The Socialist Program and Aim
The Socialist Program and Aim A Tabloid Presentation of the Elementary Principles of the Socialist Movement, Its Methods and Philosophy, and Why It Appeals to the Working Class CEVERAL reader* ia...
...We in our collective capacity will own and control what a ruling class now own and control—the opportunities of employment...
...History is a record of ruling classes coming down and lower classes going up...
...regain that liberty without which life is unedurable...
...Last year Princeton conferred an honorary doctor's degree upon Norman Thomas...
...Economic classes will disappear when a minority of capitalist and corporation owners are stripped of their ownership and power...
...Of the 17 persons charged with Nicole, 11 were acquitted, and the remainder will be sentenced with their leader on Tuesday...
...To think of that occurring in Germany of all countries is the most ghastly joke of the century— but it is Inevitable so long as such men as Hitler and Goebbels and Rust and Goring rule...
...It cannot be Bone even in a short article...
...Mistakes will be made and corrected till something , approaching the ideal will be real-¦ ized...
...The Socialist Program and Aim A Tabloid Presentation of the Elementary Principles of the Socialist Movement, Its Methods and Philosophy, and Why It Appeals to the Working Class CEVERAL reader* ia recent ^ weeks have asked The New Leader for a short definition of Socialism...
...The above considerations eonsti...
...It will be a matter of experiment, trial and error...
...One cannot compress a philosophy, a movement and a program into a short definition...
...With a few hours of useful labor each of us will have ample incomes, leisure and education...
...It will guarantee I private property to tens of millions who have none today, private prop- ¦ erty in homes and all those things i that are adapted to personal use i and enjoyment...
...It is as if the football squad of an asylum for the feeble-minded suddenly came Into full possession of the whole educational system of a cultured community...
...Leon Nicole, who was to have spoken, has been forbidden to enter the Canton of Berne, where Bienne is situated...
...Future administrators will also read them with interest They will reject, add to, modify or adapt these suggestions to fit with the conditions that confront them...
...Socialism will destroy class domination and liberate the working masses from dependence upon a class of capitalist owners...
...The Real Problems But the problems of admiiAstra-i Hon belong to those who will live after the transition period...
...they continue in power for some time it is a safe guess that, at least in its official manifestations, the idiotic war on the Jews will slow down...
...Adolescents on a glorious lark are clothed with full power in what was not so long ago the greatest educational system in the world...
...of Columbia...
...This is our tabloid presentation of the Socialist movement and its aims...
...They seek to preserve capitalism instead of < abolishing it...
...He is the author of a number of important economic works...
...No, it is not the Insanity of anti-Semitism, for outside pressure will compel the madmen to mitigate something of the savagery of what they are doing, and even if (heaven forfend...
...LAIDLER HONORED BY WESLEYAN Harry W. Laidler, Socialist author and lecturer, was honored by Wesleyan University at Middle-town, Conn., by having an honorary degree conferred upon him at the commence- H B nient exercises...
...The police broke up a meeting addressed by Nicole last night, and two battalions of infantry i.ml a detachment of machine-gunners are standing by in Bienne, where a mass meeting of protest against the verdicts, organized by the Swiss Young Socialist Party, has been banned...
...It will then be the job of mankind to so organize and administer the collective industries so that all who are able and willing to perform useful service will be guaranteed this right...
...The Korpsbriider The aristocratic arrogant young students who wear the swanky uniforms of the Burschenschaften and crowd mere r\an-Korpsbriider off the sidewalks just love it...
...It is said that middle class and reform parties support immediate measures...
...It fights for the immediate betterment of the workers, strives to eat away some of the privileges of the ruling classes, to increase the Incomes of the workers, to shorten the hours of labor, to help the workers in strikes and lockouts, to foster class consciousness and help them acquire that training, discipline and solidarity that are essential to the conquest of power, political and economic...
...The answer ia, there Is no satisfactory definition...
...Cruel, savage, criminal as those outrages are, they are surpassed by a erime far greater, a crime that goes right to the very roots of civilization...
...The Socialist Aim The Socialist aim is a Socialist ] Commonwealth in which capitalist ownership of natural resources, industries, railroads, telegraphs, telephones, etc., will be replaced by collective ownership...
...the image of Goebbels and Frick...
...I j Laidler, who H to a graduate v of the univer- .! ' JL' ¦ aity in the class I . | I ed the degree >. fi&| of Master of r ] | Arts, h o n o I fib j^fil causa, in recog- _ ,J Wu nition of his H I -~t ¦ WM terpreterof fi...
...Socialism it primarily a movement of the working class to abol-i»h the capitalist system of production and distribution...
...This will abolish private property in—what t Private property 1 by a ruling class in the Industries ' we need and which we must have i in order to live...
...Nicole Convicted, Crowds WUdly Cheer Him f ENEVA.—Breaking through the ^* crowd of sympathisers, a Gen-evese barber held his baby out to be kissed by Leon Nicole, Swiss Socialist Deputy, found guilty by a special court of complicity In the November riots, in which 18 were killed and 66 injured, when troops __ ^ M on i Leon Nicole in* "Viv" N icole," and singing the Internationale...
...We want to i wipe out the class ownership of the . powers of production and distribution which has made any sort of , private property impossible fdr tens of millions of workers who produce wealth in vast abundance...
...It is a struggle for power, a struggle for control of government and the mastery of natural resources and Industries...
...If you are a member of the working class or you share the Socialist philosophy of liberation, join the Socialist Party...
...It is the systematto war upon what the precious Goebbels calls "objectivity...
...To neutralize and destroy thin capitalistic domination and teach the workers to think in terms of their own interests is the supreme task of the Socialist...
...Final rules for the conduct of the contest will be presented...
...We have a world to win by abolishing capitalism and nothing to gain by retaining it...
...But those who believe in the future feel that Goebbels and hi sassociate inmates will lose.| For if they do not life will no longer be worth living...
...It is not even the crime of militant nationalism that is threatening the very existence of the fragile structure of world peace...
...Hitlerism is the bastard offspring of its denial...
...The political struggle, therefore, is a class Struggle...
...Goebbels seeks to restore the rack, the Iron Maiden, the pyre and the stake for those guilty of seeking out truth AND FOLLOWING WHEREVER THAT QUEST LEADS...
...Professors of "racial purity" are placed in Important and historic universities to teach the curious mythology that goes with Hitlerism...
...However each group in the struggle for power may disguise its aims, the struggle remains a fight for class aims...
...I The aim makes all the difference i in the world and their aim is consistent with the continuance of ; capitalist society...
...for with the maniacal cunning of a man with a twisted mind ho recognizes that "objectivity" as the foe that will slay everything he and Hitler have brought into being, unless he slays it first Goebbels' War He is now able to wage effective war upon "objectivity" for the setup is all in his favor—for the moment, at least For example, there is Bernhard Rust ousted from his high-school teaching job three years ago because of a progressive degeneration of the brain due to syphilis, now in absolute charge of all the schools and universities, and all the educational, cultural and research work of Prussia...
...The capitalist class rules because of its enormous material power although It is a minority...
...Harry W. Laidler Laidler was presented for his degree by Professor Chanter, who said of him that "his great ability as lecturer, author and scholar has since his graduation been unselfishly devoted to the advocacy of a better social order...
...Delegates are urged to bring plays selected or written by their groups...
...The class struggle takes many forms and it is not always intelligently waged by each group...
...It Is a despernte race...
...Nasi dunces are passed regardless of their marks...
...And under his rule the schools and universities, the museums and opera houses and laboratories are being mads over in -.— , The Cripple-minded Maniac Is Striking a Blow Where It Will Do Most Harm to Human Civilization...
...i When our enemies say that we i want to abolish all private property \ they tell a falsehood...
...Professors have been ousted, and not by any means solely because of Jewish blood or Socialist, pacifist Pure Culture at Work | Light-bearers of a new dvilization or democratic convictions, while those permitted to remain are in abject terror of inflamed student mobs...
...It consists of measures which it believes will help the workers here and nov and also a statement of its basic aim for the abolition of capitalism itself...
...Those who have not yot done so should consult David Rossi, director of the Worker*' Theatre (uffiliated "^wlth Rebel Arts), who will be present to help...
...They do, but they approach these measures from the point of view of the professional middle class reformers...
...To function within capitalist society and to Serve the interests of the working close the Socialist Party has a program of a two-fold character...
...fir I I capitalism and fi -I historian of So- | ~ ' sialism...
...Lawrence University, and Ph.D...
...The npper layer of capitalist and banking exploiters oppose this aim because it ia ranged against their material interests...
...8 last] Drama Festival Meeting The next meeting of the delegates elected by the organizations that will participate in the Drama Festival will be held Saturday, June 24, at 2 p. m„ at the Rand School...
...And so :t will go until or unless there is awakening...
...They have been considered by many Sow cialist writers and their books may be consulted, but their views are not final...
...The Class Straggle Out of this conflict of interests and views tomes the struggle between them—the class struggle...
...To be officially told that scholarship is a lie and a sham, '.hat constructive thought is a betrayal, that the true path is lighted up with bonfires of scientific books in the glare of which serious scholars are driven out, or at least made to dance in their crazy Walpurgisnachtstraum, is the wish-fulfillment of every half-wit . . . and so it goes today in Germany...
...A man who never even went to college is placed at the head of a great university...
...They will not compromise with middle clsss and reform political groups and parties because these groups and parties do not share our class aims and views...
...Wit'j this understanding the following brief Statement is made...
...Nazi activity is credited toward a university degree...
...That is believed to have been the first instance of the recognition by a great university in this country of the public importance Socialist work, By William M. Feigenbaum Goebbels' War on Objectivity The Greatest Nazi Grime 1*1 IE greatest crime of the Nazi hordes ? No, it is not the strangling of liberty, for a free people will some day (and may it be soon...
...It !s not a political change—it Is a change in the very being of a nation...
...they want "clean" I government for property owners, ' not working class rule...
...Goebbels wants to crush objectivity, for lie knows that objectivity gives birth to those things that will destroy his asylum-state...
...Those who come to it from other classes must range their thinking and activity ia accord with this basic revolu-tonary aim...
...In addition to the two degrees he now holds from Wesleyan, Laidler is a law graduate of St...
...If they i favor municipal ownership it is | because they want lower taxes on ¦ their property...
...youthful rowdies howl down and drive out professors they disapprove of...
...Once this Is accomplished a Socialist administration of our industries will have to work out the problems of distribution...
...Any brief statement must be followed op by some extensive reading and study...
...Socialism is the child of objectivity...
...M. Nicole, and the six supporters found guilty with him will probably be sentenced to three years' Imprisonment and loss of civil rights...
...They were tried by the Federal Assise Court, which had been specially convened and met for only the second time* since the War...
...Equity in distribution will not be realized all at once...
...Its strategic position in society enables it to control most of the agencies of education and information and thus to muddle the thinking of the working class...
...They serve as a guide to all genuine Socialists in their march , to power...
...And constantly with tiresome iteration Qeebbels grins his ma>niacal grin and urges on the war against "objectivity...
...If objectivity is crushed and if a few generations grow up under the aegis of the "enlightenment" of which Goebbels Is minister, and fed on the ideas of Hitler and taught by teachers acceptable to Rust, Germany will become a nation of intellectual Inferiors and child-minds, repeating the tragedy of the Dark Ages...
...tute the basic approach of a Socialist movement to all of He pro 6-| terns...
...The story of the riots, deliberately provoked, was printed in The New Leader Dec...
...we favor it to im- < prove the conditions of the workers...
...They are speculative, provisional and suggestive and they should be read with this understanding...
...The middle classes in general oppose it in the hope that they can retain their intermediate position between the npper capitalist group* and the working class below...
Vol. 15 • June 1933 • No. 25
