The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-11

IN the year 1928 the socialist party at its ma
tional convention decided to officially sub
stitute Ford for Marx and took the class struggle
clauses out of its constitution. Hoover heralded
a new day-a day with Chicken in every pot
and two automobiles in every garage" Hillquit
Lee, Thomas and Co. decided that the class
struggle had become out of style side by side
of the chicken pot and the two auto garage. OF
course it did not all really happen so suddenly.
The class struggle which was burdening the
socialist party all these years in the constitution
did not really stop the socialist party and its
leaders from singing praises to organized capi-
talisnl" and fighting against the interests Of the
toiling masses. The socialist party which was
always dominated by an opportuniSt leadership
stopped being working class party with the
split that followed the war and the Russian
revolution with the crystalzation of the Com
munist Party in the U. S. A. after the split in
September, 1919, when in this country all the
revolutionary elements in the old socialist party
organized a section of the Communist Interna-
tional the International of Lenin. But until
1928 the socialist party leadership could not sum-
mon enough courage to openly declare that it
was the third party of capitalism. That it had
abandoned the path Of the class struggle and
the abolition of the capitalist system for a new
faith, faith in the permanency of capitalism,
the new" the organized capitalism" Of Ford
and Hoover. In the year 1928 and the early
part of 1929 the socialist party openly gave up
Marx whom they had vulgarized and betrayed
for years and adopted Hooverism and Fordism.
Crisis Exposes Socialists.
But history played trick on the socialist
party. Just at the moment when they had
openly proclaimed their new faith. the faith
which they had worshiped for a long time with
out getting full due, the capitalist system be-
came engulfed in what turned out to be the most
severe crisis in the history of capitalism Marx
says somewhere that the capitalist system just
behaves like that. That before a crisis it APP
pears to the naked eye to be more strong and ro-
bust than ever. And now we can see that the
severity of the crisis, the deepest economic crisis
in the history of capitalism taking place on the
background of the general crisis of capitalism
which set in with the world war and the Russian
Revolution, gave to the naked eye the appear
ance Of capitalism being more healthy, more
robust than ever in its history. 1t is thus that
all the economists publicists, professors, and all
sorts of apologists of capitalism from the Hoo
vers to the Hilquits and Thonlases got fooled.
For they could only view events with the naked
eye" But already in 1927 the leader Of the
Communist International, Comrade Stain, speak
ing before the 10th Russian Party Congress pre-
dicted that the events that were later clear to
the naked eye were on the way. The COM
nunist International and its leader, Con1rade
Stain, could forsee these events because it does
not view events with the naked eye" but is
armed with the powerful 'searchlight" of Marx
ism-Ieninism And all those who do not follow
in the path of Marxsm- Leninisnl, all those who
deviated from the path Of Marxism- Leninsm
could not but be exposed as fools by the devel-
opment Of events. Inside the Communist Party
there we're the Cannons and the Lovestones who
had become infected with the propaganda of
Hooversnl, the robustness of capitalism and thus
exposed themselves as foreign elements to the
Party of the proletariat and were expelled. Only
Marxism- Leninism is capable of analysing
these contradictions, only the proletariat has
the will to change the system of private property
and exploitation The socialist party not being
a party of the working class, the socialist party
not based ON the teachings of Marx and Lenin.
therefore could not but find itself the ques-
ton of the crisis, on al other questions, in
the camp of the bourgeoisie
Socialist Theory Of Temporary Crisis.
The socialist party found it very difficult to
admit this error AS did the socialists the
world over. They tried hard to hold ON to their
taeoy Of organised capitalism" which bad torn