The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-09-11
THE RIGHT DANGER IS
A INDUSTRIOUS REALITY

Zionists. This rising of the Arabs
in Palestine is an Indictment against
the Zionists. 1t is revolt of op-
pressed and exploited against ex-
ploiters and oppressors.
Are there "innocent victims" in
such struggles? Of course there
are. But the innocent victim must
become an additional incentive of
hatred and struggle against the re-
sponsible imperialist forces. But
bourgeois Zionism tries to use the
innocent victim" in order to draw
the wrath of the exploited masses
of the world from the guilty British
imperialists and their Zionist lack
eys. This has been the over-effec-
tive method of the exploiters. Ma
tionalist prejudices have been fed to
the masses for so many centuries
that an appeal to them promises to
win immunity for the real guilty.
That these calculations of the ex-
ploiters are justified is proven by
the position taken by the above
mentioned Jewish writer's. They can
display abstract sympathy for the
exploited and indulge in abstract
criticism against the exploiters. But
when Jewish blood" appeals to
them, they forget exploiters and ex-
plotted; they forget the concrete
problem of class emancipation. Then
the Jewish bourgeois who fattened
himself and his pocketbook on the
sweat and health of Jewish workers
in New York sweat shops and who
invested his gains in Palestine to
exploit Arab workers for a change,
turns from hated exploiter into
a sacred vessel of Jewish blood. The
class-line disappears, international
ism disappears, and what is left is
vicious nationalism; the same ma
tionalism which supplied the excuse
for the greatest treachery in his
tory, for the betrayal of the work
ing class by the Second Interna-
tional in August, 1914.
Yesterday these gentlemen could
see British imperialism as oppres-
sor. But today when the intricacies
OF the class struggle make the
bloody and oppressive rule of i'm
perialism appear in the form of an
Arabian uprising against the Zionist
agents of British Imperialism, then
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{ but see only their nation or their
race. This logic would command of
the American revolutionists the ces-
sation of struggle against American
imperialism in the very moment in
which the American imperialists
can raise the cry of american
blood has been split" According to
this logic Remember the Maine"
was a perfectly justified war crygof
American imperialism. This logic
would cry itself hoarse about the
preditary policy of American capital
in Mexico. But when an agent of
this policy, an American oil land
thief, falls victims to the just wrath
of the revolving Mexican peasants,
then American blood would be at
stake and thus a justification would
be supplied for the support and even
for the calling for a punitive mill
tary expedition of American capital
into Mexico. This kind of logic sup
plies the cleft" agents of the bour-
geoisie with their tactics: talk
against oppression and fight for it.
The Communist must fight such
treachery. He is for the exploited
at all times. He does not divide the
world vertically into nations but
horizontally into classes; and his
duty is with the working classes,
with the exploited. The treacherous
practice of the bourgeoisie, ma
ton against nation" the Communist
answers with his revolutionary prac-
tice of "Class against class"
In the swing of these "sympa-
thizers" of the workers we meet the
Right danger in its most formidable
form. Here is the most dangerous
pitfall for our revolutionary Party.
Here is an example of how, at the
decisive moment the bourgeois
theology liquidates class solidarity
and turns a friend" of the work
ing class OF yesterday into the most
miserable propagandist for imper-
ialism of today.
sympathy" for the Soviet Union
is relegated to tn background,
ideals" of the working masses are
obliterated, and the gentlemen,
"tearfully" though, and, as they as
sure us, torn by mental anguish,
join united front with the betray-
ers of the Jewish workers in the
Forward" with the exploiters of
the Jewish masses, the Shifts and
Strausses and Rosenwalds, with the
political instruments of oppression
of the Jewish working masses, the
democratic and republican politi-
clans. If these gentlemen had one
iota of revolutionary class con-
seriousness they would see that there
must be some capitalist poison in
the sacred Jewish blood" propa-
ganda, if this propaganda can lead
them into one camp with Abe Ca
han, Jacob Shift and Herbert
Hoover. If they cannot detect this
poison it is because they belong
where they are now. The drops of