The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-06-02


trenches supple
mented the of Ralph Easey the
"documented" study
pleased everyone pue press how patheticay
eager to believe his every syllable
A Vicious, Lying and Silly Book
IT book lying book and it is also a silly book
Eastman bames everything happened
Soviet literature Stain: thesis simple
all that.
the poet Stain; Maya
kovky and Poonsky Others
blamed upon Hoover
shoulders carrying the leadership of
the biggest and tremendous construction
He take lot Of blame and laugh at it, joke
blame all the literary schools Of Russia on hte futusts the
NESTS the consructvs realspeasant poetry
tory poetry Mayehold stage theories those Of sanisavs
ETC. etc.
The fact of the matter Soviet literature
force that has responded split
into formal schools had its bitter literary
bates and ennies; too far
nfantle lefsm which the finally
In fact the only time Stain interviewed directly the literary bat
ties in the Soviet Union announced
to build broad united among
And battles2 only
on in every John Reed Club in America the revolutionary
purpose and passion art break with the bourgeois past
tempt sef-purhcation.
always gets fight these literary battles of
the Soviet writer's have cleared up things They have been
In proearn art this country
kind of debate ION a smaller SCALE of course).
Enemies of Communism
THE people really yes Soviet Union and wish it
destroyed are often ashamed to come out nakdv for war on the
and Max Eastman furnishes them camounage
He has done this before, has
In the Daily Worker 1925, following
acterzaton of Eastman in reference earlier ansoviet
he had written:
have seen en- what rotten foundation Eastman Is irving
to erect building
exploits single incidents of the Party discussion in order to
bcken Party undermine pervns
meaning of facts and dktorting proposition
should reflective reader
need the
documents (which everybody
but find sufficient to o himself this
the
ing personnel Party had been true how could this Party
through the long underground
greatest revolution in the world have millions
and to assist in the formation of revolutionary parties
Countries
the sort of picture drawn by
mmatera what were East
mans intentions His book
mics of Communism and revolution
sit therefore effectively constitutes
NOW whitening attack on Eastman
It Trozky who has since degeneed
kind of himself writes books and articles
that contain their eaon service
to the worst enemies of Communism and revolution"
THE bourgeois intelcuals often Trozky;
another handy camouhage behind which
supposed to present Trotz
kysm" all the white guard find
And the reply Trotzky. careful politically
refled the SANDERS of his champion
Lenn left famous political will, which Stain suppressed"
left one and the very nature
OF his relations With the Party well the
self made such will absolutely Trotzky in
Eastman makes if the Army through change
in its leadership had broken effectiveness Tro
zky continues 1T is mystery how and whence
notion It's absrdty quite patent At
mend mst governments to base their schemes
revelations
Eastman by the does characterz
the Red Army thus supports Mensyk
legend about Bonaprsm and Praeorniss
army apt to be broken
leadership would poetaian but precisely
Bonapartist and Praetorian army
And the stluneastmanized Tky accepts Eastman
as his own then told this Eastman that
many alacious and mendaous assertions
lect only few of the important rebuta
And this the authority Soviet literature
the of possible fired his
nual of lies distortions his career He
has had no time in ten
York capitalism he has been too busy
Can such man he has the least honesty under
stand what despicabe role he playing? mott