The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-07-20
Against the War Danger
The Future War and the Working Class
Now Preparing Next War.

ialists will succeed during the next
historic period in bringing about and
carrying on great war will be de-
cided, as are all great questions in
public life, by the course of the class
struggle in the world and by the re-
lation of strength and activity of the
'proletariat and the bourgeoisie. The
imperialists are preparing the war
quite openly. The question, the
decisive, main question, is whether it
will be possible to get millions Of
men to go to war, for an imperialist
war carried on according to "all the
rules of the art" can only be a war
of the masses.
Socialists Prepare Treachery.
This is question of power, a ques-
ton of concrete historic fight. On
the one hand, the whole armored
might of Imperialism, its complete
apparatus of lies, hypocrisies, sug-
gestion and compulsion, will be
thrown into the scale of war and
peace. In the same way, Interna-
tional Social Democracy will work in
the same direction for winning the
power of the masses" for war. If
the new slaughter Of the people
really comes about, it will in huge
measure be the work Of Social De-
mocracy. 1t is even possible that
portion of the Communist Press will
display shameless conduct" for
which Lenin has already prepared
the Bolshevists.
We should not be Marxists, if we
did not consider in a sober fashion
our chances, i. e., the possibilities of
preventing big war or of trans
forming it into civil war.
Last War Hunts World.
1. The whole of humanity, and es-
pecially the working class, still re-
members the year 1914, still thinks
of relatives and friends who were
dragged into the international slaugh-
ter: tens of thousands of cripples
and invalids are still living.
2. To deceive the masses a second
time with the humane" purposes Of
the war will be more difficult than it
was the first time, even the virtuosi
of Social-Democratic lies will not
succeed in this case. 1t is not out of
the question that, if a portion of the
Communist Press collapses consider
able strata of Social Democratic and
even Independent workers will re-
frain from following Social-Democ-
racy.
3. In place of Tsarist Russia with
its "outspoken Reaction" (Lenin) we
have the proletarian Soviet Union.
which pursues a distinct policy of
peace, which in face of the blood
thirsty policy of the imperialists is
the only safe refuge of international
peace.
A. There is now powerful Com
munist International, which did not
exist in 1914.
5. The East of 1927 is not the
same as that of the year 1914. At
that time the Orient still slumbered.
Today even the backward bourgeoisie
papers speak of the awakening" of
China.
6. If the world conflagration breaks
out and its front is the frontiers of
the proletarian and of the Capitalist
States, there will be good chances in
favor of the proletarian State in the
fight against the Imperialists, even
if the latter are superior in war
technics. The Indictment to civil war
in our country, the experience of the
famous Churchill "attack of the 13
States," have shown the Imperial
lists how difficult it is to make war
upon country, in which there is no
ruling class of landowners and CAPT.
lists. The Strength of the masses"
is a prime factor in the fight Of the
army of the proletariat. An even
if the mechanism of the Imperialistic
war on two fronts converted the i'm
perialist war into a civil war (rise of
the first Soviet State and founding
of the Comintern), the fact of an i'm
perialist war on single front, |. e.,
the fight of class against class with
in an international war-will trans
form such war the more quickly
into a civil war, behind the front, in
tn earmies of Reaction. In the COM
ing big war of the white" and "red"
roses, Imperialism is in danger Of
finding it's grave.