The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1930-11-06
BY EARL BROWDER

IN the occasion of the thirteenth anniversary
of the October Revolution, it is particularly
opportune to draw again the balance between
the results of Is years of proletarian dictator
ship, of the policy of Lenin and the Bolsheviks
on the one hand, and the results of reformism
OF the policy of the Second International under
Macdonald, vandervelde. Kautsky, Hilferding
Hillquit, on the other hand. -,--e .o----
What was always the song which the leaders
of the Second International sang for the masses?
do not follow the Bolshevks," they said, be-
cause those terrible fellows lead you only to
struggles and misery and sacrifice, to a futile
battle in which at best you are only fighting for
future generations Whereas, we the REFORM
lists, will avoid the hardships of struggle, and
gain for you real practical results of improved
conditions today"
Is Years of Capitalism.
Now, after thirteen years application of these
two contradictory policies, the Bosheviks in the
Soviet Union, and the refornists dominating the
working class in the capitalist world what are
the practical results?
The reformist Macdonald heads the govern
ment of Great Britain; the working class of that
country is starving to the number of 100000
wage-cuts and speed-up are making life hell
for those who are employed, while the colonial
peoples are being violently oppressed on scale
gov
eminent.
The reformist socal-democracy in Germany
after being in and out of all sorts of government
coalitions with the capitalists, has Just voted to
support the Bruening government with its pro-
gram OF Young Plan, taxation of the masses
wage-cuts and militarism; while the German
workers, with more than 100000 unemployed
are pressed into poverty and despair.
The u. S. "SociaIists.n
In the United States the reformist social
ist" party under Hillquit, has become an openly
bourgeois party, with its outstanding candidate
in the current elections being an ignorant and
stupid comedian, Haywood Broun a. sportsman
with an income of $4,000 per year, who is en-
dorsed by the capitalist press specifically because
as they say. "Broun may not know it, but he is
no socialist" Meanwhile, more than 100000
workers are unemployed wages are being slashed
at an unprecedented rate, machines are being
speeded up beyond human endurance and the
economic crisis of capitalism threatens destruc-
ton to tens of millions of the population.
What has been the net result of IS wears of
reformist policy in the capitalist countries?
Paralysis OF the working class, delivery of all
power into the hands of the capitalists and
now the full fruits of this policy. catastrophe
crisis of capitalism
IL Years of Bosheyism
But what about the results of l3 wears Of
Bolshevism in the Soviet Union? What con-
trast In the Soviet Union, under the firm lead
ershlp OF Lenin's Party. gigantic work of
socialist construction has already reared itself
SO high that 1t overshadows the entire world,
With capitalism and its reformist servants
plungng into deep crisis. in the Soviet Union
the socialist economy is expanding even faster
than capitalism declines. In the past year while
production in the United States, premier land of
capitalism declined more than rs per cent. in
the Soviet Union the production increased al
most 30 per cent
Unemployment.
With unemployment in the capitalist world
rising into the tens of millions, and growing
worse every day, in the Soviet Union unemploy
ment has always been guarded against by gov
eminent insurance and now has been abolished
altogether by the tremendous expansion of the
industries, SO that now there is positive short
age Of workers
Wages.
With wages going down in the capitalist
countries hours of labor increasing and the
speed-up destroying the minds and bodies of
the workers in the shops, in the Soviet Union,
on the contrary wages increaee from syto 10