Karl Kautsky and the russian Dromedan
Sinclair, Uplon
Karl Kautsky and the Russian Dromedan ' I 'WtNTY-FOUR year* ago I published * pamphlet entitled "War: A Manifesto Against It." This pamphlet was an appeal to the Socialist movements of the...
...I was a jail bird and was pushed Into a cell in the West 7th Street Police Station at Coney Island...
...We are left to wonder: are the Russians going to be so disgusted at achieving only 90 per cent of tbe scheduled production of copper, that they will rise up and overthrow their government...
...It certainly would be if the hours of work had really been reduced by this measure, but this is in no wise the case...
...Kautsky says: "We shall not be far wrong if we ascribe this state of affairs mainly to the deethsa of the railway system...
...The Five Year Plan Comrade Kautsky is certain that the Five-Year Plan is going to fall, and be Is equally certain that this failure will mean the downfall of the Soviet government...
...and his sole proof is a citation from one of the Soviet paper, concerning a spinning a~d weaving mill which found that no more men were needed with the seven-hour day than before...
...Five hundred and eighteen such units, some of them the largest in the world, are scheduled to go into production this year...
...The etaploye3 had suffered a loss—on paper, at least—of $21,500,000...
...Kautsky, however, makes plain again and again that he is only interested in his formula...
...Sari Kautsky...
...On December 6, 1929, James A. FarreU...
...but that is Kautsky's error of ing—since the sum ttM impressions is a atrasj able one...
...I. can't possibly think what possessed me to run...
...At the meeting were many Protestant ministers, some Jewish rabbis and two Roman Catholic clericals...
...The Russia are giving the 1 stration of tbe , large-scale cooperative and aU of us—the So* tbe capitalists, and tat) pie in between—have to i theories to fit these ni make use of them hi . way of escape from thai and miseries That "Revival in Steel" Lowered Production and Camouflaged Wage Cuts Followed by Chorus of "Sound Business" By Horace B. Davis AN Y day now In the press you may read, "Steel head predicts revival in business...
...The Revolution Conies in Russia Tbe political revolution came in Germany, and that country is now a capitalist republic, like the United States...
...but when they publish these failures to the world, we draw the conclusion that they are facing realities, and taking steps to remedy their deficiencies...
...He goes on to prove this...
...Their answer was always the same: they called for an unsuccessful war...
...The attempt to conjure up thousands of big holdings overnight has merely resulted, and will continue to result, in the destruction of the soundest and most productive section of the peasant population...
...white labor...
...2. Workers of th* TJrsfW of every kind or color j gain the opportunity r Ing in a democracy M tbe people without V^TM 3. The workers * States want, employment, shorter hours and of food, shelter aai The Socialist pert common ownership and tbe mesas of distributing wealth, the of industry into » rected toward the people and...
...Will 90 per cent do it...
...They eell, to owner* of Industry, their ability to produce some commodity for money in the form of wages or salary...
...ARTHUR C. PARKER...
...The editorial write...
...He predicts Inevitable "failure," but without taking the risk of telling us Just what he means...
...Capitalists, or owners of industry, are the buyers of that labor power...
...This document vis taken up by Socialists and anti-militarist organizations of several countries, and circulated to the extent of million* of copies...
...Thus many employes of the United States Steel Sorporation probably took some stock, figuratively, in 10S0 under the employe-stockownerrbip plan...
...A • sudden movement of the crowd ot onlookers, and ths young lad was released by the copy...
...We may make what guesses we plesse about the future of Bolshevism, but the present facts are binding upon us...
...But" said Comrade Kautsky, "after a war, and especially after an unsuccessful war, then will come our time...
...Certainly not, as far as hours of work go...
...the South sent their agents, historically remembered as carpet baggers, into the Sooth to teach thi newly enfranchised Negroes how to vote straight Republican ticknorthern Republican states, notably, Kansas, Ohio, Missouri, and Minnesota, absolutely denied colored citizens the right to vote although they forced southern states to Incorporate the Negroes' right to vote In their states constitutions...
...You probably know that we are carrying on a very extensive propaganda and educational street speaking campaign here hi Massachusetts...
...Then to endless discussion throughout the capitalist world aa to -sue toss" or "failure" of thti Pisa, but very little understanding of what to meant by "success'' or ^failure...
...I am one of those oldfashioned persons who still has hope that in countries such as Britain and the United States, where the people have been accustomed to self-government...
...j million tons of Dnieprostroy now tells us that I in the world year, and its U ing out power greatest plants—all barren steppe t These facts are by the capitalist tlnents, and it is the Socialists of be blind to them...
...it can be said with full confidence that it will fail—that it must fail...
...One can go through the Quoting - paper of January 0, 1981, Kautsky refers).,^t-'«1ee^»ssAi||« of the transport system: "Only 57 per cent of the It at 'that, and does not sea you that during the first two years of the Five-Year Flan, the freight turnover of .the •< railways grew from 156,000.000 tone to 238,000,000...
...The position is not that the experiment will probably fail...
...By multiplying several times over their production of oil, the Soviets were breaking down tbe railroads, and hampering their Other production schedules...
...And those in the audience who have not very good memories perhaps say to themselves: "How was it...
...But the rest of the world bss the future before it, and has to decide about the Soviet experiment If there should come a war on the part of capitalist nations to exterminate this stubborn Bolshevik dromedary, the problem will become the most urgent confronting mankind...
...Capitalists who desired the political control at...
...With business leaders of tbe rest of tbe work', racking- their brains to know what to do about Russian "dumping," .Comrade Kautsky finds it possible to dispose of Russians in one sentence: "This surplus has certainly not been as that promised in the Plan, for that is impossible...
...Tbe hell thesis is especially easy, because of the Bolshevik practice called "self-criticism...
...Propaganda that originates no one knows where, ends by developing popular opinions so effectively that otherwise Intelligent Negroes find themselves saying, "the dirty Jew or that damn Dago," and so on...
...The P r o b l em f o r Socialists Communist Russia offers a difficult problem to the Socialists of the world...
...Tours for Justice, LULU (CARNERA) SILVER New York City...
...In order to gain political control of the South and so procure for northern capitalists valuable land concessions, ft was absolutely necessary to see to it that the ex-slaves voted and voted right The Negroes Re-enslaved No sooner had the northern capitalists through the deluded Negroes, assured themselves a firm economic stranglehold on southern industry than the Negroes, Just used as catspaws anyhow, were left to shift for themselves...
...Negroes to achieve actual economic, political, and social equality...
...From a clean bed, to which I am accustomed, to a bard board cot, covered^ with roaches, and a toilet seat In the ceil, was the very least that I expected...
...Benton, Mass...
...How can any Socialist in tbe world overlook the miracles which Soviet Russia has been achieving in the education of the young along all lines ? Educators such as John Dewey and Rabindranath Tagore have come out of Russia lyrical with enthusiasm over these achievements...
...The season being late, they achieved the miracle of sowing five million acres a day, as against three million in the spring of 1930...
...He does not condescend to mention the statistics of the Soviet government as to the enormous number of factory schools which have been opened...
...This is contrary to the formula, and therefore it can't be done, and if it is done, then "There ain't no such beast...
...All white workers, skilled, unskilled, organized and unorganized have had so little success In ttheir continuous fight for humanly decent working conditions with better pay because they fail to realize what corporate wealth knows so well—that capital bays) labor power...
...The latest report, which I take from a New York Time* dispatch of July- 7th, is that the gam in acreage over last year was 9.9 per cent...
...Of course these are Soviet figures, and Comrade Kautsky will decline to accept them...
...Did be really take a rabbit from the hat...
...Only the expected happened...
...He does not consider it worth while to mention that the question has already been decided, so far as concerns such major features as oil and electrification, which have completed the Five-Year Plan in two years and a half...
...In their press they mercilessly expose,their own failures and inadequacies, and tell frightful stories about the incompetence and mismanagement at this factory or that These stories are <hen taken up by the correspondents of capitalist newspapers in Riga and Warsaw, and cabled to the entire world...
...Tbe stock was selling early in August, 1931...
...The success of the Flan is being made, hour by hour, in the building up of Russian industry, and the coming into production of new industrial units...
...A Record Grain C r op But there are details which are not mentioned by the capitalist newspapers, nor by comrade Kautsky...
...and it is a hard matter at that, stage of life to have to admit that one's "whole life's work has been in vain...
...If the Soviet government had hid the early failures of the Stalingradplant, then indeed we might question their chances of success...
...Employes of Charles M. Schwab, who have found their earnings cut by similar trickery, could still read in May, 1931, that the patriotic Charlie was maintaining his pledge not to cut wages of Bethlehem workers...
...L and many of the other New England comrades, who find it sometimes hard to collect material from which to glean good ideas for speeches, have found your editorials very insoiring...
...Instead they fell off...
...NownezB is tnere n u n n «x um fact that the Five-Year Phu schedules have beer, revised upward, so that the program to no losspar a Five-Year Plan, hut s Four-Year Plan...
...Prom that he passes on—and what has he left In your mind...
...They have failed to do it, and admit their failure in their own pres and so ail over the world their enemies sow gladly speak about the Stalingrad tractor-plant...
...An ice-cream brick, accidentally fell out of the bundle...
...At the annual meeting of stockholders he'd April 20, 1931, Myron C Taylor, chairman of the finance committee, said, "We can face tbe future with tbe fullest confidence...
...The book was published in Germany in the fall of 1980...
...Tbe regard which I feel for Kautsky as one of the teachers of my youth, and as a man who has grown white-haired in the service of the workers, cannot keep me from speaking frankly...
...All through his books he accepts Soviet statistics as to failures, but when they have to do with success, he writes: "It is unnecessary to say much about Sonet statistics, which are always unreliable when they are optimistic...
...the paper calls tbe situation "almost catastrophic," and Kautsky quotes this and lets it stand...
...This gathering must bare taken place fully twenty yean ago...
...I havi thought considerably and often about It and have for quite some time past intended to write to you to learn 11 you have known anything regarding such a meeting...
...We all wondered if these men who were charged with tbe duty of protecting their fellow beings, were permitted this power of injuring a young boy...
...and he answers the question...
...It doesn't mean a thing...
...President Farrell of the United States Steel, said several times at the opening of the depression that his company did not contemplate cutting wages...
...you possibly imagine what that crime might be...
...of the N e w York Times not long ago, set forth the fact that the plan was failing because It wai succeeding too fast...
...The Soviet house will be finished sooner or later and Karl Kautsky, "foremost Marxian theoretician 01 our times," will be found sitting on the curb, commenting: "What is the essence of the Five-Year Plan ? Nothing but upsetting the balance between the various branches of production...
...This lad was poorly dressed, and he looked that If given a good meal, he would have relished and enjoyed such food...
...Finally, no conclusions ol a definite and practical nature having been arrived at, one of the Catholics spoke, saying, as nearly as I can now recall, "Well, gentlemen, you have not accomplished anything, and I now propose that if you will follow the leadership of my church that we will make a success of our efforts tc destroy Socialism...
...Comrade Kautsky U spared this particular fear — not being able to bring himself to admit that anything has succeeded...
...Having been a guest of the City, for several hours, I requested the teener to give me a drink of water...
...It was my idea that the Socialist organizations of the various iitioos should const irufe themselves an international peace movement, adopting a common program and pledging themselves to revolutionary action to prevent war against one another...
...Yet many workers continue to believe what the bosses say...
...Tbe lad was accused by tbe officer of a most criminal act Car...
...There is another animal story which applies to the critics of Soviet Russia: that of the seven blind men who examined an elephant One reported that an elephant was like a tree-trunk...
...Soviet Russia is so enormous and so complicated that one can go into it—or sit in one's study in Berlin and read newspapers about it—and make a selection of what one pleases, and write a book proving that Soviet Russia is anything from a paradise to a hell on earth...
...in fact it assures its stockholders that its financial position Is excellent, Eugene G Grace, president of the Bethlehem Steel Corporation, and crown prince of hokus-pokus for Charlie Schwab, let slip an Item of truth on July 30...
...In all the skilled branches of industry trade anions had not the vision or intelligence to include in their unified ranks these black men who are again used unknowingly to break strikes, to keep down wages and better working conditions...
...he does not conaider it necessary to tell you that in spite of the "almost catastrophic" situation, Soviet Russia somehow managed to turn out the largest grain crop in Its history, and to have itself recorded, in the statistics of the hostile United States government, as number one among the grain producing countries of the world...
...But the social revolution which Kautsky, as a Marxian, had been predicting and working for all bis life, did not come in his country, where it was expected...
...The conjurer does a great deal of talking, and makes many passes with his hands, but you do not see the rabbit...
...It was, assuredly, as incident of some significance...
...and in the early part of June 80 per day, or at the rate of 29,200 a year...
...attained to by the capitalist states...
...Immediately afterwards, steel production, which Lad already be*"*r *o show a downward trend, took a uig plunge, and has zigzagged downward over since...
...Here are a few examples of •'expert'* prediction, as they relate to the ateel Industry "The steel business, as far as I am able to see, has no cloud on it for the remainder of the year," said William G. Clyde, president of tbe Carnegie Steel Company, on September 11, 1929...
...I also wondered why the officer was- pulling and holding this boy...
...Comrade Kautsky had changed his mind in the meantime, and no longer wanted an unsuccessful war...
...Blacks, ous European leaping at each hating, killing, ostrich-like, oblivious mon enemy, vested Interests.' The Negro 1. Just so long as America, including' A. r. .of U . exclude < the ranks of organhi cause of color or long will the own* look with derisive puny efforts of the 1 cere labor leaders ganimations to and power...
...A CLERICAL ALLIANCE Editor, The New •Leader: I read with approving interest your articles about the Pope's Encyclical, and would like to see them far-spread, so that they might meet the eye* ol our feilow citizens of the Roman Catholic faith...
...had agreed to pay $53,400,000 was worth at market prices of August, last, only $81,900,000...
...Readng it, I am reminded again and igain of the ribald story conceracg the farmer who went to a cirua, and confronted for the first ime in his life—the phenomenon mown as adromedary...
...The hard-boiled correspondent of the New York Times found it necessary the other day to write a column on the subject, and to describe the new youth of Russia as "swell...
...Sound"—For the Owners Wage reductions were not contemplated, said President Campbell of Youngstown Sheet and Tube in November, 1929...
...Either presidents of steel companies talk a lot about things they don't understand, or they are a bunch of arrant liars...
...your success in making tractors will not put tractors into the field to plow your land...
...Tbe farmer ooked at it, first from this side ad then from that, and scratched '-Is heed, and finally enunciated lis decision: "There ain't no such cast:" Comrade Kautsky, con; anting tbe beast of Bolshevism, ays that it can't be...
...The inoustry as a whole was operating two months after this prediction, at one-third of capacity, a tcn-y«ar lo-,v record, and not fat from an all-time low...
...169, and in January,-1911, $140...
...Dear reader, do you eefl a trsJnman^yellmg the names of T a^l^4hat*thirwas IrPFcL top of my agony and troubles, I was permitted to have a drunkard put Into my cell...
...A "Humiliating" Book Karl Kautsky is 77 years of age...
...The exslave holders immediately disfranchised tbe colored political novices, re-enalsved them by a peonage" system and forcibly discouraged every further attempt on the part of...
...If they attempted to prevent a war, their organization would be wiped out...
...Workers for I his company report that during 1930 there were repeated "rcaiijusbments" of tonnage rates in Youngstown Sheet and Tube plantys...
...it came in Russia, a country which, according to tbe MarxKautsky formula, was not yet ready for it, and could not make a success of i t So Comrade Kautsky finds history not behaving according to his formula and faces Jht painful problem of adjusting lis mind...
...It was tbe hope of New Yorkers to get away from tbe sun-baked streets and rush to tbe beach tor a breath of cool ah-, and a swim...
...Again he lets it go at that, and does not explain how these "destitute and entirely ruined peasants" managed to break the grain-markets of the world last fall, and compel the American Farm Board to advise American farmers to restrict their acreage, and give up their hopes of the world market...
...In my story, I forgot sue most important tact L too, am one of the unemployed, and where can one possibly raise money for a $500.00 Bond...
...Logically, it is also a manifestation of self interest for capitalists or corporate wealth to keep the millions who labor disorganized and so separately important...
...I sincerely hope that my articles will help popularise The New Leader as a propaganda sheet...
...Northern and eastern states already dominated and controlled by capitalism through the Republican political party did not need the support of the Negro...
...made plain that Plan was proving success, and that tl won his admiration i Theories One of our la Colonel Cooper, has many to the fact thi the Soviet works* world's record by f|||)s...
...I bad walked about SO feet when I noticed several officers running towards me...
...The Bolsbevika rushed this great plant to completion six months ahead of time, and laid down the program to turn out 50,000 tractors per year...
...at $83.50...
...But la is Soviet tremen&oui: history of the Russia is comix tsiist cations Soviet Russia fl lem of uaemp moved by tbe Kautsky from _ sands out to the ment that: "Lack scourge of tbe _ Soviet States as capitalist countries," Tbe starving United States, of and of Comrade , Germany, become is happening- in co way to keep them, no matter you write filled from 'White" viet "self-criticism...
...I felt that a sledge hammer was hitting my body, near my heart...
...As buyers tbey are plmarily concerned in buying- at the smallest cost possible, all of the labor power necessary to .operate their industries and so enlarge the amount of their profits...
...He still believes that "the masses are perishing of famine and squalor...
...another that an elephant was like a wall—and so on...
...they might be mindopeners...
...Two things are certain: first, that lying abou...
...And that grout of men, belonging to two other organized religious bodies that had heretofore antagonized the - Catholici promptly and evidently agreed...
...Purposeful or workers are held Impotent by tbe petent but excluded too must work to Bva In the endless white and black Identity of class gotten or unr end creed fied a thousand fold, i dustry foster and ill feeling among knowing that they thereby...
...and this is success, and will be success—even though some of the units do not start until January or February of next year, and even though their production during the first few months may be only 80 per cent, or 90 per cent, of that hoped for...
...the production expected in tbe first year was 20,000...
...I started to run with hundreds of followers, end many cops after me...
...At least I feel it my duty to go on pleading for such a solution of the problem...
...Says Comrade Kautsky, later in his book: "Are not, at least, those who are in work much better off...
...in, of Science Monitor, a ranty of the New Y« am aware that it quote from these _ strong indictment regime...
...Has he told you that the Russian workers have the seven-hour day, or that they have not...
...in 1929, the price was $185, and in 19*0...
...There ensued a lengthy discussion, every one taking part in It with the exception of the two Catholic representatives...
...president of tbe United States Steel Corporation, was quoted as looking for a very early recovery m bt'siness, and saying of his own company, "We expect a good average year m 1930...
...another that an elephant was like a rope...
...this we have already seen...
...At the time I cut tbe report frora the paper, but in moving from place to place, I have either mislaid it 01 lest It...
...He quotes figures from some of tbe Russian exiles, ss to the shutting down of some of the Rue si an textile factories for six weeks during the year 1930, due to a shortage of raw material...
...1931, when he said, "The steel industry in the United States was never in a sounder position to ta From the newl leader mail bag Editor, Mew Leader: During tbe terrific beat In New York City of the pact few days...
...Later the conjurer remarks, casually, "You remember, ladies and gentlemen, how a little while back you sav, me take the rabbit from the hat...
...On the other hand, Negroes have been dupes ol dishonorable politicians ever since the beginning of the reconstruction period...
...Their trustfulness has cost them half the sum that was deducted from their pay to make the purchase, and trustful employes of former years have been similarly gypped Thus 49,912 employes subscribed in 1928 when the price of stock was $145...
...but I thought he should have It, and as you know, he got it...
...A year and a half later, he was still predicting thit upturn in business...
...He does not tell you that the Plan has been far exceeded so far as concerns the collectivization of agriculture, and will be exceeded this year so far as concerns slanted acreage...
...I then became aware that the boy was certainly breaking the Law...
...But even so, If you get your house, and live in it, you soon forget the annoyance experienced w h i le camping out in the garage...
...I would like to commend you on your editorials...
...But Comrade Kautsky a formula requires that this youth should be "a poor, unemaacipated, ignorant population...
...Thinking of only one thing,, the boy ran, the cop after him...
...again it has and American ers to send their I to Russia, and have what is happening, stand in favor of tithe beginning there Price and Arthur late there have Chamber...
...Herein lies the curse of the competitive system, "the profit moflve...
...Once more he lets it go at that, and does not tell you that more than half the peasant households of Russia are now in collectives, and that with the great state-farms, they have planted two-thirds of the planted acreage of Russia this year...
...Comrade Kautsky quotes one of the Communist papers as telling about tbe failure to deliver plows to the peasants In the spring of 1930...
...I was then Informed by the arresting officer that I could be released by posting a bond of (500.00...
...The hundreds of bathers followed The peddler boy was running towards me, and I saw him drop his package directly In front of me...
...Negro labor from that time, about 1875, has been constantly pitted against white labor and unemployed groups of Negroes held at the gate of Industry as an ever present threat over the besd- of employed, organized...
...Karl Kautsky and the Russian Dromedan ' I 'WtNTY-FOUR year* ago I published * pamphlet entitled "War: A Manifesto Against It...
...He does not consider tbe possibility that Soviet Russia, making its purchases abroad, chose between buying cotton to be spun in 1930, and buying tractors to plow the fields of Turkestan to grow cotton in 1931 The latter was done, and so in the Moscow "News" for June 3rd, 1931, T read: "The cotton planting.this spring was 160 per cent above last year...
...In 1912 I visited Germany and discussed this problem with many of the Socialist leaders, including Kautsky and his wife and son...
...Oentisnod Improvement" On February 26, 1930, Jamas A. Campbell, chairman of Youngstown Sheet and Tu be Company •aid be believed business would continue to improve...
...I found the Socialist leaders ympathetic in every country cx;ept ere, and that was Germany...
...And I wonder if this wfll be ol any interest to you...
...recognised as the intellectual head of the German Social-Democracy, wrote me *ev•ral letters explaining the reason...
...Just what percentage of failure in the copper-schedule will prod • » this rage...
...and so tt remains...
...Therefore the publication of such a book as this, by a man who is described on tbe jacket as "the foremost Marxian theoretician, of our times," and its translation and publication in Britain and in the United States by the Rand School Press—these are matters of concern not merely to Socialists, but to all persons of open mind...
...But did we see it...
...This loss was not cancelled by the special advantages accorded the "ioyal" employes under the plan...
...But my purpose in writing to you is to make an inquiry as to whether or not you ever knew of the following?: ' Many years ago when I was residing in Bridgeport, Conn., (I cannot recall the year) I came across a report in the daily newspaper which I read regularly at the time, of s gathering of a portion of the clerical fraternity, called for the purpose ol considering measures for combating the Socialist movement...
...The result of his effort lies be'ore us in a book Just published, "Bolshevism at a Deadlock...
...Russia's Seven Hour Day Comrade Kautsky says: "They do not ask how it is possible within the space of five years to treble the number of skilled workers, foremen, and engineers who are needed, for tending the machinery...
...especially when you consider that in the month of May the score was 1,823...
...Speaking as a lifelong Socialist, I call this book a humiliation to the Socialist movement of Germany, and a danger to tbe Socialist movement of the world...
...Only the destitute and i entirely ruined peasants enter the collective farms willingly, and they are precisely the persona who have proved themselves to be the most una killed and incapable of work...
...not white, red, yellow or black labor power, but labor power fin wherever sella the ther, tbe capitalist* exclusive group of < ers could ever rise uncertainty, general 1 poverty of tbe regardless of race...
...L«et us wait a year or two longer until Soviet cotton is being offered for sale In Mississippi sad Texas...
...and second, that if tractors are coming from the factory, and are actually plowing the land, they will not be stopped by the publication of books in Berlin, calling them "Optimists," 'fantastic," or 'impossible...
...tbe change from capitalism to Socialism can be accomplished without the overthrow of tbe government...
...Into such circumstances was I thrust on a beautiful Sunday morning...
...Tbe figure of 50,000 represented the ultimate capacity of the plant...
...Kautsky lays down the law: "In no circumstances will Soviet Russia be able to create agricultural large-scale production capable of survival...
...It naturally follow* that tbe owners of the mills, mines, factories, oil wells, forests, and banks should devise means by which to keep wages low and a plentiful supply of unemployed labor available...
...but beginning in 1931, a press campaign of several months was conducted to prepare the way for a general slash and at the same time to throw the blame on the independents...
...Comrade Kautsky imagines his readers asking him whether this may not be "a very great advance over the leva...
...The New T l Post sent H. R. . whom they trusted, I a fortune to advi upon the 'Red They did their bast their cause with m But even so, Mr...
...A Federated Press dispatch reports the total sowing as 235,000,000 acres...
...Innocently sitting on the beach, discussing tbe topics of tbe day with a young lady friend, I became aware of a tremendous crowd running towards tbe water...
...and "impossible," and rives his reasons in one sentence: 'If Lenta is right, then my whole iife's work devoted to the propagation, application and further development of the ideas of my great masters, Marx and Engela, has been In vain...
...It had not...
...His criminal act was selling on the beaches, wlflth was undoubtedly not being encouraged by the many concessionaires, who charged exhorbttantly for their candles, and their ice-cream...
...Then in August it cat dividends almost hah...
...From tbe fresh, dean breeses of the ocean, to a hot unclean and filthy cell, was the last that I expected...
...Newnsne, La...
...Organiser...
...Stock for which employes in tbe four years, 1926-29, incluvsive...
...Krnest T. Wier, chairman oi the National Steel Corporation, sixth largest steel producer in the country, expressed the opinion on May 2. 1931, that the industry had reached its low point...
...I then noticed that the boy had a package with him, and a bar of chocolate...
...Tbe offense of the Bolsheviks was that they attempted to "conjure up over night a fully developed socialistic system of production for a nation, the great majority of which (over one hundred million) consists of illiterates and primitive peasant cultivators...
...I took this package, and walked away, thinking of protecting the property of this poor boy...
...I naturally was Informed to raise the •600.00 bead, and could not pay the $15.00, for this bond, and was Informed that I would have to spend the day in jail...
...and this factor was decisive in my mind at the beginning of 1917, when I had to decide my attitude towards America's entrace into the World War...
...The state farms have jumped from 1,150,000 acres to 10,378,000 acres—and right while Comrade Kautsky was denouncing collectivization of the land m Russia as "a direct counter-revolution," and declaring that "it la against this counter-revolution that the peasants are rising...
...After running for several blocks, my heart started to beat...
...He proceeds n chapter after chapter to describe the facts sa "monstrous," 'fantastic...
...Modern capitalism adopted Ancient Rome's slogan, "Divide and Rule...
...they are reprinted in the "White" Russian newspapers of Berlin and Paris, and so Comrade Kautsky has unquestionable Bolshevik authority for his pictures of the failure of, for example, the Stalingrad tractorplant...
...Horace Wilkinson, chairman of the Crucible Steel Company of America, which is said to be the world's largest producers of high speed and tool steels, said in February, 1030, that ne believed that orders and production in the steel business, which had increased in January over November and December, would continue to increase...
...But the strangest passages in the bock are those dealing with the seven-hour day in Russia...
...Yet the United States Steel Corporation does not plead poverty...
...X have never met with anj reference to the matter, and hav< wondered why...
...Following constantly this line of conduct, the wealth of owners of industry has always been available to finance any movement, any book, drama, or play that insidiously dramatizes or makes conspicuous natural and artificial differences among the members and groups of this heterogeneous nation...
...Or will it take 85 per cent ? Merely to ask such questions ought to show the absurdity of the current notion about "failure...
...Comrade Kautsky tells how the peasants were forced into the cooperatives, and says: "Forced labor is the most unprofitable kind of labor possible, and is the kind which, as far as results-go, comi pares the least favorably with jfree labor...
...but the preface to the English and American edition brings the comments down to the spring of this year, and makes plain that last year's successful harvest, and the bringing of half tbe peasant farmers into collectives, means no more to Kautsky than anything else that has happened in Russia...
...That year has just been completed, and the score was 8,287, which is not quite the same as complete failure...
...This can be compared to the procedure of a conjurer who stands before you on the platform, and tells you that you are going to see a rabbit come out of a hat...
...The trust, according to Farrell, Is afraid of competition...
...In the Moscow News of June 13tb^ I read that the organization supervising the five-year plan put 130.000 adolescents into factory trade-schools in the month of February alone...
...LIKES THE NEW LEADER Editor, The New Leader: I Just want to thank you for the admirable space you have been giving me in The New Leader...
...The heat was terrific...
...THEODORE ATWORTH...
...That is one way to compose a book in a hurry, but It seems to me a poor way to arrive at truth...
...P. S. Just want to add that I ad' mere and highly appreciate your excellent editorials and articles in The New Leader, wish I could be of the same service to Socialism now as 1 always was when I lived in Brooklyn, The Economics of Race Hal Capitalism Pits White Worker Against Co Socialism Calls for Unity of All Labogr By Arthur C Parker ALL worker* by band or brain are sellers of labor power...
...The substance of his statement was that the German party could do nothing, therefore it would not try to do anything...
...I began thinking that I should stop running, but I feared that the officers might shoot.' I was finally caught after a 10 block chase, and In a few moments I found that I was no longer a free oerson but was classed as a criminal...
...I naturally followed tbe crowd, and saw an officer of the Law holding a poor youngster by tbe collar...
...Bach pun that be gave, caused the poor boy agony, and each jerk that tbe officer gave the boy caused the crowd of onlooken to gasp in dismay...
...and the financial community, credulous, it would seem, to the end, was reported much heartened...
...This pamphlet was an appeal to the Socialist movements of the world to realize the war peril and adopt a definite program with regard to it...
...If you are building a bouse, and hope to move Into it by Christmas, you may call it "failure" if you do not get in until George Washington's birthday...
...But these are Soviet figures, and may be "optimistic...
Vol. 13 • August 1931 • No. 7
