The Coming of the Socialist System
Busick, William W.
The Coming of the Socialist System The Breakdown o: Capitalism Widens By William W. Buaick rTOOK several hundred thousand years for man to evolve any appreciable degree above the animal....
...Within the last fifteen years the train has reduced the time to four days...
...This presents a new problem...
...Some of the older Socialists despair, saying that they have been working for Socialism for twenty years "and haven't been ushered into the Cooperative Commonwealth yet" These comrades have not worked in vain...
...These comrades kept the movement alive, and as a result, all over the world are millions of Socialists who are today preaching Socialism to a world that is ready to listen...
...Fifty thousand years were necessary for man to pass through the age af barbarism, while the feudal period required less than two thousand years...
...It means that man at last has enough machines to supply all the necessities and some of the luxuries of life...
...The crude machines were gathered together In factories, which made possible the exploitation of labor on a larger scale and the concentration of wealth and power in the hands of the owners...
...The "Barriers" Here in America we have felt that we had insurmountable barriers...
...The Changing System All of these changes were caused by the invention and development of tools and machines...
...Man's development has depended upon the development of tools...
...Today capitalism has made those classes fertile soil for the spreading of Socialist ideals...
...Within the next ten years the . capitalist system will have made f tens of millions more ready to accent Socialism...
...The covered wagons of a hundred years ago took several months to cross the continent...
...With the development of this new tool, the feudal lords' power dissolved and great kingdoms were founded...
...Man without tools moved from place to place, either with his family or with his small tribe...
...In seventy years the Socialist • movement hss grown from a handi ful of followers until today It . stands as the dominant political , force In the world...
...Efforts to prevent the meeting being helo made by the Republican official In charge of the club on the complaint of some of its members wen unsuccessful, but prevented thi union men from approaching the workers as they left the shops...
...As a result only a few boss;* representatives attended, ready t< still further intimidate any of thi men who might have appeared The three"runaway" shops ir...
...It was falsely stated that the object of the union was to replace them New York men...
...Today the airplane has cut the time to twentyfour hours...
...This has hap, pened in less than a, century, and i because of the rapid development . of machinery and organization of ¦ production and diatribtuion, events i will move much faster from now , on...
...Capitalism, our present system, is only three hundred years old, but has already developed the palsy of old age...
...But the feudal lords still ruled until man invented a new tool, the gun...
...The college student • leaves the campus with his dl. ploma and ends up in a bread-line . with a tin plate...
...Capitalism will collapse...
...Each new arrangement, or system, has been shorter than the preceding one, because tools breed tools, machines beget machines at an astounding birth rate, and each new generation of machines is more powerful, productive and procreative than its forebearers...
...As these factories grew larger and turned out more goods, they made possible and necessary more trades people, and there developed a large class which successfully ctallebged the rule of royalty, and political democracies came onto the scene...
...a world that, because things move faster, .will within the next half a dozen years take the first steps in the march to the cooperative commonwealth because the development of machinery has made the world ready for the acceptance of a Socialist civilization...
...The college student had no time to waste on Socialism, for before him lay the chance of becoming a millionaire...
...The technician telt himself apart from the working class...
...In other panict people starved, but they did not see, as they aee today, that they are starving in the midst of plenty Men today are in the kudergarter of economics...
...For weeks, representatives of the union have picketed these shops, which pay as low as 16.00 and $8.00 per week for fifty-three hours work, no overtime, but the workers have feared even to talk with them...
...Get busy I Join the Socialist Party...
...The business of transporting and selling the products of the machines developed the bourgeois class...
...Machines are developing more rapidly, and consequently bringing changes much quicker...
...These new machines bring new problems, and pld economic systems are found to be inadequate and inharmonious in the new world that the younger generation of machines has made...
...The capitalist system was built On the idea that there was not enough for all and we competed for what little there was, while today the machines have brought us the ability to produce plenty for all, and has abolished the necessity or excuse for competition Just as other systems became obsolete and passed off the stage when they no longer fulfilled the needs of the new developments .of machines, so as Father Time rolls down the curtain of oblivion...
...The I technlcan finds his field overcrowd. ed and he walks the streets hunt i Ing for a Job...
...Me> will not forever stand by and starv...
...a world that is rotten ripe for the gospel of Socialism...
...As man's tools began to take the form of crude machines, he had a surplus of goods to exchange...
...when they know that it is unnecessary: they wait only for you t< tell them the truth about Social Ism...
...Marx said that each system bears within Itself ; the seeds of Its own destruction...
...The small business man Is either neari ly broke or is working for a chain r store for S18.00 a week...
...Local Rockland County of the Socialist Party offered Its good offices In straightening out this misunderstanding, and as a result an accurate story of the situation was published in the local papers and a meeting of the workers called for Friday, March 11...
...us reap the harvest...
...The gathering together of men for the purpose of exchange built large cities...
...As man's tools and machines have changed, so have his social institutions and economic systems been altered to meet his new needs...
...The barbarian, with his crude tools, built himself a hut, domesticated a few animals, planted some crops and founded villages, which, as his tools developed, grew into the walled cities of the feudal period...
...They were educating and spreading a message that humanity needs today...
...Capitalism has already lived at least a quarter of a century beyond its time and cannot last another ten years...
...Merrltt Crawford, Julia Sauter and Marion Klrkpatrlck Joined with | Herman Goffer, business agent of the unionand bis men, m picketing | and in distributing announcement) of the meeting to the workers | Word was passed to the work ers that any one appearing at the meeting, which was in the hall o: the local Republican Club, would be Instantly discharged...
...Talk Socialism to everyone...
...The End Is In Sight In the last twelve years production has increased 41...
...The farmer is broke and has lost his farm...
...They bear their president order the destruction ol food and cotton, potential meals overcoats and blankets, while thego hungry and poorly clothed Men see today that we have the ability to produce all we need, but they wonder and wait for someom to tell them what system will give them the -opportunity to go lnt< the factories and start to work making the things they need...
...Spread literature...
...This panic is different from all preceding ones...
...Will you hoi...
...If you wll roll up your sleeves and go tr work building a powerful Socialist Party, this will be the last panic For this panic will sad in Socialism...
...Nyack are the Kats factory, with about 75 employees, Green wlti 25 and the Goodradt shop with 30 While no progress seemed to S'< made at this time, in organizing these shops, a better understanding already exists regarding thr objects of the union In coming tc Nyack and with the cooperatior...
...Free-Born American Workers - HOW "FREE" American workers are intimidated by their employers, was well illustrated in I Rockland County, New York, this week, where the International Pocketbook Makers Union sought to organize three "runaway" shops that have located in Nyack...
...Capitalism has prepared the field anc planted the crop...
...Man with a club and crude tools was a barbarian...
...The farmers fought Socialism...
...Man without tools was but a beast of the jungle...
...The small business man was the backbone of capitalism...
...Because of the extension of the trusts, competition has been abolished in the basic industries, and this system cannot function without competition...
...The steam trains of fifty years ago cut the cross continental time down to a week...
...of the local Socialists and effort to organise a little later glvei promise of being successful...
...Stories in the newspapers ln/|>ired by the employers Intimidated them still further...
...Capitalism's seeds of destruction . are beginning to bear fruit, and these fruits, fertilized by the manure of a decaying capitalist system, are ripening rapidly...
Vol. 13 • April 1932 • No. 12
