The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-26
Blsmarck;S Law Against
Socialists so Years AGO
(Continued)

Growing organizationally and ma
turing in theology, the movement
soon broke the chains of the Social
list Law, which, intended for it's
ruin, had in reality become source
Of strength. Twelve years after its
PRONUNCIATION, the law was aban-
doned. With it fell it's originator,
the chancellor of blood and iron.
After the repeal of the law and
the establishment of the liberty
of speech in Germany, the Party
ought to have realized that which
Engels had repeatedly during the
validity of the Law impressed upon
in. and upon its left wing in partic-
ular, as it's most urgent task in a
legal future, that is to say, the
breach with the petty-bourgeois
right wing. This task remained I'M
fulfilled. The first danger that
threatened the development of the
Party was the theological influence
of the petty bourgeois "Philistines,
as Engels called them; a further
danger lay in the creation of a labor
aristocracy in the wake of the rise
of German imperialism, the refor-
mistic corruption of certain sections
Of the working class by participation
in the surplus profits derived from
monopolies and colonies by the i'm
perialist bourgeoisie. The bourgeois
development of the German Social
Democratic Party henceforth pro-
ceeded undeterred.
The 4th Of August, 1914, crowned
this entire process. The former left
wing, the adherent of Bebel and
Kautsky bernstein having landed
with flying leap at the extreme
rightly, developed into those compro-
missing and vacillating politicians
of centrism who were destined to
accelerate the deterioration of the
Party. The new left wing of Rosa
Luxembourg, Karl Liebknecht, Franz
Mehring and Clara Zetkin was not
yet strong or mature enough to
effect breach by itself, but it laid
the foundation for the renewal of
the revolutionary class-Party of
German workers, for the renewal
and continuation Of the glorious ira
ditions of the proletarian past, en-
riched by the experience of the Rus
sian revolution and the principles
of Leninism, the foundation, in line,
of the Spartakusbund and of the
Communist Party of Germany.
On with Struggle.
Fifty years after the socialist law
it is only the Communist Interna-
tional and it's sections that still
defend the inheritance of that heroic
period Of the German working class
and continue it on higher level of
historical development. The leaders
of that party which claims identity
with the proletarian class-party of
the German workers under the So
cialist law, the leaders of the Social
Democratic Party of Germany, in
reality represent the inheritance Of
that very Bismarck who issued the
emergency law in question fifty
years ago. Forty-five years after
Bismarck's PRONUNCIATION of the So
cialist law, and curiously enough,
again on the 21st of October, Fried
rich Ebert, the social democratic
president of the German republic,
ordered the German army to march
into Saxony and Thuringia for the
purpose of dispelling at the point
of the bayonet the parliaments and
governments Of those provinces,
bodies comprising members of his
own party. Forty-five years after
Bismarck's emergency law against
what was then the revolutionary
Social Democratic Party, the social