Art Of Economic Evil
art of Economic Evils Pdmirable in Spirit Back of Some Jut No Real Solution !#er | consumers through disbursement* made in the course of production b« I in the form of increased payments at...
...And tinea Bulgaria is an agricultural country with vary few industrial workers, the influence of both parties Is mostly In th* rural districts...
...An Important Light Goes Out in Hungary From Hungary comes a news dispatch of some significance...
...One bocs hot seek for labor economists and tacticians in the ranks of the poets and writers of fiction...
...Dell is ] frankly revealing, courageous, generous and delicate when touching j on the lives of otht-rs...
...He was also a trusted member of that most sacred body, th* Executive Committee of th* Communist International...
...It is a laboratory of economic research, following the usual laboratory procedure of trial and error: but always and steadily in pursuit of a new and thoroughly sound1 purpose—making the Interests of consumers dominant...
...The discussion on that subject wss enriched during th* current month by s new scries of (our articles from the pen of the most eminent Marxian student, Karl Kanttky of Vienna, alto written for the Forward...
...All goods come into being within the existing property systems with no direct right of consumer-usage over them accredited to the producing community...
...Out of 784 Social-Democratic groups only 64 ar* In th* town...
...Comrades who road Oiraaaa would do well to read these articles In th* N$u$ VoUwseU...
...The 1 procedure followed by NKA does j not profess to be other than ex-' periraental, flexible,* and adaptive...
...Th* confusion in th* Communist ranks caused by this sensational ststement is apparently even greater than th* on* created by s similar unmasking some tint* ago of Wojcwodski, another Communist leader of Poland...
...Especially so when, as in this case, there it a stool pigeon in th* center of all the conspiracies snd terrorist acts...
...This makes it hard to understand his snap judgment of Debs, whom he scarce-1 ly knew, and his statement that nearly all Amerlc.n Socialist leaders had joined in thf pre-war hysteria...
...To the Socialists who pioneered through the period covered here, there will arise a nostalgia for the /.est fnl days when indomitable idealists'gave their all to obtain a hearing for their cause...
...It is the first law of solvency for the business "r of a country paying- out money in dlt that way, that what it disburses BMI in cost* it must be covered in iur prices or go bankrupt...
...It is this setting-up of increase of consuming power as a fixed objective that is i the most promising factor...
...gyndicaliat-anarchltt) 22,000...
...And that means in practice that the essential conditions for any successful restoration of the world to economic health is the -ontrol of production itself* for the direct service of the consumer...
...But there Is this to be said...
...and the direct' issue of consumers' authorisations for them would, in effect, be nothing other than giving the goods I away out of the property system for nothing...
...cations of the Moscow International...
...This light incident throws much light on the old question- Does en jiii ul in in promote progress...
...and true accountancy—of property to , rights established over all output at ita origins in production...
...Dell's "Homecoming" Stirs Pleasant Pre-War Memories T*0 most readers, Floyd Dell's * autobiography "Homecoming" (Farrar & Rineh3rt), will be interesting chiefly ar a literary and artistic record of the years just preceding and following the war...
...As a self-conscious bohemian of a generation ago, he fright for ethical and moral standards that are generally accepted today, but tbo literary radical diligently ex- *rimenting with love in Greenwich Village, even to the detail of providing in his bsck.loi quarters rouge for both blondes and brunettes "as a gestur - of hospitality," finally became marriage and papaton sc lout...
...Within this framework there is no effective way of escape for the world...
...In this ,n- matter, the administration of NRA m is in the deadly grip of the finance me p rocedure by which the community is not permitted U) make or create, to do anything or produce anyvii thing, without establishing a debt the claim over the output as against all' the producing community's direct >re fight of «*er to that output, it This finance procedure, however, gh . will be found on scrutiny to be les only an accountancy—a quite exact on...
...Whatever money you pass through the orthodox channels to consumers to buy things with goes automatically into the prices of the things they buy With it...
...t»- la th...
...Of Fritz Feuchtcr, long a tireless Socialist worker in Davenport, he writes: "Tho wisest man I ever knew in all things, great and small...
...Bulgaria, a starving kingdom about th* sire of Kentucky snd a population nearing six million, Is the only European country outside of Russia in which Communist followers ar* numerically superior to Socialist adherents...
...While still a boy in Davenport, Iowa, Dell was attracted to the Socialist movement and the incidents relative to *iis participation in it have sparks of humor and will awaken warm memories in his comrade* of other days...
...Only the triumph of •Socialism can make possible the reduction of the hours of work to such a point that the working man car enjoy leisure enough to a tire adequate knowledge...
...But organised labor is still very much disorganised in Holland...
...while i if you ignore the orthodox channels and attempt to distribute] authorisations tor goods direct to consumers you are, in effect, destroying the property rights attached to all output...
...the Socialist system alone can satisfy it.—Rati Kautsky...
...It appears, however, that in addition to all these qualifiesdona, "Comrade" I. was also • paid agent of PilsudtU, a Stool pigeon of hi* Secret Service Department...
...Author of numerous Communist , leaflets and pamphlets, he wrote considerably in the publi...
...Grip of Finance *Jj Such disbursements of money do not and cannot five the community J2 as consumer increased command tB* over real things...
...Socialism and Communism in Bulgaria THE membership of the Bulgarian Social-Democratic Party * increased by 1,683 during th* current year...
...I During the month of November, Orzsslnskj wrote a asri** of . illuminsting articles In th* JeWsh Daily Forward on how and why the German workers were unable to stop th* Hitler , catastrophe...
...If that were the whole story, It would not be a very hopeful one...
...On September 30, 1933, the grstifylng figure of 16,061 was reached in addition to the 5,085 "candidates...
...Th* N.V.V...
...If NRA Is to do anything effectiva it must take its procedure clean out of this framework...
...Recotioiled to church and state," as Theodore Dreiser | said to him ten yeari ago...
...But it is not so in Poland, where these names are widely known, respected, and in certain circles »v*n loved...
...Christian non-Catholic) 118,500, and finally th* N.A.S...
...According to the annual report presented to the party convention held in Sofia six weeks ago, the party has now 784 locals and branches and I* making considerable progress despite the semi-Fascist dictatorship and ruthless terrorism that rules over this unhappy Balkan kingdom since the counter-revolutlonsry ooup d'etat of June 0, 1923...
...TheWorkers Abroad An International Review of the Socialist and Labor Movement of the World -By Mark Khmo>Communist a Piliudiki Agent THB nam* of Bratkowaki, or if we use his real nam...
...The , Hungarian match trust has purchased an invention called the "Eternal Match," which is lightable at least 200 times...
...A Vital Contradiction It would appear, therefore, that within this framework of finance and property procedure the attempt to give consumers a larger command over real things comes at ones to a sort of stalemate...
...Th* victors did not distinguish between Communists and Socls'ists—both were butchered...
...It is a procedure which was never meant or designed to serve the needs of consumers at all...
...To understand th* tragic importance of this treachery, one must keep in mind th* fact that th* Communist Party of Poland is still in th* "underground" illegal stag* and its activi...
...f"VNI,Y the triumph of 8o< in I ism can render accessible to the proletariat all the sources of culture...
...Th* party ha* one dsily, Narod, and on* weekly...
...At least this la the charge leveled against him by th* Communist Central Executive Committee in a communication published in full la th* Socialist dailies of Warsaw, th* Polish Robotnik and th* i Yiddish Nrue Volkiuitung, in their Issues of Nov...
...They are good »py for th< press but often a source of chagrin for their friends, when, with good intensions they pn..M judgment on matters for whi :h they are temperamently unfitted...
...And it is a procedure absolutely fool-proof against tampering in the interests of consumers...
...art of Economic Evils Pdmirable in Spirit Back of Some Jut No Real Solution !#er | consumers through disbursement* made in the course of production b« I in the form of increased payments at 'or services...
...To be sure, Dell's Socialism was a mixture of middle-western populism, the Appeal To Reason and a romantic conception of nihilism...
...th* C.N.V...
...i Thousands of radical peasant* and workers were murdered during the successful uprising against th* peasant dictatorship of Stambulitky...
...An abl* political writer and speaker, he was , very active in both fields...
...He did, however, take the job of secretary of the Socialist local seriously...
...It does not produce for use, but only for the creation of property rights and profits...
...History records that th* military expert of th* Suasion Communists, General Oslln (known at present a* Oeneral BlUcher, commsnder-in-chief of the Red army In th* Far Bast), was Instrumental in training the army of the Nationalist | government in China...
...Dell is no exception, though as a literary radical he stood at the top...
...For in | that mood, and given a resolve to press the experiment right through until the sought result is obtained, it should not be impossible that out of such research there may arise, in place of the now obsolescent production-finance economics, a new consumer-economics to remove from out path the barriers which now prevent the world from using and enjoying it* abundant real resources...
...MORE than 66 per cent of all th* worker* lit Holland ar* organised In their .espsctiv* central bodies, reports th* Central Statistical Bureau, an official institution...
...A Ntw Economics Needed The NRA attempt to pump purchasing power into the comma-' nity's life within a finance and property procedure which iUtlf it the removal of the real things out of our power of Usage and consumption, is very like trying to restore a drowning man still breathing by artificial respiration while still leaving him under water...
...Socialist) had on July 1, 1933, 337,550 members-an increase of 49,030 sine* June, 1931...
...th* R.K.W...
...1 Sachoiki (underground alas Conrad), may mean nothing . to American readers...
...The match trust does not want this competition and t the Invention was bought In order to suppress it...
...Aa a result, th* Communists have 31 seat* In the Parliament to th* five of the Socialists...
...It is divided into four different central bodies...
...Th* remainder ar* in th* villages...
...Catholic) 198.300...
...ties are likely to lead its members to the gallows...
...Homecoming" is an honestly written autobiography...
...Th* former Chief of Police of Berlin and hit deputy, Bernard Weiss, ar* said to hav* retched Shanghai...
...According to this report th* total number of organized wag* earners increased during th* year 1932 by 49,300 and th* percentage of the affiliated want up from SAM to 88.88 on January 1, 1933...
...For their owner was for years s Communist spokesman in Parliament, a leading member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party, even a member of the inner circle, , th* Politburo, which In Poland as in all other countries with subsidiaries of the Communist International direct* and control* th* movement...
...The capitalist system of pro, iluction weakens the proletarian^ desire for knowledge...
...Not to be outdone by th* Russian Communists, the German Socialists have permitted on* cf their members, Albert Grzeslnski, to reorftnls* th* Chinese nolle* system...
Vol. 16 • December 1933 • No. 27
