The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-01-05
DEMOCRACY IN
GERMANY ON
ITS LAST LEGS
(Continued from page 1l

dustry and the junkers 1.-THE German
nationalists and the peoples party
have also made gains.
The fascist party Irrational social
ists) have suffered catastrophe de-
feat, having lost IS of their 80 seats.
Dweedle-Dum Plus DweedIe-Dee.
These are the arithmatical results
In reality, however, no essential
change has been affected, no problem
solved. With the announcement of
the first election results, the politi-
clans of every party, from the extreme
right to the extreme "left" of the So
cial-democratic party, took up their
pads and pencils and began to add and
subtract: Social democrats plus demo
Gratis plus center equal so and so
much; but such a cleft bloc" won't
do, for 1t has no effective majority.
Then let's try: Peoples party plus
center plus democrats plus. social
democrats equal the so-called "big
coalition; that would do, but-the
peoples party is in reality but wing
of the nationalists and was bitterly"
fought by the republican" parties
Chose loyal to the Weimar constitu-
tion) in these elections as arch-reac-
tionaries. The social-democrats would
like to enter such a coalition, (the
"Vorwaerts" lost no time in saying
so), for it offers the only chance of
getting ministerial post or two, but
the peoples party insists on getting
the nationalists into the new govern
ment.
Moreover, the so-called left bloc, :"
which the social-democrats had so
! passionately longed for, and is neither
left nor a bloc. The clerical center
is divided in itself and is being pushed
by its heavy industrial wing towards
the right. On the democrats we need
waste no words; they are simply DEM
ocrats and will go anywhere and do
everything-in the interests of the
republic or the Vaterland, of course.
The 'SociaI-Democrats
And the social-democrats? They are
aAOAAJ az OCds ACJ nave Utility Jew
seats but nowhere to go. In the cleo
ton campaign they went as far as
forming a united front" with the
catholic center and the democrats.
A Joint appeal was issued with the fol.
lowing historical slogan: "vote for
Center, Democrats or SociaI-Demo-
cratsI"
They submerged, we may say drown
ed, their identity as a working class
party. They succeeded. as we have
seen, in duping the vacillating section
of the workers, but for how long? We
must bear in mind that the old reichs-
tag was in reality one grand coalition,
from Won Tirpitz all the way down
to and including Breitscheid. The
Dawes plan was put over on the Ger
man proletariat with the votes of the
nationalists and the social-democrats.
It now remains to be put in opera
ton. What the parties are now fight
ing over is the distribution of the
ministerial posts. The bankruptcy of
parliament and bourgeois democracy
is illustrated once more.
The Party Of the Working Glass.
There is only one party which is dis
interested in the squabble-the Com
munist Party. It is a mass party with
solid nucleus of nearly 5000, 900
class conscious workers and peasants,
who can be frightened by no terror,
and who know what II means to vote
for the Communists.
The most important fact estab-
Iished by the recent election Is, that
the Communist Party has conquered
the best and most important Sec
ton Of the working class, and has
driven a PERMANENT WEDGE
into the body Of the capitalist state.
This fact is now admitted even by
the bourgeois press.
What is the attitude OF the Com
munist Party towards the new reichs-
tag and the new government? A very
simple and clear one: To the working
class It makes no essential difference
which agents of the bourgeoisie sit
in the government. Whether the So
cial-democrats receive a job more or
job less matters and alters nothing
whatsoever. Our class enemy. from
the extreme right down to and in
GLIDING the social-democrats is agreed
and united on It's main thesis, which
is: % To continue the reparatlons
policy on the basis Of the Dawes plan.
! (2) To increase production and aug