The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-07

the problems Of the masses of
that nation.
who is after Hitler?" he asked.
ITO the Communist Party belongs
the honor" ne answered.
The full text of his speech fol-
lows.
Comrades and Friends:
Last Saturdays bloody deeds in
Germany made clear to the whole
world the impending downfall Of
Hitler and his murder gangs. This
is no longer questioned Today on
all lips are only the questions, How
long can Hitler hold out?' and
who comes after Hitler?"
To the question. How long?"
there are two typically wrong an
swers. First, is the argument that
just as Italian fascism had its crises
and olesnsings, its Matteoti case,
etc, out of which Mussolini emerged
stronger than ever, so Hitler will
come through and maintain him
self for long time even against
universal condemnation. This argu-
ment has the fatal defect that it
forgets that Mussolini arose at a
time when world capitalism was re-
gaining strength after the postwar
cricis, that Mussolini maintained
himself by enormous loans from
America, that Italian fascism arose
in a time of ebb of the world rev.
dictionary movement. Hitler has
none of these advantages. He must
overcome the world crisis, or fail.
He must ask for vas loans at a mo-
ment when he must repudiate the
old loans, and when the world credit
system is paralyzed. He must defeat
not only the rising German prole-
tariat, but also the revolutionary
movement rising throughout the
world. He has no way out but sup
preston and hunger for all who la
Dor and war. To accomplish these
tasks, Hitler would fail even though
he we're ten Of the Mussolinis who
today is also forced TO admit the
bankruptcy Of his system and
plunge the italian masses into hun
ger and war.
No Automatic Collapse
The second wrong answer to the
question, How long?" is that which
now predicts the immediate and
automatic collapse of the Hitler re-
gime. The leaders of the Brown
Shirts are now assassinating one
another, but they will not finish
the job. That must be done, not by
these degenerate and DECEASED
elements, but by the crushing force
of a really revolutionary class led by
a revolutionary Party.
The question, How long?" must
be answered, therefore, that it will
be just that time necessary for the
German working class and its allied
anti-fascist forces, with the help of
the world proletariat, to swing its
forces into action, and, through
series of struggles, finally win
through.
"Who comes after Hitler" Who
will lead the German workers and
tOiling masses to victory?
VIII it be one of a combination
of bourgeois parties, the churches,
etc?
But these parties and their lead
ers had forfeited the confidence of
the masses, even of their closest
adherents, already before the rise
of Hitler. Each and all Of them at
one time or another had actively
collaborated with Hitler. Their fate
is indissolubly bound up with that
of the Nazis; they make no serious
pretense Of independent life.
VIII it be the Social-Democratic
Party, the party of Wells, Severing,
Leipart, Noske, Stampfer? But these
people publicly delivered themselves
to Hitler when on May IT, 1888, in
the Reichstag, they voted confidence
in the government of Hitler, ana
many of them are at this moment
on Hitler's pension-roll. Even "our
own" Norman Thomas is forced to
wash his hands of this discredited
carbon
VIII it be the new left" Social
Democrats with their Trotskyist
and Brandlerist allies? These
heroes" whether in the refugees
of Prague and Paris, or in Ger
many of the New Beginning"
group of Miles," are all marked
by common feature, namely,
their energetic refusal to take
part in any active fight against
the Nazi regime. They accuse the
Communists of Committing sui
eide" and even of "provocatiOn,"
because OF their unremitting
struggle; they are preserving
themselves" for that fine day
when Hitler will fall automatic
ally, and, "in moment of chaos
the masses will "call them to lead
ership.' No, not with such instru-
ments is history made.
There remains the Communist
Party. To this Party belongs the
honor, at the head of the German
toiling masses, of being the only
possible broom to sweep clean Ger
many from the Nazi filth and pes
thence.
The German working class, with
the Communist Party at its head,
having crushed the Hitler regime
and it's reactionary allies, having
established the Soviet power, the
dictatorship of the proletariat, will
proceed to solve the problems of the
German masses. 1t will end the
whole system of capitalist exploita-
ton, which has paralyzed German
economy.
1t will take over the banks, the
factories, the mines, the railroads,
Just as in Germany. Hitler can be
destroyed only by the victorious
working class under the leadership
of the German Communist Party. so