The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-14
BY EARL BRoWDER

BY EARL BROWDER
THE smouldering ruins of the city
L OF Shanhaikwan, amidst which
lie the shattered bodies Of several
thousand Chinese men, women
and children, give the tone to the
opening of the year 1888. Stimuli
taneously, the wars in Latin
America proceed with a ferocity re-
yealing the depth of the antagon-
isms which urge them on, primar-
lily the rivalry between Great
Britain and the United States.
The world is moving inexorably
into q general inperialist war,
which will be aimed in the first
place against the Soviet Union.
More than ever before, the work
ers must prepare themselves for
the struggle against imperialist
war, and for the task, when the
war is upon us, to transform it
into a revolutionary struggle for
socialism.
LENIN'S TEACHINGS
ARE GUIDE
Lenins teachir IS constitute the
only reliable guioe III this struggle.
Under Lenin's leadership, the Boil
sheviks conducted the struggle
against the imperialist war Of
I914-l918, which actually trans
formed it into civil war that
everthrew imperialism in one-sixth
u the world.
All who seriously think Of action
against imperialist war must, there
$ore, master the lessons Of history,
a0ntained in the teaching of Lenin.
There are few central principles
OF feminist theory, which necessar-
lily guide all phases Of the struggle
against imperialist war.
ct must be the task Of the
Social Democracy flor today,
read Communist Parties-E.B.) of
every country first Of all to
struggle against the chauvinism
Of that country
Thus wrote Lenin in October,
1914, in a manifesto Of the Central
Committee of the Russian Social
Democratic Labor Party (the Boil
Sheviks, now the Communist Party.
The enemy is at home; it is the
capitalist class, and it's exploiting
allies; so long as capitalism rules,
the working class has no father
land to defend.
IT was the violation Of this prin-
1 ciple that brought about the COL
lapse Of the Second International,
when in 1914 1.-THE majority of the
Social Democratic Parties and first
of all the German party, the great
est and most influential in the Sec
ond international, have joined
their general staffs, their govern
ments, their bourgeoisie, thus tax
ing stand against the proletariat. ;"
(Lenin, Collapse of the Second
international" summer 1870. In
the midst of imperialist war, the
revolutionary working class must
put forward the slogan, Defeat Of
our own imperialism"
ITO repu5iate the defeat slogan
means to reduce ones revolution
airy actions to an empty phrase
or sheer hypocrisy Lenin, DE
feat of orr Government" July,
1851
This was the issue which split
the Socialist Parties Of the world,
the Second International, and in
1919 gave birth to the Communist
International, which gathered to
itself all that was revolutionary, all
that was sound and healthy, and
which restored revolutionary Marx
ism, which had been revised and
prostituted by the leaders of the
Second International. This was
the issue, upon which the treacher-
Gus revisionist leaders represented
in America by Hillquit & Coz
passed openly over to the side Of
the capitalists, and proceeded step
by step to integrate themselves
more thoroughly into capitalist So
ciety, eliminating today in their
role of path-clearers for fasciSm
Support OF Hindenburg in Ger
many, Mac Ionald Tabor" govern
nent in : gland), which we call
social-fasch 1.