London Was a Real Debs Of the Jewish Workers
Oneal, James
London Was a Real Debs Of the Jewish Workers By James Oneal R/IANY of the present generation of Socialists know little of Meyer London and his work in the lahof and Socialist movement....
...Meyer London was not of this type...
...Meyer London had knowledge, experience, idealism and intense loyalty to the working class...
...Too often we have seen party members in the past and the present satisfied with an arrested intellectual development...
...He was a fiery evangel in the labor struggle...
...He was a type that makes the Socialist equipped for valuable and enduring service to the movement...
...Just as one can peel an onion of layers of various sizes, so the pseudo-radical has a series of intellectual layers...
...Unless he pursues this quest he can be little more than a pseudoradical...
...The Socialist who would serve the movement effectively, he who would avoid excursions into the romantic, who would keep himself and his views within the realm of objective reality, must constantly grow in knowledge...
...The class struggle was not a theory with him...
...London Was a Real Debs Of the Jewish Workers By James Oneal R/IANY of the present generation of Socialists know little of Meyer London and his work in the lahof and Socialist movement...
...Or Socialist philosophy, Syndicalism, Anarchism, Trade Unionism and the history of these movements they knew and know little...
...Peel one and he is a Syndicalist, another and he is an impossibilist, another and he is an opportunist, and so on through the various complexes that go with the word "radicalism...
...It was life, it was feeling the sorrows and struggles of the class out of which he came...
...This is the price of effective service to the Socialist movement and the best interests of the working class...
...They read a few pamphlets and the party press and never get beyond this stage of knowledge...
...Although he ascended to the professional class, his heart and soul were always in the ghetto, in the tenements and sweatshops, in the struggles of the working class, po...
...He grew from year to year, grew in intellectual stature and nobility of soul...
...He had a rounded Socialist culture based upon many years of earnest study...
Vol. 17 • May 1934 • No. 64
