The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-25

an interview with the bourgeois
press. Perhaps this message did
not reach them in time, for when
on Monday morning an attempt was
made in Linz to force an entrance
into the workers homes they re-
fused to submit and defended
themselves"
In such words did the LEADERS"
defend themselves before the CAPT.
: talistS of the world for having failed
to hold back the Austrian workers
from armed struggle against fas-
cisrn.
Fear for Capitalism
1t is not their fear lest the prole-
tartan forces will meet with de-
struction that sets the Oneals
against revolutionary action, but
their fear that the system of CAPT
talism will meet with destruction.
If their desire we're really for work.
ing class victory, how will they ac-
count for their attitude to the VIC
torious october revolution of the
working class in Russia? There, the
proletarian forces, in alliance with
the peasantry, showed that, led by
the feminist Party with its Bolshe-
vik strategy, they could deal a
deathblow to capitalism's "enor-
nous powers of destruction" If the
Second International chieftains
were honest in their Intentions to-
ward the working class, they would
glory in that victory and rejoice
that at last legion Of the world
proletarian army has shown that
the forces of capitalism are not in
superable. But is this how the
leadership of social-democracy has
reacted to the Soviet Union? Or,
has not, as the whole world knows,
the International of the Kautskys,
the Dams, the Abramovitches the
Hillquits and the Oneals conducted
a ceaseless campaign Of SANDER and
hostility against the land of Social
list construction, even leaguing itself
with interventionist forces? Are
not the Algernon Lees and the
James Oneals at this very hour
banding themselves with every
stripe of White Guard and fascist
to defend the cowardly assassins of
Kirov and lending encouragement
to the terrorist efnissaries of capt.
tslisn against the heart Of the
workers revolution2
When the German working class
seized power in 1918 and Workers
and Soldiers Soviets were set up
in German cities, when capitalism S
enormous power of destruction"
had been scattered by the advance
of the proletariat-who leaped into
the breach to prevent the consoli-
dation of the newly achieved prole-
tartan power? Read the revelations
in the memoirs of Scheidemann
read the exposes made in the course
of certain German libel suits, and
stand appalled, at the backstairs
collision of the socialist" President
Ebert and his socialist" commits
tiers with princes and Junkers for
the bloody suppression Of the revo-
luton. When the sword was struck
from capitalisn's hand in Germany,
social democracy lifted up the fallen
blade against the working class.
And--on its banner, the Scheide-
MAINS, too, inscribed; what hope
is there for the workers :. 2"
In leading us along his road to
power" Mr.. Oneal takes pains to
assure us, however, that he is not
all ter-revolutionary. For coun-
tries under fascisn, he tells us, an
other course of action Is applicable:
an fascist countries there is
little doubt that success can come
only 'shod in the iron sandals of
revolution as Lassalle once said.
In the other countries the masses
cannot make the program Of
force their own without inviting
the use Of the terrible powers Of
the modern state against them.
In other words, they assure de-
feat in advance"
Urge Class Collaboration
Behind this ostensible difference
in method lies. of course, the social
democratic theory that between
democracy and fascism exists
fundamental, qualitative difference;
that the former denotes State in
which the working class has por-