The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-24
5. WHAT STAND DO THE
SOCIAL-FASCISTS TAKE
TOWARD TECHNOCRACY?

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TOWARD TECHNOCRACY?
THEIR stand toward democracy
again exposes the miserable role
that the leaders of the American
Socialist Party play in misleading
the workers and in supporting the
rule of the bourgeoisie.
From week to week, day to day,
the papers of the Social-fascist
party, especially the daily published
in Milwaukee, the Milwaukee
Leader, have eXtolled the techno-
Gratis and democracy. In its De-
cember 18th issue, this paper said:
For the socialists, technocracy and
the work of the technocrats can
become the modern source-book,
from which we can preach "the
gospel of socialism.
A certain noted leader of the
American Federation of Labor says:
"T'echnocracy reflects labor's yearn-
ings of a century"
II Is clear that if the technocrats
or their teaching meant the least
danger to capitalism or the capital
lists, democracy would not have re-
ceived this warm sympathy and
undivided support by the beurge-
oisie and its agents, the social-fas-
cist leaders That fact clearly ex-
poses the class character of techno-
cracy 1t stands for the bourgeoisie
and capitalism-therefore against
the working class and its interests.
4. WHAT SHOULD THE CLASS
CONSCIOUS WORKERS DO?
TECHNOCRACY and the CAM
paign of befogging conducted in
this connection by the bourgeoisie
and the social-fasciStS among the
workers, means considerable
danger to the development Of the
militant class struggle movement,
and to,the carrying out of the i'm
mediate tasks before it.
For this reason especially an ide-
illogical campaign against techno-
cracy and the exposing of its I'M
Marxist theories, is an especially
important campaign Marxist edu-
cational work must be done more
energetically than before, among
broader masses of workers. On
March ID, SO years will have elapsed
from the death of the founder of
scientific socialism. Karl Marx. At
the recommendation of the XII
full session of the Executive Com
niittee of the Communist Interna-
tional, class consciouS workers and
Communist Parties all over the
world are preparing for a broad
educational campaign for the teach
ings of Marx. To honor the mem
Dry of Marx means in America es-
pecially to create theological clarity
in the struggle against such at
tempts at befogging by the bour-
geoisie and ocial-faScistS as tech
nocracy.
Technocracy Is intended to para
1yze the fighting spirit of the work
ers. The only answer the workers
can give to it is to broaden and
strengthen the struggles for unem-
ployment relief and insurance, and
against the llnceasing wage-cuts.
To build a good block or neighbors'
committee among unemployed
workers and to conduct a struggle
under the leadership of such
committee for food, clothing and
shelter, is to get real help for the
unemployed, who live in undescrib-
able misery, and it is correct activ-
ity for the developing of a struggle
against the capitalist system, which
must be destroyed first before we
can talk Of planned economy and
increasing prosperity for all work
ing masses.
THE Soviet Union recently COM
l pleted its first Five-Year Plan
in four years. During fifteen years
the workers of the Soviet Union
have shown the workers Of the en-
tire world the only road which
must be taken If we wish to get
shorter work-day and to use the
achievements of science and tech
nique for the benefit of the work
ers. The bourgeoisie and the So
cial-fascists together with their
democracy want to conceal this
from the workers OF America. The
duty Of the conscious workers
in America is to make the achieve
inents of socialist construction in
the Soviet Union known to all
workers in America and to show
them that even In America only
unre1enting class struggle and the
proletarian revolution offer the way
Out of the preSert misery