The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-07-23
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trace the mass movement of the working classes in
this period we see how, in spite of all the signals
and cries of warning, they did not properly grasp
the danger and not prepared to meet 1t IN
the right way until finally, in 1914, in the twnkng
of an eye, they were bowled over by the monster
of the world war and we almost feel the dramatic
excitement of the spectator in cinema who, in the
most thrilling scene, wants to jump up and warn
the unsuspecting hero of the murderer who is APP
preaching by stealth.
The nearer the world war approaches, the more
zealousy and feverishly the governments prepare
for it. the more perfect do the arrangements for the
pacifist deception become, from the cZarlst mani
festo to the Hague institutions from the guarantee
of neacen of the Alliance to the meetings between
monarchs Even at that time, the pacifist humbug
penetrated into the Second International. Was not
the along epoch of peace" an important argument
of revisionism about the peaceful development INTO
socialism? Was there not Van Kols who saw posi-
tive sides in the colonial policy and Karl Leuthners,
who saw them in the Triple Alliance? 1t IS also
interesting to read today some of the speeches IN
the Rechstag at the time of the crisis In Morocco
How many forewarnings of the 4th of August did
we as good social democrats carelessly pass by at
that time?
1be enocb since the world war exhibits all the
nbenomena of the pre-war period on an extended
scale The almost uninterrupted chain OF wars has
grown into war in permanency. Murder has never
ceased at all. We have also entered on new epoch
of colonial wars Lne epOcn u IAS uSlS1ASS " Wv
MES and spheres of influence against the revolution
arv uprisings of the population of those districts
The ornaments for war, preparations, contradlc-
lions and dangers of war have become much mighter
and more alarming than before the Great War Con-
seouentlv the endeavors of the bourgeolsle to de-
ceve the working to the true character OF
the present character must be much more strenuous
The League of Nations and the guarantee pacts to-
oather with all the rest of the pacific humbug are
the result of these endeavors and moreover, behind
those institutions are hidden the efforts OF the
great mperalist powers to guard themselves against
premature explosions; for the experience OF the
world war has taught them that not only must
every preparation be made for war, but that the
moment of it's outbreak must be well chosen and
should not come by surprise.
The mperialists be we'll satisfied with the
result of their endeavors to deceive the masses as
TO the true character Of the present period one OF
war in permanency. Million of workers who are
under the influence of the social patriotic leaders,
believe their asserations that the danger of war is
only Communist camor and that the League OF
Nations the Treaties of Locarno, etc. are actually
guarantees of peace. Can there be greater tri-
unph for the imperalist propaganda than the fact
that the leaders of the revived Second International
can. without being ignomniously turned out, an
to the the exact opposite of the truth
and can represent the present period when peace is
better ensured than ever, whereas as compared with