The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-11
BY BILL DUNE.

TECHNOCRACY is peculiarly a
L doctrine of the technically train
ed section, now largely diSinherited
by the economic crisis, of the mid
die class. Yearning for its former
privileged position in industry and
the social structure, a small group
of the more articulate of these en-
gineers have worked out a formula
by which they hope to restore the
economic bonds with the capitalist
class. They seek to prove to CAPT.
talism that without more power be-
ing given to technicians, capitalism
is in grave danger, that only the
engineers can save capitalism.
CREATE NEW ILLUSIONS
Technocracy today is chiefly val
liable to the capitalist class in Gre
ating new illusions as to the pos
sibility of peaceful ways out of the
crisis towards society of leisure
and plenty. So acute is the capital
ist crisis, SO clear is it becoming
that the capitalist solutions tried,
have failed and others are doomed
to failure, that the press agencies
of capitalism and the ever hesitant
but hopeful middle class are i'm
PEELED to grasp at anything that
seems able to postpone the day of
final accounting.
This is today one Of the points
which make Technocracy of use to
capitalism in the fourth year of the
world crisis.
TECHNOCRACY leaps to and
holds the front page. Cartoonists
OF the capitalist and middle class
press weave it into their drawings.
Almost overnight it becomes big
news" All sections of the press of
capitalism devote columns of space
to the statements of its leaders, to
dispute over it, to explanations of it,
to support of or opposition to its
analysis, predictions, claims and
proposals.
Another point which makes Tech
nocracy valuable to American capt.
talism is that it rejects, derides and
ISLANDERS the only force which to-
day challenges and Is a menace to
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 1t
| performs the same service for Am
erican capitalism in regard to the
only country in the world where
Marxism- Leninisn and its theory
of the state has been victorious
the Soviet Union-the only coun-
try where, in the building of So
cialisn, the unity Of technicians
and manual workers is being con-
sulnmated.
AGAINST "ALL POLITICAL
! SYSTEM"
In his official statement publish
ed in the Living Ave, Howard Scott,
theoretical leader of Technocracy,
comes out categorically against all
political systems beginning with
Aristotle and up TO and including
! Marx"
In an article In the November
! issue of the New Outlook (Al
Smiths magazine) which gives an
exhaustive description of the theory
OF Technocracy and quite obviously
written With the approval of its
publicity bureau, the statement Is
| made:
Our present system, 1t tells us,
Is fit only for the same museum
In which are housed the patheti-
cally inadequate political and eco
nomic theories of Plato, Marx and
| the great host of other diagnos-
ticianS and prophets who could
not conceive of such highly in
| dustrialiZed society as that in
which we find ourselves today and
Fascism, Communism and So
cialism are likewise wholly made
quate to cope with our problem"
Further:
chronological advancement in
the past twelve years has defin-
itely shattered all social theory,
from that of the ancient Greeks
through Karl Marx up to Veblen."
And again:
Russia, with its much Wanted
Communism (only liars or idiots
claim that the system in Russia is
Communism, which is classics
society (B. d. is but Slight
variation Of the American price
system with 80 per cent of
its population tillers of the soil,
with meager technical facilities
and more musicians than tech
nolovists." as Mr.. Scott expresses