The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-04-08

the HeichStag election in 1890, At the ReichStaQ
elections it was a case Of an ordinary ParIia-
mentary election, choice between the program
OF the political parties struggling for power Now
however, 1t was not only question of voting
for the Communist Party, but also thereby rec
ognizing that the main buttress of the bo1r-
geoisie and the chief alder Of the fascist terror
is the social democracy; that fascism and social
fascism are twins In this election it requires
much greater class consciousness of the worker.
to vote Communist than it did at the Reich
stag election.
II we survey the whole period which has
elapsed since the presidential election in 1926
IL became evident that we can only compare the
present elections with the referendum which
was held in Prussia on August 8, 1881 where it
was likewise question of the fight against the
social democracy as the social support of the
dictatorship of the bourgeoisie. Viewed from
this standpoint the Communist Party of Ger
many has achieved great success in rallying
round it five million electors who are ready,
unoer any conditions, to proceed against the
bourgeois front in its entirety, and who are
aware that the social democracy is the main
social buttress OF the bourgeois order and that
unless it is shattered there can be no successful
proletarian revolution
AT the election on March IS the Fsfndenburg
'front.' received fewer votes than at the. Reich
stag elections, but in addition to the consolida-
ton OF the position of the Communists the cleo
tons have also resulted in an enormous increase
In the number Of votes cast for the open fascist
party, the national socialists There is no doubt
Gnat not only petty bourgeois and peasant masses
voted Tor the national socialists but even certain
sections OF the unemployed and groups of back
Waro workers who have been disappointed BY
NO1ia Nf &I,ar
present system. These masses of petty bour-
geolSie peasants employees officials and unenl-
ployed still believe today that the national So
cialists constitute the force which can change
the existing system but they do not understand
that these changes will be directed against them
selves and against their own interests
The political and tactical line of the G. P. Of
Germany was the only line corresponding to the
interests Of the working class. BY continuing
this line the Communists will stT more dras-
ideally expose the social democracy as the social
support OF the bourgeoiSie, by showing to the
masses the whole danger of the liberal contrast
ing Of the social democracy with the national
socialists, and exposing the policy of the lesser
evil. The Communists are the only worthy or
ganizers Of the fight against the fascist dicta-
torship.
The masses must come to realize in the actual
fights led by the CPG that it is not question
OF contrasting the national socialists with the
social democracy but that it is a question of
either the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie (Which
includes the national socialists and the social
democracy or the dictatorship of the proletariat
The Communists are clearly aware that the
success Of the Nazis in the village and among
the petty bourgeois strata in the town was pos
sible only because Communist agitation among
fIaeN 3D. zAsY -
the Communists have not yet proceeded to real
and serious work among these masses of toilers
The Communists are equally aware that the
fact that the social democracy at the first bal
lot, have succeeded in retaining the main cadres
of their electors is sign that the Party had
not carried on sufficient work to expose social
fascisn, its preparations for a new war and
intervention and It's theory of the lesser evil"
The Communists are aware that this is likewise
the result OF insufficient work by the Party in
rousing class struggles against the dictatorship
OF bourgeoisie. The Communists do not con-
slider 1t necessary to make great outcry over
their success. They have no reason to under
estimate the Importance of the five million pro-
letarian votes which we're cast for Comrade
Thaelmann against fascism and against the So
cial democracy, for the dictatorship of the pro-
letariat.
The Party will achieve further successes in
mobiizing the workers Of Germany for the pro-
letarian revolution by developing the political
and economic fight against wage cuts and re-
duction Of unemployment benefit, against the
emergency DEGREES Of the Bruening- Hndenburg
government, against the preparations for new
imperiast war and Intervention against the
carrying out of the fascist dictatorship in Ger
many and for the establishment OF the power
Of the exploited class.