The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-12-22
Maybe This Is Helpful

Because many comrades are sort OF haEy On
what fascism is we think 1t good idea to g1vs
a thumb-nail sketch, which we take the liberty
OF "translating" into palmer English than the
original otherwise good found IN the five-cenk
pamphlet THE World Crisis ard the rnterrseA
ttonal Glass Struggle
The big thing about fasctsrn Is tsss IS -
open attack on the working class, using an
kinds of force and violence. 1t Is war on the
workers. When the capitalist Dictatorship that
we call democracy" changes, slowly or raradly
to open dictatorship, with no "dernocrstdcA
pretense about 1t, call that the 'fascisstices
OF the capitalist government :
Fascisn1 is now a new form OF governments
different a lot from democratic" republSes
The fake socialists say it is, and trick workers.
into fighting FOR a so-caled democracy wsz
der the notion that it is "the lesser of two evtlss
Yet the workers get robbed and dubbed plenty
under So-called democracy"
A regular capitalist democracy" and fascdsyn
are only two forms of the same thing, capital
ist dictatorship. Fascism grows out OF demo-
cratic republics, and one can't say exactly
where democracy leaves off and fascism bs4
gins.
Fascisn develops capitalism becomes weak
But it is violent effort to hang on by attacking
every effort the workers make to fight for ther
interests. We must beware OF making mistakes
on this point
One set OF opportunists, who are always
around or in the working-class movement try
to get the workers not to fight capitalism, not
to strike or anything, under the false idea that
the growth of fascism shows a growth in the
strength of capitalism.
This set Of opportunists are known as right
opportunists- any kind of opportunists all
ways spoil the main and final aim of the work.
ers under some theory that sounds good for the
time being These rights" say that fascism Ii
just ordinary capitalist attacks, only a httle
more of them, and SO they figure out that capi-
talism is getting stronger merely because 1t hits
you twice where 1t only hit you once before.
So they say Don't strike now, capitalism Is too
strong" or THE workers must give in becauss
they haven't chance against this violenoa.
Which is horse-radish.
But still slicker kind of opportunities, thA
ones called the Let's because they usually
sound awful revolutionary and declare that over.
throwing capitalism Is easy as falling off loa
so to speak, have another fool notion about fas.
cism. They say that the growth OF fascism
shows that capitalism is weak They stop right
there, and don't go and tell the full truth, which
Isl That, while it Is true that fascism Is prod.
uct OF the growing weakness Of capitalism, vel
1t is also true that fascsm is the form Of an att
tack by capitalism on the workers.
You see, capitalism becomes weak and the cap
italists begin to realize they cannot hold down
the workers much longer with democratic
hokum about adequate relief" for the joblem
and EVERY boy can become president some day.
and "ttis Is a free country" So, in desperation
at the rise OF radicalsm among the workers, they
begin to use fascism against the workers. Nat,-
rally the workers can't starye to death quietly.
and If they soften down their fight that only
makes the capitalists attack harder than ever.
No, the only way out is for the workers to get
more hostile than ever, organize better and with
more masses behind the movement In fact il
they do this good and plenty, fascsm can b.
whipped It all depends on how stiff 1isht ~
workers. mt up -