The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-01
Statement OF Chicago District
c. p. on Techn0cracy

"The domination Of monopoly
capital, which, at the present day,
has brought under its sway al
most the whole economy of cap
italist society, makes il ex-
tremely difficult, in the conditions
of the general crisis of capital
ism, to overcome the economic
crisis in the way that was usual
for capitalism in the period of
free competition"
18th Plenum I5hf SIS
THIS means that the bourgeoisie
will use all of its agencies, and
especially its main social base, the
social-faseists, as well as fascists,
to maintain the bourgeois dictator
ship. The declarations of the tech
nocrats see the chief reasons of
unemployment in rapid advance of
technique, aiming, under the cloak
of anti-capitalist phTaseology to
throw confusion in the ranks of the
workers, create illusions that the
employment question can be solved
and change" can be made under
capitalism.
DENIES ROLE OF
WORKING CLASS
Technocracy is a bourgeois ultra
reactionary scheme which denies
the class struggle and the historical
role of the working class. BY the
constant cry about the collapse of
the price system" they decry all
forms of struggle for insurance and
relief and attempt to paralyze the
struggle of the working class.
The 18th Plenum of the Central
Committee sharply calls attention
to the unprecedented wave of
bourgeois demagogy sweeping the
country designed to tie the masses
TO the bourgeois politicians. The
technocrats are a typical example.
Technocracy, with its anti-capi-
talist phraseology, its denial Of
class struggle. contains elements Of
fascism, peculiar to the American
situation. And the American So
cial-fascistS are not behind their
International brothers i'll paving the
way for fascism. In speaking of
Technocracy, the Milwaukee Lead
err" of Friday. Dec. IL, 1882, states:
For the Socialist, democracy
and the work of the technocrats
now can become the text book
brought up TO date from which
to preach the socialist gospel of
the fullest life that we are now
told by these scientists must
come or hopeless disaster take
its place"
And again, Victor Olander, Sec
rotary of the Illinois Federation of
Labor, states:
"Technocracy echoes the age
long cry of the working people"
Lost as they are in the jungle
of capitalist contradictions and in
the anarchy of capitalist produc-
ton, they hang on to every straw.
SOVIET UNION
SHOWS THE WAY.
The victory of socialism in the
Soviet Union, the tremendous
growth of industry, the elimination
Of unemployment, the raise in the
material and cultural level of the
masses, based on planned socialist
economy, has shown the way out
of the economic crisis of capitalism
TO the world working class, and
struck a defeating blow to capital
list economy.
The tremendous enthusiasm
shown by the masses in the capt.
talist countries to the victories of
socialist economy has led the bour-
geois economists to say that planned
economy is also possible under
capitalism, in order to delude the
masses and keep them from the
revolutionary struggles for the way
out. All the proposed plans to
regenerate capitalism with a dose
Of planned economy beginning
with Chase and Swope, have been
smashed on the rocks of capitalist
contradictions.
The entire parasitic nature of
monopoly capitalism, which feeds
on profit on the backs Of the work.
ers and on the swallowing up Of
the smaller enterprises, cannot ex-
list without profit and war. Capt.
talisG economy is just the opposite
of planned economy. only the
abolition of the capitalist system
can guarantee planned economy, as
was SO concluSiVely proven in the
U. S. S. r. AS Engels said: