The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-08-22
By BertrGm D. Wolfe

Of the unpaid labor to the paid labor
performed by a worker. The proper
ton of capital invested as constant or
variable capital does not enter into
its calculation.
The essence Of imperialist exploita-
ton is found in the use OF a cheap
and docile labor supply, a low living
standard among the backward people,
inhumanly long hours, inhumanly low
wages, dispossessing of the backward
peoples from the land, and forced la
bor All Of these, which form the es-
sence Of imperialist exploitation, make
it the brutal thing it is and explain
the revolt Of China, Morocco, ETC.,
from the imperialist yoke, are not
mentioned in the four enumerated
points. Some of the other points are
incorrectly stated, and other import
ant factors are omitted, but this ar
ticle will be prolonged unduly if /
analyze the economic section of Co
mez's article any further
Workers, Subject Peoples and the
Revolution"
Passing over other errors Of minor
nature, jump to the end Of the ar
ticle. The last section is called
Workers, Subject Peoples, and the
Revolution" The questions here con-
sidered are of tactical, political ma
ture and therefore vital for the action
and practical conclusions" for Boil
shevik party. Again there is lament
able confusion and even a false tao
teal position.
Gomez discusses, citing Bukharin
Tin his battle with Boris-the alitera-
ton is mine) and drawing on Lenin,
the corruption that is engendered in
the labor movement by imperialism
which is able to bride leaders and
even whole sections of the "aristoc-
racy Of labor" with some part of the
enormous profits, and thus win them
to class collaboration and support of
Imperialism. This is correct, as is
the position of Gomez that this cor
ruption must be fought and an effort
must be made to win away the "aris-
tocracy' of labor from class collabor-
alton. But the vagueness Of the pass
age and the failure to draw a distinc-
ton between corrupted leaders and
labor aristocracy leads to this lament
able sentence in which the two are
unconsciously merged and illusions
fostered on the possibility Of winning
the corrupted leadership. Here is the
sentence:
while we fight to win the masses
away from the leadership of these
corrupted elements, we must endeav-
or to break the LATTER away from
the bosses and draw them more and
more into the struggle. 1t is in I'M
ceasing struggle that the hope of the
working class lies"
OF course, it is possible that Gomez
meant to write former" in place Of
latter" but even if that is so, the
correction must be made. Moreover,
the passage in question sins terribly
by omission as well as by what is
stated. The masses must be broken
away, not only nor directly from the
bosses, but precisely from these cor
rupted leaders. This is fundamental
error in trade union policy-the omis-
sion of the necessity Of struggle
against this corrupted leadership.
Lenin advocated it all his life, and
precisely because he comprehended
that they were bought by a share of
imperialist profits and were objective
ly, to use a Deleonite phrase, quoted
by Lenin, Tabor lieutenants of the
capitalist class" If Gomez actually
meant what the words appear to say,
the passage is even worse for it i'm
plies that the corrupted leaders as a
class can be won to fight against the
bosses, thus fostering an illusion in
them. II we demand that they break
with the bosses, it Is not with the
hope of winning them, but as a means
Of axnOgiuQ than and annihfIo4sn..