The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1929-10-24
The Face of German
SOClal-FasClsn
By r. GERBER.

By R. GERBER.
bloody May days Berlin under
traditional demonstration of the peara and the Madgebus
Congress of the Party which passed the defense
programthee events occurring together
certain maturity the development of ofascist tendencies Ger
many They justify speaking longer the growth
leading fascism definite
conclusive signs of ascm in German refOmsm whole 1t is
however incorrect to fascist development in Germany only in the
growth of social fascm There also as the Landtag elections in
Coburg show great advance the NatonasSocast
Party which openly and consciously fascist ian increase IN votes OF
100 80 cent Year, and which recruited chiefly from the
petty bOurgeois and Tin connection with the chronic difficulties of
coalition government expressing the general crisis of
m) there is also definite revival the activities the
tense organizations from the Wehrwo to the Reichsbnner
advancing three partially separated columns
each active different sphere 1t would therefore be
dealing with German fssm in General Init ony with
STILL out its general connections which will give
fascm.
may be objected that in such broad conception of fascim
fascm loses its specific content oay
columns is nothing more nor less than the bourgeois reaction and that
while seeking
alternative forward by the conclaorsthe denial of social
as the obteraton of all differences within the bourgeois
on false There number of factors which all
which, together
csm from other forms of bourgeois dictatorship As distinct from
purely military dictatorship (Which in recent times true tries to
fascist for ITSELF all forms of scm based broad
organization whose activities onrasted with the failure of
not be for certain ancaptal hraseogy and
refrain from appearing openly representatives of capital
terror against
working class by parliamentary democracy "a terror which in its out
will of the majority but by the particular weight of the interests
represents bourgeois democracy opposes organc
ship of society by the cooperation of various organizations
ascsm does not deny class contradictions merely maintains that
In this seeks organize the of the the bank
rup of pariamentaansm in which involves danger to
to utilise that for the maintenance of bourgeois class rule other
if auen be workers. the illusion that the ctatorsbn which
anxious establish has succeeded in establishing the
rule of their class but the result of their work
this sense general tendency
The growth of internal and external contradictions necessarily leads
nensicaon of the white against the poar and also
makes the parliamentary democratic of rule less
and less useful for capital On the other hand the increasing
into the struggle necessae the creation of bases of within
atocray The smaller this aocacy becomes because of
economic difficulties the closer by of compensation its
of binding the greatest possible number of workers the policy of
finance capital must convince them that the tendencies in the de-
vopment imperialism mnopozaton justification
capitalism the enrolment of members of the labor asocray
the executive of bourgeois class overcoming
he bad side of capitalism This but parahrase of the fascist
ona concentration of the national by Of state
sm in the interests of finance capital the suppression
L olasp in be arent f in5utr" rb bas;o ,eent
WILL the conditions of the third
lesser degree all the mperat world is there
fascist in those organizations where this of
mnt is in most garng contradiction to their past history and where
The objective social basis of refOrmim generally the corruption
the labor aristocracy (Which in certain
countries the the
cass rendered possible by the mpest profits of the bou
geose The question then arises does the development of msm
sociaascm change its social
the of corruption This true of countries such Germany
Before the
the skilled of workers fairly well
the of this position generally
qualified
faffars has undergone change The special highly
qualified workers was lost result of the growing mechanzaton of
labor Statistics show lessenng in the wages
skilled the unsled workers. despite growing
differentiation within the working class
ments 167 the the &C. of the
the Twelfth Berlin ong The explanation Of this apparent
of badly paid workers practically and uvene into
the the
while the other hand wepad positions
limited group, which with
includes sem-skied unskied
Individual workers who either whose
that of their feow-wore rationaized
takng the transmission belt
activity capital higher