The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-05
BY MAXIM GORKY
From the "Pravda," Moscow.

THE capitalists and their faithful servants
the social-democrats and fascsts the Church
ills and Kautskys-demented with fear of So
cial catastrophy the old and young tricksters
who want to be big parasites, "the scoundrels
Of the pen and the bandits of the press" all the
putridity in human form which is created by
the capitalist system, all the human reptiles
without which capitalism cannot exist all of
them accuse the "Bolsheviks" of the Soviet IN
ion that they wish to destroy culture" The
bosses of the bourgeois press have given it
slogan: Flight against the Bolsheviks, against
Communism, fight for culture"
Naturally, capitalism has something to fight
for Its culture" consists of a series of in
situations which act with perfect freedom for
the purpose Of defending and justifying the abb
solutely unlimited power of parasitic minority
over the working majority, over the workers,
peasants and Electromagnetic who live by trif-
ling services for the big bourgeoisie. Its culture
consists Of lying schools, lying churches, lying
parliaments a lying and sanderous press; its
culture is the police, which is given the right to
beat up the workers and murder them. It's cul-
ture has developed to incredible heights-it has
grown into an unceasing daily fight against the
workers who do not want to be plundered, do
not want to be beggars, do not want their wives
to become prematurely infrm and to be old
women at the age 70 80, do not want their chill
dren to die of starvation or their daughters to
become prostitutes for the sake of piece of
bread, do not wish crime to grow on the basis
Of unemployment among the honest working
people.
The actual and overwhelming features of the
cultural life of the bourgeois countries consist
of street fighting between the police and the
workers, the growth of suicides from starvation,
the development of petty thieving as the result
Of unemployment, the growth Of prostitution.
This is not an exaggeraton. The news columns
Of all the bourgeois papers are filled with such
facts. The cultured" capitalist world is in
state of unceasing war with the working class,
a war which grows more bloody every day. The
minority are fighting for the right to plumber the
majority without retribution-ths is the main
feature Of the cultured life of all the world out
side the boundaries of the Soviet Union. The
war of the rich and weI-fed against the hungry
and the poor is carried on by weakening the
working class which is striving towards deter
mined fight throughout the world, by seizing the
most active people from its midst, mprisoning
them or numbering them, and at the same time
by attempts to terrorize the masses of workers,
condenning innocent persons to death as in the
case of the murder of Sacco and Vanzetti.
Terrorizing of Negro Masses in the U. S.
At the present time in the town of Scottsboro
in America drama is being unfolded which
calls the case of the two Italians Who after be-
ing sentenced to death, were held for seven
years in jail waiting for the day when they would
be taken to the electric chair. Humanitarians
from all over Europe protested against this MUIR
der of innocent people. The working elias also
protested but protests failed to make the slight
est impression on the impenetrsbe heads of the
American millionares. In Scottsboro, eight
young Negroes have been sentenced to death
They are also innocent. They we're seized by
the police haphazardly, they did not know each
other but nevertheless they we're sentenced to
death. This was done to scare the other Negroes
This murder is a preventive measure" 1t is
being done because the Negro masses are more
and more being drawn into the revolutionary
movement, are showing their solidarity with the
white working masses They are taking &C
tive part in the struggle against American i'm
perialism The bourgeoisie are terrified at the
spread of the spirit of revolt among fifteen mil
lion Negroes-workers and peasants-and are
making every effort to crush the growing mill
fancy of the Negro masses, using their weapon
of the white terror against them
This can clearly be seen from the bloody
events at Camp Hill, Alabama. This case in