The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-03-10
THE MONKEY TRIAL OF THE
COMMUNISTS
Nv KARL RADEK.

"A the report OF the FISH SohHAH91oH' N
January 18th. Mr. Fish, member OF Congress-
the American parliament, lays down IN 4aI
volume all that he has learnt in the course OF
his nrofound investigations on the aims OF the
Communist international, on the policy OF the
Soviet mower, and on the crimes OF Karl Marx
and of the woman comrade Lisa, secretary OF
the "Amtorg" nucleus. Even II this report hao
been written by Mark Twain himself, 1t could
not have turned out better
Mr. Fish begins his Investigations by calling
Webster's dictionary to his aid, and looking up
the word Communism" Having found u, he
folds down the corner of the page and UNDER
lines the word with his finger nail What is
Communism? 1t appears that there are two
sorts Firstly, Communism is an organization IN
which all goods are the common property OF
society. It is conception opposed to the system
of private property
Secondly however Communism is social or
ganisation in which great power lies IN the hands
of small political units or communes-see COM
munalism."
On consideration Mr.. Fish came to the con-
clusion that "communahsm," which grants great
power to small communes, was not the subject
of his inquiry. He therefore resolved to con-
fine his efforts to that other sort of Commu-
nisn, the worse variety, which makes "all goods"
the common property Of society
This Communism, he decided must now DC
,,vesticated down to its very beginnings. Hence
he began. very properly, with the Communist
Manifesto" Who are its authors? Mr. FISH
irfor1s the American authorities that this Bible
~ r,odern socialism" was written by two bap-
+ised Jews" Marx and Engels. But to MI FlSh S
,rofound sorrow, it was impossible to bring the
authors of the Communist Manifesto" before the
Commission and to call them to account lor tle4I
nljsdeeds for in the first place they are hoe
American citizens, and secondly they have had
the in,pertinence to die before Mr.. Fish found
occasion to seize them by the collar.
And what was the object Of these two pap
tised Jews" who drew up this Communist Mani
festo"? In the first place they taught the work
e,S that the history of mankind was the history
of the class struggle, thus melting worthy Amer
iran citizens to class hatred. In the second
,,lace thew preached the revolutionary dictator
shin of the proetarat and even had the I'M
,,rdence TO boast that the Communists did not
conceal their aims, even from a Fish Commas
sion Mr. Fish observes spitefully, however tnat
Fneels after Joining Marx in signing this chal-
lenee to the Fish Commission subsequently pc
came frightened and declared that he had not
been the main author Of the Communist Mani
festo, but Marx. CTo be sure we know what KIND
of courage these Reds haveD
But not enough with the Manifesto: Marx and
the Fish Commission, proceeded to found the l.
International, which preached the treacherous
idea that the emancipation of the working class
could only be its own work-tantamount to en-
deavoring to persuade the American workers
that they had not to expect their emancipation
from Mr.. Fish, idea shaking to its founda-
tons the democratic bases of the constitution OF
the United States, which are, If we are to be-
neve the Congress and the Senate, the one and
original source of all good But the Nemesis OF
history swoops down. Marx and Engels were
punished. They had reared a party Of anar-
chists, and after years they were obliged to an
nounce the bankruptcy of their firm and to dis
solve the I. International Its inheritance passed
into the hands of the II. international. But
during the great war "the socialists, with few
exceptions placed patriotism before party doc
trine" and the split in the IL International
ensued
It's Left section, under Lenin's leadership, ex-
plotted for its own ends the overthrow of the
Czarist government in March, 1917. 1t played no
part in the overthrow Of the Gar, who as a well
educated man had transferred his power not to
the Bolshevists, but TO the Durna elected by the
people The Bolshevists, however, backed up by
10000 Communists and deserters, forcbly seized
power, dispersed or murdered the members of the
Provisional Government, disbanded the Con-
Stituellt Assembly, and created the Soviet power,
which then expended million dollars in or
ganizing the Ill International, which is-"tlis
sannot be denied-a revolutionary International
of the workers and possesses tremendous influ-
ence among the advanced workers of all coun-
tries" Lenin's culpabihty was of course shared
by the German general staff which had him
conveyed from Switzerland to Russia in sealed
railway carriage.
Today, however, it is not the German general
staff which rules in the Communist Interna-
tonal, but the Communist Party of the Soviet
Union, and the Comintern could not exist for
even "a hours without the extensive aid of the
leaders Of the Russian Communist Party, without
the financial support of the Soviet power" The
Communist International, whose goal is the
establishment of world Soviet Union with Mos
COW imperative condition. as capital is a part
of the Russian Communist Party and of the So
Wet Union.
This organization Of revolutionary forces is ar
ranged follows: Firstly there is the Political
Bureau, secondly the Soviet government, thirdly
the Comntern.
can deceive Mr.. Fish by assuring him that it is
not so in reality. This is the general outline of
the history of that conspiracy on worldwide
scale which has SO staggered Mr. Fish and his
colleagues, according to lis-Mr Fish's-astound-
ing version Of it.
The second chapter Of the report deals with
the nisdeeds Of the Conaintern In September.
1919, it founded Communist Party in the u
S. A., and at once inflicted upon this the ig-
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