The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-07-19
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By D. MARETZkY.
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/ Every social system must have 3
special economic character, must
represent a special type of produc-
tion relations. Every significant
Economy in history must also cor
respond to a special policy" spe-
cial concentrated expression" .Ac-
cordingly, the third line Of the chain
-war--can only form special "con-
'tinuation" of the given policy, and,
according to the epoch and circum-
stances, can possess only various So
cial sense of class. It is Just by the
consequent class treatment of the
question of war, that Marxism and
Leninism are distinguished from all
bourgeois and petty-bourgeois con-
ceptions of war.
The view that Marx and Engels
were opponents of war in general is
an opportunist misrepresentation
| Only pacifists from the bourgeois
and the Social emocratic camp, os-
tensible opponents of war, can make
Marx and Engels out to be Tolstoi-
ans or disciples of Voltaire. This
tick of the pacifists is a match for
the Social Democratic falsehood that
Marx was an opponent of force" in
general and consequently also an
opponent" of the dictatorship of the
proletariat.
From the standpoint of revolution
airy Marxism and Leninism the deci-
sive point is: which class is making
war; this must also decide the atti-
tude of the international proletarian
revolutionaries towards this or that
war. Every effort to group wars
only according to characteristics "be-
yond class" the distinction of wars
into wars of defence" and wars Of
attack" into Gust" and unjust"
civilized and barbarian wars-can
only lead the working class into con-
fusion, to casuistic sophisms, and is
at bottom--as was shamefully con-
firrned by the experience of the years
1914-1918-only a device for deceiv-
ing the masses.
Beneficial Wars.
If war is made by progressive
class against reactionary one, if
war is made by a revolutionary
| government against a reactionary
| power, if war robs class of "posi-
tions of influence" which impede the
develoment of productive powers,
such war will be paramount pro-
gressive factor Conversely, if a re,
dictionary State makes war upon a
revolutionary State, or reactionary
States fight for redistribution of
the world" it is then a reactionary,
predatory war, against which revolu-
tionaries must fight with all their
strength.
Formerly the bourgeoisie carried
on progressive WARS of national
emancipation " severed the feudal
shackles by force of arms, broke
down the petrified barriers of pro-
duction and thereby "lead the nation
forwards" Even today the bour-
/ geoisie or a portion thereof are ca
pable for certain period of carry
/ ing on progressive" "just" war
in their own countries namely, those
suffering oppression under Imperial
! ism).
An example in recent times, which
all will remember: The army of rev.
dictionary China, under bourgeois
commanders, defeated the army of
the northern military, of the agents
and "compradors" of the imperialism
of Great Britain, Japan and the
United States. A portion of the Chi
nese bourgeoisie was able during the
first phases of development of the
revolution to make a revolutionary
war against reactionary foreign i'm
! perialism.
Chang Kai Shek, the authorized
representative Of the Chinese bour-
geoisie at this stage of development
of the national freedom movement,
conducted the revolutionary war of
the people against reaction. This is
the historic difference between the
bourgeois Chang Kai Shek and, for
! instance, the Socialist Minister
Kerensli, who, in the year 1917, in
the name of "fulfillment of duty to
the allies" l. e., the entente imperial
lists melted the Russian soldiers to
take the offensive.
The Reactionary Trend.
The revolution in Shanghai, in
which Chang Kai Shek played the
part of a Chinese Cavaignac, amount
ed to an immense social "regrouping
of the ranks" in the camp of the ma
tional freedom movement and to the
going over Of the Chinese bour-
geoisie to the camp of reaction, de-
sertion which the Comintern had
I foreseen and of which they had in