The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-03-21

the victory of the proletarian revo-
D !tion, is "defeat" of the proletariat
which in it's result strengthens the
bourgeoisie.
From the repulse of the first wave
of the proletarian revolution in the
years 1918-19 up to its final victory
over capitalism, the proletariat has
experienced and will continue to ex-
perience a series of gigantic strug-
giles on various sections of the in
ternational front. 1t may suffer a
series of defeats, but to draw the
conclusion from these defeats that
he bourgeoisie and capitalism will be
strengthened in consequence, means
to see history only from its reverse
side and to minimize the revolution
airy significance of these struggles.
The logic of the conciliators should
lead them to seek to diminish the
revolutionary energy of the prole-
tariat and to fight against any revo-
lutionary activity on the part of the
working class. The political school
of the group around Maslow-Ruth
Fischer was prepared at any mo-
Iment to proclaim every partial strike
as the beginning of the end of the
capitalist sterilization. This school
eplaced serious analysis of the world
economic s---stem by an accumulation
of phrases, declaring that the stabili-
alton had become still more relative,
and still more partial, and still more
temporary.
This impressionism of the cleft
wing" has now its counterpart in the
Eight wing which exploits every
strike which ends with a victory
for capitalism, in order to declare
that the sterilization has become still
lore consolidated, still more perman-
ient and is not rotten to the core, etc.
! In the chain of such bourgeois
victories" there must inevitably
come a moment when the quantita-
tive become also the qualitative,
when the conciliators must, unless
they wish their arguments to be re-
duced to absurdity, come to the con-
clusion that the capitalist stabiliza-
ton has developed from a relative
and partial one into the normal state
of capitalism which has thus COM
rlenced a period Of convalescence,
that the world has developed from a
period of the general crisis of CAPT.
talism into the epoch of organized
capitalism" Tendencies of this sort
must inevitably lead to Hilferding.
In dealing with the German ques-
ton Comrade Humbert- Droz asks in
credulously what the contention
means that a war of the imperialists
against the Soviet Union may open
a revolutionary page in the history
Of the working class movement. For
him such war is obviously nothing
hut the expression of the political
consolidation of the world reaction
In such a war he sees only the "vic-
tory" of capitalist sterilization and
the disappearance" of all contradic-
tons between the capitalist powers
on the basis of a general struggle
against the first workers state.
! That this counter-revolutionary
war would be nothing but reflec-
ton of the general crisis of capital
ism, that it.would bring the class con
tradictions to. boiling point, that il
would release gigantic social con-
flicts in all countries, that it would
awaken millions and millions OF
workers, that the defensive war Of
the Soviet Union against the imperi.
alist powers must develop into ar
offensive of the revolutionary masses