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duced by the Stanley group, on the other hand
was thoroughly pro-Soviet not merely in senti-
ment but IN revolutionary class content" EN-
phasis theirs-Revolutionar Age, Jan. II, 1871
Let us examine the revolutionary class con-
tent" of the Stanley attitude toward the Soviet
Union. In an article in the New Leader Jan
ID Stanley says his group does not give ZEN
dorsement to everything that is transpiring" in
the Soviet Union, and they particularly disap-
prove the political terrorism" Very little diff
ference here between Hamilton Fish and Stan
ley. The same cry of political terrorism" chat
is hatred of the dictatorship of the proletariat,
the REORGANIZATION of the Soviet Republc)
emanates from every counter-revolutioniSt the
world over. James Oneal editor of the New
Leader, answering-it would be better to say
agreeing witll-Stanley assures the so-called
militants that the socialist party has always
been friendly" to the Soviet Union "On one
matter, terror, we have been unfriendly,' says
Oneal. So are the ''1nlitants" (the Stanley
group.
Even the beabored Norman Thomas whom the
Stanley group have chosen as offering to APP
pease the craving for cleft" phrases repeats the
Stanley group chantings that Lovestone thinks
have revolutionary class content. The petty
bourgeois liberal sky-pilot Norman Thomas,
pously declares: Nevertheless it is on the whole,
natural and fitting that we should be marvellous
ly interested in the great things that are being
done in building proletarian society in Russia"
There you have it-"a proletarian society in
Russia" What more can Stanley offer? Nor
man Thomas goes the whole hog. He balks,
just as Stanley does, at terror"
But this "terror" idea is the justification of
the counter-revolutionary activity of the Second
International 1t is on the basis of this terror"
that Abramovitch, Dan, Kerensky, BRAND, De-
terding, Baldwin and Stanley find common
ground for attack and war preparations against
the Soviet Union. In the Popes campaign for
intervention against Soviet Union the New
Leader, including the Stanley group, did its part
in beating the war tom-toms against the Soviet
Union. On the basis of this "terror"-c cry Hill
quit banqueted with whiteguards and pledged
war to the death against the proletarian die
tatorship without which "a proetaran society
in Russia would be impossible
The entire officiadom of the socialist party
tells the Stanley group: "On the question of the
Soviet Union we have no differences with YOU"
And it is precisely on this point that the Love-
stoneites find common bond of unity with the
socialists In trying to purify his new recruit,
Lovestone tries to cast a glamor of revolutionary
activity around Stanley and his companions
But Oneal informs us New Leader, Jan. 24) that
the bulk of the petty bourgeois liberal junk that
the socialist party has been peddling for the
past few years was supplied by Stanley! Stanley
as the head of the socialist research department
was responsible for the major share of the
counter revolutionary propaganda issued by the
socialist party
Is there any different class basis that divides
Stanley and his group on the one hand, and
Hllquit, Thomas and Oneal on the other? Not
at all The same petty bourgeois elements pre-
dominate in the Stanley group Ninety per cent
of them are petty bourgeois students. But the
Stanley group along with the Hirquits and
Oneal5 have felt their lack in fooling the work.
ers in the present crisis. They see millions of
workers and farmers in motion, bitter against
capitalism They feel it is their task to engulf
these masses in the yellow morass of the socialist
party.
In this situation, Lovestone comes to the res
cue of the socialist party. Just at the moment
when Oneal and Stanley agree on the real sub
stance of aid to the bosses war preparations
against the Soviet Union, Lovestone pronounces
them brothers in arms. He joins with Ham Fish,
Jr.sin the chorus of praise to the socialists, the
best friends of capitalism and the worst enemies
Of the Communists and the working class.