The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-01-09
Amter's Rebutta1.

Amtef'S EebuttaL
Ny opponent declares that there is an INSTINCT
among people for srnassing private property. This
is nonsense This ,eleWs that my opponent does
not know that olcen society was organized upon
a Communicate basis and only in the develop
ment of society, and particularly under capital.
ism. has the 5o-called instinct for private prop
erty been developed My opponent also does not
know the difference between state capitalism and
what is taking place in the Soviet Union Under
state capitalism the capitalists use the state for
the purpose Of organizing industry for their own
benefit. In the Soviet Union, the contrary, the
industries are controlled by the workers and
peasants and are operated through the govern
ment for the benefit OF the great masses OF the
workers and peasants. This is a rast difference
that my opponent does not understand whatever.
Squeeze Greater Profits
My opponent declares that the U. S. Govern
fnent could if it wished; wipe out unemployment
by appropriating IS billion dollars. We might ask
why the U. S. government does not do So On
December 7, when the Hunger Aarchers pre-
scented their demands before the u S, Congress,
they were rejected. On the same day, In his
message to Congress, Hoover declared himself
against anyS@Ad of relief and insurance. But
even if the E|S. Government did appropriate
this sum, this could not end unemployment for
unemployment is a part of the entire capitalist
system owing to the increasing prc sctive ca
pacity of industry above H. - ing power Of
the masses. The speed-up l--ethods on the job
and the introduction of new machinery throw
masses of workers out OF job every year, and
this, together with the increasing productive
capacity, faces capitalist industry with prob
lem that 1t can never solve Only when the
workers and peasants take over government and
plan production, can unemployment be put an
end TO- as has been done in the Soviet Union
My opponent Is very much excited about de-
mocracy in the Soviet Union, which is the only
genuine democracy in the world, based upon the
masses Of workers in the shops and the peasants
on the land and is expressed through the So
VETS would refer her, however, to the de
mocracy" in the U. S. Democracy In the U. S.
is fake. How can one talk about democracy
when Mooney and Billings have been languish-
Ing in prison for Is years on the basis OF o
frame-up? How one talk about democracy
when the nine Scottsboro Negro boys face elec-
Tecuton on one of the vilest frame-ups In his
tory? How can one talk about democracy when
injunctionS are used against the workers when
police smash the heads of the workers on picket
lines and at demonstrations Who can talk about
democracy when miners in Kentucky are shot
down in cold blood for fighting against the feu-
dial conditions in Kentucky? Who can talk about
to starve? How can one talk about democracy
when the foreign-b born are terrorized In order to
force them to accept the role Of strike-breakers
when Negro workers tenant farmers and share
choppers are kept in state Of slavery?
Fish's Democracy.
This is the great democracy that Matthew
Vol, Hamilton Fish, the Socialist Party and the
A. F. L. leaders boast about but it is capitalist
dictatorship that expresses ITSELF and the workers
are beginning to understand it, as the workers in
Russia understood it when they overthrew the
government that represented this so-called de-
roocracy
My opponent speaks against the leadership Of
the Communist Party Of the Soviet Union and
especially aSsails Comrade Stain the leader OF
the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and
the leader Of the Communist International. The
workers OF Germany are now passing through taa
bitterest struggles and are looking to the Com
mulist Party for leadership. The masses Of China
organized 30 million strong under the Soviets OF
China, recognize only the Communist leadership
In India, the masses are in movement and are
rapidly moving in the direction of the Conmu-
mist Party, for it is only the Communist Party
throughout the world and the Communist Inter
rational that are leading the workers and peas
ants IN struggle against the crisis and against
the whole syste moi capitalism.
Communism Advances.
What is being expressed here Is the fear and
hatred OF the capitalists of the development Of
the Five-Year Plan in the Soviet Union. They
Know that it is struggle today between indi-
vidualism and Communism as Hoover says and
therefore in the hope of being able to stop the
completion Of the Five-Year Plan, the imperial
lists are organizing war against the Soviet Union.
The revolutionary movement cannot be stopped
On the contrary, it is developing at the mosl
rapid pace in Germany, Poland, China India and
VIII engulf the whole world including the United
states, which can only result in the destruction
OF capitalism and the establishment OF Soviet
governments Through the world and a world
Soviet Unio1 the transitional step to Com