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with radical phrases.
rs it any wonder, then, that the capitalist
press all over the land, including the South, has
uniformly praised Norman Thomas throughout
this election campaign? Is it any wonder that
the capitalists energetically built up the Soci-
aIist Party, as a reliable catch-basin to hold the
workers who revolt from the open capitalist par
ties away from the Communist Party, the only
revolutionary party of class struggle? Is it any
wonder that an authoritative spokesman Of
Wall Street should sum up his praise of Norman
Thomas with the words: If through some cata-
clysm, he should become president, he would
behave in the White House like the well-born,
well-bred arstocrat that he is?
Truly the Socialist Party has well-earned
the title of third party of capitalism The
Wall Street bankers, through their press, radio,
churches, etc, are consciously building up the
Socialist Party, just as they have taken over
the a. F. of L., as their most reliable weapon
against the revolutionary movement of the mas
seS led by the Communist Party.
The Party of the Toiling Masses
"Ony the Communist Party puts forward a
platform Of fundamental solution of the prob
lens of life or death that face the workers and
farmers, Negro and white, Of america. An out
standing feature of this campaign is tremend-
GUS increase in the mass support to the Commu-
mist Party by workers, farmers, Negroes and
intellectuas.
1T is not possible to maintain any more that
hoary old lie that the industries cannot be run
without the capitalists Life itself has COM
pletely exploded that old falsehood Today it is
clear that 1t is the capitalists who are entirely
incapable of running the mills, mines, railroads.
Yes, they are even unable to keep their banks
open. America. the giant Of capitalism, the
model for capitalists all over the world, is sink
ing into chaos which is destroying the life
OF millions of men, women and children Cap
itaLSn can no longer feed the peaple.
Fifteen years after the Russian Revolution,
capitalism lies III ruins while the victorious Rus
sian wornngcass successfully finishes its first
Five-Year Plan in four years. For the future,
capitalism cannot even promise jobs at starva
ton wages to its workers, as Hoover admitted
in this very hall last Monday night. But the
Soviet Union is today launching its second Five
Year Plan, which will complete the construction
OF classics society based up socialist ndustrt-
alization and collective agriculture.
Which Road?
"On November 8, by your vote you will chose
between the road of Hoover Roosevelt Thomas,
or the road marked out by Lenin and the vic
torious Russian working class
THE road of Lenin, the revolutionary way out
OF the crisis, is the road of the fundamental re-
organization of society on the basis Of socialism,
the first stage of Communism.
This requires the unconditional rejection of
the policy OF Norman Thomas, as the Russian
workers rejected Kerensky 1t requires the over
throw OF the capitalist state machinery, the
smashing of the bloody oppressive rule of the
capitalist class. 1t requires the establishment
of new state of the toiling masses Of the work
ers and farmers 1t requires a government of
Workers Councils a Soviet Government.
History has shown that the masses Of Amer
ica when faced with fundamental crisis, are
not afraid Of a revolutionary solution The
United States was born in bloody revolution.
Even the I%spublcan Party was born in a minor
revolutionary change, the abolition Of chattel
slavery which cost four years of Civil War
The crisis of 1882 is much more far-reaching,
more fundamental than the crises of 1776 and
1861 Already this crisis has cut away two-thirds
Of the means Of life Of the workers and farmers.