The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-01-14

CLASS, even certain SectlOn OF the
petty bourgeoisie, had expressed
their will to fight the policies of
capitalist sterilization. They wanted
government which would protect
and promote the interests of the
working class.
This was a reputation of the
policy of coalition; for those wish
ing to defend working class inter-
ests could not enter into coalition
with the advocates of capitalist "a
tionalization which had been realized
and was to be further carried on,
at the expense of the working class.
The lessons of the election were
first, the rejection of the policy of
coalition by the working class, and
second, the inapplicability of parlia-
mentary democracy in a situation
characterized by sharpening class
struggle.
Insurmountable Crisis
After the election it became evil
dent that the capitalist state was far
from being stabilized. On the con-
trary, capitalist sterilization, effect
ed through naturalization, had fur
Their accumulated the class conflict
which contributed to the decay of
the bourgeois democratic state.
Judged by the composition. of the
newly-elected Reichstag, the parli-
amentary democratic state is no
more stable than it was in the rev.
oluntionary days of 1928. Indeed, it
is less so, in spite of superficial ap-
pearances. Today, without the social
democrats, there cannot be a gov
eminent having majority in the
Reichstag.
This political crisis would be in
surmountable within the limits of
parliamentary democracy, should the
social democrats act according to
the will of their electors. The result
of the election placed the social
democratic party before two alter
natives, namely, ~ either to make
parliamentary government impos-
sible, thereby beginning the strug-
gle for the revolutionary overthrow
of the CAPITALIST state, or (2) to enter
into coalition with the bourgeoisie
to help the sterilization of the cap
italist state.
Saviors of Capitalist State
The social democratic leaders
however, had their course previous
ly decided. They are hostile to rev.
olution, and, therefore, were only
too eager to assume the respons-
Utility of forming a coalition gov.
eminent which would steer the shir
of the capitalist republic out of the
troubled waters of a political crisis
fraught with revolutionary posi-
bilities. What else could they do ?
The other course would be to joir
forces with the Communists in 9
determined opposition to the pos.
sible conflict of bourgeois block
with very precarious majority
causing a permanent parliamentary
crisis. The inevitable result woulc
be dissolution of the Reichstag anC
new elections before long.
In the new election taking place
under such circumstances, the so.
hcial democrats and communists
would be sure to be returned in still
greater number. With a possible
working class majority in the Rechs-
tag, the social democratic leaders
would have no more excuse for de.
laying the enforcement of the So.
cialist program. The illusions OF
parliamentary d e m ocracy, with
which the social democratic theorists
have misled and betrayed the mass.
es for years, would, in that case
be rudely shaken.
It would become clear that there
is no gradual and peaceful way
between bourgeois democracy and
Socialism. The two are mutually
exclusive. The bourgeoisie would be-
gin the civil war. They would not
have their property, power and
privileges taken away by acts Of
parliament. AS intelligent people,
the social democratic theorists an