The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1935-02-26
Change
the
World!
BY MICHAEL GOLD

NEW DdIDdIlSIH, vie anu uSSOilOA oIO
"A like the sick rawlings of decadent
Roman emperor, is the recourse capital
ism uses to preserve itself.
1t must destroy everything that was
progressive and hopeful in its own culture 1t
must create new wastelands Of superstition and
ignorance Capitalism at any pricel And capitalist
inteHectuals accept this foul mess They. too, are
willing to surrender their hearts and brains on the
altar of the obscene and bloody Dollar God
Have we not seen exquisite and sensitive Amer
lean poets like T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound form
their alliance with Hitler and MussolniP What can
induce such seemingly disinterested esthetes to
praise these crude butchers of civilization?
The answer is simple: even certain kind of
poet will do anything to capitalism. They hate
the working class, and fear the danger of a work.
ing class world. One saw this hatred express itself
on a large scale during the Russian Revolution.
The most soulful mysticS, and other worldly poets,
and sensitive humanitarans" people like Andreyef,
Merejovski, Ivan Bunin Madame Hippius, and
others, suddenly shed all their delicate mysticism,
and began to scream bloody threats and curses.
They who had never dabbled in politics. now
became eager recruits in the White armies. They
served under pogrom generals like Kolchak and
Denikin they schemed with bankers and exploiters
for new invasions, they defended the foulest rape
and terror against the Russian people.
It is they and their like, who laid an theological
basis for the assassination of Kirov. Capitalism
at any price! How dare the working class rule?
Stain is hateful to them, though he is wise and
thoughtful and has told the writers, you the
engineers of the human soul" But Hitler and
Mussolini they can accept, despite the fantastic
bombast, obvious demagogy, ignorance, and vile,
murderous chauvinism that breathes from these
people from putrefying corpses.
The poet bows down to the ape. Because the
ape protects him from the working class Capital
ism at any prce
But let us read few more of the priceless ut
terances of these Naz leaders whom T. s. Eliot,
Ezra Pound and their like would like to see ruling
us in America.
Confusing the Orthodox
As pointed last Saturday the idea that Jesus
n if anything must have certainly been another
poor Jew, evidently dsturbs these frenzied Nazi
Jew-baiters
1T Judaism in theatres movies etc.l was pes
thence, spiritual pestilence worse than the Black
Death" said Hitler in his autobiography The
Jews are nation Of outcasts. Crime is their call
ing" says an editorial in the Nazi paper Der
Sturmer. II treasure an ordinary prostitute above
married Jewess," says the Shiny Dr. Goebbels, who
Is Hitler's publicity man.
Yes they spread the hatred of Jews because this
is way of making the German people forget the
real enemy-which is capitalism.
And yet JHus, if there really ever was such
man, was probably Jew. And many good church
people, who want to be Nazs yet revere Jesus fall
into confusion So the Nazi historians solve this
contradiction by cooly asserting that Jesus not
a Jew, but good Aryan chat is NazD.
And his father and mother were both Aryans,
says the Nazi pamphlet, die Herkunft Jesu"
More Nazi Gems"
THE Nazis, like Mussolini'S henchmen are short
on any real ideas, but possess a great stock of
banal rhetoric.
THE idea of National Socialism is an accom-
plishment of the human soul that ranks with the
Parthenon, the sistne Madonna and the Ninth
Symphony of Beethoven" crates DR.. Alfred Rosen-
berg, head of the Nazi foreign Office Yes indeed
Check it up with the following little news item
from a Breslau paper:
CDR. Ludwig Cohn, after twenty-five years of
service in caring for the blind in Lower Silesia-
DR.. Cohn has himself been blind since early youth
has been dismissed from his post because he is
not Aryan"
The Nazs believe in the nferority of women
THE absence of all-round abilities in women" says
Dr. Rosenberg, "S directly to be attributed to the
fact that woman is vegetative Actually in their
deepest consciousness these enlancipated females
want nothing else than chance to live at the ex-
pense of man."
paper in Frankfort gives its idea of chiIdrens'
education. Attention! Eyes Right Forward
march! four-year old boy was leading two
three-year Odds in the correct formation of the
Storm Troops In German youth, the spirit of
the soldier, always latent, has awakened"
we begin with the child as soon as he is three
years old AS soon as he begins to think, we put
little flag in his hand" says Dr. Ley. chief of
the Naz trade unions
II what we have done here is insanity" said
General Goerng to conference of the foreign
press, then insanity becomes me-"
Yes, insanity becomes them Capitalism at any
price, even insanity Slowly but surely the haIters
are being spun on which these insane criminals
will hang one day
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