The daily worker., 1932-06-06

the eVer-deepening crisis of decaying capitalism.
Ir other words, patience and a surrender OF
struggle. Capitalism, DR.. Du Bos admits, is in
grave difficulties: "the world is ILL.," Therefore
a truce with the capitalist enemy of the working
class and the Negro masses Thus does Dr.
Du Bois support and defend the capitalists and
their brutal oppression and persecution of the
Negro masses, while paying lip service to the
Negro liberation struggle.
Untouched by Misery of Negro Masses
DR.. Du Bois advances the brilliant argument
that the Negro masses are turning to Comnlu-
nsm because they are ruled by emotion Him
self unmoved i'll the presence of the terrific
sufferings of the Negro masses, he refuses to
conceive of any logic in lie growing struggles of
the Negro masses, n their increasing recognition
that the revolutionary struggle offers the only
way out of their misery and oppression He
states:
ut is manifest, however, that the main
appeal of communism to the American Negro
far, is emotional rather than logical Com
munists are suffering with the Negroes and
even going to jail
And, he further argues, the question of the
ruthless oppression of the Negro masses, the
question of Negro liberation, must be solved not
by emotion but by thought study and expert
ment" In other words, patience and boot
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The suffering masses must display the patience
of humility. They must not show any initiative
of their own. They must not resist the grow
ing terror and hunger offensive of the Bosses
They must not think of mass action in alliance
with the white workers. They must leave their
salvation TO the Negro bourgeoisie, whose
record of betrayal "stinks to high heaven"
He says:
after ALL our problems are not to be solved
by emotions but by deep concerted intelligence"
Wants Patience in the Face of Increasing
Persecution
This formulation of the question is typical
formulation of a bourgeois intellectual The
elegant DR.. Du Bois has no emotions on the
suffering and misery and brutal persecution of
the Negro masses. In the face of the rising
lynch terror Of the growing legal lynchings in
the courts, of frightful suffering and misery
among the unemployed and part-time Negro
workers and ruined farmers, DR.. Du Bois ad-
vances patience as the primary need of the
hour. Patience and study only-for the starving
tens of thousands of Negro workers Patience
and study for the impoverished and ruined Negro
farmers, for the enslaved Negro croppers and
poems Patie-- and study, sitting of
their emotions-their resentment-aga the
sharpening lynch terror in and cut of the capi-
talist courts. Patience and study and a crush
attempts of the lynch courts to legally massacre
the nine innocent Scottsboro boys; patience in
the face of similar lynch frameups all over the
country: Orphan Jones (Maryland), Willie
Brown (Philadelphia), Willie Peterson (Birming-
ham, Ala.), etc.
Patience and sitting of resentment in the
face of the bloody attack by white landowners
and their police on Negro croppers at Camp Hill.
Ala, organlsir" against starS IL the murder
by Cleveland and Chicago police, acting under
the orders of white and Negro landlords and the
them and sentences them to starvation They
protesting against evictions. In the face of all
this, DR.. Du Bois calls COR patience and study as
the primary need of the hour.
OF course study. The Negro masses must
study the economic basis of their oppression
They must learn the reasons for their murderous
oppression by the capitalists. They must study
the trcitcrous role of the Negro bourgeoisie and
other white and Negro agents and apologists for
the system which robs, persecutcs and opprssses
the and entences them to starveto, They
mist 'erstard '',e Jim Crow base Of the Negro
bourgeoisie to find the selfish croft motive for
the traitorous policy of the Negro bourgeoisie.
Te Gives Capitalism Clean slate -..;,
Dr. Du Bois offers course of reading. And
whose works does he propose The writings
Of the. social-fascists and other enemies Of the
wordng-cla Negro and wlite. He brings In