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real wages; the limitation Of grain
production along with famine for
more than twelve million persons
is all that the transition to So
cialism?"
We could ask many more such
questions. We will not ask how to
reconcile this democratic socialism
with the introduction of socialism
by means Of law which increases
executive power while reducing that
of Congress. The important thing
in this connection is particularly to
underline the fact that, according
to the Times" Roosevelt himself
has a panic fear of what will happen
if, through infFtion, two billions are
thrown into circulation; and to
underline also the fact that the stock
market crashes in the United States
show Roosevelt'S political economy
in a very doubtful light.
America on Road to Fascism
But what must certainly be men
toned as the characteristic of the
economic analysis which forms the
basis of the Paris conference, is Mus
solini's estimate of Roosevelt's policy
The leader of italian Fascism, in
an article entitled, THE United States
on the Road to Fascism," which has
appeared in dozens of bourgeois
papers, describes Roosevelt's political
economy as follows:
"The question has already arisen
in Europe and in America, as to
how far Fascist influence is to be
found in the ideas and the prac-
tical measures of the American
president. 1t is not necessary to go
far for this. 1t is a common prin-
ciple of Fascism that the state
must not be Indifferent to the fate
of economy, which would be the
same as indifference to the fate
of the people In Roosevelt's book
Choking Forward") we find ref
erences to the necessity of the
collaboration of all factors in pro-
duction, which makes us think of
the basis of the Fascist cooperative
state"
Socialists and Fascists Claim
Roosevelt
Why go back over the labors OF
Hilferding, over the speeches OF
Jouhaux over the sessions of the In
ternational Labor Bureau, where one
can find ideas on the role of the
capitalist stage in economy which
are as like Mussolinis affirmations
as one drop of water is to another?
Let us content ourselves with max
ing clear that the "Arbeiter Zeitung'
(The Vienna Socialist paper does
not find complete socialism" in
Roosevelt's system, while Mussolini
thinks that this system still lacks a
good deal before it can be considered
to be complete Fascism."
1.-THE atmosphere in which his sys-
tenn is developing, both in theory
and in practice" writes Mussolini
'is surely analogous to the atmo-
sphere of Fascism, but it would be
an exaggaration to say more"
Is there an irreconcilable contra
diction between the Social Demo
cratic Christopher Columbus and the
Fascist Mussolini, in their manner
Of estimating Roosevelt's political
economy?
Not the slightest!
Ter when he declared that what is
tradiction was already given by Hit
The key to the solution of this con-
known as Fascism in Italy is known
in Germany by the name of National
Socialism. What is common to both
continues Hitler. is that they are
! anti MarXist.
Socialism without Marxists," "de-
feat Of liberal capitalism without a
class struggle" these are the slogans
of the German National Socialists
the slogans OF Hitler, Goering, and