The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-13
Pacifism Smoke Screen For
Imperiaiie4 war

"Pacifism isl Smoke Screen, was the in
scription on one of the banners carried by
Communists in New York last Saturday,
when several hundred revolutionary workers
asked pertinent questions of the speakers at
a pacifist meeting, students of the Union
Theological Seminary and spokesman of the
socialist party.
1t was in commemoration of Armistice
Day, and the sponsors of the meeting wanted
the workers to believe that at the behest of
theological students and socialist" gentle
men, the Kelloggs and Hoovers can be in
duced to give us 'No More War" The bud
ding churchmen and the socialist party
(natural brothers) came before New York
workers with banners inscribed: peace of
Earth" and "No More War" and Work for
Peace" But the workers asked very correctly
what prospect there is of peace while the
same capitalist butchers that made the last
world war, are ruling the world, are more
heavily armed than ever before are rapidly
increasing ornaments and are running a
social system which cannot exist except by
war.
The theological students and the $50
cialists" want to keep this same capitalist
class in power. They are opposed to the rule
of the working class, which they say would
not be democratic" They work against the
overthrow of the war makers. The so
cialists' in time of war become the propa-
ganda agents and police agents of the capt.
talist class to compel the workers to support
the capitalist government ("democracy"),
while the weasel-minded theological students
will be the army chaplains whose profession
is to lie to the poor devils of the working
class conscripted into military uniforms
themselves remaining safely behind the firing
line as non-combatants while they befuddle
the minds of the soldiers with lies about the
Supernatural powers" that will reward them
for sticking bayonets into the CUTS of other
workers and getting themselves blown to bits
for j. P Morgan & Co. Such is the way of
these ''men of peace!
Therefore the Communists and the work.
ers sympathetic to the Communist Party ex-
pose these miserable treet-peddlers of illu-
sions that will only make the workers easier
victims of the next bloody holocaust
Are the Communists for peace?
The Communists are noe for peace" in
words-not for peace in dreams, but for
peace in the real lives of men. The Commu-
nists know that peace cannot and will not be
realized in the world until after the capitalist
imperialist system, that made the past world
war and is making the coming world war,
shall have been Overthrown. The Communists
know that this system is a system of war and
of the exploitation of man by man. Peace is
not in it and cannot be in it. Those who are
against the overthrow of the war makers are
for imperialist -waf no matter how many
paste-board signs they may inscribe with
peace on Earth"
The Communists are for peace through the
only means by which peace can be attained
through the overthrow of the war makers
But the overthrow of the war-makers, the
imperialist ruling class-is that not war?
Yes, it is war, but it is at the same time the
destruction of the source of war, the destruc-
tion of the wage-slavery system, the destruc-
tion of capitalism, the freeing of the enslaved
classes and peoples of the earth, and thus
the liberation Of mankind as a whole There
fore, though the Communists are opposed to