The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-12-22
naturalization of Socialist Workers Forces Demagogues
In the Social Democratic Parties to Don left Clothing

a manner that I stand there as
a peaceabIe worshipper of legal
ity at any price"
Not until 1925 did the whole
truth came out. The Marx Engels
Institute revealed to the world that
that which for thirty years had
passed for Engels' Preface to Marks
Class Struggle in France was, in
reality, a distortion, forgery per-
petrated by Bernstein. The Insti-
tute had come into possession Of
the original manuscript and pub
lshed for the first time the Pre-
face which Engels had written.
Then it became evident that Engels'
discussion Of the military tactics
that the working class would have
to adopt in its future revolutionary
struggles against capitalism had
been crir1inally emasculated in the
1895 version. To take but one of
number Of passages; In Bern
STEMS mangled text, in discussing
the layout of the Berlin streets in
relation to their suitability for
barricade fighting in the face Of
the new military equipment of the
bourgeoisie, Engels is made to con-
clude his remarks with the words:
1.-THE revolutionary who would
himself select the working class
districts in the north and east of
Berlin for barricade battle would
have to be lunatic."
Saw Necessity of Fighting
But what Bernstein kept from the
world and what the Marx Engels
Institute revealed was that Engels
had added the following:
"Does this mean that the street.
battles will play no part in the
future? Not at all. It simply
means that conditions have be-
come far more unfavorabIe for the
civilian fighters since 1S48, and
far more favorable for the mill
tary forces. Street battles in the
future may be successful only if
this unfavorable situation can be
neutralized by other factors. Such
fights will therefore be far less
usual in the earlier stages of a
great revolution, than in its later
course, and will have to be fought
with greater resources of strength.
Such battles viii rather resort--as
In the great French Revolution,
and as on September 4th and Oc-
tober S1st, 1870, in Paris-to open
attack than to the defensive tao
tics of the barricades."
BY such downright forgery have
the Marx-vitiators of the Second
International attempted to drape
their reformism and eventual
counter revolution with the banner
of Engels. Engels' warning to the
working class that 1t must hence
forward turn from tactics of de-
fence to open attack is crippled by
them into an apology for bourgeois
constitutionalisn. And now James
S41CaAs do bAlOuSk1 llS lldQ never
head of the expose, brazenly con-
tinues Bernstein's lie. And falsely
assuming the patronage of Engels,
he asks:
With the enormous powers of
destruction possessed by the gov
ernments, what hope is there for
the workers if these powers are
directed against them, or If they
are ranged in support of fascism?
Assume any form of action work
ers may take, can it possibly be
effective against police, army,
militia, tanks, tear gas, poison gas,
bombing Planes, machine guns,
artillery, possession of railroads,
industries, munitions plants, wire
less communications. the radio,
mails and telegraph"
And so in the name of power, why
try?
Ito Be Continued