The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-20

VI beIllIlI uG OrQeIeQ JIle SQ0OG1Dg
of the Berlin workers in the May
LIST demonstration in 1929; Seyering
promised it when he assured Hin
denberg that the bullets of his
PruSSian police had always been
aimed at rebellious workers.
With the sharpening of the class
struggle during the last few years
the Social-Democratic Party had
increasingly subordinated it's social
ist phrases to its fascist actions.
This in itself contributed to the
disilluSionment of the masses. Such
establishment is not in the inter
estS of the capitalists. The CAPT
taliStS will use terror against dis
illusioned workers; but at the same
time they will try to put the brakes
on the process of establishment.
Capitalism has to do that. It cam
not defend itself without defend
erS. Bayonets and bullets do not
move by themselves. They need
hands to send them on their muir
derous ways. For the sake of hav-
ing enough such hands capitalism
must always try to keep as great
masses as possible under the spell
of its illusions. That is why cap
italism's own interests demanded
the dismissal of the Social Demo-
cratic Party as a government party
not as an act of punishment for
failure to perform, but as an act
of making it perform where it
would do most good.
THE Social-Democratic Party of
L Germany now has been assigned
III task Of trying to keep the Ger
man workers under the influence
of capitalist democratic illusions,
While HitleriSm tears all the demo-
cratic drapery from the ruling
capitalist dictatorship.
Social-democracy has adjusted it
self quickly to this new role. The
blood of the German workers it
has killed in defense of capitalism
Is still dripping from its hands.
But it hopes to overcome that OBJ
stacle, That is why it now raises
q hue and cry against the Com
muniSts for calling the attention
of the workers to this workers
blood dripping from the fingers of
social democracy. A few days ago
social democrat Kuenstler, on the
occasion Of a socialist demonstra-
ton in the Lustgarten in Berlin,
called for aggression" pact
with the Communist Party. The
hour calls for workers struggles
against fascism; but the social
democrats consider this good time
to complain against the Commu-
nistS' inSistence on pointing out to
the workers the continued treach-
cry of social democracy.
SUPPORT FROM RENEGADES
Renegades of Communism, Trot-
ky, LoveStone and others, second
the maneuver of German social
democracy. They, too, come with
proposals Of united fronts between
the Communist and the Social
Democratic Parties and accuse the
Communist Party Of splitting the
workers because it insists on adj
dressing its call for a united front
not to the NoSkes. the Scheide-
MAINS and the Wells, but to the
masses of the social democratic
workers
The first need for the Social
Democratic Party of Germany at
this hour is it's rehabilitation in
the eyes Of those proletarian masses
who have already lost confidence
in 1t. The need for the proletarian
revolution, on the other hand, is
that those masses who still have
confidence in the Social Demo-
cratic Party should quickly learn
how misplaced that confidence is.
The proposals of Trotzky and
Lovestone serve the rehabilitation
of the Social-Democratic Party.
The united front proposals of the
Communist Party of Germany, on
the other hand, serve the speedy
liquidation of the remaining mass
base Of social democracy This is
the most important task of the
hour; and it is the precondition Of
the German revolution. That Is
why the struggle against social
democracy is the most important
duty of the moment.
AFTER the social democratic lead
n ers, out of their own mouths,
have denied that theirs is a party
for the defense of the proletarisn
interests, the TrotZkyS and Love
stones try to re-create the illusion
that it is. Social democrat Tarnow,
secretary Of the national wood
workers union of Germany, as Il
reporter for the Central Commit
tee, declared at the last conven-