The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-05-18
The Budding Fascists of
the "Brain Trust"

YESTERDAY a group of bankers heard
the professors and economists of the
Brain Trust denounced as "parlor pinks"
leading the Roosevelt government to $50
ciahsm."
In this, of course there is an echo of
the now notorious reclamation of Norman
Thomas Socialist leader, who saw in the CAPT.
talist works of the Brain Trust" the beginnings
Of a new hope for the peaceful path to Socialism :"
The Brain Trust" leading to Socialism, Let
us see.
Here is the remarkable testimony Of high
priced, exclusive information service (Kpllnger
and bank executives:
care these Grain TruSters1 Commu-
nists? No. They look on Communism as an
ideal, probably not practicable for the United
States They think that the equivalent results
be accomplished through original Ameri-
system of government supervision.
care they fascists? They don't think they
are. They don't think in terms of foreign isms
of Mussolni, Hitler, or MosIey.
but MANY POLITICAL DEVELOPMENTS
HERE IN THE EAST POINT TOWARD THE
PLANNED ECONOMY OF THE CORPORATE
STATE, CONTROLLED POLITICALLY BY THE
GOVERNMENT WITH EXECUTION LEFT IN
THE HANDS OF PRIVATELY OWNED AND
PRIVATELY OPERATED BUSINESS UNITS.
THIS is THE SOCIALISM OF FAsCIsM; NOT
THE SOCIALISM OF COMMUNISM"
The Socialism of Fascism - there could not
be precise description of the political essence
of the Brain Trust" New Deal 1t is this way
that the inside, capitalist observers evauate the
"parlor pink" Brain Trust.
THE Communist Party has from the first been the
sole political group in America to reveal to the
masses the growing Fascist character of the whole
Roosevelt Brain Trust" program, cunningly dis
guised by an unparalleled flood of demagogy. Events
are more and more confirming this analysis
The tightening of the grip of Wall Street mono
poly on industry through the whole NR.A. set-up,
the driving of the small farmers off the land in
the interests of the monopolies and the wealthy
landlords the raising of prices through the forced
destruction of crops and acreage, the aggressive
preparations for imperialist war; the strikebreakng
of the compulsory arbitration Labor Boards-in
these typical measures of the Roosevelt government
have all the elements of the economic political
program of fascisn. AS the class struggle reaches
new tensions the Roosevelt government will drive
rlthlesSly forward on the road toward open fascist
terrorism against the working class. The murders
this week of eight strikers shows the road it is
travelling.
The demagogy of Roosevelt is exceedingly cum
ming The development of Fascism in the United
States will undoubtedly have its own peculiar varia-
tons. But in the Roosevelt Brain Trust" theories
in the deeds of the Roosevelt government, we have
the steady fascination of the government as it drives
toward the capitalist-imperialist road out of the
crisis
1t is in the most resolute defense of the every
day interests of the workers, in the fight for
democratic rights, for higher wages for the right
to organize and strike, against the Roosevelt war
preparations and the fascist terrorism against the
whole sinister Jim Grow oppression of the Negro
people, that the advance of Fascsm In the United
States be halted.
All those who speak of the social character"
of the Roosevelt program, all those who, like the
Socialist Party leaders, proclaim Roosevelt as the
one who will defend democracy are the very ones
who are smoothing the road along which Fascsm
is advancing