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nical intellectuals. and their men
tally has changed very sharply The
skilled man, who would formerly
never listen to revolutionary talk, is
now greatly interested in it.
Recently was dining with the
Royal Society, our great English
scientific society. The Presidents
speech was speech for social plan
ming and scientific control. Thirty
years ago they would not have lis
tened to what say to them now.
Today, the man at the head of the
Royal Society holds revolutionary
views and insists on the scientific
reorganization of human society.
Your class-war propaganda has not
kept pace with these facts. Men
tality changes.
STAIN: Yes, I know this, and
this Is to be explained by the fact
that capitalist society is now in a
cul de sac. The capitalists are
seeking, but cannot find. a way out
of this cul de sac that would be
compatible with the dignity of this
class, compatible with the interests
of this class They could, to some
extent. crawl out of the crisis on
their hands and knees, but they
cannot find an exit that would en-
able them to walk out of it head
raised high, way out that would
not fundamentally disturb the in
terests Of capitalism. This, of course
is realized by wide circles of the
technical intelligentsia. A large
section Of it Is beginning to realize
the community of its interest with
those of the class which is capable
of pointing the way out of the cul
de sac.
WELLS: You, of all people, know
something about revolutions, Mr..
Stain, from the practical side. Do
the masses ever rise? Is it not en-
established truth that all revolu-
tons are made by minority?
STAIN: To bring about revolu-
ton leading revolutionary minor
ity is required, but the m o S t
talented, devoted and energetic mi
nority would be helpless if it did not
rely upon the at least passive sup
port of millions.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-03
United Front in Spain
Analysed in Communist
International No. %

upsurge Of the revolutionary move-
ment places sharply bsfore the
Communist Parties the question Of
preparing and developing new
cadres for Party work Especially
now is it absolutely essential TO
train Party workers in the lower
organizations and to develop their
abilities to adopt an Independents
course in complicated situation,
to carry out boldly the Party lins
without waiting for directions from
above.
A. F. Of l.. Convention
l. Mingulin contributes an article
entitled The American Federation
Of Labor Annual Convention. which
is detailed discussion on the 54th
Convention Of the A. F. of L.
Today the Party establishes as
its main trade union policy one Of
work inside and building the broad
opposition within the A. F. Of L.,
for the purpose Of strengthening
the class struggle policy and carry
ing on fight against the bureaus
Gratis and the employers. 1t is there
fore essential to study to study most
carefully every development within
the A. F. Of L. Comrade Mingulin's
detailed examination Of the A. F.
Of L. and his analysis and estima-
ton Of the results will be of great
value to our Party and all active
trade union workers.
S. P. Leaders on October Revolution
No. % contains an article by c,
Redmill. The Leaders Of the So
cialist Party on the October Revo-
luton" Comrade RedmiH reviews
the writings Of foremost Socialist
leaders in the United States and
shows from quotations from the
writings Of Hillquit, Cahan. Thomas
and Ladder the basic similarity in
the position Of Thomas. "the mill
tant' and Hillquit, the previous
leader Of the old guard" Comrade
RedmiIl shows that the position Of
Thomas and the position Of the old
guard is identical their views COIN
Gliding on the following main points.
ID The October Revolution was not
a socialist revolution; % the dc
tatorship Of the proletariat is not
the form of the transition from
capitalism to socialism; 81 there
is no need for the violent overthrow
Of capitalism.
Japan's War Preparations
The final article is an analysis
by o. Tanin and E. logan entitled
THE Military Organization Of jap
anese Economy" which shows the
elaborate preparation of Japanese
imperialism for further military
anneXationist adventures. It is Of
keen interest to American workers
when the Roosevelt government is
preparing detailed plans for the
organization Of wsr industry and
for the mobilization and intensified
exploitation Of the working class for
the next imperialist war; how the
Japanese imperialists are pursuing
a similar policy insofar as their own
imperialist interests are concerned.
All Party members and symua-
thizers should read and study No.
% Of THE c. T." and the materials
contained in this issue should be
used as the basis Of discussions in
units. study circles and workers or
ganization.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-03
By R. PAINE DUTT

irrational tumble of accidents, nor
as the fulfillment Of arbitrary ideas
and notions, but as a systematic,
scientifically applicable develop
ment, based on the given stage of
the material forces of production
and consequent forms of social re-
lationship, giving rise to correspond
ing forms Of social consciousness.
class relations, theology, social and
political structure, and consequent
conflicts and contradictions, leading
to further development.
The whole OF recorded past his
tory-subsequent to the period of
primitive communism, when the low
level of production and absence of
surplus left no scope for class divi-
sion and exploitation-thus becomes
revealed as a succession of different
forms of class society and class
domination, corresponding to differ
ent stages Of production, and devel-
oping through a series of class
struggles.
CAPITALISM is seen on this out
" look, not as a permanent inev-
liable natural necessity" or super
historical economic law" las the
bourgeois professors tried to make
belieye), but as a historical phase,
with a beginning and with an end
the last phase of class society. Capt.
taliSm, growing out of the conditions
Of feudaliSm and small-property So
ciety, replaces, or thrusts to the
background, the previous dominant
forms Of class privilege and division
by a new form-the division of the
bourgeoisie or property-owning class
who live by the employment Of
others labor, and the proletariat or
dispossessed wage earning class,
who are nominally free, but are in
fact dependent for their livelihood
on the bourgeoisie.
The discovery of the laws of
motion Of capitalist society was the
specific work of Marx in applying
the methods of dialectical material
ism to the existing stage of social
development. He was able to show
that capitalism in its early stages
despite wholesale cruelty and hard
ship, was nevertheless a progressive
force, driving through competition
to continual development of the
productive forces, enlargement of
the scale of production, concentra-
ton of capital and increasing of the
numbers of the proletariat.
But by this very process capital
ism prepares its own destruction.
Originating on a basis of individual
property ownership, capitalism de-
velops to the opposite, to a gigantic,
though anarchic, large-scale organ
ization Of production, in which the
overwhelming mass of producers are
cut off from ownership, while the
appropriation of the fruits by the
small and increasingly parasitic
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Professional and Technical Groups Can Only
Help the Class That Takes Power; They
Cannot Change the World, Says Stain

world it is necessary to have poiiti-
cal power? 1t seems to me, Mr..
Wells. that you greatly underesti-
mate the question of political power.
that 1t entirely drops out of your
conception. What can those. even
with the best intentions in the
world, Go If they are unable to raise
the question of Selling power. and
do not possess power2 At best they
can help the class which takes
power, but they cannot change the
world themselves. This can only
be done by great class which will
take the pace of the capitalist class
and become the sovereign master
as the latter was before This class
is the working class OF course, the
assistance of the technical intelli-
gentsia must be accepted; and the
latter, in turn, must be assisted.
But it must not be thought that the
technical intelligentsia can play an
independent historical role. The
transformation of the world is a
great, complicated and painful pro-
cess. For this great task a great
class is required. Big ships go on
long voyages.
WELLS: Yes, but for long voyages
captain and navigator are re-
quired.
5TALIN That is true, but what
is first required for a long voyage
is a big ship. What is navigator
without ship? An idle man.
WELLS: The big ship is human
ity, not a class.
STAIN: You, Mr.. Wells. evident
ly start out with the assumption
that all men are good. I, however.
DO not forget that there are many
wicked men. Go not believe in
the goodness of the bourgeoisie.
Changing Mentality
WELLS: remember the situation
with regard to the technical intel
ligentsia several decades ago. At
that time the technical intelligentsia
was numerically small, but there
was much to do and every engineer.
technlcian and intellectual found his
opportunity. That is why the tech
nical intelligentsia was the least
revolutionary class. Now, however.
there is superabundance of tech
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owning class becomes a fetter on
the further development Of produc-
ton.
The conditions are thus ripe for
the next stage. Capitalism becomes
a reactionsry, and no longer a pro-
gressive, force. The growing contra
dictions and approaching downfall
of capitalism are heralded in the
successfully greater choking of the
machine, enlarging crises and peri
DDS Of stagnation, mass poverty in
the midst of colossal wealth and
wealth producing power, and the
rising conflicts of the bourgeoisie
and the proletariat.
The proletarist is compelled by
the conditions of its existence to
organize collectively and seek saliva
ton in the common ownership of
the means of production. The class
struggle of the proletariat becomes
the sole progressive force, requiring
to be carried forward to the revolu-
tionary point when the proletariat
-conquers political power, takes over
the means of production from the
capitalists and organizes social pro-
duction for use, thus inaugurating
the classics society. In this out
come Marx found the solution for
the problems of the present epoch.
TIE central task of our epoch
Marx thus sees as the realization
Of the dictatorship of the proletariat
to organize production socially and
lead the way to the classics COM
munist society of the future.
This task requires the information
al revolutionary organization Of the
proletariat to accomplish its world
mission.
To this task Marx and his CO.
worker Engels, who shares with him
the honor both of the original
elaboration of the theory and of the
leadership Of the practical fight,
devoted their lives, both on the
theoretical and on the practical
front.
In the growth and shaping of the
international working class move
ment through the second half Of
the nineteenth century Marx and
Engels played the leading part.
Through the international Com
munist League, through the First
International, and through direct
contact with the working class
movements of the dicerent coun-
tries throughout the world, Marx
and Engels trained and guided the
rising international working class
movement. BY the death of Marx in
1883, and still more by the time of
the death of Engels, in 1895, Marx
ism was the recognized basis of the
entire International working-class
movement.
Ito be contlnued)
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tenth century as the maker and
builder Of the modern world.
Marx first worked out fully
scientific world outlook and meth
cd. This is the outlook of dialetical
materialism.
MARX built on the dialectic of
IVA Hegel, but freed it from its arbi-
trary idealist elements. With Feuer-
bach, the materialist disciple of
Hegel, he saw that the ideal world
was no mystical creation out of
nothing, but the reflection of the
material world. But he differed
from the passive materialism of
Feuerbach, or the mechanical mate
rlalism of the French and English
materialists, in that he brought out
the practical role of the thought
process and human activity, not
merely as the passive reflection of
the material world, but as in turn
acting upon and Transforming the
material world. Hence, the distinc-
tive character of dialectical materi-
alism, in its unity of theory and
practice.
Philosophers have only explained
the world in different ways; the task
is to change it" Karl Marx, Theses
on FeuerbachO. This conception
reaches its full realization in the
lives Of both Marx and Lenin.
On the basis of this outlook, Marx
was able to analyze the development
of human history, no longer as an
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-03
fIr. Brickell and Mr.. Krutch

WELL that's the Of the Mr. Bckel
Mr. Kutch and Mr. Willard there
are no ideally perfect readily noble spiritually supreme workers on
the market upon whom they could their
revolution which shall be quite they
themselves is regretabe unavoidable that the Commu
ns must De compelled to through revolution with
assortment OF workers who do those
without which Mr. not see the possibilities
OF establishing world which misere
and the explorations which they suffer
We would defenders of the spirit prefer IN
have working class which superstition released
from the fears and terro like gods possessed
OF the souls OF angeor of book must deal
with what capitalism has made of the cs-knowin that
the workers not all knowing forces and fears
economic and spiritual tyranny which
exercises over them has precisely which
the Brkels and the arocratc snee of SNUG
contempt.
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WELLS: At least passive2 Per-
haps sub-conscious?
STAIN: Partly also the semi-in-
stinctive and unconscious, but
without the support Of millions the
best minority is impotent.
WELLS: I watch Communist pro-
paganda in the West, and it seems
to me that in modern conditions this
propag and a sounds very old
fashioned, because it is instruction
airy propaganda. Propaganda in
favor of the violent overthrow Of
the social system was all very well
when it was directed against
tyranny. But under modern con-
ditions, when the system is COL
lapsing anyhow, stress should be
laid on efficiency, on competence, on
productiveness, and not on insurrec-
ton. 1t seems to me that the in
surrectionary note is obsolete. The
Communist propaganda in the West
is a nuisance to constructive minded
people
Life and Death Struggle
STAIN: Of course. the old sys-
tenn is breaking down, decaying.
That is true. But it is also true that
new efforts are being made by other
methods, by every means, to pro-
tect, to save this dying system. You
draw a wrong conclusion from a
correct postulate. You rightly state
that the old world is breaking down.
But you are wrong in thinking that
it is breaking down of its own &C.
cord. No, the substitution of one
social system for another is COM
plicated and long revolutionary
process. 1t IS not simply a sponta-
neous process, but a struggle, it is
a process connected with the clash
of classes.
Capitalism is decaying, but it
must not be compared simply with
a tree which has decayed to such
an extent that it must fall to the
ground of its own accord. No, revo-
luton, the substitution Of one So
cial system for another, has always
been a struggle, a painful and cruel
struggle, life and death struggle,
And every time the people of the
new world came into power they
had to defend themselves against
the attempts of the old world to
restore the old order by force; these
people of the new world always had
to be on the alert, always had to
be ready to repel the attacks OF the
old world upon the new system.
ITO be continued
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-03

Valery v. Obolensky Ossinsky, vice
chairman of the State Planning
Commission of the Soviet Union,
will outline The Aim Of the
USSR. Second Five Year Plan" in
radio address over the WABC-
Columbia network today, from 2:A5
to 3 pm, Eastern Standard Time.
He will speak from the studios Of
WABC, New York.
700 r. M.-WEAF-Himber Orchestra
WOR-Sports Resume-Stan boitlaS
WJz-Anios n Andy-Sketch
WABC-Just Plain Bill-Sketch
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growing up on every side, while the
power Of the ruling bourgeois
thought to deal with them was
weakening and drying up, that
Marx, building on a profund study
Of all previous thought and knowl-
edge, and of existing world realities,
was able to break through the OBJ
stacles and show the way forward,
and thus stands out in the nine
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-03
Reviewed by
ED SMITH

D
TO ANY worker VINO wishes TO keep
l abreast of developments in the
international revolutionary move
ment, who wishes to keep informed
regarding the current problems Of
revolutionary strategy and tactics
for penetrating Marxist feminist
analyses Of the most urgent uues-
tons facing the working class. The
Communist International, organ of
the Executive Committee of the
G. L, is indispensable. No. % is an
issue which bears this out.
The leading article is the most
complete review Of the recent events
in Spain that has appeared to date.
In thoroughgoing analysis it lays
bare the background, the alignment
Of class forces, the role played by
each of the political parties, and
the whole series of DEVELOPMENTS
that led to the armed uprising of
the Spanish masses.
Today when the accelerated ma
turing Of the revolutionary crisis
raises as the chief slogan of the
Communist Parties the slogan of
Soviet Power, it becomes a matter
Of greatest importance to study
most seriously each and every one
of the revolutionary struggles that
occurred during the present period.
. These experiences and lessons thus
become the property of the prole-
tariat in every country and serve as
a further guide in the revolutionary
struggles against their own national
bourgeoisie.
United Front Lessons
Of exceptional interest and i'm
portance to us in the United States
are the experiences of the Spanish
Communist Party in the develop
ment Of the united front tactics.
The article examines the whole
course of the united front develop
ments and the role played by the
Communist Party, the Socialist
Party, and the other organizations
within the Alliance Obrera Work
ers Alliance. The article points
out clearly the strike breaking posi-
ton and the counter-revolutionary
activities Of the anarchist leaders.
The experiences in Spain prove that
revolutionary struggles developed
precisely to the extent that the
united front was achieved and car
ried through. 1t was exactly in
those places where the united front
was strongest that revolutionary
struggles reached the greatest
heights. 1t is necessary to empha-
size, however, that the fascist forces
Of counter-revolution, in spite of a
temporarily favorable outcome for
them, have by no means effected
decisive victory over the prole-
tariat.
Training Forces
"The Question of Communist
Cadres," by Comrade Chernomor-
dix is a discussion article in prepa-
ration for the Seventh Congress of
the G. L 1t points out that the
sh arpening of class struggles
throughout the world and the rapid
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-01-03
First Complete Reproduction Of Famous
Interview Between III. C.. Wells and Stain

Below, for the first time in the
English language, the complete
official text of the interview be-
tween Joseph Stain and H. G.
Wells is reproduced.
This conference is the cIearest
and at the same time the most
effective portrayal of two forces:
One, representative of an exuber-
ant and powerful revolutionary
system; the other, symbolic Of
those who perpetualLy apologize
for capitalism and who desperately
make wstery parallelisms between
socialism in construction and a
reactionary profit system. The
text of the interview was taken
by c. Oumancky and approved by
II. G. Wells.
STAIN: We Soviet people
have not a little experience
of the technical intelligentsia.
After the October Revolution,
a certain section of the tech
nical intelligentsia refused to take
part in the work of constructing
the new society; they opposed this
work of construction and sabotaged
it. We did all We possibly could to
bring the technical intelligentsia
into this work of construction; we
tried this way and that Not a
little time passed before our tech
nical intelligentsia agreed actively
to assist the new system Today
the best section of this technical
intelligentsia are in the front ranks
of the builders of socialist society.
Having this experince, we are far
from Understanding the good and
the bad sides of the technical in
telligentsia, and we know that on
the one hand it can do harm, and
on the other hand it can perform
miracles" OF course, things would
be different if it were possible, at
one stroke, spiritually to tear the
technical intelligentsia away from
the capitalist world. But that is
Utopia. Are there many of the
technical intelligentsia who would
dare break away from the bourgeois
world and set to work to reconstruct
society? Do you think there are
many people of this kind, say, in
England or in France? No. there
are few who would be willing to
break away from their employers
and begin reconstructing the world.
On Political Power
Besides, can we lose sight of the
fact that in order to transform the
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The Fable of the Ideal Gadget

RUT get back gadget
into ronmongers said INSTANTLY you
gadgets for fixing doors?"
We'll replied assistant not quite under
stand requirements but take patent
matte
Exactly" said the my pantry door
which by the way, contains glass window"
you will want cheap one, sr?"
Cheap but serviceable."
"You will prefer English make sir?"
Indeed, that's most important consideration"
nstance?"
oh nothing of the sort thank YOU plain and
unobtrlsive possible"
you would like it o rustes metal sir?"
THAT would be very convenient"
"And with strong spring."
We'll moderately strong"
TO be fixed which side,
LET see right-hand side"
Now SIR said the through point
by You want efficient (but COSTLY
nobtusve rustess unornamnted
be fixed righhanded with moderately spring pantry
door with glass window Is there anything further
We'll it's ve good of help this
I should also ike it easily adjusted easily
all it must not squeak constant oilng"
In fact" said the clerk apparatus combining
variety of qualities economical
invisible corrosiveproof
easily adjustable readily removable Bhmad patent
achng pantry understand YOU to saw contains
glass window S that sir?"
Splendid, splendid"
Well sir" said the that there has never been
any article of that description
visit our wholesale department the
able to make selection reasonably assortment of
or present imperfect models. Good day, sir"
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(HANGE
THE
WORLD!
By MICHAEL GOLD

IT WAS Herschel Brickell, the book review editor who
originally started remembering the famous little fable
of the ideal gadget
Mr.. Brickel is sceptic, decided sceptc He SCOTS
at the childish notions of the Communists who believe
that revolution is inevitably good" Personally very
much the whole of the perfectbity
OF the Communists he with
Nation Oswald Garrison Wizards philosopher
jam yesterday the Raconay jam
say the Revoutoniss But there i Jam today"
This little white part informed
the world in his column that signed
deed rural home of his named acorn Cottage"
give Mr. Brcke two places to live spend
nights sleeping in the subway certainly
not only jam" but real pastry.