The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-26
The Anti>SoViet Poison
OF the "NatiOn''

THE POLICY OF liberalism is always the fig-eaf for
the brutal realities of the capitalist dictatorship
This weeks issue of the liberal weekly THE Ma
ton once again confirms this MARKHAM analysis of the
political function of bourgeois liberalism
The liberal "The Nation" comments on HitIer's
latest labor laws with the outraged innocence so
typical of liberalism it finds itself surprised appalled,
by the harsh tyrannies of Fascist labor law.
But it is not this which is the main point. The
main point of its editorial note the note upon which
THE Nation" concludes, is that that the full
tyranny OF Fascism is revealed it bares remarkable
resenblance-to what? The liberal "pro-Soviet en-
thusiasts" of The Nation" give their ready answer
to the labor laws of the Soviet Union!
Writes the liberal The Nation:
"The worker is stripped of all freedom of ac-
ton The right of collective bargaining denied him.
He may not join with his fellows striking against
an unfair employer against low wages poor
working conditions. Actually, the code saddles upon
the German worker all the hardships which his Rus
sian colleague has been enduring"
It's necessary to inquire why THE Nation" editors
ind it essential that editorial on the repressive
brutaes of Fascism contain direct reference of the
"hardships" Of the Proetarian Dictatorship in the
Soviet Union?
The answer is to be found in the fact that the
American working class, filed with a growing hatred
of the Fascist dictatorship of German capitalism and
beginning to draw the lessons of the Word-noorious
betrayal of German Social-Democracy which led the
way to the rise of Fascism, is looking with growing
sympathy toward the Socialist construction of the US
SR.
Furthermore, the American working class is
awakening to the Fascist fruits which are beginning
to blossom from the MIRA New Deal in the form of
outspoken anti-strike rulings from the NRA-A F. of
l.. officials and in the reactionary strkebreaking of
the N.RA labor boards. It will not take the American
workers long to the growing resemblance between
these MIRA activities against strikers and the Hitler
labor codes In many places they are already begin
ing to it,
And this raises the question in their minds as to
The way defeat the Fascist menace the growing Fas-
cist reaction Of the NR.A.-Roosevelt program.
Tt is this point that the world shaking example
Of the Soviet Union with its unparalleled advances in
economy, culture and well-beng comes before the
minds of the workers with irresistible force 1t is the
example of the Proletarian Dictatorship which opens
before them the out Of Fascist reaction op
preston, slavery unemployment and starvatoni
There they destroyed all the curses Of capital
st exploitation, the dread insecurity of capitalist ex
istence with its Iobessness and suffering! The natural
thought then, is, why not here2
And it is here that 1.-THE Nation" rushes in with
It's cunning defense Of capitalist dictatorship against
the revolutionary example of the Soviet Union!
THE LIBERAL editors of 1.-THE Nation" beUai the
"hardships' of the Soviet Union They dare in their
venom declare these hardships" equal to the rgors
Of the Fascist savagery
The workers in the Soviet Union suffer the same
ghardships' that the German workers feel under the
heel of Fascism, says THE Nation"
Was the Five-Year Plan possible even thinkable
if it not for the heroism the devotion and sacri-
fee Of the Soviet workers. Could the Soviet Union
faced by hostile capitalist world, ever achieve the
enormous historic strides in culture and wel-beng if
its government not based upon the deepest loyal
ty and devotion Of the toilng masses, if the Soviet