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...We can sympathize with the farmers in .their resentment sgainst intolerable conditions, but this no mors means "revolutionary" action thsn waiters spitting in hotel soup and loggers driving spikes into logs to ruin saws meant such action...

...Only scientists and other intelligent folk are not afraid of truth, and seek j out facts objectively wherever they , tan be found...

...Hitler and his gangsters should now raise him to sainthood in Nazi mythology as without van der I Lubbe they would have had difficulty in finding another accomplice...

...1 Socialist gr ministry foi ours and whi ministry is / umn, with tl are their all Whether it or of isolatioi in the elcctio ations confr compel then ¦ Socialist cam at all...

...something so new in cultural development that t has not yet taken complete hold, although dwellers in the fools' paradise of the relatively simple days before January 30th, 1933, had been living in the delusion that it had...

...Both avoid the doctrine of free will and keep in mind objective condition...

...Muste was the most brilliant...

...And the same is true of the ' words "Old Guard...

...Theories and Facts Those facts struck hard at many dearly-held theories...

...ur«, but the * «* the action 1 "Wtetmined by "*s of the par»«the electoral •^on* form of » anr circumstances is to subscribe to that free will dogma that has been a powerful support of the ruling classes in ' all nations: Thus far we have discussed merely the policies of toleration and opposition in the parliamentary countries and have said little about the policy qf coalition...

...There is an equal chance for every man born under the American flag...

...We wonder...

...Otherwise some keen-scented journalist investigating the whole radical movement might write an interesting chapter...

...Further consideration of the problem will have to be deferred till next week...

...In laboratories and seminars, in libraries and observatories men and women were al work objectively, seeking out facts to be generalized into truth, to be placed at the disposal of those who usually made ill use of them...

...words having a definite meaning in the past have it no longer...

...Submitted by Thos...

...But by *he end of the 19th century, generally speaking, the battle had been won—in principle, at least...

...but the dark night of ignorance and superstition closed down and what Aristotle had written was preserved only in a Hebrew translation of an Arabic translation of the Greek and was saved from destruction only by the Mos lem culture of Spain...

...In the past we could clearly understand what was meant by words that designated ideas...

...Marxism is s growing body of thought...

...Reading over past debates one instantly understands the body of ideas associated with 1 each of the above designations...

...he takes it in his stride...

...What it reveals is that in this period of confused thought there are those far over to the "right" who pretended that they were "left...

...I do not recall a single instance of the problem growing out of the parliamentary system being stated in this discussion...

...Opportunity is unlimited, because it is guaranteed In the Constitution...

...If an individual Socialist becomes a Cabinet minister, that cannot be regarded as a normal commencement of the seizure of political power by the proletariat...

...When the test came they were so far to the "right" that they marched straight into the camp of our enemies I The writer is proud to belong to what is called the Old Guard if by that is meant the Marxian section...

...Moreover, some of both types of members are often associated together when some question comes up...

...I Hitlerism—or any other inechan- j cal dogma—is a howling farce, and | ' ould not stand the test of objec-1 ive research for five minutes, AND EVERY THINKING MAN IN GERMANY KNOWS IT, even • v-xge who hasten to kiss the crooked toe of Goebbels' crippled foot...

...Not so with the word "Militant...

...in which working class parties must function...

...Now they've got around to German culture...

...To clear the ground, it is necessary to consider how the question of coalition first arise in the movement...

...But in any case this dangerous experiment can be of use only if it is agreed upon by the party as a whole, and on the understanding that the Socialist minister is, and remains, the representative of hU party...

...it tends, not to bring nearer the time when the proletariat shall have political power in its own hands, but rather to postpone it...

...Among these five deserters there is not one Old Guard...

...But where the government is centralized, political power cannot be obtained step by step...

...That statesmen often ignored the facts the finding of which they themselves had encouraged was merely an argument for changing the rulership of the nations—hence the Socialist movement...

...If objective science is permitted to go on undisturbed generations of German scholars will grow up who will know what an < utrage the very existence of Hitleris.n is, and they will not endure it...

...We will not tolerate any nonSocialist ministry and will vote against it again and again...

...He has appointed four members of the party to positions in his department...

...Hitler's Pal Gets the Axe MarinuH van der Lubbe, half-wit tool of the German Nazis, was beheaded on Wednesday in Leipzig...

...Biologists, historiens, psychologists, chemists, bio-chemists, ethnologists, philologists, economists, astronomers, geologists — objective scientists all — were at work everywhere, encouraged by gover merits and endowed by wealthy men...

...Whether in any particular sot of circumstances such a makeshift ought to be adopted is a question not of principles but of tactics, on which the Congress can make no decision...

...If however, by that is meant the older members in general I object to the designation...

...All this oh the condition that the proletarian or class character of the party is not put at stake...

...I in the parliamentary nations it is flexible, Abroad, governments rise and fall in response to the altered strength of parties and changing political opinions...

...We used to think that Culture had its most hospitable residence in Germany, but that's because we were lied to by Jew-Marxists...

...This tries where i quired becau received a m both the Soc candidates a; or more non-1 to the second cialists absta Sbalition jtary Nations tm a Plan Unlike American /Socialist History U be some nonteosed to the t reasons than its against the »tie «am« colptr groups we Hey of support pi occur...

...To tsl action is Ml m of power in views of the • ormula for all I be stupid, for netimes works 1. This occurs non-Socialist nated and the has a good t the first case power in pararrow that the e an opportunotorious reIt tan no longer candidate...

...Very well...

...Some argue on the basis of the governing and electoral system in this country...

...This resolution is so little known that it is herewith quoted in full: "The proletariat in a modern democratic state cannot obtain political power accidentally...

...In a series of such crises, or facing a dangerous reactionary coalition that may support special laws against workers' organizations, Socialists have had to consider whether the party should be represented in a coalition or remain isolated...

...Herbert Spencer once\ said that the greatest tragedy in/the world is that when a dearly held theory is slain by an /uncomfortable fact...

...It takes many years to understand it...

...It was a long, an uphill and a bitter battle for men of science to establish their right to go ahead in quest of objective facts upon which to generalize, regardless of where the quest led them...

...Proportional representation produces many parties instead of two major parties so that it is rare that one party governs...

...The Age-Criterion LfOW absurd the age-criterion is as a basis of judgment may be observed in the prejudice against the so-called "Old Guard...

...It came before the International Congress in 1900 as the result of Millerand accepting a post in the French Cabinet without consulting the party...

...It leaves those who subscribe to it in an embarrassing position...

...There is not one young or bid Marxian in the five members in the fusion administration that was floated by the lavish contributions of big bankers...

...If we are Socialists 1 we will be careful to avoid use of words that instead of I defining thought obscures it...

...Now he's taken on the assignment, and he has placed himself in charge of all German culture...

...it was merely a vigorous propaganda booklet...

...and when hey were in conflict with social, economic and racial theories held jy the ignorant a Hitler, a Goebbels rid a Frick could always be found a Germany, or a Bryan in ours, i fight...

...Such support means "toleration...

...It can be put this way: One assumes that base metal can be transmuted into gold, and seeks therefore to find the "philosopher's stone" with which that desirable transformation can be achieved...

...But when such theories were in the realms of biology, astronomy or geology dogmatic theologians 'ought against them...

...It's just a little chore...

...This resolution should be carefully studied as it was adopted by two International Socialist Congresses...

...At the bottom I see here only a question of tactics...

...The Congress lays it down that a Socialist is bound to resign from a bourgeois cabinet if the organized party declares that the Cabinet has in any way acted unfairly in the economic struggle between Capital and Labor...

...Giordano' Bruno was excommunicated, Galileo was burned, Columbus was ridiculed...

...One may be a militant Republican or Democrat, a militant Socialist or Catholic, but this tells us nothing of his j basic views...

...The Earth Was Flat For counties* years men believed the earth was flat, that the earth was stationary and the heavenly bodies revolved about it...

...But mistakes in tactics under certain conditions can end up in a break with principle...

...And they fought not only e newly-found facts and the aeories that spring inevitably i o,ii them but they waged their bitterest warfare against the very methods used to find new facts...

...Communism has made a caricature of Marxism because it has made early Marxism a rigid dogma that stifles that continuous investigation which Marxian philosophy itself requires...

...And • the economics of Marx, based on jbjective research into objective facts, was—and is still— damned, for by that very fact it carries within itself revolutionary implications...

...Blanshard and at least two others also considered themselves "left" and regarded Old Guardists as 'right...

...Since July ¦Ugh action has subsided...

...Since Bacon's Rebellion in 1676 farmers have again and again engaged in this "revolutionary" action and they have not yet founded a revolutionary party...

...Engels wrote: "You object, in principle, to all common action with other parties even of short duration...

...Culture was all cockeyed...

...with these terms but even then they were far from accurate...

...And What Is It...

...I am revolutionary enough ret to reject in an absolute manner this measure in circumstances rendering it profitable or the least harmful...

...Could there be anything more topsy-turvy in its results than the age-criterion...

...the work of Darwin was (and in many parts of the world still is) violently condemned and even outlawed as those who have not forgotten William Jennings Bryan and Dayton recall...

...Workers Are Revolutionary But They Don't Know It," reads the headline...

...We do not Stty system in with its muli proportional Sad balloting, governments Ei of two or nts rising nt changes I frequent clecKS fixed dates Motive power Ipl and views ¦n Moan beings do •St where they »**Kardless of itions imposed *»tal evolution...

...Let us test this view in the light of Paul Blanshard's desertion...

...To be militant means that you are militant but' it does not reveal what you believe...

...The strength of Socialism lies in the fact that a political science based solely upon a study of objective facts...

...the objectiisj liamcntury m laws...

...However, whether we want to be allied with non-Socialist groups or not we will be allied with tbem in this opposition...

...It must be looked upon only as a temporary makeshift...

...At the same time each movement will endeavor to bring about what uniformity of action is possible that is consistent with the varied forms of government and electoral systems of the world and the variation in economic conditions as well...

...And just what is this "objectivity" that the grinning Goebbels wars upon...

...Both the resolution and Engel's letter reject the idea of "absolute" tactics under all conditions and yet concede that there are dangers to the party iff the policy of coalition as well as advantages if not continued i/oo long...

...To look objectively into origins and tc seek out causes and possible processes and development was considered flying in the face j of a divinely-appointed order...

...In those cou.itries Socialists must choose whether they will support the combination that forms the government...

...Socialists and Coalition In Parliament Nations European Governments R System—Lesson By COME of our party members are much disturbed over methods followed by Socialist parties in the post-war period...

...Does that mean the farmers have ¦*w"»fcajidoned the "revolution...

...Scientists then said, If the theories are in conflict with the facts, SO MUCH THE WORSE FOR THE THEORIES...

...In 1911 I wrote a pamphlet entitled "Militant Socialism" but it did not stress anything new...

...If when I wrote it I were asked what were my views I would not have answered that I was a militant...

...neither does short membership...

...The New Leader last April ran an article by Jack Alttnan presenting the views of Engels in a letter the latter wrote to a member of the Danish Socialist Party in 1889...

...That is why it must, and will, prevail...

...Nothing is more artificial than the attempt to define views according to age...

...trust a Nazi to toss off a reorganization of the Christian religion or of the German political and juridical system between bites on the neck of a i erf lu< liter Jude...

...For it can be said with truth that objectivity is but another word for civilization...

...The Congress adopted a resolution which was reaffirmed in the Congress Of 1904...

...That would be to cut me off from the young Marxians who do not belong to the older generation of Socialists and to identify me with some of the older generation with whom I am not in agreement and who are not in agreement with me...

...THE BRAY of 11IK WEEK The Good Senator Sees Spiritual Value* for Us All "A spiritual recovery must come before we can hope for an economic recovery," says Senator Arthur R. Robinson of Indiana...

...The word "Militant" itself does not reveal definite j views...

...Had I said "militant" the inquirer would have known no more than before...

...A combination of two or more parties is often required to form a government...

...They have accepted and left the party...

...When a theory of physics is found not to accord with newly-discovered facts the old theory is discarded...

...Any person who has followed the development of the Yipsels in recent years knows that they have produced some of the most thorough students of the Socialist philosophy that we have today...

...And true to his promise he is going to root out the lie of objectivity...

...We/will look at the policy of Isolation and opposition...

...In the course of centuries of futile search many facts are learned and i generally ignored, for they do not lead to the much-desired and...

...There is the member who is thor-1 oughly to the Right in his views but who assures you that he is Left...

...Several yecrs ago there was a division that somewhat corresponded...

...Mors the distribute liament may I Socialist vott nity to defel actionary evsi vote for thai To discussj basis of the i bring into i that do not tj have the psi the EuropesJ tiplicity ofl representatis majority el formed by sj more partitl and falling 4 in political 4 tions not act and with , changing io with each chi Movements not live in I can do as the...

...I If they lacked much then in desirable clarity, today they are I abeurd...

...I would have said that I was a Marxian...

...Editor's Corner Review of and Comment on Events Here and Abroad, Critical and Otherwise By James Orteal Artificial Party Groups (SOCIALISTS should be thankful that we do not live in the muckrake era...

...They must also decide whether an adverse vote will be followed by a combination less desirable to the workers...

...It has expanded and has been modified since Marx and Engels died...

...Roger Bacon had to conceal his findings in a double-barrelled cipher for fear he would be found out and burned at the stake...

...Men and women and children died like flics of the plague...

...it was based on the nasty lie of "objectivity," and Joseph Paul Uocbbels promised to fix all that when he had a few moments to spare...

...To adopt s such situation the second hi in our favofi when most ) candidates at Socialist ess, chance...

...There is also talk of Old Guard and Militants...

...Even today and in countries like ours men must battle for the right to vaccinate and even to employ the findings of objective science to save the lives of babies...

...One More New Party A NEW party has been born, the "American Workers' " Party," founded by the CPLA with A. J. Muste as leader...

...roblems on the in system is to uasion factors all...

...Men believed that whatever was had been evoked divinely by fiat of a Jeho- j vah...

...Universities sought out the truth objectively even though in most cases statesmen and rulers of peoples paid little attention to it...

...it was said that it wus a visitation from On High for ungodliness, and those who suggested the objectivity of looking into drains and drinking water and garbage disposal and toilets, there to seek the cause of disease and death, were damned for their impiety, and so more millions vainly died...

...that to support a nonSocialist ministry is to become allies of non-Socialists...

...Our governing system is such that the problems of coalition, isolation and toleration do not arise...

...When I speak of Marxism I do not mean that a quotation from Marx or Rngels is sufficient to settle any question...

...Marxism, anti-Marxism, revisionism, neo-Marxism, opportunism, impossibilism, etc...

...It is interesting that the resolution correlates with the views of Frederick Engels, who with Marx was the founder of the modern Socialist movement...

...Long membership does not necessarily j define views...

...Where the Socialist minister becomes Independent of his party, where he ceases to be its representatives, his entry into the Cabinet becomes a means of . weakening rather than strengthening the proletariat...

...Dostroy the Constitution and you destroy your liberty...

...It may be objected that a Socialist group should always remain in opposition to every governing combination...

...And generally speaking, the more enlightened the government the freer the scientists fit in seeking out objective facts...

...and even despite those precautions he was excommunicated...

...It can do so only when the long and difficult work of political and economic organization of the proletariat is at an end, when its physical and moral regeneration has been accomplished, and when more and more seats have been won in municipal and other legislative bodies...

...Without it we are savages...

...Out in the West farmers were attacking public officials and this made them "revolutionary...

...As long ss artificial classification of views is accepted there can be no genuine clarification of ideas and the party has never been in more urgent need of it...

...Stiles, R. R. 4. Martlnedale, lad., who In peppy despite his 77 year...

...Not only is there considerable disintegration of basic ideas...

...If there is a series of ministerial crises the decision of a Socialist Party may be of extraordinary importance...

...We must not be allied with other nonSocialist groups in parliament...

...IN THEIR BLINDNESS THEY WOULD KILL ALL CULTURE By William M. Feigenbaum IT appears that Germany has not been conducting its cultural activities in quite the proper spirit, and now having settled all other problems the Nazi intellects are going to devote a little of their spare time to setting culture on the right track...

...There came a time, however—for convenience the researches of Roger Bacon in the middle of the 13th Century mark the approximate time—when first one, and then a few and finally all intelligent scientists sought out objective facts for heir own sake, and fearlessly drew the logical conclusions from them...

...Last June a number of its sponsors held a symposium in New York and their organ presented a digest of the speeches...

...Elections are held according to fixed dates, the executive power is not responsible to Congress, and the executive is not ousted by an adverse vote either in elections or in Congress...

...It is a tragedy for ignoramuses, men who plant their standards upon the rock of dogma...

...Aristotle had a glimmering of the truth, that all things change and that eil things develop out of other i things, and that truth can be found only by a study of objective things...

...the external upon them H They can sf range and eg that is post...

...In the United States the system is rigid...

...He finds it consistent to support inflation and "clean up" reform campaigns although both views are clearly within a range of capitalist thought...

...Before we proceed to that it may be said that, while Socialists in all countries have a vital interest in what is being done by the movement in each country, in the last analysis the movement in each country is required to solve its own problems regarding the form of action it takes...

...Even irliament situdelists which ) vote for nonor not to vote In those counI ballot is resandidate has Assume that id Communist uted and two ; candidates go Should the Socases regardlest of the di parliament S candidates...

...It is, alas...

...Here are examples of such clarity...