The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-11-21
Soviet Recognition and the
Capitalist Press
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slavery.
In destroying all State support Of religion, the
Soviet Government has done, in actuaty, what many
of the capitalist countries where socaned religious
liberty exists, will not do. Even in those capitalist
"democracies' where the government is supposed to
be free from religious bias the State power has myads
of invisible connections with the organizations Of the
church. and the government fosters religion
weapon for the preservation Of capitalist exploitation
The only persecution" against religion that took place
was against those priests who under the cloak Of
hgion organized and plotted counter-revolutonary
lions against the Soviet Union.
THE SOVIET UNION guarantees religious liberty to
all individuals. But it makes not the slightest
pretense that it encourages organized religion. 1t
makes not the slightest pretenSe Of conceang that it
has, and will continue to, vigorously combat religion,
through that forcefu suppression and cruelty that
has characterized the history of organized religions
in the history of the western world but through the
irresistible weapons of education scientific enlighten
ment and through the abolition of those social roots
of hunger misery suffering and insecurity in which
religion grows.
There is more than historic irony in the fact that
the President Of the United States should show such
concern religious liberty in the Soviet Union, while
this country remarkable for the bigotry and
tolerance of its religious groups The fundamentaism
of the Tennessee legislature which prohibits teaching
of evolution in the schools the anti-catholic hatred
and fauatcism of the Ku Klux Khan the century-old
religious intolerance of the catholic church, the IL
known and widespread anti-semtism throughout the
country the adherence in which avowed atheists are
held in the highest seats of learning all make
Poosevets worry about religious liberty exceedingly
artificial
The editorial in all the scripps- Howard papers
cannot help but admit:
"The guarantees given by Russia for religious
freedom and legal justice to Americans in Russia
not Such rights of aliens have long been pro-
tected by Russian laws treaties"
m THE QUESTION Of propaganda" the capitalist
press has tried to look particularly triumphant in
its ubilaton pretending that here the Soviet Govern
mens mas finally surrendered one Of its most vital
points They point with pride to the victory" of get
ting IitvnoT to agree to the four articles prop
Uganda"
Unfortunately for the deception with which the
capitalist press is trying to blind the American
the crisis which forced the to recogni-
ton every single Of these articles, in form
other has been part of the numerous recognition
pacts that the Soviet Government has signed during
the last ten years with the leading powers Of Europe
Far from being the concessions" forced from
reluctant Soviet Government, the Soviet Government
willing and offered to sign such articles with all
capitalist countries.
The editorial in the World Telegram on the pact
states this obvious fact:
1.-THE pledge which Russia now gives to refrain
from propaganda is the pledge she has been
willing to give for several years. Those Americans
who have been under the misapprehension that Rus
STA has been Substituting subversive propaganda in
this country will doubtless think that rs an i'm
pOrtant victory for But the fact to be that
there are Americans trying to overthrow the
Soviet Government than there Russians who are
ment, -"
The question of Soviet Government propaganda"
has been from the beginning the favorite DOGGY of
capitalist governments with which incite interven-
ton and against the Soviet Union or to break
off relations with it.
IT REMAINED for the representative Of the Social
list" Jewish Daily Forward to set the tone for the
attempted batting OF Ltvinof the question Of the
relation of the Soviet Government to the Communist
Parties and the Third International, by saying
isn't true that the Communist Party of the
United States insists in speaking in the Of Mos
cow"
1t was then that Litvinor drove him back in.o
silence and humiliation by giving the sharp, un-
mistakeable reply:
Il must profess ignorance The Communist
Party of Russia does not concern America and the
Communist Party Of the United States does not con-
Russia. ="
But the New York Times deliberately twisted this
to read:
THE Communist Party OF Russia is not concerned
with the Communist Party Of the United States
and the Communist Party OF the United States is
not concerned with the Communist Party of Russia"
What the purpose behind the question of the
socialist" journalist? What the purpose behind
the deliberate distortion Of the New York Times?
The Socialist" journalist following the lead of the
Socialist officials tried to intimate that the recogni-
ton Of the Soviet Union the breakdown OF the
Communist International revolutionary organiza-
ton He tried to intimate that the Soviet Government
and the International are and the same.
The capitalist Times tries to deceive the masses by
intimating that the recognition the breakdown
OF the revolutionary nternationalsm of the various
Communist Parties OF the world It tries to break
down the solidarity Of the workers of the world.
Both Of these "triumphs"--the Socialist" and the
capitalist--wll be Of small comfort to them