The Basic Principles of the Modern Socialist Movement
Tyler, August
The Basic Principles of the Modern Socialist Movement By August Tyler Socialist Economics I Capitalism QUR present society is called capitalism. A capitalist society is not merely one in...
...The "purity" wave is curtailing the length of screen kisses, frowning upon the biological facts of life, converting kept women into honest wives and love children into legitimate offsprings, while the poison campaign of the newsreels goes on unchecked...
...that the Social Democratic Student Federation of Austria had been destroyed, but that an illegal organization with a newspaper the Rote Vorhnt, had been started...
...refusal be incorporated in the state youth organizations...
...It created new demands...
...It was then that Estelle got busy and the bundle of The New Leader was quickly disposed of...
...and so long as the price system endures, one section of the useful population will profit at the expense of the remainder of the useful population...
...It also voted to aid students in colonial countries in their fight for liberation from imperialist domination...
...The Origins of Capitalism The year of American discovery, 1492, is a convenient date to start...
...In virtually every set of "news" pictures there is propaganda for militarism, for narrow nationalism and against the strivings of the workers...
...Now both the German and Austrian sections of our federation were suppressed...
...Readers who hear offensive remarks about labor and the strivings of the workers, and militarist and nltfa-nationalist propaganda by newsreel commentators, are requested to jot down the exact words they have heard, and mail • hem in to this office...
...If a baker makes a loaf of bread for sale, it is...
...It showed the rapid mobilization of the red cross, of ambulance and hospital units, of men, women and children either to man the "deto get themselves under cover, fenses" against aircraft, or quickly It was done with systematic thoroughness and with the unsmiling seriousness of the Japanese...
...As exchange developed (first accidentally, then methodically), so did commerce...
...When prices are high, city workers suffer...
...It was decided that cooperation could be undertaken by a section of the I.S4LF...
...And so," he added, "we intend to be fully prepared to defend ourselves...
...This wealth was then converted into money in the form of precious metals obtained through pillage of Eastern cities, sale and exploitation of African slaves, operation of silver mines, looting of the stores of metal of the American Indians, and outright piracy...
...food prices go down and farmers suffer agonies...
...Three important issues confronted the congress—the united front, illegal work In fascist countries, and cooperation with bourgeois student organizations...
...But in each peculiar society these products are obtained differently and differently distributed among the members of society...
...True, at first there was no labor supply...
...Shortly before her appearance on the scene Norman Thomas addressed the several hundred delegates and was et.thusiasticall received...
...the Tightness of our cause, but the conservatives...
...So long as the profit system endures, efforts will be made to maintain prices...
...they are interested only in maintaining the profit ystem...
...France...
...Capitalism is a society with a definite type of organization...
...Economists have a name for goods produced for sale instead of use...
...Under the pressure of competition this class found new markets and new routes...
...During the middle ages, however, the means of production developed...
...the demobilization of university life and thought and the restoration of academic freedom (in Austria it will be the declericalization of university life...
...The existence of surplus wealth, not used immediately by the producer, was the material for primitive accumulation...
...Only when capitalism goes, only when there ig Socialism, will the welfare of all be the concern of all...
...There Is an active local In Kaniiai i'H> with over a hundred USMMfS, Hog Prices Rise Amidst Great Rejoicing By James Harris "UCX1 PRICES," says a New York Times headline, "IN RrSE HITS 3-YEAR PEAK.*' "Farmers jubilant," says a "bank," or sub-head, "as top reaches $6.65 and week's average goes to $6.20...
...Thousands came to the New World, other thousands fell into the claws of the new capitalist class and were thrown into their factory dungeons...
...The American delegation from the Student League for Industrial Democracy, consisting of William -Chamberlain, Octavia Edwards and Joseph P. Lash, was welcomed with cheers and took an active part in all the proceedings...
...One problem has always been a thorny one for the I.S.S.F.—cooperation with 'conservative student organizations...
...A capitalist clans employs an accumulated slock of wealth wherewith to obtain labor, machinery, land and raw material in order to produce an additional stock of wealth from which to derive its profit...
...A capitalist society is not merely one in which there are rich and poor, for this was also true of feudal and chattel slave society...
...The protest must be nation-wide...
...One could feel almost tangibly renewed hope, aggressiveness, and pride in Socialism at our congress...
...At first there were annual or semi-annual markets, Then there developed a class which lived by commerce, by buying cheap and selling dear—the merchant capitalist class...
...For they alone make the movies profitable...
...GOOD WORK, ESTELLE...
...And the comment was something about the Japanse not wanting to fight but "being ready if, as and when...
...Hckrt Tor tlie full CunipiilKh ha* been pnrtiMlly cuui|ilrtr<l...
...No matter what happens, soma one suffers...
...Now it can be sold...
...exclaimed Estelle Meiilik, one of the Yipsel boosters for The New Leader, as she started out for the national convention of the United Textile Worker* of America, a bundle of papers Under her arm...
...And as usual I got a oewsreel thrown in at no extra charge...
...The International Socialist Student Federation, on the basis of a motion submitted by the delegate from Vienna, came out unreservedly for a united front...
...Hog prices go up and farmers rejoice...
...Several times the German section has compromised the International in its attempt to keep contact With the bourgeois student organizations of Europe...
...Would we resist as heroically as did our Viennese comrades...
...Know it and you know all...
...But he had no choice...
...It is the "open sesame" to the mysteries of our day...
...Three years before our congress had been held in Vienna...
...Farmers produce the food without which life is impossible...
...It was the Hearst Metrotone News, introduced with the familiar itrains of "ta-da-da...
...r« Wood for County Trraiurer...
...these are called commodities...
...At a closed meeting to plan work in universities in fascist countries it was decided to raise the following slogans: abolition of the Mimerus, cfausjis...
...Josef Rens of Belgium, one of the most capable of youthful Socialists in Europe, was elected president of the International for the next two years, and Boutbien of France, secretary...
...This year the problem was settled easily...
...The report of Secretary Joseph Rens of Belgium stated that all the members of the National Executive Committee of the German student section were in concentration camps, having been denounced to the Nazis by a renegade among their own members...
...A delegate was present from Austria...
...It showed in great detail how airplanes flying over Osaka could be repelled by antiaircraft guns, by smoke screens and by the mobilization of the population of that great city...
...Estonia...
...and we saw the funeral of von Hitidenburg, the Hambletonian trotting race (whatever the devil that is , some sports events, and two Hems that were played up more elaborately than all the rest together...
...The Middle Ages were characterized by a system of production based upon many isolated units (manors) of an economically self-sufficient nature, derivreg most of their products by direct tillage of the sojl...
...It marks the beginning of the end of the Middle Ages...
...te-dum tara ts-tara daaa...
...City workers, miners, railroad worker* and others get tho raw material and convert it into indispensable means of life...
...The development of a jnarket reacted upon the...
...no matter what happens, those who live on the profits of the labor of others see to it that farmers and city workers continue to be at loggerheads with each other...
...The souls who cannot endure the thought of movie patrons learning that there is such a thing as an illegitimate child are quite unmoved by the poison of the newsreels...
...Some of the delegates were for breaking off all relations with organizations to the right, but the American delegation stated that it was not we who had to fear "infection" if we were sufficiently certain of...
...This wealth was now used to "hire" labor...
...There was relatively little exchange and, hence, relatively little commerce...
...Before modern capitalism could develop, howover, it was necessary to have—"capital," i.e., an accumulated stock of wealth employed in the production of further wealth...
...the other was an airplane drill in Osaka, Japan...
...World Socialist Student Federation Plans War on War and Fascism ¦y Joseph P. Lash Editor, The Student Outlook I IEGE, Aug...
...By legal decree and by illegal persecution the peasants were driven8 from the soil to wander aimlessly through the world...
...fowl 1...Ik, will run lor CongM**, <*mri I.iIhm |,„ Asienihly In the 1st ¦MMtf, Thomas D. Panhlty of JilrnJUlf ror I 1 Attorney, anil Mrs...
...undoubtedly there were others in Path*, Universal, Paramount News, and others...
...So has capitalism...
...NRA and the New Deal are not interested In human welfare...
...The congress voted to make the student strike against war, of which the Student L.I.D...
...wag one of the initiators this year, an international manifestation in 1035...
...only on the condition that it preserve its own theoretical political attitude in all alliances and compromises, and that it pursue its ultimate goal tenaciously and undeviatingly...
...Attending the conference were delegrtes from thirteen countries: Austria, Algeria, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, England (fraternal), France, Estonia, Germany (emigres), Holland, Sweden, Switzerland and the United States...
...The sentiment of one of the representatives, from North Carllina, "I reckon that New Leader paper speaks right out for the workers," was characteristic of the textile workers who gathered In their epoch-making convention...
...At Plymouth the gallant Earl, all dressed up like Sir Joseph Porter, K.C.B., clanked his sword and read a speech about England's determination that there must never be any more war...
...and at the same time file a' protest with the local picture theatre...
...The groups of producers found surpluses on hand which were occasionally offered in exchange...
...While Cocktails Were Being Served By W. M. F. 1*HE Other day I went to my * favorite neighborhood movie to weep over the sorrows of the cocktail .set and to enjoy the Utest jeu d'esprit of Mickey Mouse...
...producers, stimulating production and iperfection in the means of production...
...It instructed its two delegates to the Socialist Youth International to support a motion for united action between the two youth internationals, and when Emile Vandervelde, chairman of the L.S.I., and Friedrich Adler, its secretary, attended our closing session they were handed copies of this resolution on unity to be read at the next meeting of the Bureau of the International...
...Lash was chosen chairman for the closing session and thereby had the privilege of introducing Vandervelde and Adler...
...The Osaka item was treated as the most important in the "news" of the week...
...Kvery society has a certain amount of wealth at its disposal, in the form of fruits, vegetables, shoes, wheat, steel, etc...
...One question was always in the back of our minds—where would fascist reaction strike next—in America...
...Fundamentally, capitalist society derives its main features from the method of production and the allied economic forms and activities derived therefrom...
...When prices go up, tho farmers and cattlemen rejoice—¦ and the city dwellers suffer...
...Great portions of this "accumulating stock of wealth" passed into the hands of the rising merchant-capitalist class...
...6.—Red Vienna, the memory of the Socialist students who so gallantly fought in the Schutzfcund, was the heritage and inspiration of the 1934 congress of the International Socialist Student Federation...
...for an absent, impersonal market...
...And now a new system of production and distribution was born—capitalism...
...Brti'netUdy...
...By rent, taxes, fines and tolls the feudal lords of the Middle Ages were able to accumulate the benefits of the improved methods of production...
...Swexlen was the only national division to vote against the resolution...
...The farmers cannot get along without the city workers...
...If a housewife bakes a loaf of bread for her own use, it is not a commodity...
...Each group (be it a family or a feudal estate) produced for its own nse...
...A hurry-up call to the office brought another big bundle of papers which the delegates quickly snapped up...
...One was a naval celebration at the port of Plymouth, England, with a speech by Admiral Earl Beatty from the deck of Nelson'3 flagship, "Victory...
...The city workers cannot get along without the farmers...
...LET US HEAR FROM YOU...
...Pork Loins Jump Past...
...Production was no longer carried on for the use of the producer...
...production was now carried on for profit, Products were intended for others...
...Kansas Kaiuai < ity...
...We need your cooperation...
...So long as farmers 'and city workers are at loggerheads with each other, profit-takers will skim the cream of everything that the joint efforts of both produce...
...When prices are low, farmer* suffer, , When there is so much abundance that because of the wealth of raw materials prices fall, there is anguish and distress among millions, while there is relief for more millions...
...The millions of unemployed workers and tens of millions living under a rapidly falling standard, of living will have a fellow-feeling for the farmers and rejoice at a further increase in cost of living— or will they...
...Profittakers seek to keep up prices, and so they can be assured of the support of at least one section of the useful population in their struggle to maintain the prlce-pront-capitalist system...
...No one can stop it except working class audiences, and they can stop it by waves of protest...
...4>r...
...These commodities, which constitute the greatest part of capitalist wealth, are produced under certain conditions...
...The peasant, no matter how barren his land, chose to remain on the soil to wandering in the homeless cities...
...A fund in honor of Genrg Weissel, who died so nobly in the Vienna uprising, will be raised in eJvery country to carry on this illegal work...
...The present system of production and distribution, called capitalism, has been evolved only during the last few hundred years...
...That was the militarist crop in one week's newsreel of one picture company...
...Just as the many beautiful complexities of the flower—the color, the grace, the perfume—lie hidden in the simple seed, go the many difficult problems of modern economic society—poverty, profits, wages, values, prices—lie hidden in the simple commodity...
...This, of course, is separate and distinct from the class character of the movie "classics" themselves...
Vol. 17 • August 1934 • No. 34
