The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-02-07
Mr.. Pickwick on Communism

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favored with the latter's gracious OBJ
seryation.
All his life Bernard Shaw has been
scourging and ridiculing- his slave
owners outlook of the British, incul-
Gated into them by centuries of train
ing. In his letter in "Isvestia", he de-
sired to show that even the so-called
socialist intelligentzia, as we'll as the
entire British bourgeoisie, were i'm
bued with this imperialist arrogance
and conceit. And how charmingIy he
exposes them.
Shaw says to the Soviet Union and to
the COmintern: Messrs. Russian Com
munists, chuck this Comintern, really
it is just cinema farce. The idea
of world revolution is all nonsense.
You have made revolution in an
enormous country, but that fact is
of much less Importance than the dis
pleasure which your revolution has
caused to the British lords. How do
you expect to live if our lords do not
please to consent to this? The inter-
vention did not work out, they failed
to crush you. But if they did not kill
you with bullets-they will kill you
with pounds. Stop agitating, calm
down, submit Mr.. Rakovsky has re-
membered that at one time he could
wear a dress coat. He eats and han
dies knife and fork quite like a re-
! spectacle person. Make this general.
Stop messing about with Cominterns
and such like, and behave like re-
| spectacle people. What? You say
hat the Comintern has nothing to
do with the Soviet government? Well,
perhaps someone will believe it. But
why should you have anything to do
with this Comintern even privately?
Remember revolution is a serious bus
mess. Chuck these stories out of old
romantic pamphlets and sensational
cinema films. You talk about revolu-
ton in China, about 400,000,0e0 hui
man beings taking the broad histor-
ical path land shaking the whole
world. Yes, our learned Bertrand
Russell and our clever Wells have
also chartered about this; a writer
writes and reader reads. But our
lords, except for few freaks, do not
read anything, and consequently
world revolution doesn't concern
them. Do we not keep 300,000,0O0
Indians in subsection? When the time
comes, we will prohibit the Chinese
revolution. Look at these Egyptians;
they too attempted to show British
Imperialism that there was an Egyp-
tian revolution. Well, how did their
little game end? For one British offic-
er they had to pay 100000 pounds,
although that officer was not even a
lord. Moreover, they lost the Sudan,
and that's what they got out of revo-
luton. Only British facts exists, the
facts Of British might-all the rest is
iust nonsense, romance and cinema
lcting. Real politics takes no notice
of romantic raving, but crawls on its
belly before British Imperialism.
Perhaps the reader will think that
this, Bernard Shaw's satire is over
drawn. Nothing Of the kind. The en-
SAAc oO-O0lACu .sluttlliSt0l1Id
has been trained to worship British
imperialism. II worships IT even
when 1t thinks it is fighting IL. At
a certain conference of three interna-
tionals, had occasion to take up the
cudgels against a friend of Bernard
Shaw, Ramsay Macdonald. When the
latter at this conference brought for
ward the program Of liberating the
Russian border countries as a So
cialist program, asked him why he
had forgotten Egypt and India Pub
licly he made no reply, but at din
ner, he confessed that Il was very
difficult for an Englishman to aban-
don the idea that all that lies in the
English belly, Is all right When Mr..
Macdonald came to power. he hasten
ed to prepare more food for the Brit
ist stomach; he spread his nets in