The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-11
BY B~rek

chine for the suppression Of one
class by another-this, in a demo-
cratic republic no less than mo-
narchy-Engels preface to Marx"
Civil War in France.)
All revolutionary experience has
proved that criticisms of capital
ism accompanied by ridicule and
denunciation of the Communist
program and tactics-Marxism
Leninism-are merely disguised at
tempts to assist and strengthen
capitalism. 1t is a method of dem
agogy used by both fascists like
Hitler and social fascists like
Kautsky, Hilferding, Bauer Hen
derson, Brockway, Hillquit and
Thomas to cheat the growth Of
Communist influence and preserve
capitalist illusions among the work
ing class forces.
This is necessarily so because
Communism (Bolshevism) is &C
knowledged by the capitalist lead
ers themselves to be the only real
enemy OF their system.
MARX POINTED OUT CON-
TRADICTIONS OF CAPITALISM.
1t was Marx and not Technocrats
who first pointed out the inescap-
able contradiction of capitalism In
the Critique of Political Economy
Marx wrote:
"At certain stage Of their de-
velOpment, the material forces of
production in society come into
conflict with the existing rela-
tiOns Of production Or-what is
but legal expression for the
same thing-with the property
relations within which they had
been at work before. From forms
of development of forces of pro-
duction these relations turn into
their letters. THEN COMES
THE PERIOD OF SOCIAL REV
OLUTION. my einphasis.)
1t is this revolutionary MARKHAM
conclusion from increasing perma-
nent mass unemployment, from the
crisis and the misery, from the evil
dences of the decay and decline
of capitalism, that the Technocrats
are aiding the capitalists to hinder
workers from drawing and acting
upon.
THE COMMUNIST PARTY has
l no quarrel with engineers as
engineers, but it will do all in its
power to stop campaign which is
designed to set the engineers and
technicians off from the working
class, to enlist them permanently
upon the side of the capitalists, to
prevent their being won for the So
cial revolution as many of them
have been and others will be. But
it must be said that while the
engineers cannot make a revolu-
ton without the working class, the
working class and its allies can
make the revolution without the
engineers. 1t would prefer to have
them on it's side but they are not
decisive in determining the rela-
tionship of class forces.
WHAT CAUSED CRISIS.
1t is not the machine, electrical
and chemical processes, or the
marvellous technique of modern in
dustry that has caused the world
wide mass misery in the United
States and other capitalist and CO.
1onial countries. These factors are
not responsible for the stagnation
and decay of capitalism.
1t is the ownership, bulwarked
by the suppressive machinery of
the capitalist state with its pro-
paganda agencies, its police, troops,
arsenalS. etc, of these machines
and the natural resources by the
capitalist class, that, is responsible.
To change all this is political
act to be carried through by the
working class headed by its Com
munist Party. To change all this
in favor of the working class re-
quires social revolution. Techno-
cracy does not like Marxism be-
cause of its proletarian revolution
airy content.
In trying to divert attention from
these basic facts of the revolution
airy struggle of the American work
ing class by its sneers at European
political systems" meaning Marx
ist-Leninism, Technocracy serves
capitalism well. This accounts for
the way the avenues of capitalist
publicity have been opened for
even its most absurd statements.
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