The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-14

leaders bring forth the idea that this event
the crushing defeat Of the revolution, the re
sterilization Of capitalism the beginning O
new and long era OF fascist reaction. Thi
helps fascism by spreading panic, defeatism
and passivity among the workers. It serves {.
create fatalistic acceptance Of fascisrn as in
escapable and undefeatable The true signif.
canoe Of the rise Of fasclsn is quite different
True. fascism is a heavy blow against the work.
ing class. True, fascism turns loose every blacI
reactonary force against the working class ant
tries to physically exterminate its vanguard. thu
Communist Party. But at the same time It Is
sign Of deepening crisis Of capitalism: IL
solves not one Of the basic problems Of thu
crisis, but intensifies them all it further dIs.
rupts the capitalist world system it DESTROY,
the moral base for capitalist rule. discreditins
bourgeois law in the eyes Of the masses: il
hastens the exposure Of all demagogic support.
ers of capitalism, especially its main support
among the workers-the Socialist and trade
union leaders. It hastens the revolutionizaaon
of the workers destroys their democratic illu-
sions, and thereby prepares the masses for the
revolutionary struggle for power
Through fascism the capitalist class hone,
to destroy the threat of revolution at home
Through imperialist war it hopes to DESTROY
the successful revolution in the Soviet Union.
and by armed redivision Of the world to find
the way out Of the crisis
What are the prospects for success Of this
capitalist program?
Such prospects are very bad indeed. The
revolutionary movement of the working class
and poor farmer allies cannot be destroyed. This
was proved by the fall Of the bloody Czarist
autocracy in old Russia. 1t was proved again
by the failure Of the ferocious terror of Chang
Kai-Shek in China to halt the rise of the vic
torious Chinese Soviet Republic It was proved
on our own doorstep last August. by the rev.
dictionary overthrow of the Butcher Machado
and his fascist dictatorship in Cuba It Is be
ing proved every day by the heroic work of the
Communist Party Of Germany It is proved by
the crisis in the Second International and the
mass turning of European workers toward the
Bolshevik path 1t was proved by the destruc-
ton of the fascist dictatorship in Spain. Terror
cannot destroy the proletarian revolution.
Neither is there hope for world capitalism that
it can solve its problems though war II tried
this way in 1914-1918 But instead of solving
problems, this only reproduced them on a larger
scale and in sharper form. That effort lost for
capitalism the largest country, one-sixth of
the world, to the victorious working class of the
Soviet Union Now they speculate on recover
ing this lost territory for capitalism, through
another war But this time they will face a
working class infinitely better prepared than
in 1914-1918 The working class in the Soviet
Union is now fully armed with the weapons
Of modern warfare, based upon a modernized
industry and solid socialist economy. The work
ing class in the capitalist countries is no longer
under the undisputed sway of the Socialist and
trade union leaders. In every country there is
a growing mass which has already begun to
learn the lessons of the victory in the Soviet
Union, which has already grouped itself around
the Communist Party which is arrning them
with the weapons of revoluton-the theory and
practice of Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stain
Of Bolshevsm.
If the imperialists venture upon another war
/ they will receive a crushing defeat worse than
the last war. On the borders of the Soviet
Union they will meet military defeat at the
hands Of an invincible Red Army. At the rear
/ the working class will be Transforming the i'm
/ perialist war into a civil war of the oppressed
masses for the overthrow Of capitalism Such
war will surely end in the birth of few more
Soviet Republics.