The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-11


datory treaties (Brest, Versailles).
They came out as en- active force
on the side of the militarists at the
time of the bloody suppression of
proletarian uprisings (Noske); they
conducted armed warfare against
the first proletarian republic $50
Wet Russia; they despicably be-
trayed the proletariat when it took
power tHungary); they joined the
imperialist League Of Nations (Al-
bert Thomas, Paul Boncour, Van
dervelde, Breitscheid); they openly
took the side of the imperialist
slave-owners against the colonial
slaves British Labor ,Party");
they actively supported the most re-
dictionary executiorers of the work.
ing class Tin Bulgaria and Poland) /;
they took the initiative in intro
ducing imperialist military laws"
France; they betrayed the great
general strike of the British prole-
tariat; they helped to stranele the
miners strike. They helped strange
China and India (the Macdonald
government); they act as the prop
agandists of the imperialist League
of Nations" They are capitalism's
heralds and the organizing force in
the fight against the dictatorship
Of the proletariat in the Union of
Socialist Soviet Republics (Kaut
sky, Hilferding).
In systematically conducting this
counter-revolutionary policy, social
democracy operates alternately first
with one and then with the other of
its two wings: the right wing of
social democracy, avowedly counter
revolutionary, is essential or
negotiating with the bourgeoisie; the
Left Wing" is essential for the sub
tie deception of the workers. While
playing with pacifist and sometimes
even with revolutionary phrases
left Wing" Social Democracy in
practice acts against the workers at
the most critical moments 1.-THE
British independents" and "Lefts"
leaders of the general council at the
time of the general strike in 1926
Otto Bauer & Co. at the time of the
Vienna uprising) and is for that
reason the most pernicious fraction
of the social democratic parties
While serving the interests of the
bourgeoisie within the working class
and adopting entirely the principle
of class cooperation, the social demo-
Gratis periodically take up the posi-
ton of an opposition party and pre-
tend to lead the economic struggle
in order to win the confidence Of
sections of the working class and
in this way more shamefully to be-
tray the lasting interests of the
working class, particularly in the
midst of decisive class battles.
In the domain of = theory, social
democracy has wholly and COM
pletely betrayed Marxism. 1t passed
through the stage of revisionism to
complete liberal-bourgeois reform
ism and avowed social Imperialism;
| it has distorted the MARKHAM doctrine
of class war into the advocacy of
class peace. Instead of the doctrine
of proletarian dictatorship it advo-
Gates the theory of coalition with
the bourgeoisie. Instead of destruc-
ton of the bourgeois state it advo-
Gates active construction. Instead
of pointing out that ifhperialist wars
are inevitable under capitalism it
advances the theory of peaceful
"ultra-imperialism," and instead of
international solidarity of the pro-
letariat it breaches the doctrine of
defense of imperialist Netherlands.
1t has substituted the dialectical
materialism of Marx by idealistic
philosophy and playing with bour-
geois religious trash.
Thus, international social demo-
cracy in all its shades: the Second
International and its trade union
branch, the Amsterdam Federation
of Trade Unions, have become the
reserves of bourgeois society and it's
most loyal pillar of support.
Side by side with social democracy
through and by which the bour-
geoisie suppresses the workers or
lulls their class vigilance, is fascism
The epoch of imperialism, the
growing acuteness of the class
struggle and the growth of the ele-
ments of civil war,-particularly
after the imperialist war,-have led
to crisis in parliamentarism The
instability of capitalist relationships
in the postwar period, the exist
ence of large declassed social ele-
ments, the impoverishment of broad
strata of the urban petty bour-
geoisie and intelligentsia primarily
in the European countries), an
| finally the constant menace of the
mass proletarian action have caused
the bankruptcy of parliamentarism
as the democratic, camouflaged
form of the bourgeois dictatorship
and gave rise to fascism as a
method Of unconcealed dictatorship
of the bourgeoisie. In order to
secure for itself more stable, firm
and permanent rule, the bourgeoisie
is being compelled more and more
to abandon the parliamentary sys-