The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-05-18
Continued from last ISSUE
BY FRITZ HECKERT

That revolutionary united front
which the Communist Party has pre-
pared and organized in hundreds Of
places on the basis of real fight Of
the working class, the social-fascist
Trotzky recommends should be re-
placed by the reactionary united front
with the bourgeoisie; and he recon-
mendS that at moment when the
masses of the social democratic work.
ers are, owing to their bloody eXper-
fence, recognizing all the conse-
quences of this reactionary united
front. He strives to persuade the
workers of Germany that the irrecon-
ciliability of Comrade Thaelmann has
prevented Wells from fighting for
parliamentary government and the
mass trade unions" And this at a
time when Wells openly and cynically
declares in the fascist ReichStag that
it was the social democrats who had
made it possible for Hitler to reach
his present position, and that the So
ciaI democrats fully and completely
supported the foreign policy developed
by Hitler in his declaration. This, at
the time when Wells, Stampfer, and
others travel abroad at the request OF
Hitler, to beg the workers to cease
their protests against the fascist ter
ror. "You come late, but you come, y
cries Hitler to this rotten, traitorous
rabble. But Wells and Leipart have
not come alone, they come to Hitler
with Trotzky. This same Trotzky
however, strives, in carrying out q
social demand of Hitler to throw mud
at the only party which is fighting
against fascism in the most difficult
conditions.
We see how deep unprincipled peo-
pie of the stamp of Trotzky can sink!
But social democracy is also being
beaten now. Yes, it is being beaten
But it is the social democratic work.
ers who are being beaten first, and
not Wells, Leipart and Lobe; no one
has laid hand on them, and will not
do so, for they are people in the Sec
ond ranks of the national reYolu-
ton" If the faScists are prosecuting
social democracy as party, they are
beating it as faithful dog that has
fallen sick. They are beating it, be-
cause they know that it Is incapable
of resistancc, LAT, when it is beaten,
it will come forward all the quicker
to the service Of the bourgeois dicta-
torship, even in the open fascist form
This method of politically cowing the
leaders of social democracy is also
calculated to awaken amongst the
workers the impression that social
democracy is being beaten owing to
its defense of the workers interests
Social democracy is thrust on one
side, since its services are no longer
needed in their earlier form. But
fascism needs the trade unions, and
it takes the social democratic bureau
Gratis into its service.
Bankruptcy of Socialist Party
The bankruptcy of social demo-
cracy, the strongest party in the Sec
ond International, is the bankruptcy
of the entire policy of collaboration
with the bourgeoisie which has been
pursued and is being pursued by the
Second International And this is the
bankruptcy of the Second Interna-
tional.
The present assassination of Ger
man social democracy is no accidental
interlude, but the road that all social
democratic parties will go under cir
cumstances similar to those in Ger
many.
The seizure of power in Germany
by the fascists means at the same
time the bankruptcy of the social
democratic legend of the conquest OF
power by the working class in par
liamentary, peaceful way. After the
experiences in Germany it will be
clear to the broadcast masses Of the
social democratic workers that the
bourgeoisie will never permit the
working class to become rulers Of the
country, even If the working class at
tain a parliamentary majority, should
this ever be possible
The events that have occurred In
Germany will give the illusions of the