The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-08-31
By l. AMTER

AG IdSG we hIOW WHlJlleI tle SO-
cialist party is going. "Thirty-six
educators have issued call to join
the socialists. Appeal for forma-
ton of progressive party" This is
the goal of the socialist party, sec!
ton of the socialist labor interna-
tional. A party of liberals, to put
themselves at the "head of the lib
eral forces of the country"
Who and what are the liberals?
They are the intellectuals, who in
terpret the struggles of the working
class in the terms of emotion and
petty-bourgeois interests. They are
that section of the population which
is being crowded economically and
hardly finds place in society.
Is there place for them in Amer
lean capitalist society? There is.
Among these thirty-six men are
men who help capitalism to develop
more rapidly in the United States;
but the majority of them are men
and women who are unable to in
terpret the struggle that is taking
place, who cannot reconcile it with
their conception Of ethics, and, in
that some of them are teachers of
religion, decry number of the baser
manifestations of the struggle.
industrial Peace
These liberals are advocates of
industrial peace. Why should in this
age of reason, when "intellect has
taken the place of force" as Mat
thew Woll would put it, why should
in this day, force play any part in
human relations? The worker wants
peace, the employer wants peace;
let them sit down around the table
with the motto that industrial peace
is the better method, "give and
take" policy, as has been instituted
in the settlement of the coal situa-
ton in Colorado, and the class
struggle will be eliminated.
This method eliminates nothing
it merely beclouds the issue for a
short time, but the class struggle
goes on none the less. Phrases will
not stop the workers from strug-
Cling. Economic determinism will
not keep the employers from forget
ting industrial peace, when the
question of profits and control
arises. The liberal phantasy will
not aid the intellectuals in solving
the question. The struggle goes on
and intellectualism will be swept
aside.
Prepare for War.
Despite the proposals of indus
trial peace, the war industry is
working at top speed. America
has the most formidable war gas
producing industry in the world" SO
reports a renowned chemist. Surely
this industry is not intended for the
destruction of the American work
ers! Surely it is not intended for
the destruction of the working class
of another nation, which has arrived
at the stage of industrial peace be-
tween the workers and the capital
list class! Mondism in England is
Established" The British workers
no longer hate or fear the British
capitalists. All is honey and roses
and the war industry will close
down.
This is the product of the propa-
ganda of the intellectuals--the So
cialists who have abolished" the
class struggle! This is the vain
position of the petty-bourgeoisie
which is being showed to the wall
In despair of its position it clamors
for peace, for it dare not take the
position of the working class, and
it cannot entice more than a shred
of recognition from the capitalist
class. The intellectual who sees
himself predestined to take over the
leadership of society!
Will this class arrive at the sig
nal position occupied by the leader
ship of the Independent Labor Party
Of Great Britain, all of whom, in
GLIDING Macdonald, are intellectu-
ais? 1t will not. The MacDonalds
became the heirs Of the mass move
ment created by the Kerr Hardies
the movement that led to the forma-
ton and development of the Labor
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