The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-01-27
"Technocracy and Marxisn
"A Review
Pamphlet by Foster and BroWder is Clear and
Simple REPUTATION Of Technocracy
. By A. MARRIOTT

itself to fight Marxism and TO op-
pose the Communist programs
which alone shows the revolue
tionary way out of the crisis
This explains why the General
Electric Company and the ''Radic-
al" Coltunbia University displayed
such an interest in Technocracy.
In this present period when the
masses of workers and farmers in
this country are becoming more and
more impatient with the condie
tons, when mass struggles are on
the increase, when the revolution.
airy elements appear stronger, 1t
is necessary to find something new,
to have a new messiah appear,
Technocracy can serve, temporarily
only, as a means of creating further
illusions in the minds of the mass
eS and thus preventing them from
falling under the influence of the
Communist Party. But like all
other plans proposed to save the
tottering system of capitalism it
contains elements Of danger for the
working class, it is strongly fascist
in tendency. The article by Foster
and Browder characterizes his as
follows:
when the TechnocratS dismiss
the working class as diminish
ing and negligible factor, this only
means that the general direction
of their theories is towards fas-
cism, that is toward evolving new
props to the colIapSing capitalist
system while intensifying the
violent suppression of the only
force capable of rescuing society
from destruction, the revolution
AIRY working class"
The appearance of Technocracy
is in itself an indication and r.
proof of the disintegration of the
capitalist system of society; 1t is an
indication of the confusion in the
ranks of the technicians and scien-
fists. There is only one way of
clearing up the confusion. 1t is to
take the advice given by Foster and
Browder in the article which says:
Finally we recommend to the
TechnocratS and to the technicians
generally, who still have some IL
luSions of the possibility of plan
ned capitalism, to not only study
Marx (Which they have seriously
neglected., but to study the ex-
panding life of the Soviet Union
and the writings of that great dis
ciple of Marx and Lenin, Joseph
Stain. Especially we would recon-
mend to them to read Stains poll
teal report to the 10th Party Cong
reSs of the Russian Communist
Party" (and the recent speech
made by comrade Stain to the
joint Conference of Central Com
mittee and the Central Control
Commission of the Russian Com
munist Party, A. M.
The publication Of Comrada
Molotov's speech, together with this
article Technocracy and Conmun-.
ism, in one pamphlet is indeed q
splendid act, for Molotoy's speech
illustrates wildly the great gap
which separates the two worlds
the Socialist from the capitalist
world. Here in the United States
is a wasting of human energy.
more than fifteen million unen1~
ployed. Thousands OF technicians.
engineers, scientists who have spent
years in training find themselves
idle unable to apply their know
ledge, their skill. And as Molotov
in his speech said:
sThe capitalists do not shrink
from day after day throwing on
to the street and reducing to
beggary people who only yeSter-
day occupied leading technical
positions in their works and fac
tories. Naturally there is now
heard even from the ranks Of
those specialists who only yes
terday had nothing whatever to
do with politics not to
speak of the fight against the
apitaiists-voices Of despair and
protest against the rule Of this
bourgeoisie, against the regime
of capitalism"
But in the Soviet Union the
situation is reversed. There the
problem is not of unemployment
but of shortage of labor in every
field. More technicians, more en-
gineers, more scientists.
"The technical inteIIegentsia,"
says Molotov, occupy advanced
positions in the construction of the
new society and much, very much
depends upon the growth Of their
political consciousness and their
scientific-technical qualifications,
which are SO necessary for the
management of industry, of agri-
cultural and transport undertake
ings."
Enough has been said to show
the timeliness and Importance of
this pamphlet. It should receive
the widest circulation.