NS THAT FACE SOCIALISTS
That Face socialists osrsge our basic aimssrsMn lc opinions sdes would extraordinary tta, local and and the memittons, schools, mtitutions of renough, there J who demand ¦racy in...
...the struggle between* France and It ly for hegemony in the Danube basin...
...In his second installment he speaks vigorously against "Office without Power," against "Futile Alliance*" and" "Wild Promises...
...Revolt and Revolution" by Georg Decker and "Fascism and the Intellectuals' by Judge ***— are two of the latest pamphlets on the lessons of German counterrevolution, the Graphia, official publishing house of the German Social Democrats, had just put on the market...
...X am for adopting what promises to break down the walls of prejudice and to enable us to achieve our goal.'' I am uncphj earned as to the strict prthodejf of my methods, H is the subjrta'ncej not the forms, I want...
...and the separation of the church from the State...
...The Argentine Socialist Party states that the purpose of this Ji|et-together" movement Js not tajspt.off the Ibero-Amerlcan countries against the rest of, the nations of America nor of the...
...It was written by a group of active Social Democratic workers, living in Germany where they are leaders of the underground Socialist movement...
...Lack of space does not permit any more quotations from this thought-provoking pamphlet...
...Hitler saw their mistake, seized the flag they had discarded, used it against them, and destroyed them...
...Each program, to be sure, should look forward to cooperative farming, except in such sectors Where special conditions may reveal the need of something less than collective farming, as in the case of small gardens where foodstuffs are raised-primarily for family needs and only incidentally for sale...
...italism, violently shaken by the worst of economic crisis...
...To crush them means inviting civil war between the workers...
...Its aspiration is to make of a generous group of kindred nations a unity capable of working for their common welfare and civilization, and of advancing pis peoples in the development of their noble and useful aptitudes, k. The Spanish-speaking countries m America number owe hundred million people, and it is hardly 4ikely thai such e vest mass ei pmuue should net play en lmportantjfrole In the...
...I ¦Bffi^ wee the claims of the working class ior the abolition of the capitalist system...
...In every critical situation, In the inflation, in crisis after crisis, and daring the reactionary attack by the bourgeoisie against the interests of labor it placed the interests of the bourgeois state above the interests of the proletarian class struggle, and boasted, withal, of its "sense of responsibility...
...If we are using the emotional symbolism of a flag for the purpose of attracting adherents, why use a form of emotional symbolism that repels...
...ftiey have all fought for liberty in order'to attain their own economic end political position...
...While our collective program for the whole of agriculture is largely the same, the program for each region will differ and we suffer from a poverty of literature suitable to reach the working farmers...
...In the active struggle against capitalist society...
...The pamphlet written for the fruit growers of Florida and California is useless for the cotton croppers of the South, the wheat and corn farmers, the dairy farmers and the cultivators of livestock...
...a National Senator and a map/pj solid intellectual standing in South America...
...On the contrary, we should approach him with the message* that he is in the same boat with the deflated wage worker, and that his future security and freedom are bound up with the emancipation of the proletariat...
...people jointly...
...they used the crisis of their own capitalist order as bait for the sons of the middleclass and peasants and lured them into the fascist hordes and converted the unemployed proletarians into their janizaries...
...Why not appeal to the American with a symbolism he .understands and accepts...
...It is qpon this foundation we must build Socialism in America-, if at all...
...to a sterile sect despite more than forty years of agitation...
...The union members are bound together by their common interests as workers...
...Our approach to these elements should also be changed...
...The most immediate piece of work the government would have to do is to restore confidence in the power of democracy to work...
...For fifty years Socialist parties have tried in viiin to Attract the American masses by waving...
...Once they are won, the whole of trade unionism will be transformed in leadership, organization and policies and thus be adapted to that fraternal understanding and cooperation that are so essential...
...They jointly signed it "Miles" and smuggled it out to Karlsbad, Czechoslovakia, where lt> was published by the Prague canter of the German Social Democracy...
...In human composition the unions are distinctly working class, but not in their social philosophy...
...organizer of the first Latin-Amgjk opinion, should be: Will it.?%frr ieah Socialist and Labor Congress 111 Buenos Ayres in 1919, and Dr...
...This approach has undoubtedly led many middle class persons to believe that Socialists are really allies of the upper ruling capitalists and bankers...
...The immediate aims of this dictatorship are not only to disarm the bands of fascist murderers, not only to turn over to the revolutionary tribunal the present destroyers of the constitution, whose hands are stained with blood, and not only to rout the officers who broke the law for the benefit of fascism, but also to take away from the aristocrats, capitalists and priests their economic power...
...the members...
...This department may still have a chance to speak of them...
...We should assure him that the rise of the proletariat does not mean the rule of another class over him but the abolition of all classes by wresting the means of production, distribution and exchange from the ruling class and making them accessible to all, with no monopoly privilege extended to anybodyFascist demagogues, when obtaining power, place a noose about his neck and hand the rope over to the old ruling classes...
...activist Socialism not in tolerance, not in submission, but...
...We stand self-branded as opposed to the Stars and Stripes...
...Why not use a form which attracts...
...I ship and autonomous democracy of other organizations of workers is a curious and contradictory compromise between two antagonistic concepts that cannot be reconciled in theory or practice...
...ciety, based upon exploitation, slavery and cultural degradation of the masses into what Marx called an "association in whioh the free development of every one is the condition of the development of all...
...they used their domination in industry and agriculture to compel the workejfs to join the fascist mercenary army...
...The Working Clou Most important of all is the need of reaching the proletarians of the cities...
...he* in the memben, a dictatorship that reduced the S.L.P...
...To the average American the Stars and Stripes symbolize those principles which the Declaration of Independence announced: Equality, Democracy, Freedom, the inalienable rights of the common man...
...Therefore, Socialism presupposes democracy...
...The Trade Unions So long as there is no fraternal understanding and cooperation with the trade unions the Socialist Party will be bedevilled with this problem...
...It was written* in the form of an introduction to a series of articles on, "How Labor Party will govern next time" which the Clarion began to publish April IB...
...By its unfeigned candor of political self-criticism it exceeds anything any political party ever published about itself...
...It can only come by intensive education of the party members in the philosophy of Socialism...
...But the capitalists, agricultural barons and priests used their political freedom only to undermine the democracy in order to deal it a deadly blow by fire and sword...
...Our former soapboxers worked for the sheer joy of reaching their class with the message of Socialist emancipation...
...Even the right of government ownership of the tools and products of labor creates only State Capitalism, and_ not Socialism...
...The situation in Germany is especially valuable, for there the Nazi chiefs have made middle class and professional groups conscripts of the upper capitalist and financial oligarchy...
...as outlined by the call, will be„.f'*t(j' consider and adopt a plan of tqny> mon action so that in each country, the parties and workers' centra...
...What should be the aim of a revolution against Austrian fascism...
...y was in part Adnst a similar % in the.S.L.P...
...The Austrian bourgeoisie destroyed bourgeois democracy...
...Applying that test, I have arrived at the conclusion that we can not advance Socialism in America along the old ruts...
...However, in this country commercial farming appears to be doomed, as it does not produce an income for the farmer...
...It asserts, for instance, that after the revolution of 1918, during the 13 years of the Weimar Republic, the German Social Democracy remained "a party which accepted the bourgeois state and the capitalist system...
...Mario Bravo, a noted publicist and...
...A lengthy declaration of principles by the 'large group of German, Social Democratic emigres in France seems to be the most important of these contributions...
...They used their money to recruit bands of fascist mercenaries...
...It remains such until the . people themselves jointly change the government into an instrument of their will, their self-determination...
...world, but to;convert it into a constructive movement in favor of and not ffeainst anything...
...In any event, the working farmer is becoming more and more needed as a factor ' in the fight against capitalism...
...mere or less near futile, * The Workers Abroad An International Review of the Socialist and Labor Movement of the World By Mark Kruno) George Lansbury for a New Orientation "/\UR movement is in urgent need of being born again," ^ writes George Lansbury...
...Let V go out to win Socialism, not gsth^ bur Brahraaniecal skirts abeuVmj and go down to suit destrucHfett with the holy saUsfaetion ef htola* stuck rigidly to the purest Argentine Socialists Call for Great Congress of Nations By Bon Uchtonborg •THE National Executive Committee of the Argentine Socialist Party has called a ingress of the Ibero-Amer|f^n democracy to meet next Septernber...
...To unite both organizations so different in composition and views in support of the So* ciah'st ideal is the task...
...This prediction has been made in terms of exultation and sometimes with contempf" for those who expected to become master bourgeois...
...Compared with Europe it is almost ajLa single nation...
...the party members are bound together by a social philosophy...
...The almost incredible conservatism of many unions has felt the impact of the depression, and in recent years the A. F. of L. has abandoned its individualist philosophy, has accepted the principle of social legislation, and effected a half-way comDi-omisa that for the present permits organization of industrial unions in the mass production industries...
...The pamphlet "New...
...In this sense, we remain democrats: the freedom of the individual to form and propagate his own convictions, and the freedom of the people to decide jointly according to the convictions of the majority, remain our aims...
...An arrogant' attitude by either organization to the other because of alleged or real shortcomings will not t,end to bring them together...
...Time will not permit even suggesting a program for the farmers, but here again our approach to them is the same as the approach to the middle class man...
...the contradictions within the very Austro3 fascist dictatorship...
...If patriotism and love of country are taboo in our Socialist movement, what a perfect set-up we...
...In 1918, we gave political freedom and equal political rights to all classes, to all parties...
...middle class men by the masters of corporate capital and finance...
...HARTFORD, Conn...
...At this time, I would like, however, to stress again the gratifying fact that the fearless piece of self-criticism of party policies was originally published leet October by the official party center that has as its hesd Otto Wels, former chairman of the party, Friedrieh Stampfer, editor-in-chief of the party organ, and Herts, secretary of the Social Democratic deputies in the Reichstag...
...The Middle Class and Fascism Events in the post-war period in Europe show the importance of winning the middle and professional classes to the side of the proletariat in the struggle for the abolition of capitalism...
...What is more natural than for the«iiddl£ class to turn against Socialists whom they erroneously believe to be allies of the ruling class and enlist under the banner of fascists...
...In a demonstration by discharged employes, state police injured a num...
...On such questions like revolutionary methods in Hitler Germany, ruthless extermination of the ruling classes, socialization of the means of production and distribution, and n temporary dictatorship during the transitory period, the Paris declaration goes even further to the left than the new program of the Prague center...
...Our aim is not the restoration of bourgeois democracy of lieste\day, but a revolutionary dictatorship, as a transional form to a real Socialist democracy, based upon the ownership of the people of all the means of production and the products of its labor...
...Oermee aad foreign comrades omv tributed lately a number of new articles and pamphlets on this subject...
...Comrades wishing to read the original will be able to secure it from the Rand School Book Store, New York...
...The dictatorship destroyed this autonomous democracy by incorporating the trade unions and the cooperatives as subordinate organs of the dictatorship...
...In my opinion, too much attention has been paid to reaching colleges, churches and clubs where proletarians are not to be found, and this policy has tended to give the party an air of respectability in liberal and bourgeois circles...
...It is intended that economic accord he complemented by another, social, spiritual and political in nature, so that all the countries may march shoulder to shoulder along the path of peace, Socialism end liberty, concepts which have Ibst not a little of their ancient prestige in the European continent, but which are preserved and in-, vigorated In the Ibero-Amerlcan countries...
...The revolutionary dictatorship should declare as public property all banks, largo industrial establishments, big commercial houses, all the forests, and divide the great agricultural estates among the farm workers and the sons of peasants and soldiers and thus create thmrfsfldation for a Socialist order~^ When the revolutionary dictatorihip has completed these taike, then and only then a genuine, real and strong democracy will be possible in Austria...
...the entire international situation leading towards a new world war—all this is guaranty that in Austria there will surely be created conditions for a new revolutionary uprising of the masses...
...Tha defeat of the aocialiit movement abroad and the success of fascism in Italy, Germany and Austria have brought a revival of the discussion of tactics in the international movement...
...It is composed of ten republics, the language of nine of which is Spanish, which could readily agree on a common Objective because they are bound together by many common ties, Tkfiy all have a common origin .sand the same form of government...
...They have been right," says the pamphlet, "who saw the essence of...
...Tha Farmers The agricultural problem has always been the most difficult problem for the Socialist movement, because agriculture has been a case of arrested development from the economic point of view...
...Our 'time grows,short...
...But,the .ire small propAver, they are lid...
...This fundamental premise cannot be ignored...
...But of real importance is his verbal promise to Thomas Johnston of the Glasgow Forward to take up in the next installment the advocacy of a "tremendous effort to establish big blocks of Socialism in Britain" at soon as the Labor Party again takes hold of office...
...That more unity in thought and action is essential no one will dispute, but this solidarity cannot be realised by establishing an executive bureaucracy with extraordinary powers...
...The primary problem is how to reach the mass of...
...They must be crushed or taken over by the dictatorship...
...With.* distressing tterUto of njlnd Jfym.iOneeJ, rejects ,*ny-plan lew aeoidmf tl|e- itsasle* efthleh overwhelmed dur German comrades, tat oft>re'nothing in lti wm» ft* test «i MP pU»s ta maths battle of democracy" in Ainerica...
...Alfredo L. Palaces...
...Will it advance SociaTftn...
...It would require an evening to go into the merits of the two proposals now before our party, and I will be content to consider what I believe to be fatal defects in the Minority resolution...
...M»;afcejr*» t in the very German comt them to the im...
...This experience teaches us that no genuine strong democracy is possible as long as the economic power remains in the hands of the capitalists, aristocrats and clergy, who will use it to crush the democracy...
...He openly confesses that he has thrown overboard some of his old views: that what he has to say may not be entirely endorsed by the Labor Party...
...This contradiction between a rjartv dictator...
...jfjirique Dickmann, a National Deputy and an outstanding figure 'of' lpng and useful activity in the Socialist Party, now in charge of the foreign relations commission of the Executive Committee of the •p&rty...
...Unable to choose between the two concepts, the supporters of the Minority resolution adopt both I The Minority resolution' does not dispel the confusion'.' Party members would be accorded the right to defend a dictatorship by the Socialist Party and also to defend the Independent initiative and action of working class organizations...
...This aid and sincere educational work ahould in the next few years prove to be invaluable In bridging a ehaam that means weakncaa to the unions and the party so that both can look forward to intimate cooperation not only In day-by-day struggles but in any final conflict that may face tha whale working clasa m the ultimate content between the blaek forces of Capitalism and the rod foreee of Socialism...
...This is e I history, which pltmder of an B*tn, an enorth that was on the people veto monopoly ef many still Ion that, and (•rested...
...Only real educational work by the party member in the union and the union member in the party will be helpful...
...Our late German comrades«made the same fatal blunder...
...Quite candidly- he also discusses Labor's attitude toward the crown, the civil service and the bankers...
...The dictatorship in Russia began with the iron rule of the Communist Party...
...National |Senator Dr...
...they have ^'diversified production, thanks to the...
...We may gain the world of office and lose our souls...
...All of us, Lefts, Rights or Centers, have become stodgy and full of doubts and difficulties...
...may defend and maintain, 'from their respective positions, the .'development of free commercialiand cultural interchange, the pacific solution of international conflicts, the defense of the democratic ajid republican form of government, the control of finance capitaL^tc^npulsory free and lay instruction...
...Sciallsm means that the entire 'nation Is the owner of all the | means of production and the sole distributor of the wealth, produced jointly by all workers...
...In our literature and our own agitation Socialists have predicted the extermination' of...
...That Face socialists osrsge our basic aimssrsMn lc opinions sdes would extraordinary tta, local and and the memittons, schools, mtitutions of renough, there J who demand ¦racy in the iKup favor this rar.ln the parky...
...Any attempt at' forced- cohesiori by an executive is pertain to involve that body in conflicts with the members, leading to factional wars and to the inevitable expulsions and splits that have always come of such a mechanical arrangement...
...By this very act it placed before us in Austria only one choice: either a fascist dictatorship of the capitalists, aristocrats and priests, or a revolutionary dictatorship of the laboring masses of the cities and villages...
...The veteran Socialist leader wrote this significant statement from his sick bed in Manor House Hospital, where he has been confined since'hie broke hU leg twenty weeks ago...
...It is fearless in the realm of principles and Ideas and more so in the critical evaluation of the practical activities, tactics and strategy of the Socialist move* ment in post-war Europe...
...he writes, adding...
...Considering this fine phase of party history and the vital need of repeating it today, it is sheer pretense'for us to speak of a "militant" Socialist movement until couriers of the proletariat are again in the field enduring the haiards of proletarian agitation and building locals and branches whoso members are overwhelmingly of working class eomposition...
...the battle of S, clearly we trogram and we have apsad spirit of ? the purely ¦ us recognize t America the a small mi• appeal only the Socialist esority group or dangerous] •the American (fall...
...Here we have a fundamental conflict...
...Until we build powerful party organizations of the workers in the industrial centers we have not even laid the basis for an enduring and effective Socialist movement...
...In each region some comrade or a number of comrades should be assigned the task of studying the agricultural economics of their region, and on the basis of such studies a program for each region may be worked out that will appeal to the working farmers...
...offer, we and our red flag, for the first real fascist attack...
...What is needed is a large group of agitators inspired to take the field to agitate in the streets, before factory gates, in mining towns, and in unions and strikes...
...in no continent does there exist so many homogeneous countries ae in the Ibero-Amerlcan continent...
...In my judgment, neither the Majority resolution adopted at the Paris Congress nor the Minority resolution is satisfactory, and for that reason I drafted resolutions on this issue that differ from Jboth...
...While making no concession to any lingering desire of the middle class man to recover his former stake in the capitalist system, we should avoid any appearance of exultation because he is being crushed...
...I am for discarding what has proved a dragj tipon us...
...And it adds a new organization demand: Complete self-elimination of the old German leaders from the new-born movement...
...that fascism is accepted by some because it is "a doctrine of action, though it is of a sort that is hateful to millions...
...and in order to change the canltalUf an...
...All this shows a hopeful trend, and it is the duty of Socialists to encourage further advances, for unless there is eventual understanding and cooperation between the political and economic organizations'of the working class the ideal of Socialism can never be realized...
...In this country we have the advantage of European experience in the struggle with fascism, and we can also point out what has happened to the professional and middle classes in fascist Italy and Germany...
...We are fighting for the revolutionary power of the laboring masses not in order to replace the rule of one class by the rule of another class, but in order to create through the means of socialization of large capital and agriculture the foundation for the abolition of all class rule and a true and real democracy, in order to change the class-government of all classes into a "league of free people" (as Marx said...
...Deend they are trade unionist '. lefttlng wage Brians at the JW (woieh Jim ¦Mitakes for Pdst," saye ¦ft a patriotic ¦9* P*>P»t 1 mm win...
...Therefore the first result of the revolutionary uprising of the masses of the people in Austria should be the revolutionary dictatorship of the working class...
...have voted to strike unless a 26 per cent wage increase is granted...
...The party is to rule as a dictatorship and yet other organizations are to be free \o negdtiate and to even "determine their line of action...
...I am convinced," he writes, "that we should fight elections on a straightforward program of Socialism, without any make-believe, "I do not think that we can safely or sensibly attempt to carry through Socialism except after an election which has been fought upon this question and he* reaulted in a majority...
...There are many thousands of proletarians to be recruited for the Socialist Party and they can only be reached by working .class agitators...
...Beginnings" served as a bails for the inter-party discussion that later resulted in the new Revolutionary Program, the discussion about the lei* sens of the German catastrophe did net end, however, with the publication, by Jen, 21, the Prague Center, of the new program...
...in Buenos Ayres...
...We never got to first base with it, and never will, It has done nothing but erect a wall of prejudice against us...
...Therefore, Socialism presupposes the freedom of self-determination of all the people:-' the freedom of the individual to propagate his convictions, the freedom of the social unit to administer the tools and products of its labor according to the convictions of the majority...
...To protect this bourgeois republic against the rebelling working class, to defend It against a more advanced revolution, it disarmed the proletariat, but on the other hand placed the power of the state In the hands of the officers of tike old Imperial Ittate, the reactionary citizens' guard and the Free Corpsjin short, alb those counter-revolutionary organisations out of which grew the National Socialist movement, which waa ultimately to drive that same party leadership out of the country...
...English translation of the pamphlet Neu beginnen, whose appearance made such a stir among the leading Socialists of Europe...
...It declares for-the "dictatorship of the revolutionary party during the period of Socialist construction...
...bar of workers...
...If the revolutionary party is to ruje as a dictatorship, it cannot permit .other working class organizations to survive...
...Otherwise, we should not take office again," • » * A "New Beginning" for Germany TP HE publishing house Labor College*, of London de, * serves the gratitude of English reading Socialists for getting out an...
...In order to organize the preparatory work and to consummate, t^i* design of (establishing relflmyi and coordinating a common plan of action between representative groups, of the Ibero-American democracy, the Argentine Socialist Party designated three of its foremost men—Dr...
...in human composition the party is not entirely working class, but it is or should be in its philosophy...
...The authors of the Minority resolution appear to have tecoiled from this logical implication, for they later destroy their basic premise by sayng that the "Dictatorship must be exercised under the permanent control of organizations free to-negotiate, to choose their representatives and to determine themselves, their line of action...
...But the revolutionary dictatorship must first strip the capitalists, agricultural barons and priests of their economic power before the genuine freedom of the individual and before real self-determination will be possible...
...for Socialism ? I "Program and Points or* Policy"-—Sew famr" re rfce Left...
...Either the dictatorship will destroy the democracy or the democracy will destroy the dictatorship, Both cannot surive side by side...
...farm values have collapsed and the farmer's equity in his mortgage is practically worthless, "the tendency is to reduce the American farmer to a peasant or to a wage worker on a mechanized farm owned by absentees...
...various climates they enjoy, wiijch readily facilitates commercial exchange: they can easily .understand each other since they speak a language which is common to'pU of them...
...Socijfti|Jt and labor parties as well a? cetftra) labor bodies that uphold democratic tendencies in the SpahishAmerican countries will be invited, v' The purpose of the congiess...
...the red flag...
...the antagonism between the Austro-fascists and Nazi-fascists...
...The present attempt of the Prague Center to move to Paris is obviously an attempt to bridge the growing abyss between the two centers of politically active Social Democratic emigres...
...and their historic $eirtiny will tend to bring them closer together in the future...
...Workers at the Belamose Textile Corp...
...That these classes have not realized the hopes aroused by the fascist demagogues is certain, and this fact should be brought out in a number of pamphlets...
...For a time the Russian trade unions and cooperatives exercised a certain degree of autonomous democracy, but this autonomy was in contradiction to the dictatorship of the party...
...It must be preceded by the personal and spiritual freedom of the individual and the right of self-determination for all the...
...Aside from approach, the problem of agriculture is a regional one...
...When we-are victorious should we at once inaugurate democracy...
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