The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-02-01
By LOUIS KOYESS.

MICHAEL KAR0LYI, first President of the
H Hungarian peoples Republic" has been
touring the United States for the past three
weeks. During this time he spoke at mass
meetings, made statements, wrote articles and
gave interviews. All these permit us to view
and criticise his ideas, as he expressed them in
his speeches and writings.
The Background of karOlyi's Tour.
Certain remarks of Karolyi made at public
meetings make US think that his American ac-
Invites are aimed not so much to Grouse the
workers to understand, that fascism means
starvation, oppression and war; as he express
sed it, but mainly deal with conditions in Hun
gary. Conditions in Hungary, inseparably link
ed up with that of world capitalism, is the
background of his American tour.
In the growing economic world crisis of
capitalism, we are witnessing a growing econ
omic crisis in Hungary as WELL accompanied
with political crisis shaking the basis of
fascism. There is unemployment mass unem-
ployed demonstrations, and collisions with the
police There is the fusion of banking, indus
trial and agraran capital into finance capital,
and mass resistance of the city and rural pro-
letariat to brutal oppression and the lowering
of their standard of living. A severe ration
aliZation drive, in the absence of sufficient
capital, is being carried through almost eX-
cluSlVeIy by Speeu-up. Inc employment OIL So
cial-fascist methods are carried on side by side
with fascism and in collaboration with it. The
keener foreign competition and the narrowing
down of the home market, out of proportion
to the production, as a result of rationaliZa-
ton, speed-up increases unemployment and low
ers the standard of living of the workers and
rural proletariat. TIL result is a turn of the
masses to the offensive. There is joint en-
ployment of fascist oppression and social fas-
cist demagOgy to check the revolutionary de-
velopment; multiplication of the imperialist-
irredentist propaganda for "a Great Hungary"
and at the same time increased propaganda for
making a pact with Roumania, signalling that
this propaganda is not aimed against the
Little Entente" but against the Soviet Union.
The irredentist demagogy is thoroughly eX-
posed. 1t is quite openly said by the Horthy
Bethlen government. that the re-establishment
of Great Hungary will not come about by
war against the Little Entente, but as reward
for Hungary's participation in the anti-Soviet
Union war and for taking side with the British
imperialst block in the next world war.
karOlyi's Position.
1t is moro than probable that Karolyi keeps
an eye on these developments in Hungary. Oc-
casiona remarks uttered by him at mass meet
ings strengthen this belief.
Now let us see his position on different ques-
tons as he stated them:
Social Democracy-He said he is in sharp
opposition to the Hungarian section of the
party because of the pact
it concluded with the Horthy regime. He re-
fused to speak under the auspices" of the
Rand School. At the New York mass meeting
Of the Anti-Horthy League he accepted the
resolution with the wording that he is opposed
rot only to Hungarian social fascism, but to
social fascism generally. But at the same time
Re accepts invitations from American social
fascists. True, stating there too, that he OPP
poses Hungarian social-democracy.
Karolyism-At mass meeting in Lorain,
Ohio he still uttered words lauding certain
phases of his regime. But at later meetings
in Cleveland, Pittsburgh and New York he
stated he does not stand on his former plat