The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-23
Another Socialist Leader

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ANOTHER prominent Socialist" leader has left his
native hants for the rich profitable fields Of open
capitalist service in the governmental machinery.
This time 1t is Carl Borders prominent Chicago
Socialist and notorious for his sabotage Of the United
Front proposals Of the Chicago Unemployed Councils
He has accepted the very atterng offer of the Roose
welt government to become part Of the Roosevelt
capitalist relief machinery whose function it is to
provide little relief to the jobless masses as pos
sible Borders leading member of the Chicago Soci-
alist Party is part Of the oppressive capitalist
State machinery.
The open treachery of Borders is not isolated. He
merely is following the footsteps Of his New York
colleague Paul Banshard whose confidential estimate
OF the Socialist Party printed in last Saturdays
Daily Worker and who now occupies a soft niche in
the Wall Street banker government of LaGuardia
He is following the footsteps of Upton Sinclair Cali
fornia Socialist who has become leading member Of
the California Democratic Party
These cases Of open service to the capitalist class
the part OF top leaders Of the Socialist Party
growing in frequency, They do not merely represent
personal treachery. They are the unmistakable
symptoms Of political decay, Of the bureaucracy Of
the Socialist Party.
These acts Of individual treaehery are not some
thing that contradcts the activities OF these gentle
men while they were in the Socialist Party.
This open service to American capitalism Is
only the final, logical step which inevitably grows
out OF the whole Social Democratic policy of
betrayal OF the struggle for the destruction OF
the capitalist dictatorship and the establishment
Of the PrOIetarian Dictatorship. It grows out
Of the whole Social Democratic policy of SUD-
porting the capitalist dictatorship in the name
Of bourgeois democracy" 1t grows out of the
official Socialist Party support of the Roosevelt
n. r. A, Of Norman Thomas support of infia-
tionary currency, cut Of Thomas support of the
Roosevelt New Deal step toward the peace
fHl transition to Socialism"
The leaders of the Socialist Party viii rebuke these
gentlemen for what they call their "desertion" But
what every worker should see is that these acts of
open service to capitalism implicit are the natural
outcome Of the entire policy of the Socialist Parties
everywhere. These gentlemen now serve capitalism
openly The official Socialist Party leaders will con
hnue to it under the cloak of Socialist phrase
ology.
To the rank and file Socialist workers, to those
fellow workers who work with us in the factories
who feel with the lash Of capitalist exploitation
these increasing of service ranks of the class
enemy should arouse to the most serious question
6ng of the role of the Socialist Party
The workers of the Communist Party are eager
to meet their Socialist fellow workers in thorough
frank, sympathetic discussions of the Communist Parv
call TO them to break their ties with Party whose
bankruptcy and class treachery is as the Communist
International has just declared In its 18th penum
resolution, historically inevitable"
The infamous treachery of the social-Democratic
leaders in Germany when they supported Hindenberg
in Austria where they support the Fascist Dollfuss
IN Spain, where they they help to crush the reyolu-
ton, in England where they have produced Mac
Donalds and Hendersons, is now being repeated in
this country.
The road Of the Socialist leaders is the road to
ever more seryile defense of capitalism to more and
more open service to the bourgeoise It is the road
OF the bankrupt Second International which has now
become openly nothing but weapon for the i'm
periast war plans Of the Socialist Ministers of the
various powers
The road OF the Socialist workers is toward eyer
growing struggle for the overthrow of capitalism
against the capitalist offensive the road toward closer
solidarity, and finally toward joining with the only
revolutionary party of the working class-the Com
munist Party