The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-05
What If We Had No Daily Worker?

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the only daily newspaper that has ever been
published in the English language presenting
the unadulterated revolutionary views OF the
class struggle as formulated by Marx and
Engels that have inspired and guided the con-
scious members of our class for more than
three-quarters of a century
Five years ago revolutionary MarXlsm
found its daily voice for the first time in what
has been the language of Imperialism during
the entire period in which the modern labor
movement has existed. Or, in the stricter
sense of the word, prior to the development
of modern imperialism, during the earlier
domination of the world market and eXploita-
ton of the world by British capitalism and up
to the present Imperialist domination of the
world by the Yankee Wall Street Empire
the language of the Engish-speaking coun-
tries has been the language of the capitalist
robber-cass which exploited the toilers of all
sections of the world, and corrupted the upper
strata of the working class in the dominating
capitalist countries 1t is therefore, not accl-
dental THAT IIlc NOIIS VI 1ONOlUSAOiietAJ
Marxism has been weak in the English-speak-
ing countries. During the second half of the
past century British Socialism became the
puny and distorted remnant of Marxism that
was still necessary as mask over the bloated
face of a corrupt labor bureaucracy. In the
United States the pseudo-socialism of the
German Lasallean immigrants dominated
from the beginning; the pseudo-MarXlan
Deleonism was the first to find expression IN
a daily English paper, and the shallow re-
formism of the Socialist Party of the United
States bossomed forth in daily papers such
as the New York Call and the Milwaukee
Leader.
It is not accidental that only after the first
successful proletarian revolution of 1917
there appeared really revolutionary daily
paper of the working class in an English
speaking country. In the meantime revolu-
tionary Marxism had found its cearest de-
velopment in the deadly class struggles of
of the czarist empire, while decay and cor
ruption of imperialst influence over the
theology of the working class thwarted its
growth in the advanced" capitalist coun-
tries.
The Party of Lenin was the guardian and
developer of the revolutionary science OF
Marxism Through this it became possible to
burst the chain of imperialist world-rule at
its weakest link, in Russia. And this, in turn,
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lapse of the Second International made pcs
ssible the flooding of the world with the surg
ing sea of Bolshevism-the restoration OF
revolutionary Marxism to the worlds work
ing class, and more than that-the Marxism
of the imperialist epoch, the Marxisn-
=Leninism which is the Marxism of the period
of proletarian revolution. For the work of
sLenin had not merely revived" and applied
the revolutionary science of Marxism; Lenin
continued the creative work of Marx and be-
came the joint founder, with Marx, of the
revolutionary science and practice. !.
With the revolt of, the revolutionary Sec
tions of the working class from the yellow
socialist" parties of treason, and with the
founding of the Party of Revolution, the
Communist Party and Communist Interna-
tional, began the inevitable process of exodus
of the workers from the reformst parties.
This process is not yet by any means COM
pleted, but in America it had already in 1924
reached the stage where the revolutionary
Communist Party could build and maintain
a great daily paper in the native language and
the yellow socialist party could not
The New York Call lost the power to reach
the hearts and minds of the working class,
it died; and after it died the expensive effort
of the yellow bureaucrats to establish the
New York Leader.
1t became impossible for the party of Hill
quit and Oneal to maintain the New York