The daily worker., 1926-11-13
ANALYZE U. S.
PROBLEMS IN
MARX MANNER
Workers School Offers
Important Course

NEW YORK, Nov II. - The most
advanced course offered at the Work
ers' School this year is Problems of
American Marxism," Bertram d.
Wolfe instructor Only those will be
admitted to this course who have al
ready completed course in Marxism-
Leninism and who have a fair know
ledge of American history. However,
limited number Of students will be
admitted who can pass an examina-
tion given by the instructor or who
can show the equivalent Of the train
ing indicated above.
Sketch U. S. Problems.
The aim Of the course is to sketch
the problems that American Marxists
are called upon to solve; to develop
a program Of work for Marxism in the
U. s. and to apply the MARKHAM method
to such problems. There has been
comparatively little done in this field.
American Marxists" for example, are
able to give a MARKHAM explanation of
the Protestant Reformation; of the
Anabaptist movement; the Moravian
Brotherhood; the Waldenses and Albi-
genses. They can give an explanation
of why certain districts Of Switzerland
remained catholic or the North of
Ireland protestant; why the protestant
Reformation centered in Germany;
the significance Of the Lollard move
ment and the like.
But there is no American Marxist
who has undertaken an analysis of
Mormonism or Christian Science or
American Evangelism or Hard-Shell
Baptism or any OF the specific reli-
gious phenomena that bear the stamp
MADE in America" In the same
sense, a materialist Interpretation of
the Revolution Of 1S4S or the French
revolution is much easier to have than
a proper Interpretation Of 1776. They
know much more about the peasant
movement and the agrarian situation
in certain European countries than
about the situation in the United
States and can give a clearer picture
of class relations and class divisions
in France in 1S4S than in the United
States in 1926.
In the field of philosophy German
idealism is much more familiar than
American transcendentalism and a
MARKHAM analysis of pragmatism has
not been undertaken.
The course in problems of Amer
can Marxism" has as its subtitle
America Today" 1t aims merely to
open up all of these indicated fields
of study ana similar related ones; to
plant the problems, to make the stu
dents in the course sharply conscious
of them and to direct them along the
lines of investigation which will lead
to the solving of some Of them.
This becomes doubly important at
a time when "Americanism" has be-
come European and world problem
and when the European proletariat is
also forced, under pressure from it's
own master class, to undertake a
study Of the Problems of American
%1SA AAOAA~ 0OAAC VI Tie buOJCClo ldhGu
up are: American Capitalism Amer
lean Political Structure and Parties;
Glass Relations in the U. s.; the Agra
rian Problem; American International
Relationships; Development of Amer
lean Ideology; etc. This course begins
Nov. II.
Preparatory courses to be taken by
those desiring to enter into the "Prob-
lens of American Marxism" course
next year include: Marxism-Lenin-
ism; American Economic and Political
History; History of the American
Working Class; Advanced MARKHAM
Economics; Theory and Practice of
Work in the Trade Unions; History of
the American Communist Party; Com
munist Party Organization, and others.