The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-18

working classes in the capitalist coun-
tries rude shock.
Fascism Teaches the Masses Need for
Break With Legal Methods
Fascism will, like the imperialist
war of 1914-1918, teach the masses
the necessity for breaking with bour-
geois legality and for passing over to
the methods OF violence and civil war
And these lessons that the working
class in Germany have learned by
their sufferings will not pass by the
Second International without impun-
ity. They will undermine its influ-
ence on the masses exactly as the
imperialist war of 1914-1918 and the
october revolution did.
The Second International has en-
tered the period of its decline. The
process Of the disruption of the Sec
ond International will proceed from
above and from below. 1t will pro-
coed from above as a result of the
re-grouping of the forces Of social i'm
perialism around the struggle of the
capitalist countries for and against
Versailles. The social democracy
which strives with all its might to
be included into the system of fascist
dictatorship, has already been speak
ing openly on questions of foreign
policy in the same language as Hitler
At the same time the social democrats
Of France and Great Britain are Gre
ating new theological ventilator for
the inperialist policy of their bour-
geoisie in the form Of the thesis on
the struggle of democracy against
fascism." The accusation that the
social democracy capitulated before
fascism will serve as an additional
argument in the mouths of the men,
bers of the Labor Party and of the
French socialists for the aims Of the
imperialist policy of their own capt.
talist governments.
But this decay in the Second Inter
national will not decide its fate. The
mortal blow will be dealt the social
fascist international from below, by
those social-democrati workers who
have been numbered among its mem
bers during the course of many years
and who will draw their political con-
illusions from the fateful experiences
of the workers of Germany. This
tendency amongst the workers is be-
ginning to express itself in the urge
towards united front with the Com
muniSt workers and will express it
self even more strongly. In the work
shops in Germany united front of
struggle of the working class of Ger
many is already being formed against
fascism. Such a united front was
formed in the giant plant of the
AE.G. General Electric Company
when, after the distribution of Com
munist leaflets, fascist Storm Troops
made an attempt TO occupy the plant,
and we're bounded from it by the
workers. 1t was formed in dozens of
places, where Communist and social
democratic workers acted in conjunc-
ton with non-Party workers in the
defiance Of their class organizations,
their arrested comrades, ETC. The
same thing is happening in a num-
Der of countries, in which workers are
expressing their solidarity with the
proletariat of Germany on the basis
Of the proletarian united front.
In these circumstances a still great
er role and Importance attaches to
the Soviet Union as the most import
ant support Of the international Pro-
letariat aaginst world reaction. In
the consciousness Of every worker the
proletarian dictatorship in the land
of the SoYiets will be opposed more
plainly than eevr TO the bourgeois
dictatorship in its naked, fascist form.
The bankruptcy of the German social
democracy, the unrestrained terror of
the Hitler dictatorship, the destruc-
ton and misery which the bourgeois
dictatorship causes the masses,
whether 1t is in the form of the Wei
mar Republic or in the form Of Hit
ler's Third Empire" or all this will
force 'the millions Of the workers on
the only right road, the road Of strug-
gle for the proletarian dictatorship.
III. Was the Policy OF the Commu-
mist Party Correct?
The correctness Of this policy in
the given concrete situation is de-