The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-01-11
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Sunday Magazine Section
Fascism

Many workers are not aware perhaps, that tho
colorfm pages Of the magazine sections Of the
capitalist papers appear in scores Of other papers
In other cities in the exact duplicate OF the one
they read. They are gotten up wholesale and thu
local dope sheets gets them from syndicstes
fiction, romance, tall tales, everything.
In recent number Of this sort OF garbaa6A
an article by the famous romancer Rafael
Sapatini appeared, calling for "a Great Man"
Periods Of great strife and great national
upheavaI demand the appearance Of heroes
romantic figures" says Sabatini and he pro-
ceeds to enumarate the qualities necessary: "He
must be willing to live dangerously He must
nave sense of drama. He must be strong and
handsome. He must have flair for life, vigor,
commanding presence" and so on I
Such preposterous nonsense! Yes certainYv 4
But nonsense is the only sense bourgeois Knows
10 bourgeois the masses are but dust to bA
troooen on; but the stairs by which the "gres&
man mounts to command. And the bourgeois
bewiidered by the falling pillars of his bourgeois
world, especially in a crisis prays for saviour,
nero, TO appear and redeem the bourgeois world
from revolution by these masses.
This fts nicely Into the plans OF Sascism.
which always has at hand some Mussolini or
Hitler TO offer as THE GREAT MAN, No man
OF course, Is or can be separated from the class
interests he represents. Essentially. therefore
Sabat1n1s nonsense is not accidental but a rec
Election OF and propaganda Tor, fascism the
capitalist dictatorship in its open ruthless form
against the rising revolutionary masses.
The revolutionary movement produces great
men; but they are great only because they ara
part of the mass, bone OF It's bone
ana hesh OF its flesh. Their strength and great.
ness is their mass support; their class and the
TACT that they are inseperable from it. And
taey lose that greatness and that strength the
moment they assume the qualities which the
bourgeois great man" esteems as virtues.
The Communist Party ACQUIRES influence and
strength because it maintains itself as a part.
the most conscious farseeing, courageous and
take note-sef sacrificing part-but a part of
the to1I1ng masses Representing the wide
masses as it does the Party rightly assumes the
role Of leader which the bourgeois can cons
ceive only as "a great man. The workers who
come to the Party look to it, to the whole PARTY
as living entity and not to this or that person.
atty, however worthy as their leader.
The Party leader must of necessity hold the
same attitude toward the masses as does the
Party as whole. Because the masses hold the
Party responsible for what the leader says ana
does. And the leader, just as the Party, learns
from the masses. Whenever leader gets what
Comrade Stain calls that "yie disease" g fear
OF or d1strust OF the masses, it usually appears
IN the form OF just such attitudes toward the
workers as the bourgeois Sabatni halls as virtues
OF great man." Every Party functionary who
conducts himself or herself as bureaucrat who
cherishes his or her eyes, the females tooD
dignity above the demands OF the Party policy
that necessarily must harmonic with the re-
volutionary will OF the masses, is patternine
himself or herself after bourgeois great men"
and not after the real leaders Of the revolution.
In Short he is detiling himself with fascist ten
denotes rather than developing as a bolshevik,