The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-02-12
Urge Emma Goldman to
Teach Anti-Bolshevism
in CapitaIisn's Schools
BY J. LOUIS ENcDAHL

TODAY the University of Minnesota peed darling of the
steel trust proteers and the food gamblers feels itself
proud the fact that of its professors in sociology
Ptrm A. Sorokn, has been elected to membership in the
International Sociological Institute in Paris.
It under czarism that sorokin a chairman Of
the department. OF sociology at the University Of Petrogad
He the kind of Russian that finds favor with Americas
He teaches the right kind of economics those who
will be called maintain the dictatorship of profits
wheat land railroads. iron and other sources OF great
gain in the rich state of Minnesota
If Sorokin had the United States as a worker
to escape the knout of Russian czat taaser he would
have received much different treatment Hdeous mmigra-
ton laws would greet him upon his arrival with ant-toregn
born legislation growing strict to watch him
while he here for fear that he join labor union help
organize strike, or become member OF revolutionary
organization like the Workers (communist) Party.
The antczarst Russian finds life hard on the iron
ranges in Northern Minnesota trying to win bare ve
hood from the soil that has been robbed of its timber by the
lumber trust
The counter-revoIutonary antsovietist has it very
comfortable basng in popular favor in the states highest
educational institution. There he has many opportunities
to serve the ruling class of this country and of his world
1t was because ne series of articles Russia
Today" that Sookn found favor with the international
Sociological Institute in France 1t in France that the
Russian counterrevoutionares make last stand before
they are pushed the into this country France
able conditions for him that sorokns articles Russia
OF Today found favor in the eyes of kemnded socoogsts
of other lands
The hiring Of sorokin by University Of Minnesota to
teach sociology only another manifestation of the poverty
of American capitalist intellectual fe 1t unable to breed
satisfying ant,labor propagandsts OF it's own 1t must
search the ranks of emgres of fallen capitalism another
land
Thus the Cleveland Ohio Plain Dealer ourns the fact
that $1,000 workers attended the Lenn Memorial Meeting in
New York City, responding with great savos of cheers
the Communist appeals of the speakers The Plain Dealer
frantcally Declares
There something wrong system popular education
that permits coedI.
PRISON. good Of
maydom is often
to
Of course, the Plain Dealer that the $4,000 who
attended the New York Madison Square Garden meeting
think crookedy from the capitalist viewpoint They think
straight from the standpoint of the working This
sheet would claim that the antSove professor Soron at
the University of Minnesota thinks straight but that the
proSoviet miner in the northern part of the thinks
crooked But the revolutionary worker knows that is
thinking straight and that the hengs of the capitalist
class fight him with their capitalist reasoning The Plain
Dealer tries to camoufage its declaration by failing
for which class speaks But the workers will draw their
own correct conclusion In its dire extremity the Cleveland
Plain Dealer offers the foIowng
Why not schools
y Of organized fuy 5oshevsm
demonstrated in Russia? EMMA GOLDMAN WOULD GOOD
PRINCIPAL FOR SUCH
So the American capitalist class offers bread to the
also have them getting them Even Emma Goldman
has her champions seeking additional opportunities for her
to spread ant-Bolshevik propaganda.
But the mighty struggles Of the everyday life of the
workers greater teachers than all foreign mpoa-
tons that American capitalism may call to its aid. They
teach the workers and farmers that they wage
increasing struggle for power against their enemy class
with all its retainers. The puny efforts of the counter
revotonares but gancng blows that hardly touch the
Ifinn