The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-07-20
(Conclusion.)
By D. MARETHKY.


vism takes in regard to war. The
international Bolshevists are in duty
bound: 1. to oppose an imperialistic
war with their might, to permit ''no
war between the great slave owners
for the maintenance and consolidation
of slavery" (Lenin); 2. to guard care
fully against the possibility of an
attack on the part of the allied i'm
perialistic slave-owners on the Soviet
Union; 8. to carry on the most deter
mined fight against the punitive"
campaign already begun by the i'm
perialists against revolutionary
China; f. to mobilise the broad mas
SEES Of all countries to support in the
most active manner the revolutionary
military defence of the Soviet Repub-
lie in case the imperialists should ever
attack the Soviet Union; 5. in case
it should prove impossible to prevent
the great imperialistic war, to strive
persistentIy to transform this war
into a civil war.
Must Expose War Threats.
For this purpose, however, it is
necessary that there should be a. sys-
tematic, persevering, obstinate cam
paign of exposure and prevention
against the war.
The whole of the political work of
the Communist Party must be linked
up with the fight against the danger
of war. The fight against Facism
and the growing pan-European Re-
! action must also be carried on stub
bornly as a fight against the danger
of war; the adventurous foreign
policy of theFascist States must be
continually pilloried, the spread of
Fascism in the army must be count
cred, and the real meaning of the
Fascist coup dIEtat in the countries
bordering on the Soviet Union, as
also Chamberlain's policy to create
a Fascist Gordon along the Soviet
frontier, must be exposed.
Show Up Pacifism.
1t is necessary to disclose in Lenin-
list fashion the whole senselessness of
pacifism, of bourgeois as well as pet
ty-bourgeois pacifism, it's absolute
emptiness and it's complete political
impotence.
Never Forget 1914-1918.
The open political fight against in
tcrnational Democracy is Of special
urgency. IN this matter tie sections
Of the Communist International are
in very favorable position. For
-
are base, the Social Democrats do not
like to be reminded of their inglori-
Gus conduct during the world war
For this reason the Communists must
propagate with all the more persist
ence the lessons of the years 1914
of the masses.
VIII Again Betray Labor.
The present leaders of the Socialist
parties will again prove trcacherous,
they will again be the purveyors of
cannon-fodder again daily in the ante
chambers of ministries and general
staffs (they are already sitting there:
Paul Boncour & Coz, they will again
invent sacred aims" of the war and
drag out from the arsenal of history
the slogans of the defence of home
and country, of the best of native
countries, of the native country of
finance-capital.
Social Democracy, and even it's
left" wing, carries on no real fight
against the danger of war, nor can
it do so. The Social-Democratic
leaders merely give themselves out
to be opponents of war. 1t is not
possible for one to fight against war,
so long as one countenances the
maintenance and promotion of i'm
perialism and white-washes its vii
lanies.
Kautsky's "ScoundreIs."
Karl Kautsky admitted on May 1st
in a sudden fit of candour that the
battle-cry of the present international
policy is: "Scoundrels of all countries,
unite!" The fortunate patriarch of
international Socialism forgot,
however, to add that the 'scoundrels
of all countries" run the League CT
Nations, that Mussolini plays the role
of the beautiful Benjamin in the
League of Nations, though in reality
he is only Chamberlain's right hand,
that Chamberlain directs the whole
European policy under the slogan
Beat the Soviets," that Social Demo-
crazy with its agitation against the
Soviet Union constantly backs up
Chamberlain, that the first violin in
this agitation is played by German
Social Democracy, the party of Karl
'Kautsky himself. 1t seems to us
that, not only do the "scoundrels of
all countries" unto, they also draw
Social Democracy into their league.
Special mention must surely be made
of the Social Democratic legend of
the so-called Imperialism of the Sow
ct Union or of "Red Imperialism"
Social Democracy would much rather
spread this legend than tell the mas