The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-06-23

Bourgeois theology is the capitalist way OF
thinking. Under capitalist rule every avenue
of public education, the kindergarten, the
schools, the colleges, the churches, the news
papers, books, ETC., convey this capitalist way
of thinking. BY injecting this capitalist way
of thinking into the minds Of the workers,
they think like exploiters although they are
exploited. From earliest childhood the work.
ers' thinking apparatus is set into motion and
is kept moving on capitalist thoughts and
ideas. Under certain conditions these thoughts
and ideas become a material force in the
hands of the capitalists against the workers.
These ideas in the minds of the workers en-
able the capitalists at critical moments to
avert serious danger for their system and for
their profit interests All they have to do is
to appeal to the capitalist ideas in the heads
of the workers. Such an appeal usually breaks
up the ranks of the workers The workers
interests demand united struggle against
the capitalists. The bourgeois ideas in the
minds of the workers are seeds of proletarlan
disunity; they enable the capitalists to set one
section of workers against another.
The capitalists of the United States peddle
as the most poisonous brand of bourgeois
theology the assertion of white superiority
With the slogan of white superiority they
mobilize the toiers to fight against each other
They tell the white workers that they must
fight for white supremacy; the capitalist way
of thinking on the part of the workers pre-
vents them from seeing that their fight fol-
white supremacy is but fight for capitalist
supremacy and capitalist rule.
With the poison of national and white
chauvinism Capitalist teaching of white su
pren1acy) in the minds of the working masse;
| it is not difficult for the capitalists to solve
their problem as an exploiting minority t.
keep the exploited majority down. Whenever
the danger arises of united action on the par
of the exploited majority against the exploit
ing minority, this minority stirs UP the poison
Of national and of white chauvinism and there
by saves itself.
The workers have nothing in common will
the capitalists All their material and socia
interests are Numerically opposed to those
of the capitalists The capitalists want to pres
down and keep down the wages; the workers
want to press up and keep them up.
The capitalists want to turn as much energy
Of the workers as they possibly can into al
much profit for themselves as they posslbl,
can. The workers on the other hand want t.
give as little energy as they can to the CAPT
talists for the bare living the latter allow
them. This antagonlsm of interests agsins
! the capitalists is common to all workers. TIL
community of proletarian interests affects al
members of the class Of wage workers, If
respective of their color or their race, of thei
age or their sex, or of their religion. Agains
this community of interest all other differ
ences are artificial. Differences of sex, age
etc., are of course physical reality. Blu
these physical differences do not in any wa,
influence or weaken the community of socia
and material interests of the working class.
The capitalists see as their greatest prob