The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-08-03
2. The Development of the Revo-
lutionary Movement in America.

THE peculiar situation in the United States creates
greater difficulties for the development of the
revolutionary labor movement than in any other in
dustral country. great rise is not to be expected
IN the nearest future. However strikes and mass
struggles of a predominantly economic character
occurring.
These struggles frequently fought with great
persistence and bitterness and greatly contribute
to the rehabilitation of broad sections of workers
These struggles (the miners strikes, the strike in
the needle trades Passaic) breach in the class
collaboration policy of the trade union bureaucrats
These class conflicts give our Party increased op-
portuntes to attract by active participation and
leadership, increasing sections of workers and to
create gradually a basis for a Communist mass
Party.
AMERICAN Imperialism is still in a position to
a provide for large section of the working class
comparatively high standard of living. In com
parison with the position of the workers in Euro
pean capitalist countries, the American working
class as whole still occupies privileged position
What Engels wrote to Marx in 1858 about the bour-
geoisifcaton of the British proetariat may be ap-
piled to certain extent even today to the Ameri-
working class:
"The English proletariat is actually becom-
ing more and more bourgeois, so much so that
1t appears that this most bourgeois of all ma
tons evidently wants to bring things about to
the point where it will have a bourgeois aris-
tocracy and bourgeois proletariat alongside of
the bourgeoisie Of course this is to certain
extent natural on the part OF nation exporting
the whole world
This is ONE of the most important reasons for
the backwardness of the American labor movement
considerable stratum of skilled and privileged
workers has developed in the U. S. A. the basis
of its powerful Imperialism with gigantic surplus
profits In other country is the labor arstocracy
numerous as in the u. S. A. At the same time
in no other country is the gulf great as in the
United States between the skilled organized native
workers who receive high wages and enjoy political
rights and the mass of unskilled unorganized for
eign-born workers who have no political rights
NOT only by of high wages, and high
" standard of living, but also thru cunning sys-
tenn of privileges and favoritism, purchase of
shares, etc. imperialism has been able to bride
considerable section of skilled workers and thus to
draw them to it's side.
Together with the most venal and corrupt trade
union bureaucracy of the world which has become
integral part of the capitalist apparatus of OPP
preston, the labor aristocracy is still playing a
predomnating role in the official labor movement.
The result of this is: theological bourgeoisfication
of very considerable sections of the whole working
class expressed in inadequate class consciousness
and in millions of workers following the capitalist
parties.
ATTIC with the help of this section of skilled
n workers, American Imperialism hempers the de-
velopment of the labor movement, still it is not
powerful enough to corrupt the entire working class
for it's attempts in this direction subject to the
great limitations of completely changed world
dtions
The United States is not as Great Britain for
mery was, the workshop of the whole world To-
day we have to reckon with the existence of the
Soviet Union. In number of important capitalist
countries in Europe the proletarian revolution draws
The struggle for liberation of the oppressed peo-
pies from the imperiast yoke is developing in Asia
In Latin America opposition to American imperial
ism is increasing. The rivalry among the imperialist
powers for the possibilities of export of capital for
spheres of influence, markets, sources Of raw ma