The daily worker., 1933-11-16
Mt4ssolini'S Function,

A POLITICAL phenomenon observable in all capitalist
"a countries the world economic crisis enters It's
nth year, intensified and entanged than ever
is ths remarkable speed with which the strongest
groups OF monopoly capital are merging with the capi
tast state, precisely to protect the profits OF these
monopoly groups from the effects Of the crisis.
II As especially in the circumstances Of the
p@eseat chronic, general crisis OF capitalism that
This process takes particularly acute and open
form form In which the capitalist state markedly
snd ruthIessIy steps forward az tine braoen serv-
ant ard tool Of monopoly capital
Speaking before the Twelfth Plenurn OF the Com
nunist International Kuusinen defined this universal
trend among all capitalist countries as follows:
To-day the situation Is such that the very
largest concerns OF finance capital are SO closely
connected with the state that they cannot &c
ssnkrnpt, and need NOT do so, since they control
the state and mobilize it's fog tkeat
support"
This defines exactly the class content of ndusso-
lins latest pronouncement that the italian govern
nent will consist Of National Council Of corpora
tions which will guarantee the interest and profits Of
the bankrupt utility monopolies,
T THE same time that MuSsolini thus mergss the
italian state with monopoly capital and guarantees
its huge profits, the italian capitalist state estab-
fishes still lower starvation wages for the italian
workers. still greater burdens for the italian peasants
ever more meagre relief for the steadily growing army
Of jobleSs workers in Italy. "
In Fascist ITALY, supposedly protected by the "cor-
porae state the world economic crisis saSheS ahead
The agraran crisis grows, bringing ruin and pauper-
ism to the peassntry The real wages Of the Italian
prolearat now at the lowest levels Of the crisis
and are at semi starvation levels the lowest levels of
the crisis The problem Of foreign markets haunts the
Italian bongeoisie at the same time that the Italian
masses are held at the point Of the bayonet in almost
medieval misery and slavery
To conceal from the Italian the role OF Fas-
Sle~ t.Sa
talist exploitation, Mssoln yesterday spoke Of the
end OF the old capitalism" and the advent OF SUPER
capitalism" the creation Of corporate state" This
arch murderer Of revolutionary workers even spoke Of
the "tnhumanty" Of the "old capitalism"
But this corporate state proclaimed ten years ago
by Musson, is the very thing that was to have pro-
tecteo Italy from the crisis, crisis which has struck
t With the force as any other capitalist coun
try
Thss super capitalist, corporate state" Ia nothing
bus ths system of capitalist exploitation and capitalist
Dictatorship In its most advanced ruthless form It is
the fusion Of monopoly capital with the capitalist state
power Tor the purpose Of ryeng the chains of cap-
tsist wage slavery to the italian workers though the
naked, military dictatorship Of the bourgeoisie
This development toward the fusion Of the state
with monopoly capital is remarkably evidenced by the
whole Roosevelt program.
1t Is certainly obvious that Mussolins tsix OF the
end OF the "od capitalism" is very much like Roose
veltg talk Of the "end of the old order"
1t is certainly remarkable that the Roosevelt gov
ernmenC mas concentrated all its efforts protecting
the profits of Wall Street monopoly capital through
direct subsidies RFC. loans) and through guarantees
OF profits spent to guarantee the interest
in worthless home and farm mortgages
1t is certainly remarkable that Mussolni prohibits
Cne lCaan workers from striking against wage-cs In
The name OF the totatarian state" while Roosevelt
under the NA codes does practically the same thing
IN the name Of national unity"
The Roosevelt and Mussolini governments, ike the
Hitler government. any other capitalist government
are more and more openly showing their faces as the
STATE instrument OF the capitalist class dictatorship for
the enslayement OF the toing masses and the pro-
tector OF capitalist profits and power.