The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-06
The Foreign Language
Press of the Z. S. 4.

to them, Learn about the class
struggle in whatever language it is
most convenient for you in order
that you may be able TO fight" We
do not appeal to the workers to
support or help create national
culture" we know that national cul~
ture in capitalist countries is bour-
seoiS culture. At the same time
where the influence of national
culture exists or develops, Conlmus
nists see the need Of working
through these cultural forms TO de-
velop an international outlook and
a class Viewpoint.
By their very struggles, BY the life
Of the organizations they create, the
workers lay the foundations of 9.
new, proletGrian culture.
CREATES GLASS UNITY
The language press of the Conn
munist Party makes it clear to the
workers and to the toilers generally
that a capitalist or a Capitalist agent
who speaks the same language and
has the same historic background
rs the worker is still his enemy and
has to he fought in the class war.
The language press makes Il clear
to the workers that the native
American, be he white, black or
yellow, is his class brother, even il
he still is under the sway OF bour~
geoiS ideas. The language press
thus creates class unity out of the
variety Of language groups of diff
ferent origin and different back
grounds. 1t uses no less than 20
Languages to create one unified
working class. 81
The language press speaks al the
languages of Europe but it is the
most Americanizing influence among
the working class in that it makes
the workers interested in the prob.
lens of the class struggle against
American capitalism hand In hand
with the workers of America. The
language press does not bow before
everything American; it criticizes
the American capitalist institutions:
it shows the foreign born workers
where the iron hand Of the master
class moulds the life of America to
the detrinent Of the toilers; 10
shows them how the language bour-
geoisie helps the master class Of
America forge the chains for the
working class; and it shows by what
means the working class can make
this country better America, an
America fit to be a home for the
workers who build it.
DIFFERENTIATION"
The language press Is lighting
against the "Americanization" as
practiced by the master class, an
''Americanization" which consists in
trying to persuade the foreign-born
that America is the cradle
Of kberty and the paragon of all
social virtues and that the imw,i~
grant must be thankful" for being
admitted to slave in the factories
or farms of these great and glorious
United States. The language press
does the work of Americanization
on a class basis. 1t looks upon
America as upon the result of the
work of untold millions Of foreign
born and native workers
The American foreign language
press has a liberating influence on
millions of workers. Having a cir
of about 100000, it reaches
large sections of the workers, among
them fundamental strata of the
class in the basic Industries
Of the United States. It does away
with the feeling Of inferiority the
masters would like the foreign
workers to have. 1t destroys the
against native workers
bred in the foreign-born workers
by the language bourgeois4e. It
broadens the outlook Of the foreign.
born workers. It enhances their
strength and thus increases the
fighting strength of the entire work.
ing class. It is q powerful instru-
ment of proletarian culture.
The language press, without en-.
cepticn, looks upon the Daily
Worker as the leading Communist
organ of this country and in many
ways follows its example. The am
of the Daily Worker is
greeted By the entire language press
of the United States as an event
of major Importance in the history
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