The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-08-01
By ]. LOUIS ENGDAHL.

THE last time that had seen Edmund Peluso at
the congress of the German democratic Party
in Germany, in 1910, at Magdeburg. We were both
there as Socialist journalists.
This congress was the of the historic struggle
between August Bebel and Ludwig Frank THE pol
icies be adopted by the German sociademocracy on
the eve of the then threatening world imperialist
Bebel had changed since 187O-7 when he joined Will
helm Liebknech the father of Karl Liebknecht in
fusing to vote credits for Bismarcks against
France In the midst of the thunder and lightning of
the gathering war Storm Bebel joined with the defend
ers of the "vaerland but he died before the murder
feast actually got under way just ID years ago
Frank, the other hand, of the leaders of the
joined the hosts of the kaiser in the
march Belgium. He of the first to die "for
the vaterand" in August 1914.
These were but the thoughts of moment l again
Edmund Peuso, after lapse of II years. this time
in the Hotel Lux, at Moscow, u S. S. R. Peluso had
been active in Italy He had served two prison terms
under Fascism, finally making his escape across the
border He in Moscow as one of the workers
in the Marx-Engels Institute 1t thru Comrade
Peluso that became acquainted with the Marx-Engels
Institute, living monument of the loyalty of Russas
workers and peasants to Marxism.
Peluso is active in the Italian section of The Insti
tute" Friedrich Engels the General Secretary for
Italy of the First International He wrote many letters
in Italian, with which he familiar, also articles,
which of great value because of their correct
timaton of the Italian situation, which holds good even
today.
1t is in the present period of the development of the
new war against the Union of Soviet Republics that
becomes necessary for the Communist vanguard in all
lands to show all workers that the Soviet Union is the
real torchbearer of Marxsm This holds especially true
in those countries where the traitors
as in most of the countries of Europe still exert
siderable influence over of workers This
to a much lesser extent in the United States
Alexander Trachtenberg in his article on "The Marx
Enges Institute" in the November 1925 issue of the
German revisionis had deliberately garbed Enges In
PRODUCTION to Marx "Class Struggles in France 1848
So" The object of this Justification create the
impression that Enges had forsaken the path of
utonary action and had joined the reformist and pa
cifist camp.
Bernstein was placed in excellent position to play
this traitor role because he, with August Bebel,
made the executors of the literary heritage of Marx and
Enges that had been placed under the guardianship of
the German Social Democratic Party following the death
of the Engels in 1895.
Bernsteinsm is typical of the perversion of Marxism
that has been carried ceaseessly by the socademo
Gratis Their energies in this direction redoubled
during the world in effort to justify their par
tcipation in the imperialis slaughter After the war
their activities continued in the hopes of bulwarkng
their attack on the Bolshevik Revolution.
So today Karl Kautsky the attack on the
Proetarian Dictatorship of the Russian workers and
peasants, openly joining the forces Of world imperial
ism in the against the Soviet Union.
Kautsky who is still of the chief theoretcans of
the Second (Sociast International had article in
the July 18th issue Of Vorwaerts Berlin the official
organ of the German Social Democratic Party in which
he appeared openly endorsing Che attempts Of