The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-22

at arms?" This slogan covers up
these facts and the principles Of
the class struggle and is of great
value to the imperialists who are
now stirring up nationalist chau-
whist feelings in preparation for
war. This slogan aims at splitting
the ranks of the working class.
Moreover it Jumps all whites to-
gether, white workers with white
bourgeoisie, and calls for race war"
instead of "class war" 1t is a
treacherous slogan of nationalism.
Padmore carries this vicious idea
still further when he says:
Philippians, like the Japanese
knowing that all other colOred
people are under the yoke of
white imperialist domination, are
suspicious of the white man."
Emphasis, mine J.W.F.)
What about the subjugation of
the Koreans and Manchurians by
Japanese imperialism (so-called
colored races, Mr.. Padmore? Are
there no class divisions in Japan?
Praise of the Bourgeois Rulers
Padmore loudly praises the Eth
opians and the japanese rulers for
their thousand -year lineage and
sees the present day rulers as the
cream of the great" past. He says:
Philippians, whose history is
one ranging over a thousand
years, claim a line of sovereigns
dating back to $3.50 B. C.
with over 800 rulers including the
Queen of Sheba."
THE history of Ethiopia is SINH
lar to that of Japan says Padmore.
THE latter has her Son of Heaven
and the Ethiopians their Lion of
Judea.' These are the two most
important personages in the two
countries" The Philippians swear
fidelity to the Emperor, whose Of
fical title is Kadowawi, lie. the
Power of Trinity, Kings of Kings"
This sounds like a monk extolling
the virtues of the Pope.
The Emperor, the "Liberator"
of Ethiopia
''The church, which has con-
trolled over one third of the land
since the thirteenth century, and
the feudaI lords form a mighty
buIwark of reaction"
From this premise, he begins to
develop a lesser evip' theory. He
says, sit is against this formidable
opposition 1.-THE church and the
landlords, j. w. FL that the En-
peror, an enlightened monarch,
who favors the progressive moderni-
zation of his country, has to carry
on struggle" Emphasis m i n e
j. w. F..
What utter nonsense! Is it not a
fact th<t1 the Emperor, the church
the landlords and the whole ruling
class stand on the backs of the
Ethiopian masses? And is it not q
fact that through them the foreign
capitalists enSlave the people OF
Ethiopia? OF course it isl The
colonial and semi colonial policy Of
imperialist nations in relation te
oppressed peoples is built and sus-
tanned by the various ruling cliques
Let me quote from the colonia
thesis of the Sixth World Congress
of the Communist International:
Where in the colonies i'm
perialism is in need Of social
support it first of all allies itself
with the ruling strata Of the
previous social structure, with the
fedual landlords and with the
trading and money lending bour-
geoisie against the majority of
the people.
1.-THE bourgeoisie of China, In
dia and Egypt [etc, Ethiopia
J. w. FL is by its immediate in
terests SO closely bound up with
iandlOrdism, with usury capital
and with the exploitation of the
peasant masses in general, that
it takes its stand not only against
the agrarian revolution but also
against every decisive agrarian
REFORM
| Who is this "liberator,' the En-
peror Of Ethiopia that Padmore St
loudly praises? He is bound by al
| kinds of ties with the feudal land
lords, the church and in turn Will