The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-02-10
The Imperialists Gain A New
Ally
By BURCK

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for change in "tactics" Gtlow even quotes
Oneal to the same effect This is a remarkable
thing, reasons Gitlow. Why, even these mill
tants now see the economic crisis. They are just
as wide awake as the Lovestoneites are, because
it is better late than never.
Why does Stanley point to Economic crisis
(Which exposed the weakness of the Party in
handling such fundamental problems like I'M
employment" He realizes, along with Oneal,
Thomas and Hillquit that new tactics are needed
in this precise situation to lead the workers into
the morass of the Socialist Party and away from
revolution.
How can this be cohpered in the slightest
degree to what took place in the socialist party
in 1918-19? How can the attitude of the Stanley
group be mentioned in the same breath as the
attitude of the majority of the socialist party
members towards the Russian revolution in 1913
10? Only renegade seeking to hide his tracks
leading to the camp of Hillquit and Oneal can
attempt to fool the workers with such trash
What was the situation in 1888 in the
socialist party? Tens of thousands of workers
in the socialist party at that time expressed
their solidarity with the Russian Revolution, with
the dictatorship of the proletariat with the 81
points of admission into the Communist In
ternational, with the revolutionary terror"
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stripe. This was mass movement of workers,
inspired by the revolutionary struggle of the Rus
sion masses under the leadership of the Boil
sheviks. 1t was mass endorsement of the Die
tatorship of the Proletariat And how was it
met by the same Hillquit, Oneal, Gerber and
Steadman? BY wholesale expulsion Every ex-
preston of militancy was cut out as clearly as
with a razor.
Today the picture is quite different Louis
Stanley, the left leader is greeted with open
arms by Hillquit. He is pampered. He is given
the free use of the socialist press. On nearly
every question of difference Hillqut and Stan
ley are able to bring in unanimous resolutions.
Only one point of final difference" remained
the attitude toward the Soviet Union.
On the counter revolutionary stand of Stanley
toward the Soviet Union, Gitlow hinges his ap
peals for unity with the socialist party. There
is one thing that the Lovestoneties will never
be able to wipe out. Stanley along with the
other mtants agree with Hillquit, Oneal Thorn
as and every other socialist bureaucrat that they
are opposed to governmental terrorism" in the
Soviet Union.
What is this terror that Stanley nveighs
against? Why is Gitlow so silent on thispoint?
The Stanley group which now stands Loyalty
by the decision" against the Soviet Union know
that millions of American workers, suffering from
the crisis Of capitalism look with great favor and
approval on the advance of the Five-Year Plan
in the Soviet Union. This is gall and NORWOOD
to all socialists. Mere lying has been fruitless
So the Stanley group, seeing the need for new
tactics at home to nlislead the workers as we'll
as feeling the necessity of making the workers
believe that the results" Of the Dictatorship of
the Proletariat are all right but the Dictator
ship itself is bad, evolve their famous resolution
very point on which Lenin said, Zone may say
without fear of exaggeraton that this Dictator
ship of the Proletariat) is the most important
the chief problem of the entire class struggle of
the proletariat," the Stanley group is 100 per
cent in agreement with the officialdom of the
socialist party.
The Lovestoneites who see such towering
strength in American Imperialism, who insisted
that the crisis had not touched the fundamental
structures Of American capitalism, now see great
Revolutionary class content" in Stanley's attack
against the Dictatorship Of the Proletarit in the
Soviet Union.
Any form Of alliance is not too unsavory for
the Lovestoneites. There is not even any talk
among the Lovestoneites about searching out the
few workers within the socialist party for a
united front" They want to sprinkle the holy
water of revolutionary class content over the
clique Of students who mouth phrases about .
"proletarian society" in the Soviet Union SO that
their ,mhoI union win not appear 20 Grass.
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