upon?
The Victory of Fascism and Our
New Tactics.
The Social Democracy has been
thrown out of power, even though
General Seeckt considers it necessary
to retain it in the government as a fig
leaf. The ground of coalition policy
OF the lower middle class and the mid
die strata of the capitalist class with
the Social Democracy has disap-
'peared. Stresemann and Ebert
handed the power over to Seeckt, but
they can no longer take it away from
him; for, the reason that they handed
the power over to Seeckt, was not to
accomplish temporary task, but be-
cause they are bankrupt. The capt.
talist class has come to the realization
that it is no longer in a position to
conclude any compromise even with
only part of the working class, that
lit must load upon the entire working
class the cost of the reconstruction of
capitalism. As this cannot be done
without force, it has created the force
of the Reichswehr and the Fascist or
CARNATIONS. That is the meaning of
the events of October.
But if the Social Democracy no
longer finds itself in power, if there
is no democracy on the ground of
which it. is possible to fight for i'm
mediate demands even if temporarily,
then these immediate demands dis
appear as basis for the united front
of the working class. It is up to US
now to fight for the overthrow and
ambition of the Fascist dictator
ship. What can we oppose to it?
Democracy? There is no going back
to Democracy, because the lower mid
die class and the middle strata of the
capitalist class were already in doubt
over the method of democracy. The
landowners whom General Seeckt
represents can be opposed only by the
dictatorship of the proletariat. The
working class will attempt to
assemble about its banner the suf-
fering lower middle class and the
poor peasants; its dictatorship will be
a genuine workers and peasants gov
eminent. But history has DESTROYED
the half solutions which were to
facilitate the fight for the dictator
ship. If today the unified working
class captures the majority in Parlia-
ment, it captures no real power: even
the municipal police are subordinated
to the military powers that be. His
tory says to the working class: Every
thing or nothing. The lesson is: The
dictatorship Of the proletariat is the
object of the fight, the armed upris-
ing is the way. And only upon this
ground is it worth while to assemble
the masses.
Against Right and Left Socialists
Can this be done by way of negotia-
tons with the leaders of the Social
Democracy? These negotiations are
impossible, even for the purpose of
exposing the leaders. There is