Forward for a Socialist Party!
Forward for a Socialist Party! No Political Trading With the Enemy or Flirting With Vague Third Parties But a March Ahead With Our Banners Flying and Looking to Final Victory. pROM various...
...He will move forward with confidence in hu knowledge of capitalism and uith a selfreliance which alone can brietg ultimate victory...
...The workers must be assured that they are really carrying on a revolutionary struggle against Fascism...
...William E. Bohn...
...Turbow, Mm...
...German Communism But this Communist theory cannot be made understandable to the workers...
...They maintain two headquarters, nominate two sets of candidates, collect two campaign funds and sa'l under two banners but they both represent the possessing and ruling classes...
...There is the final conaideration that the "third party" itself is a misnomer...
...A. Beckerman, A. Metzgar, A. Iv Newman, 8. B. Nandies and Mrs...
...Any Socialist who go in for any form of political trading with political group* or parties that are Mt committed to the interests of the working class simply trade the baeu> essentials of an enduring movement for a miserable opportunism that will prove dead sea fruit in the end...
...Women supporters of the Rand School campaign formed a "Five Dollar Club" this week on behalf of the school...
...la that state the "third party" movement, which had enlisted some Socialists, through a non-Socialist leader, favors political trading with "Progressive Democrats" in the Congressional elections next year...
...The Communist policy k riot an incompetent execution of a good idea, but rather a eompe~ tent execution of a vleiouM idea...
...Stalin has again shown that world-Communism ia not allied with the Socialist workingclass in the struggle against Fascism and for freedom and democracy, but rather is an ally of Fascism in the effort to annihilate political and intellectual freedom in Europe...
...The I Practically organizations pester extent I Democratic have proved ore steadfast Ian do not Hrection from nature ia isid demonstraI the whole illegal Rote tubed abroad I Germany in I. is for the In any case, •to far as the I concerned...
...That is, at the very moment that the Social Democratic Party is wrestling with Fascism, the Communists are occupied with assaulting the Social Democracy and weakening it...
...Never in our history has it been more essential to build the party on the claims and interests of the working class...
...Knowing the unsurpaaaed opportunities that face us, the Socialist will carry his red banner high, encourage the timid, and march straight ahead...
...They promised to raise $5 each before the close of the drive...
...The Arbeiter leitung is right...
...to weaken it and to draw away from it the laboring masses...
...They are interested in a fighting party of the working class and in nothing else, a party that frankly asserts the claims and interests of the working masses and that is just as frankly ranged against the whole capitalist system...
...Lar«e sections of the lower middle class are being hurled into the ranks of the workers...
...Socialists are not Interested in just another party...
...And when millions of embittered and despairing workers hearkened to that call, weakened the Social Democratic Party and strengther.ed the ranks of the Communist Party, the result was that they did ruin the Social Democracy and the Republic, but the five or six million German Communists did not carry on any revolutionary struggle or even evince the slightest opposition .. . An Appalling Picture To the Communist strategists the failure to fight Fascism (or fighting it only with empty revolutionary phrases) was a conscious policy derived from their false theory...
...The Communists, moreover, cannot, for political reasons, fight against Fascism sincerely because they cannot wholeheartedly defend the democratic institutions they unceasingly attack...
...to humiliate it and bring it Into contempt...
...The Communist workers must struggle against the danger of Fascism together with the Social Democratic workers and they must use every possibe weapon and all their energies in order to prevent the destruction by the Fascists of bourgeois democracy and parliamentarianism in Europe...
...Leagues for Independent political action appear in some states to organize local and state groups with a shadow program that may mean anything...
...A second party ia needed, a party i.l the working manse*, a parly of Socialism, a party devoted to the abolition of the capitalist system at production and exchange...
...DINNER SATURDAY IN AID OF SCHOOL DRIVE A BEEFSTEAK dinner, the pro*¦ ceeds of which are to go to the $17,000 fund to Bave the Rand School and the People's House, will be given Saturday, June if, at Scliindler's Restaurant, Imperial Hotel, Broadway and 32nd Street, at O.'M p.m...
...Such action means the betrayal of the interests of the working masses and the barter of the Socialist Party itself in the brothel of capitalist politics...
...Sophie I...
...S. L. Kintzler, J. Guttesman, G. Beckerman, B. Mel tzer, S. Lewis, S. Kahn, 8. Isaacs, S. Mogieleff, I. Karlin, S. Miller, Clara Rothatein, M. Weisberg, C. Ganziger, Lillian Held, M. Bieton, Dora Landes...
...West side kcals of the unemployed groups •re cooperating...
...complaints ¦dais of the ' Front have ¦ws and spies prwhelmingly the members "Hitler camp, neh a party Mht "bank1 Democratic **y have to Psatially the Jnnist theory FStalin, he Rfttecy and yetted devP*klng-clas8...
...The committee in charge of arrangements includes Mrs...
...A musical program has been arranged in connection with this "God Bless Our Home Dinner," including three numbers by Ebba Braathe Nock, Norwegian concert pianist...
...The women's committee includes Mrs...
...of dictatort want to bi out thit tnl tuition, kjj with condn tell him tM a logical l means toJ and to hej not wtn^ So ha Si Germany • mends s 1 ports from a cities...
...A Trotsky 'periodical recently published di number of picture is I all the Go fell to piM even than I organizatki to be strom The Coma receive tht11 their leads sued...
...And yet we Socialists are not sectarian...
...It is simply another party...
...The Joint West Side Committee •as arranged for amplifiers to carry the speeches to a large crowd...
...Then appeals were greeted with enthusiastic support...
...Norman Thomas and Frank "Crosswaith head the list of speaker* who will voice the party's protest against the inhumane policy .which has led to the eviction of thousands of families in recent months...
...If the disastrous strategy of Moscow were merely the result of treachery, that is, criminal conduct of individual Communist lenders, there would always be the possibility that the Communist masses would shake themselves free of disloyal leaders and supplant them with others, better and wiser...
...S.L...
...One who has confidence in hia own philosophy and program will not be diverted into such by-paths...
...Among those most hopeful of Stalin's aid against Hitler and now embittered against Stalin la the Vienna Socialist daily Arbeiter Zeitiiiid which on May 8th editorially described Stalin's tactics as even "worse than treachery...
...Our future strength lie* in the jrroletarian depths, vol in vague "third party" movements that may mean anything and that too often mean political trading with the enemy...
...It is significant that these opportunist lures generally bear the label of a "third party...
...and that they .denounce the Social-Democracy precisely because it does not carry on a "real" struggle against Hitler...
...Revolutionary songs will be sung by the diners led by the artists...
...Not only Communists, but many Socialists who had not been deceived by Stalin's strategy, were convinced that when the Fascist counter-revolution in Germany had so clearly revealed its ugly anti-working class character, the Russian Communists would earnestly struggle against German Fascism...
...So long will there be no possibility for a united front between Social DemiirrntM* mnA cjinimiiniqt workers...
...An Illogical Policy However, right Trotsky may be, his Communist opponents can easily point out that such ideas are not Communist but "Social Fascist" and contradict the basic theories of Communism and Leninism, which Trotsky accepts...
...The only way to combat Fascism is to destroy the "Social-Fascists" and to strengthen the ranks of the revolutionary Communist Party, the "Red Front...
...Sophie 1...
...and it was dioped that the Soviet government would...
...no M tions are I pother abi Fahne, (ul and is smS, very small...
...The meeting has been arranged by the Joint West Side Committee of the Socialist Party...
...Man must be driven with | a whip to his own salvation...
...The workers lose and politicians gain...
...Moreover, this chasing after "third parly" movement" reveal* an inferiority complex in those Socialists who undertake it...
...He very samel that Stali* condemnt i freedom, a* elopment I Like Stalin...
...But what offer...
...But it is a mistake to suppose that an illogical leader like Trotsky can win control of the Communist movement As long as Stalin's terroristic dictatorship continues, as long as in the Russian Communist Party the non-Communist ideas of freedom and democracy have not won out so long will the Soviet government and the Communist International be a force that impedes the growth of^ Democracy and Socialism...
...Rose Finn, Louis P. Goldberg, Sigmund Haiman and Dr...
...meeting, both Aaron Ijcvinstein, executive secretary of the Y.P.S.L., and Richard Robtnun, publicity director of the drive, stressed the necessity of saving the People's House and its myriad oc tivities for the eventual •mancipation of the working class...
...And It was with the very same words that an official representative of the Soviet government in Berlin answered a prominent German Social Democrat, who hsd come to him with the proposal that he persuade the Ger¦tan Communists to cease their absurd strategy of aiding Hitler...
...This is the Trotsky proposal...
...The new shift in class relations, the growing class antagonisms, and the frightful poverty of millions of workers all show that our duty lies in reaching the masses of workers, organized and unorganized, with our Socialist philosophy and propaganda of working class emancipation...
...But there is no such consolation possible, because what the Communists are doing is a consistent and logical consequonce of false ideas...
...That is, it is not defined...
...Other speakers will include Jack Walsh, Henry J. Rosner, Mary HlUyer, Max Delson, Edward Levin*>¦, Jack Altman, Amicus Most •Bd J. B. Matthews...
...A terrible disillusionment, spiritual tumult and bewilderment has spread among them...
...The slag dinner on behalf of the drive recently proved so successful that it was decided to make Saturday's beefsteak dinner co-educational...
...For them, the events in Germany became an inner spiritual tragedy and they are broken in spirit and morale...
...What we do now is important far present action will shape oar future coarse and determine whether wa are political sentimentalists ar genuine social revolutionaries...
...In ordeF that "we" may come, we must let Hitler come first...
...A Difficult Assignment The advocacy of this theory makes it difficult for the Communist parties properly to fight Fascism...
...At the Y.P...
...Additional impetus was given the Rand School drive this week when the City Central Committee of the Young People's Socialist League and the Red Falcons unanimously endorsed the eampaign...
...It is a theory for the leaders, not for the masses...
...It •alls on all unemployed workers jnd Socialists of the West side of |PJ*nhattan, from the Battery to l/rashington HeSghft, to be at Coj»n»bM Circle at 1 p. m. Saturday pftsrnoon...
...Socialists are approa*ched to support these ventures...
...They took practical measures to aid the drive by taking scores of coin boxes to gather contributions...
...But in the minds of the Communist masses, who had naively believed in the Communist revolutionary slogans, the inactivity of the Communist Party at the decisive moment teemed to take oh every appearance of betrayal and moral and political bankruptcy...
...that they fight Hitlerism even more aggressively than the Social Democrats...
...This idea Is the conviction that the working-class will never achieve Socialism ihroagh democracy and freedom...
...Branchea cooperating *• the Village, Upper West Side, Chelsea, 12th A. D., Washington 2»<f«U, Mornlngside Heights and ¦fifth A.a By Raphael AbramoviU h The Truth About German Communism and Its Tactics Translated by Benjamin and Harry Haskel THE news that the Soviet government had recently renewed the "treaty of friendship and mutual assistance" with the Hitler government reacted like a thunderbolt upon the entire working-class movement ia Europe...
...Progress is possible only by means of iron dictatorship...
...This is the logic of vague "third party" movements that do not have their origin in the organised working class...
...Such a trend will be one towards a basic principle for which we stand...
...What the latter trend means is evident in California where the suggestion is made even before the "third party" gets under way that it should prepare for political trading with "Progressive Democrats...
...So long will the Moscow government be an accomplice of Fascist dictatorship throughout the world...
...Ross, Mrs...
...The "third party" movement in California so diverted the attention of some Erty members that the State teeutive Committee of the party had to issue a warning to the party members against such activities...
...The light is impossible primarily for psychological reasons: because the basic idea of dictatorial communism is a twin-sister of the basic principle of the Fascists, who are contemptuous of freedom and democracy...
...Strange Bed-Fellows All these hopes have been shattered...
...the drift to a mystic "third party" of various elements is a trend away from that basic principle...
...two dance numbers by Pieter Dominick, accompanied by Miss Nock...
...If we think that the Socialist Party ia just that, let's fight far it and not tarn to something elan...
...pROM various sources come * reports of organizing or a delire to organize a "third party...
...that it is absurd to suppose that, as far as the workers are concerned, Fascism and a democratic republic are one and the same thing...
...I *hi praises »*• does not r*> carrying •Political in - t fcmiliarity J«t Russia, Mi theory to h> Europe JjWng-clasa r"hj he does KJs afraid, e workers of * .*tl(l recomdsSerent from that of Stalin—a policy essentially the same as that of the left Social Democrats, which assumes that there is a great distinction between a bourgeois republic and a fascist dictatorship...
...three numbers by I,ill Hauge, Norwegian soprano) and two numbers by Bert Biou.se, American baritone...
...Moreover, it is even impossible to be a neutral observer in the struggle between Democracy and Fascism, for the primary duty is, in fact, to take advantage of the difficult situation in which the Social Democratic Party finds itself in order to destroy it morally and politically...
...That is the philosophy...
...Shore...
...The ill-concealed thought always in the back of their minds was: let Fascism come, it will prepare the way for us...
...The economic decay of capitalism is concentrating enormous wealth and capital into the hands of the upper banking and capitalist dasses...
...The meeting Saturday is intended to continue the campaign set in ¦lotion last Tuesday when thousands of members of unemployed froups marched to City Hall to demand a June unemployment relief appropriation of $15,000,000...
...THOMAS WILL SPEAK AGAINST EVICTIONS THE anti-eviction campaign will be carried forward Saturday afternoon, June 10th, with a rally of the jobless at Columbus Circle, Broadway and 59th St., New York...
...If considerable sections of the organised workers decide to abandon the parties of capitalism and to fight for their interests through independent political action, we shall be ready to meet luck a trend more than half way...
...The existing democratic governments in Europe and the rest of the world must be destroyed in order that the working class may become "revolutionary," bring about a social revolution and then establish its own revolutionary dictatorship which is essential to the achievement of Socialism...
...Of course, from the Social Democratic point of view, the illogical Trotsky policy is better than the strictly logical and consistent tactics of the official Communists...
...most partf it has no »i| German t From manf that tht I party and proved to hi of the Nad large pert* are going •» And the 1« dare to ruptcy" of Party...
...There is one party of the capitalist class with two organizations and two labels, the Republican and Democratic parties...
...The leader of the German Communists, Remele, openly declared In the Reichstag, "After Hitler, we come...
...for, according to the Communists, it is the "nope of the revolutionary workers of the world...
...Following the dinner them will be card games, dancing and no collection...
...Some important sections of agriculture have produced the corporation farm with corporate mastery in control and many farmers are transformed into wage workers...
Vol. 15 • June 1933 • No. 23
