The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-07-15

the modern representative state
Chat is democracy Or under whatever
form the capitalists rule, for even
Hitler claims to be the representa-
tive state")5is the instrument of the
exploitation of wage labor by capital"
(Engels) The Socialists and the A.
F. Of L. LEADERS think they can
change a. thing by changing its
name. yar,
WHAT is, this state of the capital
w lists? 1t is the whole structure OF
the capitalist government, its legisla-
lures, its courts, its executive all based
on the control by the capitalists of
armed men (and) of material APP
pendageS, prisons and repressive in
stitutions of all kinds" for dominat-
ing the working class and keeping it
submissive to its class domination.
AS capitalism develops into impe-
rialism, monopoly capitalism, such as
holds sway in the United States to-
day, the state apparatus becomes
more closely tied up with the domi-
nant iInperialists, it becomes more
closely fused with finance capital. 1t
becomes more and more dictator
ship of the dominant class elements
(the Morgans, Melons. Swopes,
Youngs, Fo-ds and the like.
Because of the development Of
wars and revolutions under imperial
ism, the necessity not only of driv-
i,,o tho ,ro,-tore IN ,,ovy xr,c &c for ,,1,,r,
der, but as well to keep them back
from revolutionary struggles, the cap
italist state under imperialism dis
cards bit by bit it's democratic trim
mings. 1t does not, of course, discard
it's demagogy, its constant references
to democracy. 1t increases this in
proportion to the need for bringing
the dictatorship out into the open.
The very fact that Green Is forced
to talk repeatedly about the impair
TALLY of the government; the fact
that the socialists point to the good
elements, in the present program of
the capitalist dictatorship is express
sion of the fact that this dictatorship
is rapidly exposing itself in the eyes
of the workers. 1t needs the active de-
tense of these heroes of labor in or
der to keep the workers within the
confines Of its rule.
HINDER the Hoover regime, the cap
Y italist state went to the extent Of
incorporating into the government
apparatus such men as Dwight Nor
row of the House of Morgan, and An
drew Mellon, also one Of the out
standing imperialists.
Roosevelt has changed the indi-
viduals has changed the phrases, has
changed the mode of attack, but he
has not and cannot and will not
change the historical base of his gov
eminent which remains the same.
The dominant trusts which are inter-
twined by.a thousand links from the
top and bottom, with the state, with
the political party in power, walk"
err Wall Street lawyer. treasurer OF
the Democratic Party and now head
of the super council; Raskob, Demo-
cratic leader and head of the General
Motors Corp; Gerald Swope, Morgan
man Of the General Electric in Roose-
velt's super cabinet; Bernard Baruch,
a Morgan associate unofficial presi-
dent" and his man Friday, General
Johnson at the head of the industrial
recovery adninistration)-and no
matter how hard Roosevelt, Green
and Thomas try to hide this link it
grows stronger and more powerful
each day. 5g
Roosevelt in carrying through his
program of reorganization Of labor,
the smashing of the standards Of liv-
ing, the raising Of prices, naval build
ing, ornaments of all kinds, struggle
for colonies and markets-is carrying
through the dominant program of i'm
perialism, is acting as the executive
of finance capital
| IN the practical day to day struggle
Green and Thomas tell the work.
ers to take. advantage OF the indus
trial recovery act, submit themselves
to the rule Of finance capital, to cease
from striking and struggling.
The particular value to sorely far-