With Benefit to None
Kantorovich, Haim
With Benefit to None By Haim Kantorovich I.KNIN, by i . . . i . - Maitoa. I' Applrlon & Co.. N Y . 1932. A THOUGHTFUL p e n u n 'i * • query on reading this book certainly will be: Why has the...
...was a step backward...
...he "made" Bolshevism...
...His hook is therefore strewn with mistakes and misstatements, such as that all Menshevika were defonsists during the war, which Is not true...
...In the case of cities where Socialists control this would be the aim...
...National Campaign headquarters asks that articles, speeches be mostly propaganda and r.ttacks on persons be in small percentage only, but why not divide our attackism 50-50 between the Rep and the Dem or show up the Dera 90 per cent and Rep 10 per cent if you dare...
...The real Lenin openly declared that the N.E.P...
...With Benefit to None By Haim Kantorovich I.KNIN, by i . . . i . - Maitoa...
...Told by the News Camera...
...The tragic uprising of peasants and Kronstadt sailors of 1921 is described by Maxton in the following words: "Evidence of discontent were showing in one or two places among the peasants and the Kronstadt sailors...
...He turned his socialist agitator friends into a government, to act at a government and think as a government...
...Finally, there are three roads ahead, Fascism, Communism, and Socialism...
...Two of these emergencies were unprecedented...
...we have never seen their like before...
...of August 20 to Hoover...
...A THOUGHTFUL p e n u n 'i * • query on reading this book certainly will be: Why has the author written it...
...Where reduction in hours is made, whether it will carry with it the old rate and thus mean a wage reduction will depend upon the strength of the worker themselves...
...We would make some important amendments to his presentation of Communism and would revise his presentation of Socialism but for all that this unusual volume will ahake the most hardened numbskull out of his complacency and make him think, and that is the supreme value of the book...
...Maxton knows that "He" could not have made mistakes...
...Maxton, of course, could easily have found out the truth about this if he had wanted to, but his aim was not the truth...
...And this is how a social revolution is made I Happily for Russia, there happened to be a "He...
...Please elaborate...
...should it still be $K.OO per day...
...We cannot spare the space to answer every accusation that comes from the Communists- Editor...
...The whole economic and industrial fabric of the country would have been wrecked or paralyzed, and we ourselves would have gone down in the wreck...
...Chicago, III...
...But the President kept his...
...The Russian worker, the peasants, the specific social and economic conditions that made Bolshevism possible, get no credit whatsoever from Maxton...
...the third means industrial, social and political democracy...
...This is accomplished by photos of the contradictions and stupidities of our industrial life accompanied with only a few comments...
...He said: "So recently as the last nine months, Hoover has been our pilot through a series of tremendous emergencies...
...his aim seemed to be to write an "orthodox" book on Lenin, and the result is a quite worthless, dull repetition of what "every body" says...
...Perhaps your Governor has done no wrong ? Out here we need stones for our slingshots, to answer Democratic arguments...
...In the matter of the reduction of hours in relation to wages it may be said that no arbitrary rule can be followed...
...Three-quarters of the population of the globe was affected...
...Of course, it was "easily put down...
...Maxton apparently knows nothing about them...
...I t came after economic distress and credit prostration, resulting in panics, had brought about revolutions in twenty countries...
...They were easily put down...
...We have not gone Democratic and the contents of The New Leader prove that we have been uncompromising in our attitude toward both capitalist parties...
...there are dozens of them...
...He "made" the Russian revolution...
...It 13 when you see a man in action day after day under stress, as I have seen Hoover, that you really come to know him for what he is...
...Lenin often acknowleged his mistakes...
...How any reader can get the idea that we are tender to Roosevelt passes our comprehension...
...Socialists favor shorter hours and wage increases, especially for workers on a lower wage level...
...Maxton's "He" will, of course, not make such unwise admissions...
...It is the usual biography "done" in the usual, standard Communist fashion...
...A book of this kind must have some justification...
...He turned rioters and pillagers into a disciplined army of ironsides...
...It should be remembered that in Milwaukee Socialists do not yet have full power.—Editor Questions And Answers Communist Falsehoods Communists have charged that the Socialist administration in Milwaukee has cut the wages of the city employees by calling for a 10 percent wage donation by city employees have been sent to military camps for a number of weeks...
...The volume has all of the merits and some of the disadvantages of simplicity in presenting a complex theme...
...When the "discontent" was "easily put down," "He" declared the New Economic Policy...
...Lenin was a great man and he made great mistakes, mistakes for which the Russian masses are still paying...
...HAVE YOU GONE DEMOCRATIC...
...The revolt against military communism in 1921 and the bloody and brutal way in which it was put down is one of the bloodiest pages in Bolshevik history which no falsification can erase...
...I fear that this is another Communist misinterpretation...
...Had the President failed us, had he weakened, it is not too much to say there would not be a bank open in America today...
...that there were no (social f...
...or that the split in the Russian Social Democratic i'arty was on Revisionism and orthodox Marxism, Speaking ahyut the split of the Russian Social Democratic Party he tells his readers that "The big isaue involved and underlying most of the questions under discussion , . , was the 'subject of controversy in every European Socialist Party, and in the conferences of the International Socialist movement...
...There is not a line in the book that can be called Maxton's, nothing but repetitions of the commonplace, of what has been said hundreds of times, of what everyone already knows by heart...
...By E. Verburg Don't you comrades in New York know that the real opposition in the coming election is the Democratic Party ? The Reps have condemned themselves—their actions speak louder than word—yet all editorials and news items in The New Leader a r e careful not to attack Roosevelt policies or Democratic principles...
...He persuaded, he coaxed, he threatened, he bullied and terrorized...
...You criticize the reduction of houri and the pro poftional reduction in pay, page 2, column 2, issue of September 3. If a man were making $8.00 per day of 8 hours, would our demand be $1,33 per hour if the day were 6 hours, or $2.00 per hour for 4 hours...
...The first two mean dictatorship and terror...
...New LEader Forum POCKBT h o k u m . t lx By Anna Bercowits In The New Leader of September 24 you carried an item on a resolution of the State Campaign Committee of Virginia censuring the American Socialist Quarterly for the following statement in its last issue: "Attempts at pocket boroughs of North and South Carolina, where there were no organizations, were made by having each state represent *1 by a party member from Virginia...
...He "made" Russian Social-Democracy...
...The reader is then conducted on a pictorial tour of the present United States and the camera flashes the contrasts and contradictions...
...in the elections to the first "Duma...
...Here is chaos and the camera's eye closes...
...It was easy for machine guns to put down unarmed, starved peasants and sailors...
...Will you mind giving me the correct onformation...
...The split occurred on the question of Democracy and Dictatorship within the Party...
...of August 27 and September 10 to both Hoover and Roosevelt...
...I t opens again with more views to show what can be made of the powers and opportunities of which capitalism has made a horrible mess...
...At one of the gravest moments of our own uncertainty, some of our good men and true became alarmed, then frightened, then lost their heads...
...Since the A. S. Q. was not in existence in 1928 it could not have raised objection to such practice on previous occasions...
...The front page of the issues of August 6 and 13 was devoted to Roosevelt...
...This is of course not true...
...Trotsky is mentioned, but it was "He" who turned rioters and pillagers into a disciplined army of ironsides and not Trotsky...
...The entire history of the Russian revolution is summed up by Maxton in these words: "The leader sat in his headquarters at the Smolny Institute, working, eating, sleeping there...
...If I remember rightly, when attending the Milwaukee Convention, Mayor Hoan requested to be recorded in favor of this plank, if it assured him that he could give bore persons employment—but with no increased cost of government in Milwaukee...
...Page 162...
...The resolution received by the A m e r i c a n Socialist Quarterly states: "It is true that the Virginia party suggested to the N. K. C. t h at Virginia alternates be permitted to take seats from states lacking representation otherwise...
...This is another viewpoint that need* explaining...
...We have seen a document sent out by the secretary of Mayor Hoan answering this and other falsehoods...
...By way of leading up t o the present chaos the author goes back to earlier industrial depressions, beginning with 1887, and photographs items from the press showing that hunger and industrial depression have occurred over and over again...
...There is no lack of Lenin biographies...
...Maxton knows very little of the history of Russian Socialism...
...Lenin was a great man...
...Lenin's opponents were precisely those who fought revisionism tooth and nail...
...An author must, if he does not add something new to the existing biographies, at least have a new approach, a new interpretation...
...In his book, "One Step Forward, Two Steps Backward," Lenin frankly explained his "fundamental principle" in these words: "Bureaucratism against Democracy— that must be the organization principle of the revolutionary Social Democracy...
...He" knew that it was just the thing to do in order to bring about communism...
...J. 0 . Lightning Defied By Ajax as Hoover Hurls Back Hordes Harassing His Harmony OKNATOR ARTHUR CAPPKR of Kansas in a radio address from Chicago hailed President Hoover as the man who depressed the depression...
...herbert Bessin, Brooklyn It is another falsehood...
...The Public Ownership League of America is pleased with Roosevelt so, if you too are not agin' him, you must be for him...
...the others don't count...
...The sub-title adequately indicates its theme and contents, "A Photo Story of America—As It Is—and As It Might Be...
...Carrying an introduction by Norman Thomas, this volume vividly portrays the follies, stupidities, contradictions, absurdities and anarchy of the capitalist system of production and distribution...
...We suggest that in all such statements made by Communists that comrades write direct to MAyor Hoan...
...It was usually called the fight between revisionism or reformism and revolution...
...One of them threatened the total collapse and impoverishment of this nation...
...Maxtoti has neither...
...A Graphic Picture of Tragic America One of the most unique publications that has come from the press in recent years is a book 10 by 8 inches, A picture of America, by Charles Cross (Simon and Schuster, $1.60...
Vol. 14 • October 1932 • No. 14
