The Army of Liberation-The Socialist Army-Is on the March
The Army of Liberation—The Socialist Army—Is on the March 'JO THE LORDS AND MASTERS OF CAPITALISM: For several generations you and your retainer* have glorified your regime. Poets have sung your...
...Order your professional poodles to write more books asking us how we will organize the various departments of economic life...
...Tell them *—you, the destroyers...
...Tell us if there is a single item in your indictment of us that does not apply to you and your hateful system today...
...Tell them—you, the confiscators who arc consigning them to the social f>it by the side of us, the workers...
...We now summon you to the court of mankind to pass judgment on those accusations...
...We shall climb out and womanize your system so that it wilt serve humankind...
...Tell the millions whose homes and families have been destroyed by you and your regime about this fearful thing you feared...
...but that order requires that you step down and cease to own the great industries now...
...Tell them—you who have transformed millions of workers into outcast robots, each alike as rivets in a boiler...
...The liberators arc gathering under the Socialist banner, ballot-armed and determined...
...We, the workers of the nation, are in the social pit, but we shall not stay there...
...How About Incentive...
...Go to the edge of the social pit into which millions have tumbled and tell the miser-ables that we Socialists will deprive them of their savings...
...Tell your middle class allies that Socialists will confiscate their petty capital...
...idle in your hands...
...Become alarmed over the "freedom" we wiH lose if we lose you as masters...
...You have brought accusations against us...
...Tell them—you, the dividers...
...Lords and Master.-, of Capitalism: Assemble all the ancient lore that you once thought to be the last words of wisdom in justification of your regime...
...Send your "moralists" out on the highways to shout that Socialism will throw women into a common stew to gratify the lust of libertines...
...Tell them-vow who have stripped them of what they Ijad and deny them the opportunity to replace it...
...Tell the millions now festering in the social hell tvhat you think of yourselves and whether your work is good...
...You and your retainers have said that a Socialist civilization is unworkable...
...Do you remember it ? Revive his Statement that Socialism leads to a "glorified free lunch counter...
...Tell the tens of millions today who have lost their farms, their savings, their homes, that we will force them to "divide up...
...Face the masses with that accusation against us—you, who cannot give jobs to millions and for whom incentive has no meaning whatever...
...Freedom Under Capitalism While you are about it, do not forget to inquire whether Socialism will not reduce the masses to servitude...
...t You were anxious over the fate of the family if we came into power...
...Drivel About **Individualism'* Send your retainers out on the highways to chant your drivel about that "individualism" the ragged and starving will lose if they take your power from you...
...how production will be carried on, goods be exchanged, and various workers be paid...
...To Serve Mankind Lords and Masters of Capitalism: Twilight is gathering over your regime and ere long darkness will swallow it up...
...Tell us now how workable is yours—you, the wreckers of your own system...
...Ask us your silly questions about the corruption that will follow our rise to power—you, who have bought legislation like fish in the market, you who have often transformed city and state legislatures into pig-sties...
...Charge us with introducing slavery—-you, the slavers, who have tied workers to your corporation industries and enforced the lockstep of the company union...
...Send your intellectual police out into the states and warn the masses that incentive to work and earn will be destroyed when the torchbearers of Socialism realize their ideal...
...Editors, professors and preachers have exalted you and your society You and your class have singled out Socialists for condemnation...
...Order them to again take up this old job—you whose regime has paralysed production, distribution and exchange...
...And don't forget that witticism of the late "Teddy" Roosevelt which you cultivated for a number of years...
...Dividing Up You and yours accused us of a desire to "divide up" wealth, giving to the lazy what belongs to the industrious...
...Stop us if you can I...
...Roar this accusation throughout the nation—you, whose regime has consigned jobless and homeless women to the streets to engage in a nameless commerce...
...Yes, do not fail to recall the virtues of thrift and saving which you and yours have said would be killed by a Socialist world...
...The Army of Liberation—The Socialist Army—Is on the March 'JO THE LORDS AND MASTERS OF CAPITALISM: For several generations you and your retainer* have glorified your regime...
...Tens of thousands of politicians have proudly enlisted in your service...
...The Socialist army of liberation is gathering for its great task of bringing order into your system that in wrecked...
...Send the word down the line for your retainers to hurl that phrase at Socialists—you whose system has placed millions on a dole of soup...
...Poets have sung your greatness...
Vol. 14 • September 1932 • No. 13
