The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-08-01

st Second International. This, be-
cause under the period of expanding
capitalism, the Second international,
listorting Marxism and giving mere
ip service to internationalism, acted
handmaiden to nationalist develop
aent and taught that each nation was
, separate entity, the possibility o.
evolution within which correspondent
o the completeness of mechanical de-
velopment and financial concentration.
In this Anticipated socialist view,
each nation was an isolated economic
phenomenon, independent of the
)thers-and it I'll becomes Editor Ga
IAN to sneer at the jackasses Of the
Tennessee mountains who believe in
the Independent creation and non-rela-
con of the species, so long as his prac-
teal solution of proletarian emancipa-
ton is based upon a theoretical
ground essentially antagonistic to the
integrated view of capitalism as
world system. a single whole.
EDITOR GAHAN may protest that
II he does believe capitalism a
world unit, but so long as he regards
that an incomplete industrial develop
nent in particular country is an in
surmountable obstacle to revolution
herein, he does not exhibit anything
tut confusion. For-once he grants
that each nation is only one link in
ne great imperialist chain of the
world system as a whole, he will hav
TO grant a conclusion to which hi
fundamentals" fellow workers ar,
very 10th to admit.
For if capitalist Imperialism is
world system, then where would orc
logically conclude the revolutionary
proletariat would first break thru cap
italist rule? In the countries where
the capitalist dictatorship was most
perfected, with its schools, movies,
preachers, police and press (including
the Industrial Pioneer) to divert
chloroform and convince the workers
that it mustn't be done, or will the
break come first in a country where
the capitalist chain has its weakest
link, with a. homogeneous mass
schooled by the facts of life to revolt
against universally hated exploiterS
Obviously, the imperialist chain is
broken at it's weakest and not its
strongest point And obviously, too,
the l. w. w. does not understand this,
because many of its spokesman still
insist that there has not been and
could not be any proletarian revolu-
ton in Russia, because Russia was
undeveloped industrially, is Just a
mass of small farmers and there amt
no proletariat" Editor Gahan's die
tum on China is merely a sample or
the stock argument.
DUT Gahan's confusion on China is
- just one fundamentals" error
of many which illustrates the ideo-
logical confusion under the burden of
which the /. w. w. is staggering ow-
ing to his brilliant editorship. One
can find as many solutions for prole-
tartan emancipation in the pages Of
his Industrial Pioneer as there arc
writer's therein.
P. ]. Welinder, member of the l.
w. W. general executive board, writ
ing in the Industrial Pioneer, May
1925, issue. page eight, states that
emancipation is not to be consum-
mated by "any general strike or an,
mass instruction" But that did not
prevent Louis Bartha, editor of the
/. w. W. Hungarian paper, writing in
the very next issue of the Pioneer
from saying (page IS, June) that
''This weapon of the working class
was, and must ever be, It's economic
action-the general strike
GAHAN makes no comment upon
~ these conflicting theories OF vital
Importance One may take ones
choice, apparently, between ]. W. w.
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