The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-10
The Message of Stain
To American Workers


DECENTLY it was said that there is no
IL man to whom the toiling millions of
the world listen with more eagerness than
Comrade Stain, great disciple of Lenin,
leader of the Communist International and
the world proletariat.
Certainly the interview which the Daily Worker
printed in full yesterday between Stain and the
English novelist H G. Wells, makes it clear why
Stains words are so full of meaning, so precious
to the working class of the world particularly to
the workers of this country.
In a profound, yet simple way, Stain talking
to the workers and impoverished farmers of the
United States on the basic problem of their lives
how to end the crisis and provide themselves with
work, security and peace.
In speaking to the American workers, Stain
does not ignore the fact that many workers still
harbor illusions about the Roosevelt New Deal'
as a solution for the crisis Stain does not fear
to define the traits of Roosevelt which make him
peculiarly effective agent Of the Wall Street CAPT
talists at the present moment his shrewdness, his
ability to maneuver, his capacity to WELD mass
influence.
But once having demonstrated that his approach
to Roosevelt is not narrow, unhstoric one, but
a Marxist-Leninist appraisal of capitalist class
figure Stain with unsurpassed clarity and rich
the Roosevelt government and the Wall Street
monopolies which make Roosevelt's New Deal
the program of Wall Street profits program which
can never solve the tremendous problems of a
planned economy or find sure way out of the
crisis
m EVERY immediate, vital question, Stains in
v terview enriches the understanding of the
masses
On the question of the similarity between the
New Deal planning" and the planning of the
SOVIET Union a question upon which the Norman
Thomases seek to bring such obscurites, Stain
gave razor-sharp definition;
"The United States has a different aim from
the U.S.S.R. Americans want to get rid of the
crisis the basis of private capitalist activity
without changing the economic basis. As you
know in our country, in place of the old economic
base, which smashed. has been formed
absolutely new economic basis"
The old basis which was smashed"-here is
the revolutionary lesson of the October Revolution
which Stain makes clear to the American working
class If the crisis is to be solved the Wall Street
rule must be smashed. There can be no peaceful
transition to Socialism"
Why is the Roosevelt-New Deal planning"
doomed to failure as a solution for the anarchy
of capitalist production? Stain answers:
You cannot ever compel capitalist to cause
himself loss and consent to lower rates. of profit
for the sake of satisfying public requirements.
Without getting rid of the capitalists and aban-
acnng the principle of private ownership in the
means of production you cannot create planned
economy" and end the crisis. Again the revo-
lutionary lessen!
How simply and truly Stain defines the rela-
tion of Roosevelt to the Wall Street capitalists:
q have had some slight experience in the field
of the struggle for Socialism, and this experience
teaches me that if Roosevelt really tries to satisfy
or;o,.
pense of the capitalist class the latter will replace
him by another president"
If necessary the Wall Street master, says Stain,
will replace his servant
And of the Socialist Party theory that Roose-
velt's New Deal" planning shows the growth of
the state power over industry, Stain states with
Marxist-Lennist precision
Economy is not in the hands of the state
On the contrary the state is in the hands Of
capitalist economy"
1t is not the Roosevelt government which is
controlling the Wall Street monopolies, but the
Wall Street monopolies which more and more con-
troll the government teaches Stain to the American
working class
CTALIN'S fundamental message to the American
v working class is that the problem of bread of
working conditions of security of unemployment
of security and peace are now revolutionary uues-
tions, that the masses never achieve a happy
and secure life through any other path than the
path Of the October Revolution, the path of the
revolutionary seizure of power, the path of get
ting rid OF the capitalists" and smashing the old
economic basis" of private property
For this reason, Stains message which the
Daily Worker alone of all papers in the country
was able to give its readers in complete text,
is sharp weapon in the struggles of the American
working class to win a better life to end the yoke
of the capitalist crisis.