The daily worker., 1927-01-15
The Youth and the Fight Against MiIitarism

pressed class which does not strive for the knowl.
edge OF arms for the practice of arms for the pos
session OF arms, such oppressed class is only
worthy to be oppressed, maltreated and regarded as
q slave class"
2. The inevitabty Of under capitalism,
especially In the epoch Of imperialism. The con-
tenttons OF the Communists this point that
all have their economic basis, either in
securing lands for exploitation sphenes of
influence for distribution of manufacturers products
Or for cheaper raw materials, etc, is now pro-
claimed in various degrees in the flood of new bour-
geos literature concerning the relationship of Amer
lea and Europe In connection with the last The
pacifsts In their propaganda neglect this
pletey, and propagate the possibility Of abolishng
militarism without mentioning capitalism Thus
they create Illusions of the worst character in the
minds OF the workers.
3. Unmerciful unmaskina Of bourgeois pacfsn.
Connecting this with the immediate American situa-
ton. we must in relation TO the previous paragraph,
unmask such organizations as the openly impeTiais
istic Y. M. c. A. when talks peace" and just
ardently expose the real character OF the pacifss
OF all other brands
=. Defense of the FatherIand. Experience has
taught US that just these elements who raise pacst
meaningless slogans today in time of crisis are the
conscious lackeys of big capital in mobilizing the
workers for the slaughdarfest between respective
capitalist countries. AT that time the slogan they
use is, Defense of the Fatherland" Such a slogan
Is a death warrant to the workers. The workers
have no "Fatherland." under capitalism Only by
turning the imperalst into revolutionary civil
wars will the proletariat have a workers father
land like the present Soviet Union which they will
defend with all means and at all costs. This point
Is the kernel of the whole Communist attitude to-
wards war, in recognition of the causes of war
and the historical connection of war with the pres-
ent social system In order to further this the
Communist position is not to run away from the
army but to work inside the army Lenin said, "To
preach the demand or BETTER the dream of 'disarm-
anent at the present time when obviously and
clearly before the eyes of all of the only egiti-
mate and revolutionary war; the civil war against
the imperiast bourgeoisie is preparing in the hands
of the bourgeoisie ITSELF is but the expression OF
despair" and again (referring to work inside the
army, If one has not prepared such a propaganda
in connection with the present one should cease
TO mouth the great phrases about the revolutionary
international, about the against war"
The Communist Youth Movement is not alone in
terested in ant-miftarism but together with the
Communist Party conducts its activities in line with
the policies of Lenin.
At this time the concrete application of these
policies to America means work along the following
general lines:
(a) The Y. W. L. as the leader of the working
class youth must take the leadership of the anti
militarist movement out of the hands of the petty
bourgeois liberal elements. such as the Students
Forum, etc.
(b) In taking the leadership the young workers
must be modified for the struggle together with
the student elements but the first must be the basis
tc) The policy of the Communist Youth Move ,
ment which 1t must never propagating must be
that laid down by Lenn.
td) United Front movements must be encouraged
and promoted on local scale on concrete issues
These must rally primarily the working class youth
forces, either unorganized thru the trade union
movement
te) Continuation OF struggle against the C. M.
T. c. and demanding In its place a four weeks paid
vacation annually for all young workers Oppose
the r. o. T. C.