The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-24
Communist CIarity-CGpitalist
Confusion.

CONFUSION.
Two entirely different groups linked together
in the .National Republican, official organ of the
republican party's national committee, will re-
pudiate the statement that they are working for
the same end.
First, and voicing protest most vehemently will
be the group of progressives so-called, headed by
LaFollette and including Wheeler, BrOokhart and
others who have incurred the displeasure of the
standpatters. "Labor," the official organ of the
Conference for Progressive Political Action, will
be especially emphatic in denying the accusation
and attempting to Guido the "National Republi-
can" in vituperative attack upon the reds
The Communists will be just as emphatic but
more goodhumored in denying their utilization
with the organizations and individuals whose am
bition is the impossible one of restoring Jeffer-
sonian democracy as guiding principle for gov
eminent in this imperialistic era.
America has its die-hards as well as Great Bri-
tain The financial interests for whom the 'Na-
ton Republican" speaks are uncOmpromising and
arrogant in their endeavors to make of the work
ing class of America race of industrial hel0ts
The LaFollettes, Brookharts and Wheelers, mid
die class business and professional men, express
the resentment of that class against the domino
ton of the big industrialists and tinanciers,
against the minor role the middle class is forced
to play in formulating domestic and foreign poll
cies They do not understand that with the de-
velopment of American capitalism the middle class
has lost its economic foundation the strangling
of small competitive manufacturers has forced
them to become the servants of the great monopo-
lies-fnancial and industrial-wellpaid servants
but still servants.
The Communists understand the processes at
work and they know the futility of the changes
proposed by the middle class malcontents-
changes not only futile but for the most part i'm
possible of accomplishment.
The Communists are committed to the policy
of organizing and educating the workers and
farmers of America for war capitalism; they
understand that return to the competitive CAPT
talism of early American history is a dream and
even if possible would be undesirable. COmmun-
lists are not against monopoly and specialized pro-
duction as such; they are against an industrial
system that is operated solely for the benefit of a
few and they also against the political system
that bulwarks it,
They can view with a pleasure commensurate
with the results achieved the attacks of the middle
class upon the more powerful section of the CAPT
talst class but they have no intention Of in fact
tney aSslduOuSly work 10 prevent the Inluue class
reformers consolidating their leadership of the
masses of workers and farmers.
The confusion of thought that exists in America
is demonstrated by the fact that the "National Re-
publican attempts to put lavender and pink prog
ressives in the same camp with the crimson Com
munists while the oficiadom of the reformist
movement attacks the Communists for working for
the establishment of class party of workers and
farmers.
In the welter of confused thinking that the in
stability of American capitalism is causing, the
Communists alone are steering clear course.
The Workers Communist Party of America,
in its program, states its position clearly and the
events of each succeeding day justify the detectives
and tactics there set forth. 1t is Communist
and therefor working class program and a care
full reading of it is the best for the confusion
that now prevails in working class circles.
The Jefersonian democrats will expose their
anti-working class character by the manner in
which they WILL under pressure from the big CAPT
talists, attack the Communists and endeavor to be
still more patriotic than the organs Of Imperialism