The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-25

Radical Talk of OneaIs and Lees
Is Designed to Hold Back Revolution

mockery for an Oneal to adopt q
pose of revolution" against fascism
in power. The purveyor to fascism
who endeavors to discourage the
working class from militant strug-
gle against the forces of fascination,
declaring what hope is there for
the workers if these powers are d.
rected against them, or if they are
ranged in support of fascism?" is
the same counter-revolutionary
when fascism has attained ascen-
dancy. The misleader who declares
that the masses ''in the other [loour-
geois democratic1 countries" in ris-
ing in armed struggle against the
forces making for fascisrn, assure
defeat in advance" is no less the
traitor when his work of preventing
pToletarian victory has temporarily
achieved success.
But whence this sudden talk Of
revolution" from the lips Of re-
fornisrn2 tOneal voices, of course,
the new" theory Of the Second IN
ternationaD. The International of
the Vanderveldes and the Adlers
must indeed have fallen upon hard
times to be compelled to utter the
hateful phrases of the Communist
program. But you do not know the
social democratic leaderships If you
do not know them as die-hards. II
we must have revolution, then let
us have it property We will march
to power through revolution, but
only when we have fascisr1. And
so, workers, we do not, like the Bol-
sheviks, restrict you to a rigid for
mula. We lead you on diverse paths
to power. We show you how to
march with Hindenburg to Social
ism without a revolution, and back
again to Hindenburg with a revo-
luton!
For the revolution" against fas-
cisrn of which the Onea1s speak is
not directed against the system of
capitalism. 1t is, on the contrary,
the desire Of social-d democracy to
bring about the sterilization of cap
italism and with that its own stabi-
lization. 1t is an attempt to rescue
both capitalism and itself from the
throes of crisis. Such talk of "revo-
luton is in reality addressed TO
the more sober" sections of the
bourgeoisie-a hint of what is in
store for capitalism unless it in
vites the dismissed social democracy
to resume its previous role and re-
tains it in its service where fascist
rule is in preparation. This is the
main strategy of the Prague and
Bruenn leadership: manipulation on
the basis of the differences between
the bourgeois groups. AS for the
working class, social-democracy Of
fers no program of struggle for i'm
mediate and partial gains to be
wrested from the fascist regime.
The Prague leadership which speaks
so much of democratic rights, is
refusing to build the united front
OF the working class under fasciSm
for strike struggles; 1t is refusing
to adopt fighting measures against
the fascist terror, against the carry
ing out of death sentences, against
the oppressive Nazi labor laws; it Is
refusing to arm the proletariat for
revolutionary overthrow. Its talk of
revolution" is a talk of "whens"
and "ifs::"
when the constantly sharp
ening class contradictions Of capt.
talisrn unfold themselves, when
discomfort and disillusionment
shake the foundations of the Ma
tional Socialist regime then
it becomes the task of the revolu-
tionary elite - from the recent
Declaration of the S. P. G.-bold
face nine-V. j. -.
Until then, let us not spend the
energy of the working class4
Revolution Against Revolution"
Its present talk of revolution
Is ocial-democracy's feverish effort
to forestall and prevent the real
revolution against fascism-the rev.
olution against capitalism, for which
the Communist Party is organizing
and leading the working class. The
revolution" of the Oneals is revo-
luton against revolution. 1t is the
old counter revolution in new dis
guise.
The road to proletarian power is
not the road of the otto Welses and
the James Oneals. 1t is the road
which social-democracy has blocked
to the working class and is still en-
deavoring to block in a series of
lands. 1t is the road which Max
ism-Leninism has charted for the
toiling masses throughout the i'm
perialist world. 1t is the example OF
the victorious October Revolution,
the road to Soviet Power. Outside
of Soviet Power, there is no power
for the working class. All other
loads lead to the strengthening OF
bourgeois power. There can be nc
peaceful, primrose path to power
There can be no victory for the
working class save through the rev.
dictionary destruction of the capt.
talist State and the establishment
Of the dictatorship of the proletafiat
This truth is increasingly penetrat-
ing the consciousness of the masses
1t will not be so easy for the sue
, cessors Of the Scheidenanns, the
Eberts and the Noskes to repeat
their crime of 1880. The days
are gone when the Bauers and the
Renners could hoodwink their fol.
lowers with fairy tales about Q
Viennese Socialist Island" The
Socialist workers are everywhere
tearing down the fences which theil
leaders set up between them ant
the Communists. In the United
States, as elsewhere, the united
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