The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-01-13
Our Communist Daily-Foe
of All Brands of Reaction
BY H. Nj. WICKS.

" of the Fourth Anniversary edition
of The DAILY WORKER have suf-
ficiently dealt with the determined
fight waged by our paper against the
fierce reaction that has been and is
now being waged by the combined
forces of the employers, their Wall
Street government and their lackeys
who have placed themselves at the
head of the labor unions. In behalf
of the imperlansus these labor lead
ers" strive to make the producing
masses mere cogs in the capltailsV
machine, deprived of all will to tight,
preparatory to the attempted mill
tarization Of the trade unions so that,
in the language of the Communist In
ternational Thesis on the War Danger,
thew can ''be converted into the prln-
cipal levers for setting the whole
mechanism of the war into motion"
AS the official organ Of the van
guard of the working class OF the
United States, the Workers (Commu-
nist) Party of America, The DAILY
WORKER has not merely been the
one effective voice of revolt raised
against political and industrial
tyranny, but has, through its careful
analysis OF the conflicting forces and
the issues involved, been the guide to
action of the militant workers in
every struggle that has occurred since
first the presses began to produce
our paper four years ago.
Another Form of Reaction
When concerted drives are being
waged against the labor movement 1T
is inevitable that the reaction should
also manifest itself in attacks against
the fundamental principles OF the
revolutionary movement. At every
such stage in the history of European
reaction during the past three quar-
tiers of century pompous professors
of the university chairs have written
profound tones loudly proclaimlng
the demise of Marxism. During the
lives of Marx and Engels such at
tempts met their Waterloo at the
hands of the founders Of the revolu-
tionary movement. After they had
passed from the stage of history such
attacks were met and annlhllated by
the heirs of the revolutionary tradi-
ton set by Marx and Engels.
Anti-Marxism Revived.
Today we witness a revival of anti
Marxism. This latest assault includes
an attack on the contribution to
Marxism made by Lenin. AS the fore
most Mar1ist of his time, as the mas
ter of the theory and practice OF revo-
luton in this stage of imperialism, 1t
is inevitable that the name of Lenin
should be included with Marx and
Engels by the new school of anti
MarXists.
Leninism has met and refuted the
rionstrous lies, the base calumnies of
the reformist socialists the world
over. The Kari Kautskys, the Ramsey
MacDonalds, the Otto Bauers, the
Frederick Adlers of Europe, the
Morris Hllquits, the Victor Bergers
and James Oneals of the United States
have failed to arrest the steady rise
of Leninism among the oppressed and
tortured masses of the world.
In the theological struggle against
reformism The DAILY WORKER has
played magnificent role. AS a part
of the immediate, every day "truggle
we have exposed and refuted the So
cial-democratic agents of imperialism
In the United States the virus of So
cial-democracy has steadily grown
weaker until it no longer constitutes
menace to our movement. The adj
herents of the second international
here are mere lickspittles of the open
agents of imperialism at the head of
the trade union movement, playing
no Independent role. They haven't
sufficient vitality to live an indie
pendent political existence.
Rise of the New School.
This stage of imperialism demands
something more than the sterile $50
cialists have to offer against the reso-
luton" Their crude and palpable re-
formism strikes no responsive chord
among the masses. Something more
subtle, something couched in more as
tute Technology, is required to serve
as theoretical weapons against the
revolutionary movement. No longer
does the mere distortion of Marxism,
the attempts to make of Marx, the
revolutionary giant, snivellirg philis
tine, suffice. What is now required is
the astute literary gentlemen, who
claim to transcend Marx, Engels and
Lenin. This new anti-Marxist school
which is just now cropping for recog-
milton in the u. S. resorts to what
passes among the decadent intelli-
gentzia for the most learned argu-
ment, and declares that no longer is
Marxism-Leninism to be considered
the guide Of the revolution, but that
modern science and bourgeois philos-
ophy and psychology supplant all that
has hitherto been the theory and prac-
tice of the proletarian revolution. The
foremost exponent in the United
States of this new school of reaction
aries in the realm of theory is the
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