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

lationships.
Cd That as result of this the
capitalists are able to continue the
system Of wage slavery in the home
countries Of Imperialism.
go That imperialism thus be-
comes burden not only upon the
colonial and semi-colonial peoples,
but upon the workers in the devel-
oped countries as well, whose con-
ditions moreover becomes worse and
worse as the race for super-proft
becomes hotter.
(4.) That the American workers
are therefore obliged to struggle
energetically to retain even their
hard-won gains Of the past.
90 That section Of the work
ing class, including the trade union
bureaucracy and the privileged
workers, refuses to take part in the
struggle and actually betrays it,
having been won over to the bour-
geoisie thru a share in the super
profits.
(6.) That, sharing directly in the
spoils of empire, these corrupted
labor elements have vested inter-
est in imperialist expansion and be-
come conscious or unconscious ac-
completes in the enslavement of
subject peoples.
(7) That super-profits are also
the basis for social-democratic pa
ciism, whose appeal is made to the
aristocracy of labor.
80 That, unlike the socialists,
the Communists do not base their
policies on a privileged group but
on the needs of the broad masses,
which require unceasing struggle
against capitalist exploitation and
Imperialism.
90 That, while the reactionary
oficialdom of the trade unions (the
bureaucracy are cynical traitors
to the working class and must be
gotten rid of, some sections of the
labor aristocracy as such (the bet
ter-paid, highly skilled workers.
can and must be won away from
collaboration with the bosses to
fight for their own ultimate class
interests side by side with the rest
Of the workers.
(10) That the theory of super
profits is thus strong weapon in
our hands against the. labor bureau
cracy and the socialists, and against
the imperialist policy of the bour-
geoisie, an instrument which en-
ables us to establish a connection
between the Industrial proletariat in
this country and the national liber-
alton movements in the countries
under the heel of American impe-
rialism.
(11) That the American work
ers must take the lead in establish
ing a fighting alliance with the
peoples Of Americas colonies and
semi-colonies.
THESE are the propositions tina
4 Comrade Wolfe says are incorrect
He does not prove they are incor
rect. He scarcely deals with then
at all. Instead, he restates them tC
suit himself and then proceeds tc
give me an elementary school lecture
on the A. B. O, of Imperialism, the
development of monopoly, the transi
ton from the era of the hegemony o.
the textile industry to the era Of
the iron and steel industry, the differ
ence between selling railroads ant
flannel underwear, etc, If my critic
did any research work to get this ma
terial he might have saved himseli
the trouble by consulting one of my
own articles, entitled, "Lenin and ths
New Wave of Marxism," which ap
peared in the March number Of the
Workers Monthly, this year, Com
rade Woife's criticism shows that hi
does not even perceive what the basic
propositions of my article on Labor
and Empire are, Notwithstanding the
fact that they are clearly stated ant
enumerated, One might read his ar
ticle thru without having the slight