The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-06-09

Y, JUNE 9, 1927
to itself, with no means of making
fitting use Of its freedom. The
bourgeoisie has left the working
class only these two pleasures,
while imposing upon it multitude
of labors and hardships, and the
consequence is that the working
men, in order to get something from
life. concentrate their whole energy
upon these two enjoyments, carry
them to excess, surrender to them
in the most unbridled manner
When people are placed under con-
ditions which appeal to the brute
only, what remains to them but to
rebel or succumb to utter brutal
ity.'
This was not only true of England
Of the dos. but any reputable physi-
clan in q working class section Of any
city in the United States will report
similar excuses today.
Add to the poverty and ignorance
Of families living in the great indus
trial districts the housing conditions
that compel two or more families to
live in small, crowded, ill-ventilated,
fetid rooms and it is easy to compre-
bend that the rules of monogamy are
frequently violated. Monogamy for
many Of these miserable victims Of
capitalist rapacity is only an empty
jest. POlygamy, polyandry and in
cest can by no means be regarded as
exceptions among very large strata
of the lower proletariat. Their very
condition Of life deprives them of any
other form Of relaxation.
As to the parasites at the other end
"a of the social scale, surely our critic
will not presume to deny the we'll
known fact that those idlers who roll
in immense wealth and go from ex-
cess to excess practicing all the re-
finements of depravity need to he
rescued from their lives of suppress
sion. AS Marx and Engels said in
the Communist Manifesto" the bour-
geoisie spend their time seducing each
others wives"
Surely those individuals who con-
stitute the lunatic fringe of the revo-
lutionary movement and talk sex
anarchism are decadents, apeing the
worst features of the ruling class as
it approaches its doom.
If they want to experiment in So
cial analysis of something they might
devote little of their worthless time
to Analysing their own role in society.
But that is too much to expect of
them, for they would then discover
that they cannot teach the political
revolutionists" the intricacies of tkeir
weird ideas of economics and So
GEOLOGY, but must learn from us if
ever they hope to play anything other
than their present clownish roles.
THE choicest morsel of the misera-
BILE perversion Of Marxism that
this phrase-monger hurled against us
was the charge that we are not pro-
perly appreciative of the role of the
yellow journals sin dethroning re-
spectability." He assails Comrade
O'Flaherty for accusing these yellow
sheets Of feeding the popular appe-
tite for slush," and Indignantly asks
us 'what sort of proletarian inter
probation is this2" Must we always
stop and give a proletarian analysis
of slush when we mention it? True,
these periodicals, called yellow Jour-
mails, do talk great deal about sex
and capitalize the escapades of the
nabobs as well as the morons like
Snyder and Gray, but they also in
dulge in the most nauseating moral
izing. If O'Flaherty's criticism of the
Graphic" is unintelligible to the
Modern Quarterly" writer that is not
his fault. 1t is not one of the duties
of Communist writer to give every
decadent who disagrees with him a
new set of brains. It is sufficient for
US that our writings are understood
by the proletarian readers Of our pa
per who do not seek their revolutions
airy inspiration from the phrase
mongers, plagiarists, publicity-seek-
ers and perverters of revolutionary
theory and practice.