Stop This Poison Campaign of the Movies!
The Basic Principles of the Modern Socialist Movement By James Oneal The Materialistic Conception of History VI U/E have seen that the physical environment is " primary, that it is the basis...
...And this is where the editorial Commentator gets in his dirty jwork...
...Bertha Mailly, Anita Block, Theresa S. Malkiel, Anna Maley—their work was invaluable...
...These men are all alike...
...And the Communists in this respect are like the Indian fakirs who dance on broken glass without feeling any pain...
...It is not the consciousness of men that determines their existence, but, on the contrary, their social existence determines their consciousness...
...25~"Public Affairs," talk by Louis Walkman...
...These ideas are Impressed upon the minds of those it exploits through the press, the magazines, the radio and other sources of information...
...You are urged to listen to these programs, to make them a basis for branch discussions and to write to the station offering suggestions as proof of your interest...
...Stop This Poison Campaign of the Movies...
...Socialist Theory," Part IV, by Algernon Lee...
...Another picture ¦owed British planes in maneuvers, and anti-aircraft guns shooting at them...
...knows all...
...So far, I huve arranged for an informal conference of the key people in the Greater New York groups, subject to Comrade Friedman's convenience, at the home of Mrs...
...Socialist Theory," Part III, discussion by Algernon Lee...
...The Rand School for Social Science and The New Leader have jointly organised a Social Problems Round-Table to be broadcast aver Station WBVD on Tuesday nights at 10 o'clock, starting immediately after Labor Day...
...L»fl«t» lit tfllin_ "The Italian Otoolnltnt* Kwlrrallon...
...Socialist Theory," Part I, discussion by James Oncal...
...My sneerer doesn't work very well, either...
...For example, there must be some "humorous" comment upon the inevitable beauty contest and the tough job of the judges...
...Hut I make this offer: a free copy of last week's New Leader to anyone who wants to read my article...
...The worst, however, are in connection with military pictures...
...H!ui' Island Ave., (lit...
...This is not the American way," said one of the Vocal editorialists—referring not to the brutality of employers but to the strike of the workers...
...However, in accord with my fixed policy not to argue with Communists, I skip it...
...Thr ptililli-mliiii of thrsr Iniflely was mimV possible inmi n upecliil fund, owl they will br sent for the eon...
...I have lots of ideas, as the readers of this column know, but I hardly fit in as the big, busy executive...
...Branches which meet on those nights are urged to incorporate these weekly broadcasts in their educational programs, to be followed by a brief discussion at the meetings...
...Here is a tentative outline of the first four sessions: Tuesday, Sept...
...The capitalist once served a useful function in society but he is useless today...
...Comments upon the Little Assassin Dollfuss, at the time of his death, were unbearable in their honeyed praise for the Wretched creature...
...Let us hear from you at once...
...The Week'n News," review by Frank Croaswaith...
...News of tho Week," review by August Claessens...
...If your branch is not In session, get a group together in your headquarters or at a comrade's home and make this your program of the week...
...Solomon...
...The doctors say that it Is a bad case of encephalitis, but they are undoubtedly In error...
...A LITTLE MISTAKE "Man Kept Jabbering by Talking Sickness...
...For example, the regular weekly (or semi-weekly) horse-race must begin with an excited "They're stir snd contain comment upon the wild excitement of the saps wb^crowd the grandstand...
...The Basic Principles of the Modern Socialist Movement By James Oneal The Materialistic Conception of History VI U/E have seen that the physical environment is " primary, that it is the basis in which rests the whole structure of changing human society...
...Send them to this office, and at the same time Write emphatic protests to the managers of your local theatres...
...There must be an emphatic protest...
...But I hope before long to be able to take that, too, without turning a hair...
...that protest effective...
...You're going on a vacation and Camp Tamiment is a grand place to vacation in...
...of portal" or express only to party liifult who will promise* to dfVlrlbutc thrm In Itallan•Oraklng neighborhoods, Some of the Big Jobs Ahead By Gertrude Weil Klein WILLY, niily, I'm being pushed into a corner—the women's corner...
...they are asked to vindicate the "national honor...
...This system of production has, at the same time, produced a useful class in the mass of workmen of all types whose interests are in conflict with the useless class of owners...
...18—"A Housing Program for New York," talk by B. C. Vladeck...
...Within this environment also rests the forms of producing and distributing wealth, which change as man learns through experiment and invention how to improve and increase the powers of production...
...the rtiling magnates of corporations and mergers are today parasites...
...At a certain stage of their development, the material forces of production in society come in conflict with the existing relations of production, or—what is but a legal expression for the same thing—with the property relations within which they had been at work before...
...h'i» prlnlrd four leaflets In It'illmi on the flongres•1..m..1 IMulforin, The NIIA awl Noclnllum, Why Dnni You Join Our I'artyT Worker*, Mstrti...
...That I " js (he motto of one of the Inovie news reels, a "pictorial ¦ review of the week," "eye* and (ears of the world...
...Something like this happens with every economic system in history when it attains complete development...
...Now, I'm willing and anxious to help in the women's activities all 1 can...
...The educational work thus undertaken i» described In a letter signed by Algernon Lee, president of the Rand School, and James Oneal, editor of The New Leader, as follows: Three institutions are joining hands in a concerted effort to bring a well-rounded educational series to Socialist Party members and sympathisers...
...It's a sort of hysteria...
...there must be a tearful note in the voice St a picture of desolation, a aytterical "oh...
...He and hit interests ''fetter" the normal process of producing and distributing wealth...
...Hundreds of examples could be given of economic interests being concealed in language of ethical and even religious fervor...
...There are millions of people who get all they know from the news •'els,, just as they get all their literature, philosophy and art from the Hollywood masterpieces...
...when an autonobile crashes or the ski-jumper lands head first...
...None are so blind as they who will not aee...
...This is a leyson for John Bull, and a lesson to every country," said the sapient commentator...
...His action, however, is the reaction to his best interests and the interests of his class...
...But there, there, little girl, don't complain...
...Before the Civil War the northern capitalist class shared with the southern planter class in ruling the nation...
...Until then I shall not feel I am a really emancipated human being...
...4th WITH a broadcast on Public Affairs, Tuesday, Sept...
...Of this economic organization of society Marx wrote in his "Critique of Political Economy" as follows: "The mode of production in material life determines the general character of the social, political and spiritual processes of life...
...Society Can easily get along without him and further industrial and social progress is not possible with him...
...Thus the development of the capitalist system of production produces two distinct classes...
...The philosophy of Socialism appeals to the workers who come to understand it because that philosophy includes a history of their class and forecasts its role of emancipator of the whole of exploited mankind from economic subjection and social inferiority...
...the minute they see an up-andcoming young woman, they want to put her in her plate...
...News of the Week," review by Jacob Panken...
...To awaken the consciousness of this class to its power and its interest is the essential task of the Socialist movement...
...In the struggle for the new order the ruling class over a long period has cultivated ideas that will help to keep its privileges...
...Temporarily, however, I am chairman of the State Committee on W o m e n's Activities, and since there is a persistent demand from the women for regular space devoted to their problems and to the activities and problems of their units, I'll have to be "it" for the first few months, anyway...
...The sentence in italics is apt in relation to the present period of world capitalism...
...They select for us just t|« things they think—or somebody else thinks—are good for us to know, and lest we miss the point they are trying to make they apply a running commentator Kt explains and editorializes for tie benefit of those too weakninded to form their own conclusions...
...Women played a big part in the old Daily Call days...
...The system has produced a special clase, wage workers who live by selling their labor power as a commodity...
...so all in all, I'm in a bad way...
...They tell what they want us to know— «r Wk*' somebody else wants us know...
...In the United States, the capitalist system obtained freedom for expansion throughout the nation when the slave system was destroyed...
...they are urged to "make the world safe for democracy...
...It appears that Donald Campbell of Columbus, Ohio, has talked incessantly day and...
...4, at 10 p, nr.— "Political Problems," talk by Chas...
...It was these classes who were dominant when the planter class was destroyed...
...Tuesday, Sept...
...Does the business office know about this, Gertt Ed...
...Help us mak...
...I always enjoy the way Communist writers Uike an article and by ingenious distortion and downright lying make that nrticle say what they want it to...
...HI, there, Camp, that's two free ads in Iwi» weeks...
...I am trying hard to acquire a grim proletarian scowl, ala Israel Amter, but nobody thinks it's becoming, so that's out...
...Headline in New York World-Telegram...
...Tuesday, Sept...
...Honestly, this is only slightly exaggerated...
...Intel null.mill ¦W tar<m tB,970.:is...
...W. M. F. $9)970.38 to Austrian Fund Total contribution) for rrllef unci defease work of Ihe SixlalUt llirty i" {attriii, rr, riv.-.l f rgm the United States n Mir I.uli.ii anil Soi'lull...
...They are not asked to fight to extend capitalist markets...
...We are not looking for trouble," •aid one commentator, "but we are •ending our big ships to the Pacific Just in case...
...From forma of development of the "forces of production these relations turn into their fetters...
...Ivery news reel contains at least one picture of big navy ships, or airplane flights, or target practice...
...the upper class to retain it and the lower cIohs to obtain it...
...In the weeks to follow, Norman Thomas and other Socialist Party spokesmen are expected to participate...
...Panken...
...As soon as Esther Friedman gets back to town, all this information will be turned over to her and by the middle of September we should be able to ftart things...
...Socialist Theory," Part II, by James Oneal...
...Moreover, the working class cannot emancipate itself without emancipating all others who suffer from the dominion of capitalism...
...night for a week, except for six hours when he was under the effects of a hypodermic Injection...
...The good man displays all the symptoms of statesmanship and apparently he thinks he is already in the United States Senate...
...Very often the ruling ideas are masked...
...And their minds are being systematically poisoned with malice aforethought...
...Then comes the period of social revolution...
...The Communist "boogies" got after me last week and smote me hip and thigh...
...Readers are asked to watch for these incidents and, so far as possible, to jot down the exact words used by the commentators in seeking to create anti-labor and protvilitarist sentiments...
...There must be a period of educational preparation, of organization, of experience in struggles, of discipline and development of the ethic of class solidarity...
...But no news-reel is complete ,»ithout war pictures, and recently Kf.re must also be pictures of labor struggles...
...Meanwhile, I'm combing the woods and searching the city, but particularly the woods—because it u> in the small tow.ns, I think, that we can be most effective—for women who can put a job over...
...The former individual manufacturer and banker personally managed their business...
...In the past twenty years the owners of finance capital, the masters of great corporations and mergers, have advanced to the position of ruling class, but they have also largely become useless and even absentee owners...
...or this milium!, W.Uilk was rained thrmiKh thr elTorlH Broadcasts Will Be Launched Sept...
...11—"Political Problems," talk by Harry W. Laidler...
...The worker who rises out of the depths to challenge this intellectual coercion becomes an "undesirable...
...I gat they don't tell all...
...But I have no chance to get around much among women...
...News of the Week," review by Gertrude Weil Klein...
...Radicals Cannot Rule America," said Pathe in connection with the San Francisco strike, following it «p with a barrage of reactionary and labor-hating comments...
...The system of capitalist production is bound in the "fritters" of its own absurdities and contradictions...
...The minds of the masses are coerced into thinking and acting within the range of these ruling class ideas...
...This class has no stake whatever in the preservation oi capitalism and has every interest in abolishing it...
...I think they're important...
...flIBS all...
...That protest must be orfaniztu...
...Tuesday, Sept...
...Every useful service in industry is hired...
...Anyway, the writer in the Daily Worker charges me with gentility and refinement, with kissing a strike-breaking guard on hia beetling brow, with applauding the deputizing and arming of strikebreakers with instructions to kill, with failing to knock my forehead on the ground and chanting "struggling proletarians" each time I mention workers, with murdering one Morris Langer, with being Hitler's girl friend, and with congratulating the American Legion for its plan to exile Communists and agitators to an inaccessible part of Alaska...
...Ab others join him, eventually one class is ranged against the other, the lower against the upper, and the result is a class struggle between both for power...
...Within the past few weeks |I have heard several of the com»«ntaU>rs refer to strike conditions in a manner to bring emiles •f pleasure to every labor-hater in the country...
...Workers are never asked to go to war to protect investments of the capitalists...
...I wish the comrades in the towns outside of New York would suggest the names of women in their communities who huve a gift for organizing and for doing steady, consistent work...
...And I have the first job all picked out for the women already, e.g., the job of putting The New Leader in a position where we can plan to expand into a daily in the not too distant future...
...These round-table discussions over Station WKVD are a test of the parly members' interest jn using the radio for Socialist education...
...The slave form of production was destroyed and now fafte capitalistic form of production has fully developed...
...so I'm still struggling to keep out of that corner...
...The charge of gentility wa» the only one that hurt me...
...It can be done...
...Not that I think it will do any good...
...Since the Civil War the independent manufacturers and bankers have been reduced to second rank...
...4, at 10 p. m., fay Louis Waldman, Statu Chairman of the Socialist Party, the joint educational work of tho Rand School, Station WEVD and of The New Leader will bo under way...
...The workers acquire a will to power, but they cannot use their power at will...
Vol. 17 • August 1934 • No. 33
