The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-07-04

/ the past in this respect because it is
very easy to string together row Of
such citations. Very recently. in a
big historical article on George
Washington, in our DAILY WORKER
of February 22nd. 1927, we find an
example.
Comrade Carlson uses
citations, clearly expressive of their
social-democratic pacifist sources, to
tell us in effect that: % The revoiu-
ton was not fund.- mentally bour-
geois national liberation struggle at
all, not real revolution; (2) that
only a small part Of the American
people were in favor Of it and some
Of these coerced by the prototypes of
the Ku Klux Khan; 90 that it was
really "putsch" organized by snu'g-
glers who sank so low as to use vio-
lence O to secure their ends, and
(4) that the revolutionary army was
ragged lot that owed it's very ex-
istence to the British generals love
for American independence. In short,
there was no revolution and the her.
itage Of what struggle there YVES
goes to the Khan! Let us take up
these points one by one.
A Revolutionary Revolution.
1.-The revolution was not a real
revolution at all hut Quoting Simons,
again uncriticallyl THE American
phase Of an English civil war 1t
was not so much a conflict between
colonies and English government, as
it was one aspect Of a war between
different divisions of the English peo-
pie on both sides of the Atlantic. :.
1t was part of the violent upheaval of
society by which the capitalist class
overthrow feudalism and came into
power" This is not true
While there was a political strug-
gle between wings and tories going
on in Britain. the final political over
throw Of feudalism had taken place
more than century before, and sim
liar battles had been fought out in
Carolina, New York and elsewhere
to the complete rout of those who
had pipe-dreams of transplanting a
feudal society to new world where
there was on open frontier and every
colonist had his own rifle. 1t was
the bourgeois republic of Cromwell
that passed the first of the Naviga-
cation Acts against which the colo
nists fought, and decades of whig
7 ministers had tried to enforce them
The wings used the American revolt
as club against the tory admins
tration but very few of them favored
/ complete independence. Marx sug-
gests that Edmund Burke, one of the
most vigorous champions of Amer
lea, was bribeob Capital, Vol. 1, p
1887. Certainly we know that John
Wilkes, the stormy petrol of British
radicalism, graciously accepted 9
"flattering letter and valuable pres.
ent" from his admirers, the Boston
patriots. Daly: Radical Pioneers
Of the XVIII Century p. 50.
/ Revolutionists or Kluxers?
/ 2.-It was not a popular uprising
"only small portion of the set
tiers in the Colonies took an active
part in and for the revolution.
/ Large numbers of colonists were
/ forced into the war much against
their own desires. Our intrepid
"Fathers of the revolution knew how
/ to apply pressure and resort to force
full means in order to gain support.
ers." Then follows long citation
from the pro-English Fisher: "True
History'' "Truly the Ku Kluxers ane
100 percenters of today, with then
methods of violence and intimidation
live true to the forms exhibited by