The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-04-22


promptly obeyed this order,
S. P. Leaders Sayiors of GapitalisD
Whilst the German social demo-
crazy thus renounces all the "prin~
ciples" of the Second International
and is consistently passing through
its last stage Of development from
social fascism to fasciSm in order to
save German capitalism from the
proletarian revolution by means of
German socialism" the social demo-
cratic parties of the other countries
are attempting to make capital out
of the shameful treachery of the S. P.
of Germany for their own beurgeoisie.
Vandervelde, Blum. Renaudel and
Jauhaux, who are not a whit better
than their German colleagues, are
now emitting howls of indignation.
For months past the social demo-
cratic parties Of the other countries
from the Left" and reproached it
with having capitulated on July 20,
and on account of its laxity in eight
ing" against faScism. One OF these
critics has now become silent. The
Austrian Dollfuss government is
showing Hitlerite traits, and Otto
Bauers Austro- Marxism has proved to
be just as unwilling to fight as the
''Marxism" of Wells and Leipart. This
was also the reason why the social de-
mocratic Party of Austria, too, was
not represented by any delegation at
the meetings of the L.SI. in Zurich
and Paris.
Try to Calm Wrath Of Working Glass
The French, Belgian, and Scandi-
naVian social democrats are exerting
their utmost efforts in order to ap-
pease the indignation of the interna-
tional working class on account of
the treachery of the SP.G. leaders
by means of Left" criticisms. At the
same time of the Zurich meeting Of
the Isl, Vandervelde wrote in the
Paris weekly Marianne:
Unanimity prevails in German
public opinion on most questions
of international policy. Nationalism
is not the monopoly of the Dictator
ship parties. :. f. There exists in the
German trade union circles a parti-
cularly disquieting tendency, which
is attempting to tolerate the worst
of all governments in the hope of
being tolerated by tin short, a
tendency which is willing to be
fascised."
Even Jauhaux has declared that he
emphatically condemns the attitude
Of the AD.GB,, as the latter has
been unable to save even it's honor,
and that this attitude is shaking the
Amsterdam International to its founs
dations. e--0.3'. --.--
"yolksrecht," the organ Of the So
cial democracy of Switzerland, even
declares that the German social de-
mocracy is bankrupt and that a new
workers party must be founded in
Germany capable of representing the
interests of the German workers.
Here there is indirectly recommended
the resurrection Of the defunct 2la
International which, as is known, in
the revolutionary period following the
war, played the role of catching the
workers who were tending to the Left
and preventing them from joining the
Communist international, after which
it led them back again into the camp
Of social democracy.
New LEFT" Maneuyers e
The purpose OF these Left" man
euvers, of this storm of indignation"
is clear. Just as the Second Interna-
tional in 1881 repudiated the sabo-
tagers of the Grohmann group when
they were brought before the prole-
tartan Court in Moscow, although
they had worked" in accordance
with the instructions of the Second
International just as the Second
International in 1882 tried to make
out that it had nothing to do with
the japanese social democracy when
this apt pupil of the French. German
and English social democracy dis
covered socialist Justification" for
the japanese robber war in China, so
now the Second International tries
to repudiate the German social de-
mocracy whose treachcy threatens
to expose the whole&role ef the Labor
and Socialist International lin the
eyes Of the working class, and which
has become an unbearable burden to
it. 1t is intended by such maneuvers
to create the impression that. the So
cisl democratic parties Of France,
England, Belgium, etc., are .betterthan
Deterinos' Mensheviki or the Mikado
Or the Hitler social democrats,
The nearer the war for the redis-
tliou5io.l OF the world approaches, the
more dangerous the situation of the
national bourgooisie becomes owing
to the economic crisis and the revolu-
formation of the masses, the more
rapidly the Second and the Amster-
dam Internationals disintegrate, as
the social democracy of every country
has only one aim: to save its own
bourgecisie in the imperialist and in
the class Wa. The new Left" man
euYsrs Of the FreAch, English Belg-
ian and other social democracies are
intended to serve as q. means to
meinta.n the rule Of the bourgeoisies
end to cause the working class of
tlleco countries to travel the same
path es the pcoletariat of Germany
has To traverse owing to the treach-
cry OF the German social democratic
part. It is the task Of the Communist,
..gJ TO f2a-raso this shameful
Z 4. c1,c,a;y'lC Oil pfoletariat in
G i"I l','t3a 'front.' OF struggle
~ t en- 60ur soisie. against
hIrcs", e ei.ln sIa Ue.'.