The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-10

In the name of Marxism, they have
pursued a policy OF collaboration
and support of the bourgeois solu-
ton of the crisis at the expense
of the working class. In the name
of socialism they conduct a vehe-
ment attack against the Soviet
Union-the first living example Of
the teachings of Marxisnl-the first
living example of the actual build
ing of socialism. Thus, the New
Leader of December TO- 1882,
states:
THE article Tin the New York
Herald Tribune) is merely a re-
hash of the common misconcepa
tions of the failure of socialism
as evidenced by developments in
Soviet Russia, things that every
sound MARKHAM Socialist long ago
foretold--because Marxians un-
derstand historical forces"
Truly, the Socialists" have stated
this before. In Hillquit's book,
From Marx to Lenin, we have thia
gem:
ALNOAooiS w ga eACOCPtT0
MARKHAM tests, Russia was en-
tirely unprepared for a Socialist
revolution So long as the
Russian revolution was Viewed as
an integral part of a general
world wide rising of the working
class, it was possible to bring it
within the accepted MARKHAM
concept, but as an isolated event
it calls for new and different
theoretical foundation"
Thus, talk of Socialism is MARX
ian,' but the building of socialism
in the Soviet Union is ''un- Marx.
IAN" Through this means, the $50
cialist MarxistS" hope to prevent
the American workers from taking
up the cudgels against capitalism
and overthrowing the capitalist eX-
ploiters, as was done by the Rus
sian toilers. They hope to stifle
the growing movement of ever
wider sections Of the American
toilers for the revolutionary way
out of the crisis. This ''hope' Of
the socialists is expressed as an ex-
listing reality in the statements of
Norman Thomas in q speech made
at a convention OF the student
groups of the League for Industrial
Democracy in which he claimed
that already the faith in Russia as
solution had dwindled rapidly.
pUT LEST we believe that the
II Socialists are making round
about turn at the present time,
we have just to turn TO the columns
Of the World Tomorrow, the organ
which Norman Thomas helped TO
establish, and we can see exactly
what the socialist talk about Marx
ism means: The World Tomorrow
of December z, 1882, in an article
by Joseph Earnest McAfee states:
"One of the reasons why Marx
ism has made such little progress
i'll American thought and life is
that Marxism demands the up
rising and domination of the
proletariat, whereas there is no
proletariat in America" (Going
even further than the Techno-
Gratis, who claim that there is
no use to consider the working
class since it is disappearing.
B.G.).
The Socialists are not alone. Re-
visioniStS and distorterS of Marx
ism are cropping up, particularly
during the last period, with their
fI9aArfng IN SIxnt KA~ t.
un-American and not applicable to
American soil. All sorts of schemes
of planned economy are proposed
as a means OF creating Illusions Of
the possibilities Of planning under
capitalism Technocracy, the latest
theory" of the capitalist class,
while seeming TO attack capitalism,
in actuality seeks to re-establisfi
the waning confidence of the i'm
poyeriShed toilers in capitalism as
why out.
IT rs against this denagogy and
j particularly, social fascist theo-
ries and betrayals couched in
MARKHAM phrases, that we must dis
rect our main blows today, If we
are to win the masses OF American
toilers for more decisive revolution
airy struggles. The strategy and
tactics of Marxism and Leninisnl
were hammered out in the struggle
against all opportunists and dis
torters of revolutionary theory and
practice. Already in 1850 Marx
wrote in the Neue Rheinische lei.
tung:
Our task must be unsparing
criticism directed even more
against our self-styied friends
than against our declared enc
mics. Since this is our attitude
we shall gladly renOunce the en-
joyInent of q cheap democratic
popularity
FOR THE STUDY
OF MARXISM-LENINlS
The need for the study of Marx.
ism and LeniniSm is greater TODAY
than ever before. 1t is necessary
for The working class, and particu-
larry its vanguard, the Communist
Party, to arm itself with revolu-
tionary theory, to enable 1t to car
ny through successfully the struggle
against capitalism. 1t is necessary
to expose and combat more ruth.
lessly than ever before all alien
bourgeois ideologies which penet.
rate the ranks of the workers and
which hinder its rapid develop.
ment into conscious revolutionary
force. 1T is necessary to create in
the proletariat the consciousness
of its needs with the knowledge Of
the methods required for its com.
plete liberation from capitalism.