Marx Pinned Faith in the Masses

...He felt at that time like Engels, that the day of surprise attacks had passed when small hut resolute minorities could achieve revolutions by leading the unwitting masses to the onslaught...

...Karl Marx Memorial THE Socialists of New York will commemorate the life end work of * Karl Marx, founder of modern Socialism, at a meeting at Town Hall, Sunday, March Iff, at 2:30, with which will be concluded a week's series ef memorial meetings thst began last Sunday at the Brooklyn Forum...

...Fascism tnd its stepbrother, Bolshevism, are in the ascendancy...

...Their first writings were not a systematic presentation of principles, but polemic battles with their adversaries...

...Marx through his analysis of Capitalism pointed out that the organization of the factory necessarily brings with it the organisation of the workers...

...How would Marx, if he were alive, regard Fascism...

...The first volume was published in 1867 when Lasaalle was dead This work was a masterly scientific exposition of Marx's economic philosophy...

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...Marx was not a fatalist...

...Till now there hss developed no other Socialist theory than that of Marx...

...Did he believe in the automatic collapse of Capitalism...

...that the masses cannot be enlightened in secret places, and Anally that it is essential that workers possess the right of free speech, free press, free assemblage end universal suffrage, a weapon which the working class could use to emancipate itself...

...Marx and Engols respected him not only as a personality with a fine character but also as the standard bearer in the class struggle, as the man who best organised the working battalions and let them in the most surest way to victory...

...brilliant young pianist, will play...

...But Liebknecht called his attention to Marx's works especially to his Communist Manifesto, which was, after 1847, republished for the first time in 1872...

...Marx Is Still the Man of ihe Hour, German Theorist Writes - Marx, Bebel and Wilhelm Liebknecht...

...And besides there are eleven of us in the family, including my parents...

...He believed in democracy...

...He knew Switzerland, France and England...

...What New Leader reader will take care ef sending our paper to these sorely tried people...

...When the first volume of "Das (Capital" was published Schweitzer wrote a series of article* on it in connection with them...

...Will tbc triumphs of Fascism spell fjus to the labor movement ? Not only is Fascism casting its lark shadow over the world, but Capitalism itself is in the throes if a great economic crisis...

...Germany became later the best soil for Marxian Socialism...

...Neither the pedagogue and psychologist Ruble succeeded in doing it nor the philosopher Vorllnder, not even the most important biographer of Man, Franz Mehring, who had a thorough knowledge of the history of German Socialism, of the Prussian State and of German literature...

...He realized that before the working class is emancipated, it is necessary that it be thoroughly educated and organized...

...The man who in the 'sixties best understood Marx was neither Liebknecht nor Bebel, but Schweitzer, who after the death of Lassalle became leader of the Lassalleans...

...In a speech before the International Workingmen's Association in Amsterdam Marx said that it was possible for the workers to attain their goal by peaceful means in such countries as America, England and Holland...

...To him Socialism was not a ready-made Utopia but a process which promised a lengthy development of economic relations and also of the working class itself...

...On everything and in everything it sees the stamp of inevitable decline...

...It is worthy of note that Marx, the man, who fundamentally changed the economic science of ear time and riehly fructified it, did not find any biographer able to give a comprehensive presentation of this side of his work...

...It is their contention that time spent in educating and organizing workers is being wasted...

...As Frederick Engels, Msrx's collaborator, points out: "In the eyes of a dialectic philosophy, nothing is established for all time, nothing is absolute or sacred...

...H* also realized that until the workers are prepared to organise for the conscious purpose of ending Capitalism, that system will stagger on indefinitely...

...Since nothing is static, Fascism cannot be a permanent feature of our political life...

...On the other hand, many workers imagine that a coup d'etat of a Bolshevik-Napoleonic brand may enable them to push the hands of time backwards regardless of the opinion of the majority or the stage of economic development...

...Much more fortunate is the Marxian method of struggle, the class struggle, which was adopted by the workers' parties throughout the world...

...We miss the paper very much...

...Teacher and Pupil Teacher and pupil became the closest friends...

...Before answering the Arat question, it Is important to remember that Marx was a social evolutionist...

...Again quoting from Capital: "When a society has discovered the natural laws which regulate its own movement, it can neither overleap the natural phases of evolution, nor shuffle them out of the world by decrees...

...It must disappear as other political systems have in the past...

...But the practice of the workers' parties has shaped itself more according to the principles laid out in the Communist Manifesto...

...We would' like for The New Leader to continue, but mother just doesn't like for a paper to come when she can't pay for It...

...Any new one is so for net needed as Marxian Socialism is developed enough to suit the present changed conditions...

...There will be bat three speeches, by Normaa Thomas and Morris liillqult, with Algernon Lee as chairman, end songs by the Finnish workers* eberis, and ether proletarian slnglug organizations...

...With banki closing, factories idle, mil Hons of workers unemployed, and starvation and misery rampant, many Socialists, not unlike the exile at Doom, are awaiting "Der Tag" when Capitalism of its own accord will collapse and out of its wreckage a new social order, phenixlike, will emerge...

...It would be an error to think that all the "Marxist" parties are, as far as method is concerned, strictly Marxist...

...Hitler attempts to emulate the Hjtmple of Mussolini...

...Like good theologians they regard the works of Marx as devout Christians regard the Bible and search for certain sentences which they interpret in their own way...

...No matter how many ukases Hitler issues, as long as the German workers are massed together in factories they will eventually nullify the effect of these repressive laws, however cunningly devised and however brutally they are exercised...

...The meetings are held to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the passing of Marx, who died March 14th, IBM...

...On October 10 of the seme year Marx wrote about Schweitzer that he was the most intelligent and the most energetic of all the Germsn labor leaders...

...Both Marx and Engels declared: "All previous historical movements were movements of minorities, or in the interest of minorities...

...when in 1882 newspapers printed a false report that Bebel had died Marx wrote to Engels: "How terrible, what a loss to our Party I He was the only personality in the German, one can as well aay in the European labor movement" Bebel, 'however, did not succeed for a long time in grasping and applying Marxism...

...But before it leave the stage, will it drag with it Jthe corpse of the labor movement...

...Marx wrote to Engels about Schweitzer that "whatever his motives may be one thing must be granted to him: in spite of his faults he grasped the essentials of the Kapital...

...He also felt that to completely transform the social organism it is necessary that the masses not only participate willingly but further understand what they are shout...

...As to the Marxian method of thinking a sufficient amount of it gets into the labor movement in order to fructify and adequately to shape it, except there where Marxism became just a sect or a sect of believers in forceful methods, who rule a country dictatorially and by order of a super-Marx threaten with death any one who shows sign of either left or right heresy...

...The meeting will be one ef the moot impressive hi many years...

...The proletarian movement is the self-conscious, independent movement of the immense majority, in the interest of the immense majority...

...But this much, at least, it can do: it can shorten and lessen the birth pangs...

...The working class can play the role of a social physician, provided it understands the laws which regulate society...

...Bebel was a man after the heart of Marx and Engels...

...Was he in favor of minority action...

...Some of them, like Keir Hardie or MacDonald in their thinking have been decidedly non-Marxists...

...Adwlsshm la free...

...He became a Socialist through the writings of Lassalle...

...The first work of Marx that Bebel ever read was his Inaugural Speech of 1865...

...N» wonder, that even today...

...method el Investigation has trelatively small circle of fetwees who consistently and sys •NaaUcaHy applv this method...

...Quite the contrary...

...By Kirt KauUlty Marx and Marxist Theory IT took a whole lifetimejrom the drafting of the Communist Manifesto before a complete apprehension of the Marxian way of thinking found its way into international Socialism...

...Marx Is still the man of the hour...

...ANOTHER APPEAL THE NEW LEADER has received the following f torn one of ite readers s "We have not overlooked the notice you sent us hut we just couldn't send the money...

...Dad has not been earning any pay now for three years, although I have three brothers who tfB of age to work, hut neither has any work...

...There Is no doubt thst Marx, despite the assertions of Communists, did not believe in abortive minority movements...

...All these schools fortify their respective positions with quotations from Marx...

...The First Party This process of fructification began in Germany in 1883 when Lassalle organized the workers in a class party and acquainted them with the principles of the Communist Manifesto...

...ruthlessly taken away...

...The paper is missed very much in our home...

...In their exchange of letters they most severe, ly criticised every one of their followers and mostly Lassalle and Liebknecht, but as to Bebel there is never a word of reprosch...

...Nearly all of us children can reed The New Leader and every time it comes everyone wants to be first to read it...

...Marx and Engels were not only researchers but also fighters, and they fought not only for the eman cipation of the proletariat but for the method of thinking they had developed...

...They both were simple, modest, ready to sacrifice, and overwhelmed with revolutionary ardor...

...He believed that society was in a constant ferment, that nothing stood still...

...Many of the most brilliant leadera of modem workers' parties have been not strict "Marxists," as for instance Jaures...

...Is there iny hope for the worker...

...Liebknecht neither made him a Marxist, for he himself was not in theory a Marxist...

...Bebel was a Socialist even before he met Liebknecht...

...Not before 1850 did Marx begin to work on his Da$ /Capital, which was laid out so widely and exhaustively that he never finished it...

...Liebknecht ,who was older than Bebel, was superior to him in knowledge of history and experience, Liebknecht personally took an active part in the revolutionary battles of 1848 and 1849...

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...He taught Bebel a lot, but the youthful disciple soon became in many things superior to his teacher...

...The same effect Liebknecht had on the other hand from the moment he met in Saxony the wood turner Bebel, who played an important part in the ArbeiUrvtrein in Dresden...

...nothing can resist it save the increasing process of formation and destruction, the unending ascent from the lower to the higher—a process of which that philosophy itself Is only a simple reflection within the thinking brain...