The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-10-27
CHANGE
THE
WORLD!
BY MICHAEL GOLD


Christian Socialists in this country, and in other
lands These people not real Socialists of
nor did they from the working class
They were, in the main, members of the middle clas
living They had developed conscience
Bible teaching
the raw brutality of capitalism troubled their souls
They felt guilt because they lived comfort and
leisure while the producers OF wealth lived in hunger and fear Io
such Christian great landowner with of social guilt
Since worker feel this guilt Being different economic
situation him to understand Of the
remedies proposed by these Christian Socialists.
their favore has been Tor the Remuneration Of
worldly Tolstoy this
trin a It is said that
members of the Fellowship of Reconciliation in this country
wealthy Tooyans all have recently foreswon the use OF o as
they consider this Christian luxury.
luxlre anything?
worldly things They cannot
indulge the spiritual pleasure taxicabs Their problem
children
In this vulgar and unsptu quest they to strike
the capitalist state crush the strikers They create
yellow will fight for his life,
and the life of those dear to him
This the Christian Socialists fail to understand They abhor
violence strikers who have occasionally been
voked into ef-defense by the capitalist thugs
of these wealthy Christian Socialists has had live
charity
strike Thus they allow themselves another
spiritual luxury neutrality in the class struggle
Capitalism Makes Communists
IT that of the work of Christian Socialism
little than hatter the complaceny of
bood-stained rich.
social revolution must be led by the working they
society; position
industrial society and have the to gain by Socialist
revolution
But this revolution only workers
oppressed demorald
women,
has capitalism
workers uprising the people This demonstrated
Russia and beginning perceived outline here in America
The lower made desperate by the depression bringing
allies militant working
to respond to the leadership OF Communism wide popular drift has
hitherto impervious to Communism
these perhaps who out of the at
mophere of the pre-war Christian Socialism 1t was their h step
the realities of this social horror named capitalism
therefore the evolution toward society most
of have had to find these transitions Communists aren't born they
made; made by capitalism
Socialism on "Siver Platter"
WHAT Socialism,
" broken down. 1t could uorh only period Of
capitalist sterilization
essentially many protean
people did not capitalism of the EARTH
a
bitter endless struggle These people wanted silver platter
They thought ito change the heart of man. meaning
they expected the capitalists to make concessions
Of decline the capitalists longer make
cecn is question to who will pay for the depression:
of its profits labor out of its Every capitalist
fighting conscience that could
be appealed to he lest it in 1929 on the stock Exchange
Competition Among Heaven-B Bound Souls
MO RELIGION anything society
that produced slavery; its
thinking monarcha reproduction of the fixed her-
be m and another
divine sanction Peters church
Professionalism with capitalism represents the revolution
banker who needed fluid society and free
of ndduam and competition in business
bound souls.
usng the path capitalist democracy
private profit to be saved from its enemy
the human
fascist state blessing oppression
~ te protestant church s snit nm This issue hut is
German Christians accept Hiers
principles pastors fighting him technical mat
ter of organization spos this adjusted the
completely part of the fascist state is Austria
and Italy.
No there is little
without revolution But this that capitalism
concessions to its slaves.
straw; capitalism writhe and twists in the
wounded beast Is this time to plead with it
be Christian and polte2
Contributions the credit of Mike Gold in his Socialist
competition David Ramsey Harry Cannes In the
Home Advisory Board in the Daily Worker drive
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