The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-01-05
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SAHEATY.
ing in the Out

& TOHN ing In the OuL-
- look, that socialism is
obsolete. spargo made his living for
many years telling quite the reverse,
but the outbreak of the European war
aroused his John Bull spirit and he
became one Of the champions Of
democracy, represented by the British
Empire. John had his price of course.
He was on the payroll Of the British
government before the United States
entered the war and no doubt he drew
more than one salary from then on.
~PARGO'S article shows light on
- the insincerity of socialist par
ties. He tells of his visit to Sweden
in 1920. While in that country he
asked Premier Branting, socialist, what
he intended to do to realize the social
list ideal. Nothing at all" replied
Granting. That gentleman favored
a program Of maintaining the Swed-
ish rate OF exchange and in general
program that any white guard would
support willingly. In fact the king
was one Of Branting's strongest sup
porters, a fact which was taken by
prominent leaders of the American
socialist party as an indication that
there was a split in the ranks Of Eur
opean monarchy, a goodly number of
them being ready to join the social
democracy.
1T is undoubtedly true that Branting
and every other socialist premier
who succeeded in gaining power in Eur
ope since the war did nothing to adj
vance the socialist ideal. On the con-
trary they were the most willing
agents Of capitalism. Witness Ramsay
Macdonald in England and the Polish,
Austrian and Czecho-Slovak social.
lists. But Spargo does not mention
Russia where the workers have ruled
for over seven years and where the
ground work for Communist society
is being built And should some one
say that Communism has been fail
ure in Russia, we reply that Commun-
ism never existed in Russia, but that
the workers have all power in their
hands and are advancing toward the
Communist goal ideologically as well
as industrially.
SOCIALIST parties ara obsolete
- but not socialism. It may seem
like paradox, yet 1t is true that
socialist parties have tried to play the
role of executioners of socialism,
while the Communist parties who are
successfully playing the role Of the
executioners OF socialist parties are the
deliverers of socialism. The capital
.lst system in Europe is bankrupt and
could not maintain itself in power but
for the assistance rendered to it by
the socialist parties of Europe and the
American capitalists. Spargo may con-
cole himself with the thot that social
ism will not be realized in America
before his carcass is turned into dust
In the meantime he intends to live the
life Of prostitute.
IT A. LOCHRAY, editor of the Mid
~ West News, and former booster
for farmer-labor party, later La
Toilette booster and still later Cal
vim Coolidge booster, Che can't sink
any lower) is now trying to terrorize
the capitalists into believing that they
are confronted with an immediate
danger which must be met by an ap-
propriate expenditure of cash given to
worthy perverts like the aforesaid
Lochray This faker has turned his
rag into red batting sheet almost ex-
clusively. So far he has not pros
pered by the change. Formerly the
Midwest News came out weekly;
now it hurts the eye only once a
month. Let US hope he makes it a
yearly.
THE CINCINNATI INQUIRER re-
Gently published a dispatch from
the Chicago Tribune's correspondent,
which states that the Communist In
ternational has ordered a revolution
TO take place in the Balkans in the
month Of March. The story does not
give the exact hour or minute on
which the onslaught is to be made but
Il got very close to it. II will take
place in the second or third week in
, March. It is also interesting to note
that the main object of the revolt is
TO heal the breach between Trotzky
and former chiefs" The assumption
IL that Trotzky is addicted to sulky
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