The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-04-04
BY T. }. o'FLAHERTY.

THE un-Marxian Marxists of the
i United States and particularly
that collection of dollhouse theorists
segregated under the banner of the
socialist labor party, have unearthed
every stray remark, and debauched
the literature OF pre-war socialism in
an effort to prove that Marx and
Engels were not revolutionists but
blind worshipers of the tool of produc
ton to whose progressive march alone
could be attributed all the forward
leaps of civilization and to which the
emancipation Of the working class
could be trusted without the explod
ing Of a fire cracker or even the
scratching of a finger.
Let the tool Of production do the
work! The reformists masquerading
under the camouhage Of revolutionary
socialism would observe its progress
and carefully note down every devel
opment, branding all those who insist
ed on working class organization for
the overthrow of capitalism, as crazy
adventurers.
Communists have all the admira.
ton in the world for the tool of pro
duction and they know that its devel
opment is more responsible for the
changes that have come over the face
of society than all the kings and
princes, generals and statesmen that
ever lived. But this world is com
posed of human beings as we'll as in
animate instruments of production
and destruction. The master class are
in possession of both and when the
working class refuse to work the pro
ductive machine at the terms dictated
by the bosses, the latter will turn the
destructive machines on them with
damaging effect. Hence the need of
capturing the governmental power
which controls the tools of destruc-
ton.
The reformists spurn revolutionary
action and hold that no permanent
progress can be made unless it is
done according to the laws of civiliza-
tion-whatevef they are. In other
words, the workers are advised to
watch the social panorama go by with
folded arms and wait until capitalism
digs its own graveyard and drops
peacefully into it. Whereupon the
working class, led by the dollhouse
theorists will appear, issue a proclaim
alton and declare that the co-opera-
tive commonwealth has arrived.
Marx and Engels, the two outstand-
ing giants in the intellectual galaxy
of social revolution, up to the time of
their deaths and until the star of Len
in appeared over the horizon, received
lip service from the many bodies of
the reformists until the revolutionary
implications of their theories rose out
of the seething cauldron Of world
war like a pillar Of fire. And when
the Russian Bolsheviki began u trans
late Marxism into action un5-- the
leadership of Lenin, all the pseudo
Marxists who worshipped at his shrine
while he remained the harmless peda-
gogue scurried like rats into their
cellars and came forth with little odds
and ends that they hoped would prove
that Marx and Engels did not believe
in the use of every servicable weapon
with which to overthrow capitalism,
but confined themselves to the ballot
alone. which was touted by the re-
formists as the high water mark of
civilization.
One of those cave providers, an old
fossil employed by the socialist labor
party TO make the teachings Of Engels
fit the mild hammered socialist patriot
ism of that organization, emerged
from his search with piece written
by Engels in 1895 as an introduction
to Marks Class Struggles in France,
1S4S-1S50, in which Engels is repre-.
sented to have renounced the idea OF
force as a ''pacifist adorer OF legality
at any price" as Engels puts II. How