INTELLECTUALS WHO JOIN TO

...Many, however, have come within the orbit of Socialist activity, and a considerable group function rather coyly as left-wing free lances, getting in a lick here and a lick there for the revolution...

...The same thing was true of the New Economic Policy...

...We attended a few...

...There were singing, dancing, a genuine community feeling...

...In the] tactics are t«f period in wks] on capitalism Communist m ing to impost the workers, a reactionary reflected in dine of the...

...Through Sidney Yellen, itate secretary of Ohio, I met comrades in the machinists' anion at Cleveland...

...The Policy of the "Leaser Evil" QUR Communist "friends" have raised another question in relation to the proletarian insurrection in Austria and to tactics in general...

...is concerned with three problem...

...Secondly, he analyses the program of the new deal...

...There is William Thoma, for example, secretary of that body...

...Editor's Corner Review of and Comment on Events Here and Abroad, Critical and Otherwise By June* Ones] The Detroit Convention •THERE ia little doubt that we are in the period of the definite decay of capitaliam all over the world...

...These problems are most acute daring periods like the present when eld ideologies crumble in the debris of the economic system that gave them validity...

...Last summer Emily and I acquired a 1926 Chevrolet...

...If the "lesser evil" is your fundamental view of action you are an opportunist...

...Emergency decrees" may face us before the Detroit convention meets and we should not take anything for granted...

...Hm THE Rand School sponsored it, George H. Goebel managed it, and the comrades in four states realized it...

...Some 18,000 metal trades workers are now organised in a live, functioning metal trades council, headed up by individuals who remind me of John Fitspatrick and Edward Nockels for their loyalty to labor and their courage and initiative...

...Robert Lieberman, chairman of the Unemployed Citizens' League of Allegheny County Pa., took ug to address striking smelter workers in a company town near Pittsburgh...

...In many -cases one type of class-consciousness has been hastily shed for another...

...Each decision was a matter of choosing the "lesser evil...

...Epater le bourgeoist No I Crush him...

...In tracing the economic development of America, he shows the gradual evolution of capitalist society here...

...The platform should leave a blank space for the insertion of the name of the Congressional candidate, and be printed in a large edition at a small cost This would also be a big financial saving for the national and local organization...

...The men of letters have made a most flourishing debut, but they have been joined by all types of creative and professional workers...

...The balss| call surplus capitalists...

...Perhaps one of the reasons is that they are all on unemployed relief'themselves, in the same boat as the membership...

...A new type of platform should be adopted...

...Intellectuals Who Join to They May be to Often Lured by the 0 Function for By H. M» Dfjvty THE severe crisis is American * capitalism has caused Use desertion of large numbers of its intellectuals...

...It should indict capitalism in terms of the class struggle and state our fundamental alms...

...many in carry on the Comi caught in the the subs' activity...

...Considering our poor financial resources, we should do two things, adopt a Congressional platform for all districts and get a group of working class agitators to go direct to workers and farmers in flivvers that can be obtained very j cheaply...

...And in all the sections of the book he is answering the often raised contention that Socialism is an alien doctrine which can never And root in the American soil...

...This museum piece transported us over mountainside and valley, over snow and ice...

...At a result the labor movement, especially its left-wing, has received numerous recruits...

...TJ Blanquista and they seek has the col some of its pi They exhi in the fi tactics of munist tactics from an of course, bi the time and cation...

...You therefore choose what you believe to be the "leader evil...

...We found an unusual warmth, comradeship and old-fashioned democracy...

...Unless we reach large sections of workers we j have little hope for the future...

...They may be approaching exhaustion with government power hurled against them and a compromise must be reached to realise part of their program or to even save the organisation itself...

...Bel argument manner: "Labor vices » * . than the wj "It can thai all it make...

...It is America at the Crossroads, by David P. Berenberg...

...In politics you choose a Roosevelt, a Smith or a Hoover...

...Socialists and Communists have faced such situations and have acted in accord with the policy of the "lesser evil...

...You are compelled to choose between the two...

...It cannot be otherwise in that situation...

...Instead of a short introduction regarding basic aims, this section should be the longest snd the detailed measures should be reduced to a few fundamentals that correUte with the long introduction...

...You have no basic philosophy, or, if you have one, aim is made subordinate to method, instead of method being subordinated to aim...

...This argument is simply another capitalist smoke screen...

...The crisis in capitalism has, however, driven many intellectuals to the radical classics, and for the first time ninny have seen some thing of the logic of working...

...Perhaps the majority have gone Communist, attracted by the strange glitter of that exotic movement...

...tactics repr«*| Marxism...

...A movement may choose wrong in an "imperative" situation but that situation compels a decision...

...In this volume Berenbere...

...The workers, farmers, middle claasee and professional groups face a hopeless future...

...The same thing occurs in strikes when the workers cannot realise their full program...

...From the first stop we made to the last we encountered the paucity of hard workers, Jimmy Higginsea of the Ben Hanford type, and we also ran into petty quarreling...

...In Pittsburgh a comrade would come up to me after my meeting and casually remark that he—a well-known Socialist—had organised several locals of rubber workers in his city, about 20 miles outside the steel town...

...The word-madness of Joyce has been discarded for the revolutionary dialectics of Marx...

...A Month's Agitation Tour Under the Roosevelt New Deal ¦y Nortio...

...Trotsky took one view and Lenin the other...

...Here is a brief summary of what we found...

...In this country, the rapid reduction of millions to proletarians is smasing and that is one important test of the NRA...

...In some cases the suddenness of the transformation has been startling...

...The measures should be a few, including socialisation of banking, railroads, power and other basic industries such as steel, automobiles, ' coal, etc...

...He is not • young man any longer...

...Ia Jeanette and Greensburg other comrades would just as naturally tell mess if it were not news and was to be taken as a matter of course— that they had helped considerably in in the formation of glass workers' federal unions...

...Whether inside or outside the A. F. of L., the Socialists and Tipsels have been and are on the job doing the basic work of helping organise the 'unorganised...

...First he traces the economic development of the United States until the present time...

...He shows the avenues of escape from the wage earning class which particularly Middle and an important on the racial ican people polyglot po come to this Why We After del perity when claimed that tradictions solemnly a prosperity Berenberg i the collapse only a few been taken talism baliykf sion was reason—a melic...

...The idealism, good sense and rich humor of the leadership of the Unemployed Citizens' League was a tonic to one distressed by world events...

...Both the machinists and the metal trades council invited me to address them, and though I sharply criticised the NRA and spoke as a Socialist, they applauded' my remarks...

...Our critics, manage to keep two philosophies in their heads, a materialist realism for themselves and a free will dogma for all others...

...1. The Socialists—members of the party and of the Young People's Socialist League—have been and are very active in the trade union organising drives...

...And how he riddles that myth...

...Here is the problem...

...But, excelsior...

...We spoke at organizing meetings, union assemblies and strikers' gatherings...

...Communists faced a choice growing out of objective conditions...

...We should warn the professionals and the middle classes , that Fascism has yoked them under bondage to the big mag- ] nates and that their future is bound lp with the emancipa- tion of the working class...

...He has planted Utopian colonies, agitated for free land, written pamphlets for the eight-hour day, supported ventures in cooperative production and exchange, defended trade unionism, and fought for Socialism...

...I There Is, of course, nothing now I in this movement of intellectuals 1 within the range of labor activity...

...This is one of the most cheering things we found...

...The educational work of making these NRA 'babies" unionists in earnest is not being overlooked by some far-sighted laborites and Socialists...

...Their.condemnation is sweeping but it lacks logic and even forgets Communist history...

...Thus ths behaves Crises in as springs ultra-re with the capitalist into his Possibl...

...The u n e m ployed org animation which., laeberman and others head is a remarkable illustration o t how a mass body can really function for and reach the rank and (lie...

...Ever since Robert Dale Owen and the fascinating Fanny Wright led one faction of the Worklagmen's Party in New York a hundred years ago the intellectual has played a part in the American labor drama...

...Through more than a century of changing activity his contribution has, on the whole, been valuable...

...Thousands attend the weekly meetings of the 40-odd locals...

...This picture is probably exaggerated...

...We would thus yield nothing of our fundamental principles while at the same time call attention to the fact that Fascism really places the intermediate classes more securely under the power of the upper ruling classes...

...Both...

...During the past four years there has been a flight of intellectuals into the left-wing political parties...

...Inconsistent Reasoning UOWEVER, the Communists as a rule regard each decision not as a compromise but as a "strategic retreat...

...But even where a movement has a fundamental goal and the movement cannot, for the time being, realize it, the "lesser evil" often must be chosen because of objective conditions...

...Moscow has been substituted for Paris as the cultural center of the universe...

...Perhaps the movement also benefited...

...we returned alive and well, and ever so much richer for the trip...

...The rapidity of this movement alone produces a dangerous' instability among the new recruits...

...Somehow the officers had learned the trick of making the organisation a living thing...

...It is an ardor, moreover, which cools before obstacles and reverses...

...This ne* produces ¦ "Sooner circle teni* of goods, Ml there is sj| market, baetl...

...Cities like Pittsburgh, Cleveland and Detroit of course have well-established branches and a great deal more influence than their numbers would indicate...

...When Trotsky negotiated with the German generals at Brest-Litovsk, the Communists were divided as to which was the "lesser evil," peace with German imperialism or refusal to sign...

...They are gqneralled America at I About a Remarkabli Where Light I ¦y Andrew J. Biemiller QNE of the most useful Socialist books in recent years has just been published by the Rand School Press...

...Inevitably, however, certain problems arise concerning the relation between the intellectual, and the social movement in which he tries to function...

...collective farming, with all the advantages of electric power, and reduction of the hours of rural labor...

...In Detroit and other automobile centers it was the same story...

...They glow with extreme revolutionary ardor, an ardor that often has few roots in an understanding of social processes...

...The attesHj movement working (i only one pirtf error...

...class movements...

...Those Socialists and Yipsels who were doing solid, substantial work of organizing the unorganized and the unemployed did not talk about ft, did not attack others for not doing it, but they took it as a matter of Socialist duty to do it...

...For themselves, they plead material necessity but for Socialists they argue on the basis of free will...

...No matter which course was taken the basic aha of Communism would not be realised...

...He marshals a wealth of evidence to show that Socialism is not eculiar to any nation, that it is the logical outgrowth of capitalists wherever the capitalist system appearsj He also shows how the capitalists of every nation try to label Socialism as a foreign importation...

...Where Socialista make a choice under "imperative" conditions the Communists never make allowance for conditions but denounce it as "betrayal...

...It is pragmatism, the philosophy of opportunism...

...They call it the policy of choosing the "lesser«evil...

...Sudden disillusionment and despair foster a rapid leftward movement among intellectuals...

...They e|sj it and M* invest it...

...2. The older and newer members of the Socialist Party are on the job of building the party, but unfortunately the number of live wires in a branch is limited, and too often there is much—too much —personal bickering...

...With the renunciation of an old world they wish to press quickly to a new...

...Lenin wrote that "it was a compromise with imperialists, but it was a compromise which, in the given surroundings, wets imperative...

...For months he and others like him reached the factory gates at 6 and 6 in the morning and kept on working all day and evening and did not retire for sleep until 1 a. m. These untiring efforts brought results...

...You strive for a basic aim which.is not yet within your reach and there arises two alternatives...

...Third, he speculates on the* possibilities for the future...