Saturday, February 1, 1930 THE MILITANT Page Throughout the World of Labor The Developments in Germany looked any opportunities to make personal Communist Injunctions.
majority of the working class, shout: ingly disillusioned workers who still fol Brandler reprints Lovestone articles Accumulate! Accumulate! For them the low the while discontent within the on the International, which are only an way out of this working class misery lies reformist organization is growing, while echo of his own and Roy articles. Whero in the accumulation of capital in Germany, rebellion against the treacherous leader Roy writes: It 18 unfortunate that the There are more than 3, 000, 000 unem ship is brewing.
factional struggle in the lost The Cerinan working class is now goployed in the Reich, more than half a mil As a whole, the party seems to have such valuable revolutionaries as Trotsky ing through a far severer period of econlion in Berlin alone. There is hardly a xobered a good deal lately. The calls to for the movement. Lovestone, cor his own omic and moral depression than even the family in proletarian Berlin that hasn its arms echo very faintly in the press today. purposes, substitutes Zinoviev for Trotsky, most pessimistic inblas of statisticians can stempelbruder. Unemployment insurance, in the trade unions as well as in the party and Brandler adds a little note, remarking describe. It takes an insight into the con of which the social state, Germany, so itself, the stress is being laid on organthat after Lenin death, Zinovicv never ditions of the average proletarian family proudly boasts as against the unsocial izational work.
to establish this.
played an independent role in the InterVegetable butter (marBut the ultra Left tactic is hardly enough to keep its recipent alive. of revolutionary kamptleitungen national. similar instance of differences garine is found everywhere at the work The result is that the unemployed all the fac(struggle leadership) and separate ingman table instead of butter. The diet is Roys polemic against Wolfe, in which Welfare offices and aid societies Jay tory councils lists has not been given up he criticizes the latter theory that the is entirely devoid of eggs. Only the most after day and are forced to degrade themand may still do it much harm. In many resolutions of the Sixth. Congress were meager portions of meat find their way to selves to virtual beggars. The moral factories (e. Ullstein, Simiens) where correct, but were revised at the Tenth the worker stomach. Malt coffee has diseffects can be imagined.
the largest Communist nuclei exist, these Plenum. Here too, the theory is made to placed bean coffee, and so on without end.
The coalition government of the Reich nuclei have pitted themselves almost unanfit national purposes.
In short, the working class diet consists is very shaky. It has done its work. It imously against the party tactic. In the in large measure of what was termed durI visited a Brandler meeting recently has brought about the reduction in uneming the war and inflation periods ersatzqueuon of social fascisin. the Communist Brandler gave a pretty accurate appraisal ployment insurance and the arbitration lebenmittel (substitute products. workers have solved the problem in their of conditions in Germany, from which there clauses through Wissel; it has cast the own way. They explain to the workers was much to learn. When he was asked Professor Kucsinski, a bourgeois econ burden of the taxes on the working class in discussion that the word is applied only in the discussion part how the Coinmunist omist has figured out that the worker tethrough Hilferding. Severing anti Com to the social democratic leaders, to the Party and the International came to be in ceives in wages only 85 of what he needs munist Law for the Protection of the comrade ministers, etc.
such a position of impotence at present, for a minimum standard of living! This Republic complete the circuit. Finance The campaign of terror which the au he simply answered that this condition is at the same time that German industry incapital is preparing the boot for its social thorities and the bourgeois press have been due to the failure of the revolution to ar.
creases its production by leaps and bounds.
democratic lackeys. It needs more resoAnd yet the reformists, still backed by a conducting for some time against the party rive in the rest of Europe and to the inlute servants for its purpose in the perfod and the militant sections of the class is creasing difficulties in the building up of to come.
taking on ever greater proportions. Falsi socialism in Russia. Almost in the form give such a title to an institution where The entire German economic system fication, slander and provocation 11 the of asides, he remarked that the failure of people are taught to unlearn thinking, read of the jumediate future will live in the air.
The revolutionary masses are inthe revolution in Germany in 1923 was duo ing and writing afraid of an economic shadow of the recent Wall Street crash. creasingly aroused to counteract violently to the threat of the Entente to come to rise. It must be said plainly that for the German economic journal writes on this: to this terror, and the party functionaries the ald of bourgeois Germany. and furFrench working class, which has renewed It is probable that at least partially sweat blood to keep the people in check ther: Even the skilled leadership of Marx its composition at least twice during the the economic cooperation of similarly con at demonstrations and public meetings. and Engels was not able to hold together years of the war and after the war, having structed concerns of the countries invol The party effort to connect the active the First International, built on centralincluded in its ranks tremendous numbers ved will take place of the formerly cus discontent of the unemployed with solid ized direction. Its decomposition showed of youth, women and foreigners and is tomary loan grants, namely, those made to arity actions of the workers in the fac that it is necessary that the proletariat of far from having fused this raw mass to the large industrial states like Germany, tories is to be applauded. But here too it each country work out its own problems gether in its melting pot for the French for instance, which (economic coopera will not do to restrict oneself to phrases in the struggle for power.
working class, the further development of tion) powerful American capitalist enter alone.
Berlin, January 10, 1930.
an industrial rise would have created an prizes will finance. Zeitschrift Deutsch CORDON incomparable school, would have welded its Ameri. Wirtschait. Yer. December, 1929. On the occasion of initiating a formal strength, would have proved to the most The favorable German industrial con Stalin cult. the Rote Fahne bas not overbackward sections their meaning and role ditions, to be made yet more favorable by in the capitalist mechanism, and would the greater depression of the erman work attacks upon comrade Trotsky. It is sigthereby have raised class consciousness as ing masses soon to follow, now attract all nificant to note who the attackers are, and The 3rd period according to the 6th a whole to new heights. Two or three the capital that formerly went to the proshow they attack. Heinz Neumann, accused World Congress, represents a critical stage years, even one year, of a broad, succesful perity promising American industry. This by the social democrats and the Brandler in the class struggle against capitalism.
economic struggle would give rebirth to the means an advanced internationalization of ites (without any refutation up to date) of great industrial strikes, increasing unenproletariat. After a properly utilized cccn industrial capital and a firmer grip on the being in close connection with the German ployment, growing crisis, etc, etc.
omic rise, a conjunctural crisis might give latter by world finance capital (Morgan and police is the star using the occasion of a In Canada, beginning with Aug. 1, 1929, a serious impetus to a genuine political Co. How this works out in Germany may review of Willi Munzenburg latest book the shades of the Third Period were more radicalization of the masses.
be gathered from the growing dictatorial Die Dritte Front. He pits Munzenburg visible than ever before. The Party had At the same time, it must not be for strength of Morgan German representa collective spirit against Trotsky gnaw openly challenged the Toronto police force gotten that wars and revolutions in our live, Hjalmar Schacht, the president of the ing egotism. This is just too ridiculous, on the issue of freedom of the streets, free epoch resolt not from conjunctural crises Reichsbank. llerr Schacht is the man who even when we overlook the incongruity of speech and assembly. Unfortunately, the but from the contradictions between tho tumbled Hilferding from his ministerial the comparison, For, as you know, upon failure of the Party to mobilize the masses development of the productive forces on the chair, because he was not far reaching Munzenburg head hang the following had doomed the struggle almost from the one hand and the bourgeois characteristic enough in his reforms and because, for charges made by Herzog, the editor of Das beginning as to its possible success in forcof national boundaries on the other carried reasons of political demagogy, he didn go Forum: breaking the foreign trade monop ing reactionary powers in Toronto to withto their climax. Imperialist war and the in energetically for immediately carrying oly of the Soviet Union, speculating with draw their edict making the revolutionary October reveloution have succeeded in out these reforms. Schacht is also the goods sent to relieve the Russian famine movement semi illegal.
showing the strain of these contradictions. leader in the movement for the decom in 1921, misappropriation of funds But in spite of the buoyant boasting The new role of America has developed munalization of Germany, e. for the all for personal purposes. As far as and revolutionary chatter of the Party them further. The more serious a character abolition of communal expenditure. An know Munzenburg has not as yet inade leadership the membership and working the developement of the productive forces example of ringing success UK Mr. answer to these charges.
class were soon to be treated to the spechas in one country or another, or in a Schacht plans was shown rohently in While Willi does a thriving business tacle of a form of the class struggle of series of countries, the faster a new rise in Berlin, where the city council voted a with his newspaper concerns, and lives in the of fakers. On Oct. 9, Jack industry will find itself confronted with Christmas surplus for the unemployed, princely luxury in his home at In den McDonald, secretary of the of Canthe basic contradiction of world industry which the magistrate, under Schacht dirZelten, comrade Trotsky, the egoist ada, Knowles, Jr. a petty bourgeois and the sharper will be the reaction econ ection immediately repudiated.
lives the life of exile in backward Turkey, liberal and GII, a social democrat and omic, political, domestic and international. In German polities, the situation finds refused a visum by the rest of the planet. petty bourgeois storekeeper filled and filed serious industrial rise would be at all a mirror and barometer. The coalition Perhaps Heinz Neumann will make us bean injunction against the Toronto police events, not a minus but a tremendous plus government is nearing the end of its string.
lieve that this ban is due to nothing more force, for trying to suppress the class strugfor French Communism, creating a mighty Its prospective collapse is on the order of than Trotsky gnawing egotism. The gle.
strike forerunner to a political offensive. the day. The national Right is in a workers know better. They know that in But fortunately for the powers that be, Conclusion: there will be no lack of revo deep crisis. Those elements backed by Trotsky, the bourgeois world lears the the bourgeoisie remains as class conscious lutionary situations. It is quite likely, how heavy Industry, like the Landbund and personification of that haunting specter in the Third Period as they had been in ever, that there will be a lack of ability Stahlhelm, are breaking way from the ir that is rocking the foundations of the the previous periods and the injunction was to utilize them.
reconciliable Rights around Hugenburg and capitalist system, of victorious Communism.
squiashed. It would seem that the police But is the further rising development Hitler and are going in for a policy of had taught the Party leadership a lesson of the French industrial conjuncture guar supporting the status quo of the republic, The Brandlerites have had considerable in the ABC of Communism but no.
anteed? This we cannot dare to confirm. because It is developing in a direction success lately in a material way: they Another three months were hardly to Here all sorts of possibilities remain open. towards us. Even Hitler is willing to have finally begun to publish a daily which elapse when Rev. Smith, secretary At any rate, it does not depend on us. listen to reason. His papers are full of appears in Leipzig. In Berlin, their pub of the Canadian Labor Defense League and What does depend on us, and what we are praise for Schacht, and despite all their lications have to be sought for with a a Party leader, was to announce to a Conobliged to do, is not to closo our eyes to radicalism and sham revolutionary social search light.
vention of the Labor Circle, that at last facts in the name of pitiful schema, but to ism they write that they are for such a How Brandler goes about in organizing the break in the fight for free speech had take the course of economic development payment of reparations as the nation finds his international faction may be seen from come. The police had prohibited the Frelas it really is and to work out trade union bearable.
his article on the amalgamation of the heit Singing Society the use of a hall for a tactics on the basis of real facts. We The of Germany is thus facing a three Czecho Slovakian opportunist groups.
concert.
speak in the given case of tactics in dis very serious but promising state of condi Brandler was present on the scene of An application for injunction was once tinction to strategy, which is determined, tions. Its victory in the Berlin elections action. His role can only be imagined. He more filed against the police and again of course, not by conjunctural changes but was a real one, all the more significant be writes, among other things: the courts of capitalism taught the party But by basic tendencies of development, cause the Party campaign program was Only when the united opposition ap the same lesson they had taught them so it tactics are subordinated to strategy then, altogether out of proportions to real affairs plies the united front tactic wrongly will short a while ago the laws and constituon the other hand, strategy is realized only. to the Left. It is no exaggeration to the confederation (amalgamation) be, not tion of a bourgeois state, are made to serve through tactics.
say that a considerable majority of the a step forward, but a retreat. But there is the interests of the capitalist class. InTo the Comintern as well as the Prof Berlin proletariat is behind the Party and no occasion to assume this, despite. the junctions, even in the 3rd period, still reintern, tactics consist in periodic zig zage, places all its confidence in it. Whether false formuln of class conscious parties main a weapon in the hands of the captitaland strategy in the mechanical sum of the party will be able to hold this mass (referring to united front with the socialist class to suppress the workers and canzig zags. That is why the proletarian van and increase it depends entirely upon how democrats. See last issue of Mili no be used as a substitute for the class guard suffers defeat after defeat.
much sanity it will apply in Its tactics in tant. Ed. In the unity resolution. Cegen struggle by the proletariat.
Prinkipo. December 22, 1929 the trade unons and towards the increas den Strom, No. 1, 1930. Toronto, January 21, 1930 Ma