Montana labor news., 1932-12-15
NEED FOR RADICAL
PRESS is SHOWN


4hdiNioH PiiiiooOphy Nltiout dScepJ-
ing it as revelation from high, which
neither time nor tide can change.
SECOND, approach my task from
the viewpoint that whatever is worth
saying should be said so plainly that
most everybody will understand it.
THIRD, knowing that all of us
are the creatures of an environment
over which we have no control, I
avoid offending those who see with
different eyes, and if wrath there
be, let it be the holy wrath against
the things that warp mans mind.
FOURTH, instead of looking for
fine points for disagreeing with
those nearest to me, | lay stress on
the broad basis on which we can
agree. This mean specifically that
if any red-baiting is done, there are
enough red-baiters without me join
ing the pack.
FIFTH, knowing hat even a Bos-
ton drummer couldn't sell a bale Of
hay to a hungry bull if it was
wrapped in a red flag, and that, as
a general principle, there is no better
sales argument than a smiling face,
| prefer humorous and good-natured
ridicule to red flags and harpoons.
Besides, | can't help Il.
SIXTH, l believe that in a country
whose people still labor under the
delusion that kicking empty-headed
politicians around will change the
course of economic evolution, there
is room for ten times as many radi-
cal journals with ten times the cir
culation our papers now have. | also
have a bunch that to secure such
mass circulation will require papers
of many types and many different
manners of approach. SO here's my
blessing to all Of We who are sin
cerely trying to spread the gospel in
accordance with the lights within We,
and may the best lights serve the
most.
SEVENTH, | am persuaded that
the European social movements
offer little guidance for an Ameri-
can social movement, unless it be
to supply it with a few horrible
examples Illustrating the deaden-
ing influence of refOrmism and
Misunderstanding, which have re-
duced a number of European social
movements to mere nursemaids of
dying Capitalism.
EIGHTH, | am increasingly per-
suaded that Capitalism is on its
death-bed and that the end will be
rather catastrophe than peaceful.
Hence, my for palliatives
and the stressing of ideas that may
aid in the rebuilding of a new society.
NINTH, / am and always have
been heart and soul with the Russian
masses in their heroic struggle to
reconstruct their national life on
the divine plan Of one for all and
all for each, and | rejoice in their
achievement. However, until con-
WINGED otherwise, I shall stick to
the conception that revolutions are
not subject to expectation and i'm
p~ortation.
TENTH, / am convinced that the
will for change which so dras-
tically though blindIy expressed
itself in the vicious assault on
Capitalism as p~ersonified by Her
bert Hoover must sooner or later
express itself in a mass assault
upon the capitalist system itself.
How soon that mass assault viii
mdterialize | do not know. But
this know:
If when it comes, the masses are
no better prepared for their his
toric mission than they are now,
the result can only be chaos. And
the work of preparing the masses
for the great change is first and
last the task of the collectivist press
for the only workable, nay the
only thinkable alternative for Cap
italism is collectivism. Now get
busy gathering subscribers for what
ever radical collectivist paper suits
you the best.