The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-08-15
BY MEMO
XII. Socialists at Headquarters
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THE Democratic leaders prophesied from the
development of monopoly capitalism, economic
ally the ending of competition and politically the
ending of war, and they have still only the
source Of danger of war in the "Bolshevik Die
tatorship" Organized capitalism would Danish all
disputes by means of arbitration, Of eternal
world peace would be begun, the working class
would come into power peacefully if they were to
win ministerial seats for the Social-Democratic
leaders with the aid of a sufficient number of votes
Not dictatorship, but democracy was said to be
the path of the working class to economic and
political emancipation. That is what international
Social Democracy whispered into the ears of the
masses.
The leaders of the Second International in the
postwar period linked themselves absolutely with
the capitalist apparatus Of government and power
"since the World War, participation of So
cialists in coalition governments is no longer a
exception but widely occurring phenom-
enOn But, of the many Socialists who have
entered such ministries not one has been lost
to the party, not has given up anything in
character or respect"
Thus announced the poisonous provocateur of in
tervention. Kautsky, ycrwaerts, jan l. $780, while
Vandevelde coined the phrase of the international
of past and future ministries which was said to
be a proof of increased power"
Who is it that supplied the world bourgeosle
with hangmen for suppressing the rebelious work
ers? The Second International Who is it that
declared that doctors of capitalism they must
save and heal the deadly sick capitalist system?
The leaders of reformisml Who is it that has pre-
pared the way to fascsm through the policy of the
lesser evil?" International Social Democracy!
Whose path has led to the establishment of the
fascist reign of terror? The Social path
of bourgeois democracy
The world bourgeoisie obtained their poisoned
arrows against the Soviet Union from the armory
of the Second International. Kautsky equally with
Leon Blum, Scheidemann equally with Otto Bauer
Henderson equally with Vandervelde stood at the
head of the theological preparations war against
the Soviet Union. There was no campaign for in
tervention in which the Social Democratic leaders
did not take active and leading part The catch
word of "red militarism which the bourgeoisie used
as a demagogic pretext for sabotagng disarmament
and for increasing preparations for intervention,
was supplied by those Social-Democratic parties
which, according to Vanderveldes words were "up
to the neck in social patriotism" If these social
patriots had had their way, the only workers state
would have had to submit to the fate of China and
would have today become a part of the historic
past
The Second International disarmed the workers
but armed the reaction. 1t divided the ministerial
seats with the bourgeoisie, but it sabotaged the
unity of the revolutionary workers 1t organized
pIgrimages to the country of the rising sun of
Dawes" but it expelled workers who went to the
Soviet Union. The Second International was united
in hatred against the Soviet Union, but broken to
pieces when it was question of uniting interna-
tional struggle against world capital and world i'm
perialism.
The foreign policy of the social-Democratic
parties in the postwar period was the foreign policy
of their national bourgeoisie in each case Mon
sieur Leon Blum wrote: IF it should prove neces-
sary to compel Germany to respect the regulations
which limit its ornaments, the French Government