The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-07-23
The Danger Of War in Permanently

the time before the war, the danger of war is far
imminent?
Clausewtz, in his famous saying that is the
continuation of politics with other lie. the
of force), has pointed out the close relation
ship between politics and war. Today, his saying is
out of date Even the variation that the wohld world
policy of the imperalists since 1918 is nothing but
the continuation of the imrcralist world with
ether means, does not express this change
precisely enough. In the present period of i'm
perialisn, politics and war have been welded into
one they form unit 1t may almost be regarded
as symbol that the imperiast statesmen, at the
very time when they sitting together in League
of Nations conferences peace conferences, issue
orders for the bombardment of Chinese towns and
Riff villages in Morocco, and that Geneva and Lo-
are at the time centres for International
profiteers who traffic in war material.
Not only the imperialist war, however, but the
class war also is in permanency today. The bour-
geosie from it's side only, has declared it in per-
manency against the revolutionary proletarat which
at the time has prompted to conceal this
as it did the imperiast war, behind pacifst de-
fusion, in this that of democracy and parliament
tarisn, in order to deceive the masses as to its
true attitude towards them.
The parallel forces itself upon us. Neither the
Paris Commune nor the murders in Chicago neither
the intensfication of the revolutionary fights in
Russia the massacres of the proetariat by the
bourgeoisie in other states prevented most of the
leaders of the Second International from regarding
the period of civil finally concluded and from
considering it out of the question that the proe-
tartan class war should develop into a civil war
The forged preface by Engels to Marx "Class War
in France" has remained for them the most precious
jewel of political Marxist literature, and the ex-
periences of the first Russian revolution of 1905
have existed for them only as interesting events in
an exotic country which have as much significance
for their "own country, have the canals on Mars
for the actual geography of mother earth. The
more the class flights have been intensified the
obstnately have these leaders refused to enter
any practical preparations for serious methods
Of fighting. They have not gone beyond the ballot
paper.
What tie occasional massacres instituted ly
the bourgeoise against the proletariat from May
1871 in Paris to the fights the Lena in 1912 as
compared with the sangunary war of extermina-
ton which the bourgeosie has been carrying on
against the revolutionary Labor movement from Oc-
tober 1917 until the present day? How many thous-
ands of proletarians have been slaughtered by the
bourgeosie and their social patriotic executioners
in Russia, Finland Bavaria and Hungary, in the
Ruhr district and in central Germany March 1920
and 1921, in Roumana and Poland in Yugoslavia
and Italy? Has this numbering, this bood-thrsty
class been stopped for a single year? The bour-
geoise carries it uninterruptedy whenever there
is a pause, it prepares for the next wholesale
slaughter.