The daily worker., 1926-04-03
BY D. KVITKo.
FIRST ARTICLE
introductory
A PsychO-AnaIytie Perversion of Mass
Activity.

HSdpeu on Lne communists mead
when he speaks Of the need of revising
the bourgeois cultured Even social
ists-tho they claim MARKHAM parent
age-poke fun at the "proletarian cul-
ture," forgetting that political econ
omy, sociology, etc., have been already
revised from a proletarian view
point. But there still remain other
sciences quite untouched by the Com
munists, which also need revision; for
instance, the field of social psychol-
ogy, virgin soil for our exploration.
Nay, not altogether virgin, for the
bourgeois husbandman ploughed and
sowed it with Venemous herbs which
rooted themselves deeply in our thu
manitarian" soil.
One example win illustrate how the
bourgeois sayants pollute our cultural
sources. In the city OF New York re-
Gently was staged production under
the title of Goat Song" rich sym
bolic play dealing with revolution in
an artistic way. The Goat Song by
Franz Worfel is gem $50 rare in our
days of Abie's and other roses) pro-
hfic with ideas. 1t openly eulogizes
social revolution. Tho written sym
bolically, yet the true meaning could
be graSped by the average theater-
goer, had the reviewers of the capital
ist press not reviewed" it,-that is
distorted ito suit their own pur-
poses. When interpreted from a
revolutionary angle there is no super
fluous or contradictory character in
the play.
But some doctor OF the New York
Evening Sun could not let go such
revolutionary play without psyche
analyzing' it. The doctor psyche
it so that in his scientific" hands 1t
became the embodiment of destruc-
ton, mob insanity, delusion and what
not. 1t was a shameful trick, but,
hats of! it was "psycho-analyzed and
many an unsophisticated reader was
knocked of his feet. What the doc
tor has done with a revolutionary
play, is generally being done with
revolutionary phenomenon and unpa-
triotic mass action.
No modern warfare can survive
without the aid Of the doctor But
for purposes of class warfare, instead
Of the medical doctor, the doctor of
psychology is called in and the revolu-
tionary mob" and the radical leader
are first ''psychologically'' examined,
and after such scientific analysis they
are declared to be fit for either the
psychopatic ward, asylums for the
feeble-minded, or institutions for Grim
finals.
Yet, when the layman speaks about
psychology he speaks with reverence;
not knowing that psychology, espec-
ially social psychology is as a science
no more exact, than philosophy or So
GEOLOGY; that Is that a bourgeois in
terpretation is Just as valid here as it
is valid IN political economy. OF
course, the question OF strikes or revO-
luton viii have to be settled on the
street but the bourgeois theories must
be combatted In the pages Of our
press.
For this reason we shall first lay
bare the various theories Of revolu-
tionary psychology showing the bour-
geois face peeping out from them, and
then we will build our own MARKHAM
foundation for psychology. We will
have first to clear the ground from the
pseudoscientihc rubbish and then
break 1t for our own structure. We
shall attempt to prove that the Com
munigt theory ie grounded m cor-