The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-15

mold this government and the law'to
suit their own ends. In this way,
whatever struggle there is can be kept
within the structure of the capitalist
state, utilizing the very instruments
that capitalism has set up itself to
hide it's naked dictatorship.
But here is where both Green and
Thomas, both as the expression not
of their individual opinion but the
political forces they represent, meet.
Green says the present alternative
is bankruptcy or dictatorship"
Thomas says that the capitalist state
can grow over into state capitalism
and then into the cooperative COM
monwealth, or it can lead to fascism.
But what neither tell the worker
is how and why this glorious democ-
racy, this impartial power above class
es, directly leads to fascism. The So
cialists do not explain to the workers
why democracy suddenly turns around
and shows its opposite face, fascisrll'
DOTH the socialist and A. F. of L..
ID leadership's talk of democracy and
the impartiality of the government,
of the capitalist state, is to keep from
the workers the true nature of the
present dictatorship of the capitalist
class, to keep the workers from strug-
gle against it and its program Of star
walton and suppression, its program
of classification and war.
They seek to mask the Roosevelt
regime with democratic coverings
to hide the fact that the present
state is a capitalist DICTATOR
SHIP, and that the carrying thru
Of its present program which they
support leads to the strengthening
Of the dictatorship of the capitalist
class and its open emergence into
the most brutal form of capitalist
Acknowledgements.
Marx, Engels and Lenin have
studied and exposed the character OF
the capitalist state for the working
class. They disected its class roots,
showed it's origin and development,
and it's function in the class struggle
In the Communist Manifesto, show
| ing the rise of the capitalists to pow
er after overthrowing feudalism and
| its state-the feudal state which
served feudalism-Marx says:
| 1.-THE bourgeoisie has at last, since
the establishment of modern indus
try and of the world market. con-
quered for itself, in the modern rep
resentative state, exclusive political
sway. The executive of the modern
state is but committee for manag-
ing the common affairs Of the whole
bourgeoisie."
1T is to hide this fact with regard
l to the Roosevelt regime that
Thomas talks about state capitalism
and its shifting towards Socialism
and that Bill Green speaks about tbs
government, in the interests of the
nation, sitting in to supervise and
| direct"
The executive committee of the capt.
talist class sits in to supervise and
| direct the smashing attacks against
the workers in the interest of the pre-
servation of capitalism in its present
critical phase. To hide its iron fist
| behind the velvet glove OF democracy,
Green and the Socialists help 1t out
by speaking of impartiality and the
opportunities Of the workers under its
of the proletariat is a CONSULTATIVE
terrorist organization. The prosecu.
ton in its Indictment against the
Y. C. L. makes its program, policy
and activities identical with the pro-
gram of the Party. Yet, can we say
the Party and the Y. G. L. are iden-
teal? Is the Z. c. l.. party or
ganization? On the whole, the en-
tire arguments of the prosecution arr
politically reactionary and directed
against the working class The in.
4 dictmcnt is full Of all kinds of in.
situations ard falsifications, ant
aims at destroying the link between
the Party and the masses. 1t estab.
fishes. moreover, that the crime O
the Communists is tantamount Il
violation Of the civil peace. That |:
very we'll put!
Ito BE pOntinued)