A Socialist View of the Week
The World We Live In A Socialist View of the Week HERBERT HOOVER, the erring son, ** returned home last Tuesday to make his confession. Four years ago ha painted American capitalism as a...
...The association of Donald Richberg with the League is also interesting...
...This truth pierces the shams and deceits of the two capitalist parties and their agents like X-rays...
...and inspiration of the Socialist movement in this country...
...A. F. Whitney, president of the Trainmen, declares that Roosevelt is a "liberal" and we are inclined to agree, but just what a "liberal" ia in politics no man knoweth, not even the "liberal" himself...
...Hitler appears to have missed his chance when he refused a place in the Cabinet and demanded all or nothing...
...Hoover was the "liberal" supported by the railroad unions lour years ago but he ia discarded for another one...
...As this is written, 300 up-state farmers .-ire on strike, pickets at*'Stationed on the highways in three center* and milk cans have been bald up...
...On the contrary, his speech waa devoted to showing how his beautiful structure waa rocked just the same as the capitalist systems in other nations...
...Put them in office and the sandwich will be taken from you, leaving you only the soup...
...I thought I could prevent this but I found that I couldn't...
...There woe net a tingle word in the Hoover addresses four yean ago to indicate that the American capitalist pyramid could bo ikaken...
...Roosevelt Gets a Liberal League A NATIONAL Progressive League ** haa emerged with Senator Noma as chairman and Donald R. Richberg, general counsel for the Railway Labor Executive Association, as executive chairman...
...Corporate capital has also drawn all the paying industries out of agriculture in the past forty years, leaving the farmers the non-paying dregs...
...The price of the farmers' main crops is fixed in the world market and farmers should know by this time that an agricultural tariff is a swindle...
...ought she not to have changed the "vale of tears" into a dwelling-place of peace and joy...
...I The Debs Anniversary |"\N Oct...
...Eugene V. Debs for nearly three decades was the bob...
...What the bargain, has accomplished is to build a wall around great capitalist enterprises and these in turn have jacked up prices of the things that farmers must buy...
...When Science subdued the forces of nature to the service of man, ought she not to have given leisure to the workers that they might develop themselves physically and intellectually...
...Socialists need express no surprise over such conduct...
...If ours is a proletarian movement ft ia what we must expect from most of these dear souls...
...To work at the bidding and for the profit of another, without any interest in the work—the price of labor being adjusted by hostile competition, one side demanding as much and the other paying as little aa possible—is not, even when wages are high, a satisfactory state for human beings of educated intelligence, who have ceased to think themselves naturally inferior to those whom they serve.—John Stuart Mill...
...Hoover's chief appeal was to the farmers who have been marching in holiday strikes in the Middle West and his main offering to them was an agricultural tariff...
...He ia the author of a book, "The Tents of the Mighty," published a few years ago...
...20 the Socialist Party will commemorate " the sixth anniversary of the death of Eugene V. Debe and the national campaign committee la arcing all local organizations of the party to observe this anniversary...
...It is like saying, "there are millions of you living on soup and sandwiches...
...No other nun so inspired so many men and women in this country with revolutionary ideals as Debs, and to say this is not to disparage the life and work of ether noble veterans...
...Thankful for what...
...The irony of the man revealed frustration time and time again and his vivid portraits of some of his fellow crusaders left little to be aaid...
...Fascist Decline in Tim German Reich A IX forecasts indicate that the German Fascists reached their maximum strength in the election last March and that they will suffer losses in the election of November 6. They do not show the r.M confidence, the big capitalists are not pouring out money aa in previous e'ections, and the Fascist ranks are also divided...
...Poverty was being txiled, all women wore silk stockings, a ehicken was boiling in every pot, there was a car in every garage, and we had bathtubs and radios in abundance, to say nothing of oodles of cash in the savings banks...
...Monro declared that New York dairy farmers produce a minimum daily surplus of milk of 800,000' quarts which in summer months runs as high as a million...
...We are a nation of 25,000,000 families, said Hoover, implying that we are all in the same boat The assumption is that capitalist and laborer, banker and debtor, landlord and tenant, millionaire and worker—all included in these 25,000,000 families—have similar interests...
...The big capitalist magnates have turned to the support of the von Papen government of Junkers and a section of the Fascist middle class elements appear to be also going this way...
...I've had nearly four years at the job...
...He "solves" a surplus in [the West only to find one grinning at him in his own state with the possibility of New York farmers imitating the picketing of Iowa and South Dakota...
...The only difference is that it is more highly developed here and the exploitation of labor is more intense...
...And then an anti-climax: "Let's be thankful for the presence in Washington of a Republican Administration...
...Indeed, he admitted that at timet the whole system waa in danger of toppling into the ditch, leaving universal ruin and chaos in its wake...
...the workers and working farmers have other interests and the two sets of interests are in conflict...
...Tuesday night he admitted that in the past few years "an earthquake ran through forty nations...
...It waa a moving narrative of the disillusionment of a "liberal" over many years through the Bull Moose crusade and the Wilsonian era...
...Forgive me for my stupidity...
...The net impression of this speech upon intelligent readers is the weakness of our capitalist system rather than the granite solidity Hoover emphasized four years ago...
...Since the end of the Civil War the G.O.P...
...I ask you: Has not science failed in her mission of emancipation...
...Wa wonder how this news from Roosevelt!*- own state will strike the western farmers...
...The spirit of Debs, hia fundamental confidence in the working class and their ability to emancipate themselves from economic subjection, was never asore essential than now...
...But the "liberal" is like the opium addict...
...They rushed from one "front" to another, strengthening a pillar here and a pillar there, meantime admitting the general ruin that was overwhelming more and more millions of human beings...
...In making these unwitting admissions President Hoover admitted that the American capitalist system is the same as European capitalism...
...has been tossing a few tariff bones to the farmers which have tied then into a political alliance with the capitalist rulers of the East...
...It is the cheapest bargain any ruling class has ever made and the poorest trade any subject class has ever made...
...In other words, the revolution in agriculture has made the farmer alliance with great capitalists in politics silly and disastrous for tillers of the soil...
...Did American capitalism avoid the shock T No...
...The capitalist, the banker, the landlord and the millionaire have similar interests...
...Thankful that capitalism had proven the beautiful and enduring structure he had described four yean ago...
...You are still facing a dreadful future but I think that things will get better...
...The League will support Roosevelt for President...
...Four years ago ha painted American capitalism as a beautiful structure differing fundamentally from that structure in other nations of the world...
...British and European capitalism was in a bad way but the trouble with these foreigners was that they had not learned how to organise it intelligently...
...Farmer Strike in New York Slate MEANTIME the Democratic - Party ' in its campaign book is making a leading issue of the bankruptcy of the farmers and Roosevelt's western tour was designed to get the farmer vote...
...The Hitler rallies do not measure up to the huge meetings of last Spring and it is said that Fascist control ef Prussia is also a vanishing' dream since the Federal Government took over that state...
...We hope that the local organizations will respond to this call and make the anniverssry a notable one...
...I know better now...
...When it is recognized and acted upon by the laboring millions there will be few votes for the Hoovers and Roosevelta and there will be a Socialist ballot revolution in the United States...
...This is a falsehood hoary with age...
...What the Socialist and Communist vote will be is uncertain...
...At Des Moines on...
...At any rate, I know that the Democrats cannot do better than I did and they are likely to do worse...
...Governor Roosevelt has- not lifted his hand ia any way to help bring about a solution at this problem," said Monro...
...It is such an embarrassing thing to happen to Roosevelt...
...The speaker admitted the panic that possessed him and his advisers...
...Paul Lafargue...
...Eventually they would pattern after the American ruling class and its eld political guardian, the Republican Party, and everything would be all right Here, capitalism had the solid stability of the Egyptian pyramids...
...One section of the Fascists desired this Cabinet pest and Hitler's refusal to consider it left them dissatisfied...
...the habit is difficult to abandon...
...invited Roosevelt to solve the milk problem in his own state before solving the surplus problem' of wheat and earn in the West...
...Two weeks ago Thomas H. Monro, chairman of the Council of Agricultural Markets in New York State...
...One might as well think of curing cancer with a poultice as to assert that an agricultural tariff will give farmers the advantage that it gives to the capitalist kings...
...The campaign book presents data that is convincing enough, but as ft appears sections «f New York farmers dsn in protest against milk prices...
...Another drug is found in Roosevelt and I even the railway workers putt hit the ' pipe...
...Thankful that the wreckage has not been more widespread and that it has not yet overwhelmed more than 40,000,000 human beings...
...give me four years more and 111 try to get the mess out of the way...
Vol. 14 • October 1932 • No. 15
