The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-11
Before the Conventions of Our Enemies
Left" Proposals at the Socialist Party Convention
By ]. STACHEL.

to naught as Algernon Lee proclaimed the teach
ings Of Marx which were applicable ito an earlier
period" Together with the Hoovers and Mel
lons-the Buffers, and the Chases, the HillquitS
and Thomases spoke about the temporary"
character of the present crisis. They predicted
with Hoover that soon it will be over. And Jay
Lovestone also saw the crisis just result of
some bad handling of things In Wall Street, but
that capitalism was basically sound and still ION
the upgrade" But again things did not happen
as the socialists wanted. The crisis grew worse.
and it is still growing worse. The attacks on
the masses increased and are still increasing.
The Communist Party and the revolutionary
trade movement placed itself at the head of the
growing struggles of the masses March 9Th,
1880, when over million of unemployed dem
onStrated under the leadership of the Con11nu-
mist Party, showed to the capitalists the danger.
1t showed that the socialist party, in order to
fulfill its tasks the main social support of the
capitalists must change it's Zine" in order to be
able to block the growth of the revolutionary
movement in order to be able to do it's share
in trying to save the capitalism system finer
division of labor between the open parties of
capitalism and the socialist party the third party
of capitalism, became necessary.
left" Socialists Are Old Betrayers
This explains the new songs in the socialist
party. But they are being sung by the same
treacherous chorus. And with the same aims to
drug the working class into passivity. new
"group" has been formed in the socialist party
known as the "rnilitants." These "militants"
are the ministers and intellectuals, middle class
elements that in 1928 and 1929 led in the praise
of organized capitalism and "class peace 1t is
hoy uyhn uar he lilac nf tha oy1d n
plans, of labor banking, of harmony between
capital and labor. 1t is they who formed the
bridge and worked for the conversion of the
socialist party into an open liberal party And
1t is these gentlemen who are now the spear
head in the socialist party for new deal"
for change of Zine" 1t is because these
gentlemen are more conscious in their role of
stopping the growth of the Communist move
ment and because they are not tied by their
immediate interests to the ALL. bureaucracy
as are the Hillquits, Waldmans, Pankens, and
Karlins, that they can best carry out the Id
vision of labor given to them by the capitalist
class.
Deeper Crisis More left" Phrases
These gentlemen the "rnilitants" have come
forward with program of their own for the
coming socialist party convention There will
appear III Ddly WOTkeT d nuIuDeT OIL az
ticles dealing with the left proposals of the
''mlitants' on such questions as trade union
policy, Soviet Union, war etc. In a subsequent
article I shall deal with their proposals about
unity" Here wish to merely deal with the
attitude towards the class struggle And on
this fundamental question there is agreement in
the socialist party. In the DECLARATION OF
PRINCIPLES issued by the socialist party we
find that the socialist party in the name of
Hillqut, Oneal and Ladder states that "the So
cialist movement grows out of the revolutionary
class struggle" And further, "the more capt.
talism develops the does it demonstrate
its unfitness to serve general human interests
What happened to the writings of 1923 and 1929
that the class struggle theory has proven false
in the face of a new capitalism that brings
greater and greater benefits to all including the
toiling masses. OF course, one should not ask
such embarrassing questions OF the Hilquits and
Thoznases But 1t is exactly this question that
the workers must ask 1t is exactly that taking
out and putting in" the class struggle that I'M
masks the role of the socialists as the main
social support of the capitalists, II is the ct
ttude TO the class struggle that tnllc.-ts5 .i:o
socialists as the agents OF the bosses in the
ranks of the working class whom they are now
trying to nislead in order to help the capital
lists to carry through their program OF hunger,
tsgym and anpesaaliSs paz : =
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