The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-09-05
BY HARRISON GEORGE

THE Vienna correspondent OF tbs N. 2, Post,
l NJ w Fodor, published In that paper Of
September 1, some comments on the character
of the world congress Of the Second Socialist"
International recently held there. 1t was q
gathering Of important socialist leaders, he
remarks but what was most noticeable to this
capitalist journalist was;
the dying of the revolutionary spirit in
movement which only decade ago was the
terrifying DOGGY of all good bourgeois people.
49, II was amazing to see the change of tenn
per in the socialist movement. This meet
ing seemed so timid so cautious. 80. The rev
olution now constitutes DOGGY to the socialists
themselves"
If this we're but the opinion Of one capitalist
Journalist workers who still have a vague
but mistaken-notion that the so-called $50
cialist" party is onl5osed to capitalism, might
not heed the testimony. But there are plenty Of
proofs from life and lots of testimony to the
same effect. The N. Y. Times editorially re-
marked recently aug. 28) concerning the pre-
tense of the socialists that they stand for the
workers against capitalism
Socialist practice, however, has, as rule
departed widely from class war doctrine.
The World War brought overwhelming proof
Everywhere the great majority of socialists
stood with their bourgeois cOuntrymen for the
national that is to say Capitalist
Daily Worker welfare. Only few months
ago the spokesman for the Reichstag social
lists justified their cooperation with the Bruen-
ing government and their acceptance of sacri-
fees for the working class"
We ask the reader to keep in mind that last
phrase about acceptance Of sacrifices for the
working class" for a couple of minutes,
Turning to the liberal" capitalist press, we
find an editorial in the New Republic, N. Y,
issue of August 49, on Socialists as Conserve
tives". which opens with the following line:
1T is a dramatic event when followers of
Karl Marx turn out to be the chief bulwark
against European revolution"
Here of course, the New Republic seriously
errs by labelling the socialists" as followers of
Karl Marx No one who understands Marxism
would thus Islander Marx But what the New
Republic was correctly calling attention to was
the counter revolutionary actions Of the German
socialist" party, which has "even permitted
Dictatorship"
The New Republic of course, being half
blind liberal organ does not clearly see or say
that it was fascist dictatorship which the Ger
nan socialists" support-under the pretense
Of opposing fascists who are not controlling the
scvcranlent, they support the fascist dictator
snip Of the Bruening government. The New
Eerubhc does, however, mention that the $50
cials5s"-'were not protecting a socialist state"
In an attempt to alibi themselves out of the
accusation, gthe American socialist" party,
through its organ the New Leader" of August %,
after many paragraphs of irrelevant joshing,
tries 10 squirm out of the charge by dwelling on
the magic word republic; the German social
ISIS support the republic, they cry-as though
that word means anything without an exami-
nation Of what class holds power in a "repub-
he
We have, for example the United States of
America, which Is called republic, while we
have also the Union of Socialist Soviet Repub-
ics-and he is daring fool who will try to tell
the workers that there is no difference in the
class character of the two. But the socialist
paper evades this and goes on in answer" to
the New Republic charge that German Social
lists supported capitalism:
The assumption is that the working class
has stake in a republic because capitalism
still survives. Fighting for freedom of organ
izatiOn, of the press, of elections, of demon
STATIONS may mean nothing TO the liberal but