SOCIALISM IN THE U. S.? IT'S HERE, SHE WRITERS
Morgan, Barbara Spofford
Socialism in the U, 5.? It's Here, She Writes From BARBARA SPQFFORD MORGAN IWRITE YOU because of the astonishing lack ot understanding displayed by many vocal Europeans for what is actually...
...Albert Guerard is an eminent French historian...
...The actual hammering out of the shape of our socialism occurs between representatives of capital and those of labor...
...Such a Fas•i an...
...Clark, HST Need 'Leader' From CHARLES VON DRACEK THE more I read T/ic Norn Leader...
...Many formal socialists still believe that there is no hope for the protection of workers except in the arms of the government, and so far, all socialist experiments have movent toward entrusting the fate of men in factories and farms to other men in government...
...embrace the butcher, but change the world: it needs it...
...Aid De Gaulle, Save France, Historian Says From ALBERT GUERARD PeRMIT ME to express my hearty agreement with James Burnham's articles on France in The New Leader...
...What vdeness would yon not commit to exterminate vih'uvss...
...This happens because we deliberately permit it to kill from thirty to forty thousand persons each year and to wound about a million...
...We need no longer say, "Oh...
...DESPITE OUR INCOHERENCES...
...1 ferried end Blum are fine men, but they are u'pelessly attached to their own past...
...It is now up to business to display, as it docs in some cases, an equally statesmanlike view...
...and particularly the one on de Gaulle...
...Such a blind willingness to destroy ithers and oneself at the behest of a party hierarchy can desttroy the hu-nanistic values of art, literature, science and mankind itself...
...Of course it is a good lliiilg to urgecare on drivers and pech ..li i.ins and to promote -the regular safety measures, but that only scrub lies the surface ol the problem...
...Of course, the French revolution resulted in the power of the bourgeois class, but in its ideas it surely struck an opening chord for socialism...
...N. Y...
...We have no room for friendly equals...
...It is time for Europeans In see that the issue b: not between capitalism ai^l socialism but between free socialism and forced socialism...
...The UAW and other unions report that they will put pensions and welfare ahead of wages in their demands for 1949...
...AS FOR THOSE in between, they should be m rooiiod with examinations as rigid as those for locomotive c-ngir.-'-rs...
...Brecht gives expression to Stalinist brutality more forcefully than his masters in the Kremlin...
...The requirements should he made rigid enough so that licenses are granted only to safe drivers, and...
...Could you change the world, for what would yon be too good'.' Who are you'' Sink into the mud...
...lie has also igainsl him the labor leaders, because lb" very essence of their leadership his ;n-cn lighting, and they cannot even magna- a policy of constructive cooperation...
...That is the curse if being "a great power": like the only ither great power, we divide the world into enemies and satellites...
...are liable to be absent-minded, and many of them do not have a quick enough reaction in case of emergency...
...Stanford...
...At this play's climax a young Communist is killed when lie revolts against the party line...
...The laws that were enacted during that period were responses to conditions, not attempts to steer them...
...It need lot be Fascism, if the sound elements 11 fiance and in America tried to unli'istand what do Gaulle essentially .lands for...
...Who fights for Communism has of all the virtues only one: that he fights for Communism...
...Hul not only others but ourselves we kill when it becomes necessary...
...Our State Department cannot forget that it put its money on the wrong horse...
...So far as this country is concerned, the auto has, until now...
...N. Y. Dear Editor Bert Brecht, GPU Songbird, Liked Hollywood Fine From WALTER R. STOREY May I go beyond the necessary imitation of John FVanklin Bardin's review of Berlolt Bice ht's "Parable for The Theatre" (January 15) to show iiow Stalinist ideology has debased ibis potentially great artist...
...And, contrary to the general opinion, young folks are usually not very observant...
...It's Here, She Writes From BARBARA SPQFFORD MORGAN IWRITE YOU because of the astonishing lack ot understanding displayed by many vocal Europeans for what is actually going on in the United States...
...Ironically enough the only butcher Brecht ever embraced was a Hollywood, which paid him well fin- his scenario writing...
...This policy shows a grasp of national welfare...
...The danger is that one or the other two architects of free socialism will become impatient and call on the government to take over...
...for its stark, naked, truth and its staunch patriotism...
...Too many of them are careless...
...Brecht...
...And that though we are far from the goal, it is right here in" the United States that Hie most effective progress toward free socialism is being made...
...The resistance of business to the demands of labor, looked at in the overall picture, is good for the stability of the country, because until recently labor has been unable to see the immense complexities of business, or to understand the disastrous effects cm workers themselves if all then demand...
...every struggle between private groups within the nation brings some progress toward greater economic equality and security...
...This is healthy...
...All cry: ''Fascism...
...We are all a little like Roosevelt: we do not like a leader, even if he agrees with us on all essential points, .vho has a mind of his own and will not brook dictation...
...I even recommended it te> Attorney General Clark and Truman, because I believe they need it worse- than anybody in the U.S...
...Licenses should be denied to temperamentally unlit persons...
...Toynbee, for one, says in Civilization on Trial (p...
...Elderly folks, while usually careful...
...YOUNG DRIVERS have proportion ately the most accidents...
...to kill...
...Too Many Auto Licenses From JOHN M. WORK Up TO NOW...
...147) that Great Britain and her European neighbors are trying to work out a compromise between "unrestricted free enterprise and unlimited socialism...
...even if it were1 established with - nit civil war, could only be destroyed iv civil war, and under Communist .eaclership...
...Well, it befits no one to be complacent, but is not the new socialism being worked out in the United States, and moreover, in an entirely new way'.' * * * NO ONE CAN DOUBT that we are seeing here, and have been seeing, one of the great social and economic transformations that take place now and then in history...
...This new socialism, they feel, will save the world torn between the "unrestricted free enterprise" of the United States and the "unlimited socialism" of Russia...
...Brecht anticipated its methods and motivations...
...Then the Four Agitators justify their ruthiessness: "Terrible tl is...
...These regulations would not work hardship on anyone...
...It is true, Washington has given many pushes in the form of taxation, special support of lalxir and other measures but the terms and conditions of our social and economic future emerge from the interminable wrangles, the strikes and lockouts, of private groups within the nation...
...presto, the number of casualties will drop almost to zero...
...If this happens, we will have lost the one effective answer to the old-fashioned, indeed reactionary totalitarian state: Hie answer of socialism by private agree merit instead of socialism by government decree...
...The economic struggle is inevitable as long as men want more than they have- and let us hope they always will...
...Alva, Oklahoma...
...Not a pleasing prospect...
...Drinkers should he barn-d, since hepim' calces a huge peree ntage of the iM-cident!- The- courts should be require d t-> cancel the license's of all persons e-aughl driving while drunk, ll is ludicrous to let the-m olf with fine.or short sentences and then let then, go on driving...
...Elsewhere on the same page ne relets to me unlimited regime of private enterprise that still prevails in North America above the Rio Grande...
...The- desire for a car, other than for business purposes, is a foolish desire to "keep up with the- Joneses...
...Our socialism, however, is unique because it is being developed in the main privately...
...If I may wave the flag once more, though wealth, space and absence of bombing so fur give us great advantages, the development of free socialism comes out of the consciences of the American peoples New York...
...base the measure...
...What we are slowly developing here is a change from free enterprise to free socialism...
...Now, however, private statesmanship is appearing...
...that mine enemy had written a book...
...It would be far better and more- genuinely satisfying to use the money for other purposes New York...
...Philadelphia...
...My information is based on the section of rtuth Fischer's "Stalin and German Communism" entitled "Bert Brecht, the Minstrel of the GPU," In "The Punitive Measure," written five years l>efore the Moscow trials...
...He has his Contiolchorus say: "Who fights for Communism must be able to light arid not to fight, to say the truth and not to say the truth, to render and to deny service, to keep a promise and to break a promise, to go into danger and to avoid danger, to be known and to Im- unknown...
...But when the government itself is in the struggle, when government is on one side of the tug of war, then there is no longer a power above the contestants...
...Their attention is likely to be fixed on a girl or a boy or anything but driving...
...But we cannot, we said, permit ourselves not to kill...
...It migat easily turn into Fascism, if they did not...
...The average urban family would be better off without a car...
...I would say, it is the protection of people caught in a gigantic industrial machine and unable to look out for themselves no longer able, as Adam Smith said, to sell one's labor to the highest bidder...
...Ours 'done of these movementt.toward socialism is both conscious and steady, and that for a unique reason What is the objective of socialism'.' 'in principle...
...Again, Brecht has his Controlchorus sing...
...the automobile has clone more harm than good...
...The reason we kill and wound myri ; ads of people- in traffic is thai we permit men and women, boys and girls, to drive wiien the-y ought to be- barred from driving...
...A : it is, the resistance of business is a brake that slows but never stops the movement...
...it increases the security of workers, und at the same time, by withdrawing money from circulation, acts as an antiinflationary force...
...I have been recommending it to everyone 1 write- to...
...Calif...
...I,et us recognize its significance and menace as the negation of all human values...
...The French and Russian revolutions, on the other hand, were consciously directed, but they were quick and bloody, convulsing the nations...
...In Fiance, de Gaulle has against him the professional politicians of all parties, right .or left, Communists or Third Force, because he represents the anient and profound disgust of the French people for party politics...
...Another great transformation, the English industrial revolution, was also slow and not conspicuously violent, but it was not consciously directed...
...Bui will they understand...
...Only on our unbending will to change the world can we...
...were met out of hand...
...the more 1 love- it...
...been much more deadly than war...
...You have probably, as I have, met this same general attitude among continental Europeans: they think that theirs is the mission to work out a form of socialism which at once protects the worker and preserves the freedom of the individual...
...Mowcvcr, gives us another warning of the lying and deceit of Communist tactitcs in this play...
...It is absurd to talk of "unresti ieted free enterprise" in the United Stales today...
...But ours is different from previous ones because it is being carried out deliberately, slowly, and with only local violence...
...Sonic of them drink...
Vol. 32 • March 1949 • No. 12
