The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-08

TINE following article presents
an analysis of the driving forces
behind the present stirring events
in Germany. 1t is taken from
No. 20 of the Communist Inter
national" official organ of the
Executive Committee of the C. l.,
where it appeared under the title,
'The Communist Party of Ger
many Takes the Offensive.")
THE revolutionary crisis in Ger
L many is maturing with ever
increasing rapidity.
Under the leadership of the
Communist Party the German pro-
letariat has responded with the
hammer blow of the mighty wave
of the anti-faScist united front
against the bloody excuses of Ma
tional Socialism, for which Ger
man social-democracy had carefully
prepared the way. With the blows
OF the daily growing mass strike
struggles and the general strike of
the transport workers in the four
million capital, the German work
ers have answered the bandit decree
of the fascist government of Won
Papen. On the 18th anniversary
of the proletarian dictatorship in
the U. S. S. r., the German work
erS replied to the fascist dictator
ship, and the whole camp of the
capitalist way out of the crisis with
six million votes for Communism.
The XII. Plenum of the E. C.
G. l., and the Conference Of the
Communist Party of Germany
which followed it, set forth clear
Bolshevik perspectives for the de-
velopment of the proletarian revo-
luton in Germany. The fascist
dictatorship, which was established
in Germany after July Goth, is
attempting to rally the forces of
counter-revolution Utilizing the
wave of chauvinism to slur the
acuteness of class antagonisms, it
is striving, by its policy Of imperi-
alist aggression, to create the
illusion of real struggle against
the Versailles System, and thus
harness the masses of the petty
bourgeoisie, duped by National
Socialism, and frenzied by the
agonieS of the crisis, to the chariot
of German imperialism. While
furiously striking at the standard of
living Of the working masses, the
fascist government of Won Papen is
attempting to unite agrarian and
industrial capital by giving them
SopS in return-subsidies of billions
to industrial capital, and the famous
policy of "autarchy" Economic au-
tonomy or exclusivenesS.-Ed) in
order to create the illusion that
the capitalist crisis is really be-
ginning to be conquered, and in
this way, chain the toiling masses
of Germany to the chariot of the
capitalist system.
CRISIS DEEPER
But these attempts to rally the
forces of counter-revolution are be-
ing brought to nought by the ever
more rapid tempo of the growing
wave of the revolutionary upSurge.
The period OF the optimistic proph-
ecleS OF the German bourgeoisie's
summer has come to an end. No one
in Germany forecasts any alleVia-
ton of the economic crisis what
ever. The crisis is growing Spon-
taneously. And no one is able to
stop the growing discomfort ard
Indignation of the workers against
the bourgeoisie and its fascist gov
eminent. This is the essence of
the situation. Only opportunists.
who deny the class struggle OF
those who, like social-democracy,
are consciously working for cap
italist way out of the crisis, can
ignore this, or deliberately main
tain silence on it. The XII Plenum
of the E. G. G. I. and the Party
Conference Of the Communist Party
Of Germany opposed q Bolshevik
resistance to this opportunist de-
featlst theory, which directly re-
fleets the influence of social
fascism, namely, that the out.
standing feature In, the modern
development of the class struggle,
firstly in Germany, are the vic
tories" of counter-reyolution, and
the defeats" of the working class
and its Communist vanguard. The
important historical declaration of
the XII Plenum of the E. G. c. I.
on the end of the relative stabili-
cation Of capitalism. Theses and
Resolution XII PIenum e. G. G. ~
especially with regard to Germany,
where the processes indicating the
end of capitalist Sterilization, have
gone further than in other big cap
itaHst countries, was made pre-