The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-06-03

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ing to account of, and an equally re-
lentless stresgle against. the pseudo
Marxism Of the Second International.
/ This means that our propaganda of
the general fundamentals OF Marxism
must not be abstract in character, but
must be based upon the actual histori-
cal tasks set the working class by
each new epoch. And this means that
our general propaganda has to be
propaganda Of Marxism and Leninism.
When we speak Of Leninism, we
emphasize that special import which
Lenin impaired to MARKHAM theory. We
hold in view the light cast upon Marx
ian theory by Lenin's application OF
fresh historical experience, his new
practice OF Marks methods in q man
ner hitherto unknown in the history
of the world. Leninism signifies In
exorable struggle against the vulgar
lied and castrated Marxism Of the
Second International. Leninism Is the
renaissance of orthodox Marx1Bm. But
Leninism is not only the rebirth Of
the Marxism Of Marx. It is the con-
tinuation and further development of
Marxism under the conditions imposed
by the epoch of Imperialism and the
development Of socialist revolution.
The historical process does not come
to a standstill, social beng changes
and develops.
WHEN the new phase Of capitalist
W development, the phase Of mon
opolistic capitalism, had commenced,
and when the war Of 1914 finally de-
tsrmined the beginning Of an enorm-
GUS upheaval in the worlds history,
Marxism was confronted by fresh
theoretical and practical tasks. Marx
list theoretical consciousness had to
grasp, consciously, the new social be-
ing which had come into existence.
Lenin, applying the methods and
teachings Of Marx. consciously grasp
ed the fundamental Rntagonisms and
decisive laws Of the imperialist epoch.
The imperialist socialists Of the
type Of Kautsky, Bernstein and Fried
rich Adler, proved unequal to this
task. These theoreticians Of the Sec
ond International bid adieu to the
tenets OF orthodox Marxism. Having
conceded to their imperialist inclina-
lions by renouncing dialectic material
ism, it was impossible for them to
even attempt a conscious grasp of
fresh phenomena and processes from
the standpoint of Marks methods.
Friedrich Adler's declaration adler
likes to consider himself a Marxist)
sinking deeper and deeper into Bak-
unistics adventurism, but continue to
call upon Marx increasingly at the
same time, thus sounds extremely n.y.
pocritical. Adler writes that the
standpoint of the Bolshevik may be
more easily understood since they
have finally decided 10 speak of Len
inism" instead Of "Marxism!" (From
Adler's letter to the Executive Of the
London internationally
A ND it is precisely Friedrich Adler,
"A the jealous reviser of the dia-
lectic materialism of Marx and En-
gels, who makes this statement. In
his well known article written In 1907,
and published in the Neuen Zeit, I'M
der the title of Friedrich Engels and
the Natural Sciences" Adler employed
his utmost endeavors to distort En-
gels, and to replace the philosophy of
Marx by the philosophy OF Mach. 1t
need not be emphasized that Friedrich
Adler's submissive service to the i'm
perialist bourgeoisie has so crippled
his mental faculties that he is no long
er capable of questioning whether a
man who has renounced MARKHAM meth
DDS of materialist dialectics may still
be called a Marxist Friedrich Adler,
having renowned Marks methods, is
incapable Of comprehending that the
split between the labor movement and
socialism during the epoch of imperi-
alism is not accidental, and that the
disintegration of Marxism in the Sec
cond International is as little acciden-
tai. The fundamental feature distin-
gushing the theoreticians of the Sec
ond International is their incapability
to comprehend Marxism as a coherent
view OF life, permeated with dialectic
concord. Some OF them have been
prepared to accept this or that part of
Marxism, but have rejected that total
ity Of Marxism extends alike to the
works of nature and the history Of
mankind.
Lenin, on the other hand, accepted
the methods and teachings Of Marx
fully and completely, and with their
aid he explained the new processes
and solved the practical tasks of the
labor movement. Thus our general
propaganda must be a propaganda OF
orthodox, unvulgarized Marxism, and
a propaganda of the latest achieve
ments won by the theory and prac-
tice of Marxism in the latest epoch
Of history. That is, II must be prop
uganda of Leninism. For this reason,