The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-27
The Cultural Barbaylsm of the
Hitler Hlndenburg Regime
BY Bart

improved conditions for the peasantry
and the working class. These prom
iseS are pure demagogy. A man can
not serve two masters; Hitler will not
be able TO reconcile the irreconcilable
differences between capital. and
labor, between Junkerdom and peas
antry. He will not even try to do so.
He has set himself "the positive task
Of winning over the German work
erS to the National state. The Naxis
will take over the social democratic
role OF effecting class collaboration.
That is the meaning Of Hitler's con-
temptuols shout to the social demo-
cratic leader Otto Wels: 1--WE do not
need you any longer in naolding the
fate Of the nation"
But the ''fate of the nation" is Of
little concern to the social democrats.
Take our liberty, take our lives"
Wells said in the Nationalist
Reichstag addressing his degrading
plea 20 Hitler, "btrt leave us with
honor"
The Social Democrats lost their
''honor" when they betrayed the
working class. The shameful betray-
al cost them liberty and lives, and,
what is more important, cost the
lives and liberties OF the working
class.
But the working class does not care
for some vague idiotic abstraction
which Wells calls honor" 1t wants
life and liberty; and the atrocities Of
the fascist regime will teach it more
and more that life and liberty arc
impossible under capitalism.
No Regard for Workers
They can see, even amidst the pro-
tests OF Jewish capitalists, of liberal
groups that the life of worker Is Of
less consequence to the capitalists
than the life Of a dog They can see
in New York that a Jewish worker
soldier has not even the right to par
ticipate in demonstration agS inst
faSciSm II he happens to be.e fh;hter
against the capitalist yetcnn.
There is one point In the Hitler
program which should be Of special
interest to intellectusls, especially
those who still harbor the Illusion
that culture Is ASSOCIATED from So
ctal forces. Hitler has announced s.
program Of sweeping moral santa
ton" for which the entire educa-
tional system, the theatre, the movies,
the press and the radio will be used.
Blood and race" Hitler said, will
inspiration. Reverence for great men
must again be hammered into Ger
man youth" Naturally, great men"
are exclusively observation-disclosures
ial generals, big bankers and manu-
facturers, Junkers, the chieftains OF
bloodthirsty fascist gangs, and the
ideologues who will spin out millions
Of words giving "philosophic" justifi-
cation TO the fascist regime. The
schools, the movies, the theatre, lit
erature are not 10 mistake an Elm
stein for great man.
Capitalism In Military Uniform
The fight against fascism must be
conducted with the full realization
that fascism is capitalism in military
uniform. Those who are silent against
the crimes of the fascists are in eff
feet their supporters. Every worker,
every honest intellectual, must raise
his voice and exert his strength
against the monster.
We must do all that lies in our
power to halt the persecution Of In
tellectuals, the pograms on Jews, the
assassination Of workers. And we
must not forget for a single moment
or let anyone else forget it-that
the fascist terror is directed first and
foremost against the revolutionary
vanguard Of the working class, against
the Communist Party. We must de-
mand The release Of all the political
prisoners of fascism, the Communists
and sociaf-democrats, the pscifists
and liberals, jew or eentile, rottins
in the 5ei1y and eqncentrataM sunns
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