The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-02-13
Genesis of Hitlerism

produced by the German workers,
which in the past "only" had to
supply profits for their capitalists,
now had TO produce funds for rep
aration payments in addition. That
is why the essence of statecraft of
German capitalism during all the
postwar years was an effort of
making the German workers work
more and eat less. Work more to
guarantee an absolute increase OF
surplus; eat less, TO add to the alb
solute also @ relative increase of
such surplus.
STERILIZATION.
On this basis, German capital
ISM re-eStablished and re-stabili2ed
itself economically after the revo-
iuJionaly coEVulsicn5 of 1879.
The political aspects Of this re-
establishment OF capitalist rule in
Germany will be dealt with else
where. Here we only deal with the
fact that the economic basis OF tie
re-estabhsllment and re-stabiliza-
ton Of postwar capitalism in Ger
many was the Increase of the mis-
cry of the German masses. This
sterilization, therefore, was of
necessity precarious one. 1t de-
pended not only on the continuous
Submissiveness of the German mas
ses to this policy of having them
work more and eat less; it also de-
pended on the continued market
ability of the growing surplus which
the increasingly Woodworking
but also increasingly less-consurn-
in" German workers created and
pi4Li up. This, in fact, determined
not only the continued stability Of
German but of world capitalism.
CONTRADICTIONS.
Here was an insurlnountaple
obstacle i'll the desire of the VIC
tor governments Of eating the cake
OF their victory and at the same
time OF preserving it. The victor
governments wanted to collect rep
arations forever after; but they
also wanted to continue, forever
after, exploiting their own work
ers, running their own factories,
selling their own goods. To COL
lect reparations, however, necessi-
tated not only the amassing Of sur
plus products by the German capt.
talists, but also the chance to sell
them. That chance collided with
the desire of the French, British
and other capitalists, to sell their
own goods produced by their own
workers i'll their own factories. On
top of it all, the policy of. having
the workers work more and eat less,
not only increases the marketable
products but it also narrcWs down
the markets for them.
THE new stability OF capitalism
thus found itself caught mex
tricably in the neshes of capital
isrn's own economic laws. The very
base Of the new stability of world
capitalism became the source Of an
unacceptable new instability. This
new Instability presented Itself, UNI
invited, as the present world crisis
OF capitalism. This crisis does not
only shake the economic structure
OF capitalism i'll its foundation; il
also confrontS capitalism with
working class, radicalized by its
suffering and by the education de-
rived from its experiences which
facts turn the new economic crisis
OF capitalism into political one.
HitleriSm grew in this soil. 1t is
partly 3 product of a mass RADICAL.
cation which capitalist demagogy
turned into reactionary channels.
1t Is no miracle that capitalist
demagogy can produce such results.
The capitalist monopoly ON educa-
ton fills the masses with capitalist
illusions. These illusions make 1t
possible for CAPITALIST demagogs to
1nvert anti-capitahst tendencies in
the heads of these masses into re-
dictionary pro-capitalist violence.
kill JEws!"
NOT CAPITALISTS
The main jrs4rl,roeots If yT'+r~r-
ism In this work were anti-sernit~
ism and nationalisn. Anti-semit-
ism has ever been the socialism Of
the idiots. 1t, therefore, did not
lie far from Hitler's natural incli-
nations. At the same time ii pro-
vided an easy means of exploiting
the growing hatred OF the German
masses against capitalism. The an
ti-semitic propaganda Of Hitlerism
performed the miracle OF changing
the anti-capitalists tendencies of
great masses into anti-JeHish ten
denotes. ~ simply set the Jews as