The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-02-22
George Washington's Birthday

the birth of George Washington.
Banks are closed and factories to large extent and
che couponpping arsocracy will play much poker and
golf and will drink much good freshsmugged red booze and
French most of the bet people, of all of
the vast country will be throughout the day happy and drunk
and pious patriotic with comfortable thoughts of fat v
dends "safe enterprises built colossal size exploiting
scores of millions of "docle slaves six continents, toll
ing night and day to keep the yellow floods of gold pouring
into the treasureboxes of these pous Yankee pluto
Gratis Never before did George Westinghouse and
to some extent myth-receive much aduation he will
today from the boated capitalist class which looks
upon him as Father of the Tichest) country"
The proetarat Also in large part, will spend the day
outside of the factories and mills whose Wheels at least
the lighter industries will stop in honor of George Washing
ton Millions of American workers of this country will be
reached by the form of propaganda for which the American
capitalist class maintains the holiday of Washngtons birth
day institution Many will be affected by the be-
fuddng supplying lies about American democracy"
In effect the propaganda of this holiday in fixing
in the minds of the the idea that the system of
poation under which they live not only eternal sys
tenn but that its perpeuaon would be in the interest of
these sesame According to bourgeois political
economy and philosophy history process of turbulent
changes until the present capitalist republic founded
after which history to proceed by violent change and
leaves fixed Interchangeable ideal system of democracy"
This concept foundation stone the theological super
structure which helps to hold the monstrous system of capt.
talist class rule and exploitation together.
But every ruling class of the past has philosophical and
taught the concept about its system And of
these permanent and perfectly ideal" systems has in
turn fallen in destruction before the hammering blows of
social forces bringing in successive system
And when the reactionary fe-crushng capitalist class
and it's reainers try to utilize the example of the Revou
ton by which the capitalist class with force and violence
overthrow the preceding system and established the
the capitalist class in order support the illusion that
luton is not historys of removing also the capitalist
classhen is the duty of cassconscious workers cha
enge the lie.
1.-THE imperiast eyes can only see the his
torical past and is unable the which
the future"
But the past revolution also the future revo
luton AS long there class division in society," ex
plotting class and exploited the class Struggle continues
and cannot but continue the revolutionary combat the de-
Veopmen OF the capitalist system itself generates the
tradictions which nsoube without the catacysm of
peralst war and proletarian revolution.
the glores of capitalist naturalization and all the
accumulation capitalist
Intensificaton of the class struggle everywhere"
Intelligent members of our class do not let themselves
be fooled into seeing the revolutionary traditions of the
American War of Independence that led by George
washington proof OF the lnvadty of revolutions The
revolution of 1776 bourgeois revolution not work.
ing class revolution There could be proletarian revo
ton where there not yet proetarian class But all
revolutionary traditions belong to the class which today
the revolutionary class Allowing for the differences
between the nature of the bourgeois revolution and that
the proearan revolution the proetarat nevertheless can
and must learn much from the historic struggle by which
this capitalist republic with it's most advanced efficient
form of destructive exploitation of the industrial working
class the agricultural toers and the semcooa and colonial
slaves of the Wall Street government forced itself with
fire and sword into the world.
Intelligent workers understand that George Washing
ton Was in his time and place. truly great revouonist
He great organizer of revolutionary fighting army
capable OF defeating the regular troops of the thenestab
shed legal authority. This is especially worth mentioning
in connection with the celebration which the proetarat of
the whole world will make tomorrow, February 49, For
tomorrow Red Army Dayhe anniversary of the found
ing of the Red Army of the Union of Socialist Soviet Re-
pubics Of course the revolutionary army of the Soviet
Union and that of the American colonies in 176 can be COM
pared only with very important differences But the
ing class well honor Washington with his attainment
though the present mperast armies of the United
States the exact opposite of the revolutionary army
workers and peasants of the Union of Socialist Soviet Re-
publics.
Lz.1s- ill., ....1