The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-01-30
By A. LANDY.
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CAPITALISM in decay offers many abject and
distressing spectaces But what is more alb
ject and hypocritical than a liberal talking
Communism" in order to rescue capitalisma
Millions, betrayed and cast off by system that
exploited and robbed them, are desperately in
search of new way of life. When a person Sc
lects such momentous turning point in the life
of entire masses in order to lead them back into
the abyss of capitalisn-what else is he but
social-fascst? In fact it is not we who charge
Wilson with -fascsm; it is his article which
proves it
Social-fascism divides Wilson's article into two
distinct parts; one in which he pretends to re-
ject capitalism for socialism; and the other in
which he calls upon the liberals to fight for the
preservation of capitalism
In the past, he cries, we believed in capitalism
and apologized for it; but now it has broken
down and we must come out unreservedly for
socialism. That is in part one. In part two, our
liberal Communist" still flushed with the scar
let OF his first conversion, makes a complete
about-face and repudiates his original "confes-
sion" Capitalism may have been considerably
damaged by the crisis, but Gin part two) 1t is
stir inherently sound
Still more On the one hand he announces
his fear that the capitalist system has broken
down. on the other, he accuses the Marxists of
cynicism for predicting what he asserts. If the
MARKHAM prediction of the breakdown of capital
ism is cynical, as Wilson maintains then what
shall we call wilson's assertion that it has al
ready broken down? 1t seems that the crisis
has not only turned Wilson on his head, but that
Wilson, in turn, insists on turning everything
else on its head, too
The fact, however, is that behind these logical
contradictions is the fundamental contradiction
of two basicaly opposed class interests. 1t is
contradiction in which the preservation of capt.
talsm is the chief motive, and the prattle about
Communism merely, unavoidable hypocrisy.
Wilson perhaps believes, and undoubtedly is
trying to make others believe, that his chief
concern is the introduction of Communism, or.
what to him is the same thing, the government
ownership of the means of production. In other
words, he wants us to believe that he intends to
lead the masses out of the morass of capitalism.
But nothing could be farther from the truth.
1t is not the salvation of Communism that is
his chief concern. but the preservation of capt.
tasm: his talk about Communism is merely
means to capitalist end
If we examine wilson's proposals from the
point of view of what action they recommend as
against what words they profess, we are imme-s
diately struck by the social-fascist substance of
his article. For, it is what Wilson urges the
liberals to do and not merely what he asks them
10 prOIeSS COlupllSeS Cle essence Oh his
proposals.
The article is not an appeal for Communism
but for a fight against the Communist Party.
It urges the liberals to make their chief activity
an effort to discredit Marxism and the Commu-
mist Party in the eyes of the masses, for only in
this way will the safety of the structure of
society," that is, capitalism be assured.
Wilson proposes to conduct this fight against
the Communists by drastically changing the OBJ
vious capitalist apologetics of liberalism to the
more concealed phraseology of social-fascism. He
openly states that it will be necessary for the lib
erals to adopt more shocking language, or, as
Wilson also puts it, to take Communism away
from the Communists"
Obviously, at time when vast masses are be-
ginning to look for new path, tits impossible
to discredit the only real path open to them I'M
less you use shocking" language, that is, unless
you take Communism away from the Conmu-
nists," in short unless you act as perfect
socal-fascist Wilson himself admits that I'M
less something is DONE it will be impossible to
keep the masses from accepting Communism as
the only way out
Wilson, Of course does not understand trat
even if the masses should follow him today
tomorrow they would see that the old structure
is still preserved that the old relations of ex-
plotation are still intact For the program of
social -fascism, the program of preserving the
capitalist social structure is the path not out of
but still further into the capitalist abyss The
solution" Of socal-fascism is solution" that
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