Fourteenth Anniversary of Armistice Greets a World of Dying Capitalism
Fourteenth Anniversary of Armistice Greets a World of Dying Capitalism ry HE fourteenth anniversary of the armistice that ended the World War is celebrated this week. That war emerged out of the...
...Danes In ths ballroom of ths Brooklyn Academy of Musis...
...The chains with which Allied capitalism had bound the losers were also attached to its own neck...
...The thieves divided into two main groups...
...American imperialism stood aside while the victors and losers sank lower and lower, but Uncle Sam insisted that his Allies should pay their debts...
...The Allied victors found themselves mortgaged to American usurers who humorously declared that the United States wanted nothing out of the World War...
...Then American capitalism was thrown into convulsions and it has been sinking for four years...
...ONEALNEARING DEBATE 'T'HE Brooklyn Forum will open * its season November 27th with a debate between Scott Nearing and James Ones...
...It is a case of slapping the raider or admitting that any one of the imperialist powers may follow Japan's course, which would mean that everything claimed for the League is so much buncombe...
...Norman Thomas...
...Doc Coolidge and Doc Hoover had solemnly affirmed that American capitalism was sound, that it was not afflicted with any of the diseases that afflicted capitalism abroad...
...Subject, "Shall We Dlssrmr...
...The subject of the debate will be ''Socialism or Communism—Which Should the Workers Follow...
...If the latter condemns this job, Japan is likely to leave the League...
...Silk hat representatives of the masters of the world met in Paris behind closed doors and framed the abominable peace treaties...
...The Allied group conquered the Central group and disarmed it...
...In the meantime the imperialist powers have been loaded with staggering arms, more than when they plunged the masses into the war...
...That war emerged out of the ambitions of the ruling classes of the world for more territory to loot, more markets to conquer, more workers to exploit, and more investments for the bankers...
...It can extend little help to its pals overseas, for it is unable to check its own decline...
...The workers of the nations were bled white and the peoples of the Central Powers were prostrate...
...There were bargains and cross-bargains between the victorious powers...
...The Brooklyn Forum will bo conducted for twenty Sunday evenings at ths Brooklyn Academy of Music, Lafayette Ave...
...Socialists would conduct government in ths light of their philosophy, constantly holding to the Idas that every step taken must be s step toward ultimate collective ownership of all socially necessary Instruments of wealthcreation to the end that production for profit be supplanted as soon as possible by production for use...
...Socialists believe that only through Socialist political success (not necessary complete victory in any one year) will the world find s way out of the morass, and toward international peace and freedom...
...Why Students Should Support Socialism By William M. Feigenbaum •THE Socialist party's platform * for 19S2 Is based upon the principles and philosophy of the Socialist movement, as applied to the issues that face the people today...
...THIS STRUGGLE LEADS TO THE REALIZATION OF THE SOCIALIST IDEAL OF THE ABOLITION OF CAPITALISM ITSELF AND UNIVERSAL FRATERNITY OF THE PEOPLES OF THE WORLD...
...The thieves quarrelled over these stakes and sent the working masses as conscripts to the front to fight for these stakes...
...Ths Brooklyn Forum at the sams time launches its general membership campaign, seeking individaul memberships which entitle holders to special privileges at the various lectures and debates...
...As the loser sank they slowly dragged the victors down with them...
...Subject, "Individualism or Socialism...
...The victors took over the overseas possessions of the conquered, divided the world amone themselves, and retained their arms because they cannot trust each other...
...Ths following is ths first half of the season's program: December 4—Charles Solomon will debate Harry Elmer Barnes on "Is Democracy Worth Saving...
...While the powers have been busy with their own wrecked social orders one of their pals, Japan, ventured on a rubber's raid in violation of their own solemn covenant agreed to at Versailles...
...The effect of such a system will be to transfer power from those who today control economic and political life to tht working masses, without whose physical and mental labor nothing could be produced...
...A Moratorium to Save Capitalism In the meantime American capitalism came out of the struggle a fat and insolent power...
...The Allies found it increasingly difficult to pay...
...Socialists believe that In the PMS of ths problems with which the world is bedeviled to speak of the personalities of individual candidates is shockingly irrelevant Socialists gladly and enthusiastically supported the splendid ticket headed nationally by Norman Thomas and James H. Maurer, and locally by Louis Waldman and Morris Hillquit, not because of their admiration of those men but because they were the spokesmen of their party in that election battle...
...The ideal can never be fully realised without the overthrow of capitalism itself, but the ideal must be strewed as a basic attack on the old dying order with its diplomatic deceit...
...Socialists sincerely believe that students, especially those who study history, economics, government and politics, if they come to their studies with open minds, must inevitably be drawn to the Socialist party's position...
...They tried to sweat the money out of the Germans, but the sweating brought Germany lower and the lower she sank the more were the Allies dragged into the abyss...
...The planks of ths Socialist platform In any #1061400—10081, state or national—are generally speaking extensions of this broad philosophy, carried into ths realms of national and international life...
...Both victors and losers have been on the verge of collapse and Uncle Sam had to agree to a moratorium...
...December 26, Christmas nightChristmas Frolic...
...In the light, then, of its philosophy, the Socialist platform calls for relief in the shape of unemployment insurance and in other forms AT THE COST OF SOCIETY, to be paid for by steeply graduated income taxes, the graduations to begin in the higher brackets...
...But world capitalism had received a fearful shock...
...Workers of Nations Bled White Some ten million human beings were sent to their graves, other millions were horribly mutilated, vast regions of Europe were devastated, colossal debts were piled up, villages and cities were ruined, currencies were demoralized, hunger and cold reaped another death toll, and revolution hurled old ruling classes intp the discard...
...Gorged with the plunder, they had taken, the Allied thieves looked forward to more rich pickings in the post-war years...
...Japan has done on a small scale what the victorious powers did in Paris thirteen years ago...
...They patch it up and return to their climes only to get another hurry-up call to attend the patient again...
...and that duty caff best be fufilled by embracing the Socialist cause, by Joining those who do the work of the world and placing what they tenavs learned at the disposal of the Ms, and by giving their devote that cause...
...Th« whole program arranged to date promises to be very Interesting...
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...December 18—Norman Thomas will debate H. V. Kaltenborn on "The World Economic Crises, Which Way Out, Socialism or Capitalism...
...January 1—General Smedley D. Butler vs...
...December 11—Louis Waldman will meet George Gordon Battle In debate...
...This load has been sapping their vitality and each would like to reduce but fears the intentions of the others...
...In the meantime Uncle Sam felt the effects of the universal crisis...
...Fight for the Socialist Ideal This has embarrassed the imperialist diplomats...
...The Socialist party was proud to have the support of so many student bodies during the election campaign, but the organization would be deeply disappointed if their interest in Socialism died with the counting of the votes...
...Socialists make their principal appeal to, th* working claw, but those who have had the advantage of higher education, those who have had the leisure and opportunity to study, owe s duty to those who work (when they have work I) while they study...
...Doctors at Bedside of Capitalism Meantime the international physicians, the cronies of those who wrote the peace treaties thirteen years ago, have met in Geneva time after time to diagnose the ailments of a dangerously sick capitalism...
...Socialism, In two words, Is s system of SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY, a system under which society will perforce take care of the human beings who make it up, rather than turning them adrift the moment employers cannot longer profitably employ them...
...Socialists would relieve the victim of capitalist mismanagement of responsibility for evils they are not responsible for, and place ths cost squarely upon the industry that coined such vast fortunes (upon the labor of those now out of employment) in recent years...
...Their representatives will meet soon to again consider scaling down armaments...
...In the face of these complexities of the capitalist world the fight of the iss for disarmament must go on...
...Socialism can be summed up as a movement designed to supplant a system of production and distribution for profit by a Socialist system of planned production and distribution for use...
...If Japan gets away with this raid, what becomes of the League of Nations...
...f grabbed a piece of territory containing rich raw materials and set up a puppet Manchu to rule it...
...THE WOOING MASSES AND THE PEOPLE IN GENERAL HAVE NOTHINGPtO GAIN(AND EVERYTHING TO LOSE BY INDIFFERENCE TOTHE FIGHT FOR DISARMING THE NATIONS...
...Secret agreements for plunder and territory were written into the treaties and the ruling classes looked forward to an era of peaceful and healthy domination of the world by their victorious capitalism...
Vol. 14 • November 1932 • No. 20
