The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-03-27
BY JOSEPH FREEMAN

Oy JOS6A T
The fascist terror against the Ger
man working class did not begin with
Hitlers assumption to the chancel-
lorship. The Nails have persistently
carried on armed warfare against the
workers, particularly against the
Communists.
On June 10, 1892, for instance, the
government lifted the ban on Hitler'S
storm troops. This was the signal
for armed conflicts with workers In
less than six weeks 1873 were killed
and 1000 wounded in battles between
workers and Nazi gangs. A civil war
on small scale went on steadily I'M
til the Nazi-Nationalist cabinet came
into power.
The present terror is directed
against social democratic and Com
mu1ist workers and against Jews,
liberals and pacifists.
But its main object is to diSarm
and destroy the revolutionary work
ing class organizations. Monopoly
capital and the Junkers, acting thru
the Hitler cabinet, seeks to prevent
what cannot be preventative work
ing class revolution. In order to ex-
tend its base in the middle classes,
the Nazis play upon the worst ma
tional and racial prejudices. They
| have gone back to the middle ages
for their ideas. The Jew is the con-
venient scapegoat.
"Or hatred for the Jew" says Hit
ler's official organ Der Angriff, 'is
no passing fancy but rather the Iogi-
cal consequence Of our love for the
German people. The Jews brought
international capitalism, which reck-
lessly threw the chains Of slavery
around Germany; and they also
brought Marxisn. Germans have
gigantic fight against Marxism, and
especially against Communism, the
spiritual crime of one Jew (Karl
Marx"
The Truth Is Out
These words tell the story. Ger
mans" Il. e. the Nazis) have "a gi-
gantic fight against Communism, /"
but obviously not against capitalism.
The Jews are supposed to have
brought international capitalism
(what historyD, but the Nazis have
nothing against the leading capital
lists, the Hugenbergs and the Junkers.
The workers must protest against
the persecution Of Jews as against
persecution of all oppressed races, but
they must remember that the chief
victims Of the fascist terror conducted
by German capitalists are German
and Jewish workers. They must do
this all the more vigorously since the
Jewish capitalists who are protest
ing" the outrages against their CO.
religionists will not raise q finger
against fasctsr11 as such They will
not say 9 word about the murder of
revolutionary workers, German or
Jewish. They will not attack Hitler
ism as the mailed fist of capitalism.
A Rottins System.
Yet 1t must be clear to every work
er that violence, barbarisn, anti-sem-
itisrn are inevitable under rotting
system Of force and fraud which is
desperately trying to stave off the So
cial revolution.
The Nazi-Nationalist terror reveals
once more that capitalism thrives on
racial hatred. In Germany 1t inciteS
to Jewish pogroms; in the United
States 1t lynches the Negro. The
profit system rends society into an
tagonistic social classes. The profit
GERS divide and conquer. They con-
ceal the war of class against class.
Only one country In the world has
succeeded in eliminating racial hat
red, anti-semitism included. Only in
the Soviet Union, where capitalism
has been abolished, does there exist
full social equality for all races.
War On Culture
But anti-semitism is only factor
in the Nazi terror. The Hitler-Hin-
denburg regime has let loose a bar
barouS war against culture which
must make the surviving Romanoffs
green with envy. 1ntelIectua1s, wl1eti1-
OF Jews or non-Jews, have been ruth
fassis reauecused +or ths nnilcee+ Hss-