The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-01-17
Fraudulent Socialist
Opposition to War Is
an Aid to Irnperialists
BY j. LOUIS ENGDAHL.

by the mere sight of Kellogg's red
herring" Borah, the middle class
political leader makes a speech on
constitutional and international law,
labels it "anti-war" and let's it go at
that. LaFollette demands that the
senate foreign relations committee
investigate the charges that the
state department had attempted to
influence the news services to carry
his propaganda" on their wires.
Why investigate? The truth of this
is already out. LaFollette could
employ his energies better by de-
handing the immediate ousting of
Kellogg and the impeachment of
Coolidge, the two 'warmakers," Of
fee boys of Wall Street, But he
will not do that. That would be
too un-pay-triotic And all the time
Victor l.. Berger, the socialist con-
gresham, is silent, offering nothing,
not even in his daily newspaper,
The Milwaukee Leader. There is no
basis for the childlike faith that the
socialists have in capitalism's demo-
cratic sham, its so-called congress.
This capitalist parliament can be
made useful only as forum to ex-
pose Wall Streets parliamentarism
No member of this congress will do
that. The workers and farmers, in
the recent elections, failed to send
Communists to Washington to per-
form this task. They are therefore
weak now in their war against the
war.
Third: Neither Mexico, Near
aqua, nor any other subject people
can solve the problems growing out
of imperialist oppression thru what
the socialists call "abject surrend-
err" They may be temporarily be-
trayed by their leaders. President
Gales offers to arbitrate the differ
ences between the United States
and Mexico. Gales may accept some
form of surrender. But the struggle
goes on just the same. A trade
union official may betray a strike,
but that does not eliminate the
problems growing out of the wage
systems. The class struggle con
tinues. The break between the i'm
perialist homeland and the subject
colonial countries grows just as the
class war develops, the conditions
alone determining when either shall
break into open struggle. No sub
ject class, or subject nation, ever
surrender for an indefinite length Of
time, as the organ of the socialists
infers might be possible, thus offer
ing solution of the present crisis.
Wall Street imperialism moves
forward, earning the honest
hatred" of the whole world, but it
is only the worlds working class,
accepting Communist leadership,
that moves forward to the destruc-
ton of the rule of Wall Street. In
the final struggle, even as in the
present time, as is more clearly
shown in all western capitalist
European, the socialists are among
the best allies of the imperialists.
This is revealed in the helpless,
middle class attitude toward war
championed in their publications,
especially in the official organ of
the party. 1t is definitely revealed
by the socialist attack against the
Communists in the trade union
movement.
Thus the socialists worry that
Wall Streets America" will be
placed in the same position as the
Germany Of the kaiser" The Ger
man workers got rid of the kaiser,
but the socialists helped establish
the German capitalist republic. La
Dor will supplant Morgan's America
with Soviet America in spite of
socialist opposition.