The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-05-14

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have unlimited faith in the strength
of American capitalism Lovestone
spoke Of the Victorian age OF Amer
lean capitalism. That is, compar-
ing American capitalism with the
period of British capitalism when it
enjoyed unchallenged monopoly on
the world market. and when the
British working class was in its
most conservative period of history.
But is there anyone today who
would still dare openly to sing the
/ praises Of the strength and power
Of American capitalism as was done
few years ago? The present crisis
dealt body blow to the theories of
the stability Of capitalism and
American exceptionalism, theories
which attempt to replace Marxism
with liberal Socialism" and organ-
lied capitalism, and to substitute
Ford for Marx.
Now more than ever the teach
ings of Marx and Lenin must be-
come the torch light for the strug-
gle Of the workers against the
offensive of the bourgeoisie. It is
on the basis of a strict MARKHAM
feminist analysis that the Conmu-
mist International, with penetrating
wisdom and BolShevik foresight,
told our Party at the beginning of
, 1929:
With Clistinetness unpreca-
dented in history, American capital
ism is exhibiting now the effects OF
the memorable laws of capitalist de-
velopment, the laws OF decline and
downfall of capitalist society"
tFrom the opening address of the
G. -
This analysis of the C. L, which
is now strikingly confirmed gives
our Party a leading historical role.
Marx and iEngels studied with
great interest the specific features
which at the time made the Ameri-
can working class move slower and
not act as an independent class in
comparison with European workers.
They therefore carried on a sharp
fight against those elements in the
United States who, while processing
to be Msrxists, were sectarian and
separated from the American labor
movement.
Marx in letter written Noven-
Der %, 1871, to a member of the
New York. Provisional Federal Coun-
Gil of the First International spoke
Of the need to put an end to all
sectarian and amateur groups and
in case of need to expel them"
EngelS spoke up very sharply against
those who in the American labor
movement ''have not been able to
use their theory as a lever to set
the American masses in motion"
against those for whom theory is
"credo, not guide for action"
Now that the American working
class, with the changed situation Of
American capitalism, lis beginning
to play leading revolutionary role
in the international working class
movement, we must free ourselves
from the old sectarian traditions.
To the extent that we free ourselves
from these traditions, to the extent
that we use theory as a lever for
setting the masses in motion, TO
that extent will we fulfill the role
as Marxist-Leninists, as the leaders
of the American working class.
Engels and Marx already foresaw
the severity land sharpness Of the
class struggle in the United States.
Engels said:
Nowhere in the whole world are
they so brazen-faced and tyrannical
as over there (America) where the
battle is fought by the borugeoisie
with such weapons that decisions
arrive quickly"
In order to meet these decisions,
which arrive quickly, our Party
must merge itself with the masses,
arm itself with the theory of Marx
and IRnin. so that in the shortest