The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-07
War and Class Struggle


in the International markets.
War and Class Struggle
Of1cial pacifsm. of course, is now
more prominent than ever as one of
the screens behind which Roosevelt
builds his enormous war machine
and masks his war policies. But in
the speeches Of such men as Assist
ant Secretary of War Woodring,
Wallace, Ickes, General Macarthur,
and others the war detectives of
Roosevelt are not concealed.
AS part of the war preparations,
jingoism, slowly but surely is being
fostered by the Government propa-
ganda agencies.
Today on the anniversary Of
Americas entrance into the last
world imperialist war, the poison of
jingoism flows thickly over the
country as patriotic parades"
march down the main streets of the
cities. Already, the air is filled with
vague talk of 'menaces" from for
eign countries. Already there is
talk of defending our institutions"
etc, etc. These are the certain har-
binger Of approaching war.
The war preparations Of the
Roosevelt government are, Of
course, only the development OF
its class war against the tOiling
and exploited masses. 1t is in the
capitalist exploitation Of the
masses, in the plundering Of the
masses by the employers that
arises the necessity for imperialist
expansion, for markets to dump
surplus" goods.
The fight against the Roosevelt
war program thus became basic
ally fight against capitalist ex-
plOitation, against the entire ca
pitalist system, against the die
tatorship of Wall Street. The
fight against ROosevelt's war plans
cannot be separated from the fight
against exploitation, from the class
struggle against the Roosevelt
class rule,
That is why the daily fight
against the economic offensive of
the employers is also part of the
fight against imperialist war. And
it is this which makes the A. F,
of L. burocrscy, the Socialist lead
ership which attempts 10 lead the
masses into retreat before the of
fensive of the employers part of the
Roosevelt war machine.
But imperialist war is the womb
of proletarian revolution. If the last
war gave birth to the
Soviet Government Of the U. S. s.
r., then it is a certainty that the
next imperialist war will give birth
to more than one new Soviet power.
And it is dread of this that haunts
and restraints the imperiahst rulers
from leaping at one anothers Threats
at once.
The example of the Soviet Union
pervades the consciousness of the
world masses. It's answering peace
policy, which is not a paciflst policy,
but an extension of its revolution
airy struggle againsct world impe-
rialism, is formidable obstacle to
the imperialist war plans.
Our answer to the imperialist
war-makers is civil war, class war
against the capitalist class that
hurls millions to hideOus death in
defense Of capitalist slavery and
profits.
If the Roosevelt war-makers
place guns in our hands to
slaughter our class brothers Of
Japan, Britain, if they send us to
attack the Workers FatherIand,
then we will know how take the
road that can lead back to peace,
the road of revolution against the
makers, the road Of trans
forming the imperialist war into
civil war.
Today while the hugles ring their
call to another world slaughter, we
send forth our pledge of interna-
tional solidarity with the toilers of
the whole world. We take our
pledge that in the furnace of war
shall be forged the weapons of pro-
letarian revolution against wage
slavery and imperiahst slaughter.