The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-04-03
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"Savants of a Dying Class
BY JORGE

Capitalism, unable to feed its slaves and rottinR
with its own degeneracy, is fearful Of It's his
toric doom. And in fearful contemplation OF
a revolution which will wipe it from the face
of the earth, seeks to deny the right even of the
revolution against feudalism which gave 1t BIRTH
Thus we see, by chance, the sewer Sheet called
the Milwaukee Journal running a bunch OF
"boiler-pl plate" trpe, entitled, "Lunatics Have Al
tered World History, French Savant Says" It
gives the supposed findings" of one DR.. Jacques
Duhamel, of the faculty of medicine Of Paris,
who so 1t says, has brought his medical knowl-
edge to bear on the leaders who we're responsible
for the excesses of the French revolution"
While thus appearing to complain only Of
excesses' this French "savant" from Paris (the
heart of the French revolution which marked
historically the rise of the capitalist class to po-
litical pover) in reality ISLANDERS the then prog
ressive role of the bourgeoise, in order to give
scientific justification for present attack on
the proletarian revolution of today that aims to
overthrow the capitalist rule.
Listen to some of this rubbish:
Like SO many other movements which have
influenced the history of mankind, the great
revolution in France was under the leadership
of madmen, Prof. Duhamel asserts. The three
chief political eaders-Saint-Just Marat and
Robespierre-were pure p&ranoiacs, while Ma
rat also homicida maniac"
Then, again: Every revolution. by relaxing
manners, convention and police control, reveal
those of the population who are at heart par
anoacs, persons who would never go to asy-
lums but whose mental state is extremely I'M
balanced"
What more despicabe proof of the degeneracy
of bourgeois culture than to hear this Scientific
dot So says the Tammany mayor, equally an
example of bourgeois science" that if there's
anything wrong, "the people are to blame"
Standing reason on its head, it is in short de-
clared that the masses are not to be trusted,
tA2t their leaders are madlnen, and what is
wanted is more and not less police CONTROL"
This, too, when every child in the streets
knows that police control" is the control of
gangsterism, corruption, of brutal and bloody
savagery to suppress the masses who are so "in-
sane" as to refuse to starve to death in land
of plenty
OF course there is reason for this putting
everything topsy-turvy. The article adds:
"a parallel to the niurderous fanaticism Of,
the madmen who led the French revolution is
seen today in the same bloodthirsty methods
of the Russian Bolshevik leaders.
This is what the article was written for To
use the distortion of historic rise to power of the
o1urgeoisie over feudalsm, to agitate against the
ae of the proletariat, historically, against the
bourgeoisie And to do this, all reasonsed per-
spective of past history is thrown aside to dstori
the history of today
Disgust can only be felt for great historic
class which falls so low in its degeneracy thai
it denies the progressive role that it once played
And it should serve as lesson to all workers
that capitalism today, rejecting with shame the
legitimate claim to virtue it once had but nc
longer possesses, allies itself with, and in itself
and its policies expresses all that is backward,
reactionary, feudalistic and barbarous, in order
to deny the historic progressive role of the revo-
lutionary working class.