The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-09-17
Let the German Elections Spur
Us to Greater Activity Here!

ten seats lost by the social-democrats went
entirely to the Communists, as we'll as some
of the seats lost by other parties. That means
that not only workers who had previously
voted for the social democrats went over to
the Communists but that such workers who
are organized in the christian Socialist"
unions also voted for Communism.
Bourgeoisie Disintegrating.
The big vote of the fascists was achieved
almost entirely at the expense of the dis
migrating bourgeois parties of the center
and the right. In the previous Reichstag all
bourgeois parties, except the establishments
and fascists, held 272 seats According to the
latest reports these parties will now have 208
seats, the balance of "a seats, including an
other score or more seats which they might
have received due to the bigger vote Give
million more than in the last Reichstag cleo
tions) going to the fascists AS predicted by
the Communist Party before the elections
the bourgeosie, particularly finance capital
sees in the establishment of fascist dictator
ship its last hope; the last resort for main
tanning capitalist class rule.
There is no doubt that finance capital has
donated literally to fascism just as it did in
Italy, before, during and after the march
on Rome. For the social-democrats are losing
their value as the mainstay of the capitalist
workers from fighting capitalism.
But since the events of the last few years,
the social-democrats had been entirely dis
credited and exposed, their grip upon the
working masses has weakened The elections
to the factory councils in 1929 was the first
signal. The municipal elections in Berlin was
another signal. The growth of the revolution
airy opposition within the reformist unions
again showed the degree of revolutionizaton
among the working masses.
Then there is the Five-Year Plan in the
Soviet Union AS the years go by, as the sue
cess of the plan is more and more assured,
and as the decay of capitalism continues to
spread and to grow deeper. the social-dem-
ocrats lose more and more of their value to
the capitalist class. The workers must and
will turn more and more towards Communism.
fascist dictatorship, therefore, somewhat on
the lines of the Mussolini dictatorship, is the
last resort of German finance capital, as of
finance capital in other countries.
With the aid of enormous funds, with the
aid of all kinds of radical" demagogic and
anti-semtic slogans, the fascists succeeded in
drawing in many of the impoverished petty
bourgeois voters, the rabble, the "lumpen- pro-
letariat" and some of the former ad-
herents of the social-fascists, who have all
voted for fascism a means of getting relief
from the present conditions.
But fascsm, of course, cannot bring relief.
Disintegration of fascism, just as the dsinte-
grafton of the bourgeois parties generally,
which is a reflection of disintegration of cap
italst society, is sure to come. and here again,
just as until now, just as during the election
campaign, the fight will be between Commu-
nism and fascsm.
Naturally, the bourgeois parties will not
fight fascism, which is the last resort for
bourgeois society. The social democrats, who
have prepared the ground for fascism and
have helped fascism all along, by prosecuting
The organizations of the revolutionary work.
ers, by illegalizing the Red Front Fighters
League while all fascist organizations were
free to conduct their activities. by prohibiting
May First demonstrations while all fascist and
nonarchst demonstrations were allowed, by
these and many other means, by acting the
way the fascists would have acted, by using
Article 4S of their own Wemar constitution
against 'SaXony, the social-democrats have
paved the way for fascism. 1t is the Commu-
mist Party that will fight fascism. Commun-
ism against fascism is now the essence of the