PAGE THE MILITANT SATURDAY, JULY 11, 1931 EDITORIAL NOTES Manuilsky Makes an Unintentional Admission et from Janullský, the other house and foreve tempo non si ce ne sommeliere volunteert en proberen ontmoeten om te doen met of Thaelmann and the «People Revolutions the latter how mounted her of of all the plenums or congresses that, Why didn the Communists kive inde Cumunists in England and China to and Citrines by the stubborn maintenthe Communist International has held, pendent leadership to movements like the put themselves at the head of the revance of the Anglo Russian Unity ConTHEY OVERLOOKED THE beforehand, and that is why they acted. the Eleventi Pleum which recently met General Strike in Great Britain or the olutionary movements. It was they who, mittee and Tomsky declaration that GERMAN SITUATION it ought to be obvious to every work without announcement of its sessions or Northern Expedition in China (which) abusing the immense power they had ns the Rus tans (le the Comintern were er Who istors to think and there are attention to its deliberations or results. would have resulted in the immediate urped, covered up a downright Menshevik in hearty accord with the British labor The first answer of the American many of them who have time and rearon undoubtedly occuples the lowest rung in victory of the proletarian revolution. policy with all the prestige and author. skates. The Anglo Russian Committee From Manuilsky report, no other ity of the Communist International and recognized the principle of non inter shocking revelation of the theoretical of a collapse under the Communists The whole impression zained from the unwwer can be found than that the Com the Russian revolution. It was they who rention. which meant that the Comin degeneration which has been brought in is an echo or the fear of the ruling class Plenum is that it met in a vacuum. Yet munist parties have failed to adopt the laid down a rigid prohibition against tae te formally rencanced the Ught of to the Communist movement under the and not an expressicn of the interests of there are one or two spots of interest directives of the infallible International Communists wreating the leadership of the Communists to intervene in British flag of socialism in one country. The their exploited victims.
and instruction in its proceedings. Mal leadership, which is directed in turn by the increment from the hands of its Bathor affairs.
Who was it that demanded indepenRusslan Opposition attacked this theory But It may be objected. Thomas salaterial points of interest in a vacuum the infaliste General Secretary. Ila traducers, Purcell and Chiang Kai Shek, from the very start as the cover for a he also feared the Fascists. Yes, he dia There is no contradiction here. As in Manuilsky refrained from invoking Hicks and Cook and Wang Chin Wei. dent leadership for the British and fundamental revision of the Marxist doceny it and he does fear them. In that natural science, there is no absolutely pist, matters would not have stood 10 In England during the turbulent period world Communists on that occasion, that trine of revolutionary Internationalism sentiment he defends the special inter perfect vacuum. The same holds true of hadly for his conceptions, for god knows of the general and the miners strikes, is, the liberation of the Communists from Instructive that the leadership of the various Con. when the classes were at swords points the strangulating yoke of the Left retending to turn the attention of the nuests of the social democracy which would the Kleventh enun. The tional Communist parties away from the be deprived of its function if bourgeois point in this case is furnished again the munist partie is eninently incapable of Stalin and Bucharin prevented the Ensformists and the creation of the possibil problems of the International revolution democracy the present form of capital contradiction is only apparent an executing intelligently any policy right lish Communist Party from acting as a ity for action independent of urcell who would defend the Soviet Union planted by a Fascist dictatorship, another main reporter.
is legend, however, Mannilsky had to and compelled it to as the Gen. nounced the opposition and accused it of while a complete socialist society was form of the same class rule. This ques In what way, he asks does the strengthen his case by reference to sral Council watchdog against the onthong the enemy of the Soviet Union. being constructed there. The first comtion is not without importance to the higher stage of the present revolutionary the inglorioux past not of the Commun. rared feelings of the workers talabed the plitter of the labor novement American intervention in Europe is an tlon struggle, but their problem is in sears express itselt! In the fact that in Europe but more directly of the Com. British Communista were locked into all the other Kuusinens and Smerals.
other demonstration of the fact that com no way solved by the prevention of a number of capitalist countries, and munists in the immeline, most inti one room with the Left wing of the hina. during the revolutionary forrade Trotsky and his farxist fellow Faxcism. Their fundamental task is the in a number of separate actions, the mate central apparatus of Stalin him General Council, with the Cooks and ward march of 1025 1927. stalin and Co.
thinkers did not overstate the case. overthrow of capitalism which, under communists are beginning to assume the self, in warmest collaboration with Buell and told to act harmoniously under the taught the communists that the proleReducing all complexities to one com the regime of democracy, finds its strong independent leadership in the class bat arin.
the minority movement. tariat had to do the coolle work for mon formula, the Dally Worker had no est base social demo tles.
The whole truth of the matter lies in Even after the open Betrayal of the the honruolsic, which proceeded to pay difficulty in explaining the moratorium cracy. The remarks of Thomas on the The Communists in China are not the fact that Stalin, Bucharin bear the strike, the Communists of Britain were the Communists for their services in seas proposal to its readers. The issue of Hoover plan, were in essence an appeal now carrying on a victorious Northern full responsibility for the failure of the snaked in their criticism of the Purcelle of hood. Stalin and Bucharin taught June 22, following the publication of to the capitalists to rely on this support Expedition, occupying Shanghai and the the world that the anti imperialist rev.
olution would be accomplished under Hoover statement devoted. leading and an assurance that it is the most re other industrial centers, nor is Chiang editorial to the subject. From this Ilable.
Kai Shek striking them in the flank at the leadership of Chiang Kai shek. When statement of Hoover, says the editorial, The Daily Worker on July quoted the moment of victory. The Commun there can be no further doubt of the the speech of Thomas with the refer ists are now independently, as a party Shanghai on the ladder held for him by position of the United States as organence to the Hitlerites deleted. An directing the Chinese Red Army of pre Thanks for the quotation about the in the revolution, consequently this is Stalin and Manuilsky, the latter, nothing Izer and leader of the international anti oversight, perhaps, of careless editor: Shek, against all the counter revolution speech which glanced through. more olution. Thilmann sings in chorus. In agrarian revolution would be accom sants and workers against Chiang Kal people revolution from Thaelmann not a class revolution but a people rev. cisconcerted, began to teach that the Sovlet front. Hoover statement, comial writer? Far from it. The Daily tinues the editorial should alarm every Worker couldn conveniently quote a de. the whole imperialist front. Io the mat ner of putting the question cannot be way to the Fascist worker: Of course. Chin Wel. They told the Communists to ary Kenerals and the united forces of ridiculous and malictously confused man reality, the worker Communists should plished under the leadership of Wang workers an immediate war threat claration of Norman Thomas against against the first workers Republic. On fascists because it is telling its road.
ter of winning the hegemony of the pro imagined! The people revdlution ninety five percent of the population it enter the hourgeois cabinet of Hankow, this single theme the entire editorial is ers every day that social democracy and Letariat in the national revolutionary as a slogan and even with a referencest ninety eight percent. Is exploited by to defend the bourgeois dictatorship diate aim of the American proposal to the same thing, and that there is no roa tremendous and decisive advance and of the Fascist Strasser is embellished woranized hierarchically: there are ex sulted from the hourgeois ministerialism head off the proletarian revolution in wnflict between them. The theory of have raised the revolutionary movement with the slogan of the people revolu. Moiters, there are sub exploiters, sube Miller and his similars. Stalin sent Germany and as to the connection social fascism must be vindicated even to a new height as a result of its clasetion as opposed to the Marxian slogan of sub exploiters, etc. Only thanks to this telegrams to China to curh the ngrarian the proletarian the class revolution. It is understood hierarchy do the super exploiters keep in revointion. The Chinese Communists revolution in it requires a little carbling of quota: The Communists in Europe are not that every grent revolution is a people subjection the majority of the nation. In were forced to stay in the sourceos. Kuo Europe with Union and the consolidation of its victory true, but it cannot be helped. Everyone at this moment leading peneral strikes or a national revolution, in the sense that order that the nation should indeed be Min Tang as footmen to Sun Yat Senisin, on these questions the editorial of the contributes according to his ability. The on the scale of the English strike of it unites around the revolutionary class able to reconstruct itself around a new which they pledged themselves not to Daily Worker had not a word to say. Stalinists are able to muddle questions moment by the Purcells, Citrines and nation and reconstructs the nation around logically and this can be achieved only renounced in favor of the hourgeois han the decisive all the virile and creative forces of the class core, it must be reconstructed kleo criticize. The proletarian red flag was And that was not a mere oversight. They do that Industriously.
The theory of socialism in one country other leaders of the General Council a new core. But is not a slogan, if the proletariat does not dissolve itner. We will not surrender the blue began by overlooking the International. Had the Communists given inde it is a sociological description of the revelf into the people into the nation. Hag of the Kuo Min Tang cried Buchrevolution and removing it from the REVIVING THE APPEAL pendent leadership to movements like olution, which requires, moreover, precise but on the contrary develops a programarin. agenda of practical tasks of the day TO REASON the General Strike in Great Britain and concrete definitons. But as a slo of its proletarian revolution and compels The yesterday have their profound and could not do otherwise for the two or the Northern Expedition in China, it san, it is innne and charlatanism, market the petty bourgeoiste to choose between importance, not merely for the academic conceptions are incompatible. The Am The announcement of the revival of would have implied that they had won competition with the Fascists, paid for two réximes. The slogan of the people historian, but because only by knowing erican students are faithful to their Rus the Appeal to Reason. with Fred the majority of the working class and at the price of injecting confusion into revolution lulls the petty bourgeoiste as the yesterday can today he understand slan tenchers and paymasters. Warren, its old managing editor again tolling masses, and this would have re the minds of the workers.
well as the broad masses of the work anut tomorrow he prepared for. At the Yesterday the oncoming proletarian at the helm along with Haldeman Julius, sulted in the immediate victory of the The evolution of the slogans of the ers, reconciles them to the bourgeois foundation of today blunders lie the revolution in Spain was viewed with represents an attempt to interpret the dis proletarian revolution. This higher stage Comintern is a striking one. precisely hierarchical structure of the kople. Wunders of yesterday, which all of Staluneasiness in Pravda because it threa content generated by the crisis in terms of the revolutionary upsurge is character in this question. Since the Third Co. and retards their literaton. But under inism frenzied veering to ultra Leftism tened to upset the European equilt of pre war radicalism. We do not wish battles and this is connected with the cagninst clasy became the popular of a people revolution wipes away left inneknowledged and uncondemned brium and endanger the Five Yener success to this venture, although we are fact that the Communists have assumed expression of the polley of the united the ideological demareation between in the source of its own reproduction to Plan.
Is orerlooked in the Dally Worker necessity of popular agitation sheets Independent leadership in these battlex proletarian front. This was quite cor Marxian and Fascism, reconciles part of morrow. The most striking illustration which secs only defense of the which extend their appeal and influence. It may be asserted that every more rect: All workers should be consolidated the workers and the petty bourgeoisie to of thix truism is the policy of the Right Soviet Union as though there could be far out beyond the boundaries of the ment under Communist leadership will against the bourgeoiste. This they after the Ideology of Fascism, allowing them wing tay. Read its press: observe Its any real and permanent defense except ornscious section of the labor movement. tend to rise to a higher stage, since its wards transformed the alliance with to think that they are not compelled to actions. Like a dissipated old man lt the revolution in other countries. The The old Appeal did this with an unpar development will not be hindered by the the reformist bureaucrats against the make a cholce, because in both camps relires the disgraceful experiences it whole sequence of Wunders and crimes alleled effectiveness. It reached but heavy anchor of reformist oflleialdom workers (the experience of the English it is all a matter of a people rerolu went throngh jointly with the Centrists which has flowed from the Stalin lead dreds of thousands, at times even mills which draes the morement back. In kenral strike. Later on, they went tion. These wretched revolutionists, in who expelled it. Its feeble organism ership in Russia and on world sculelons but nothing came of the movement precorr, June 10, 1931. over to the opposite extreme: No agroe a conflict with any serious enemy, think is nourished solely upon uncondemned have proceeded from a theory that is it created. The love of events disclosed ference between the two stages in the class. The very slogan which was to to repaint themselves in his colors and There is surely an appreciable dit ments with the reformista, elass against first of all of how to imitate him, how errors.
The opportunist hns a short meinors The reactionary tbeory of socialism in its ignominious collapse under the first second of which there are allegedly big serve for drawing the social democratie how to win the masses by means of or rather le prefers the working cla one country is no abstraction, remote cubs of the war was a tragedy: the st in the first of which there were in real came to mean, in the third period. struggle. truly shameful posing of tlonist rains when the proletarian, advances and progress to record, and workers closer to the Communist workers smart trick and not by revolutionary to have a short memory. The revol from the problems and tosks of the tempt to repeat the experimentality two of the most crushing and humill the struggle against the social democratic the question! If the weak Spanish Com thinking of the past, is enabled to day, as many are apt to regard No, farce.
it is the thread whleh tles all the eur.
ating defeats even experienced by an workers As against a different class. munists were to make this formula their for the future. Manuilsky unintentio rent revisionist policies together and ren was an agitator and therein lay Its China.
The Appeal under Wayland and Warembattled proletariat in England and Now the new turn: the people revolu own, they would arrive at the policy of al confession has helped to refresh unites them into a system. And for that inherent defect. It was merely an agt. Why are the Communists beginning to tion. The Fascist Strasser says: Ninety.
What caused the difference? tion instead of the proletarian revolutbe punish Kuo alin Tang.
memory which, if not glorious in achiev reason, the struggle for the regeneration tator ment, is at least rich in the lessons of the Communist International on the scorning considerations of fundamental without weight or substance. assume independent leadership now? five percent of the people are interested April 14, 1031 LION TROTSKY. its tragedy. 1.
foundations of revolutionary Internation theory and, consequently, frothy, senga alism is preeminently a struggle to free tonal, superficial, and crassly reformist.
it from the debasing Influence of this the rest of the times and the ignor.
ence of the movement invested the paper with great temporary success. It reached the masses. with sound and (Contiued from last Issue)
Note: This is the first of a series of articles intended to interpret the lea competitors. The forcible acqui SAVING GERMANY FOR WHOM? fury signifying nothing except poverty of The economlg nge of an industry, In Ally economie life of the United States in nccordance with the real course of its tion of such colonies or of other If the Hoover proposal for the suis thought and ignorance of Marxian funda terms of the foregoing, will increase with development and from a Marxian point of view. The present article deals with pensating markets (China, India)
pension of war debts and reparations mentals. Theory was drowned out by time, and in general the older Industries the general features of the crisis that began in 1939, seeks to isolate its causes, volves the perspective of deep revolt fails to hold hack the proletarinn rev. the noise of empty agitation in those will show the clearest signs of econ and discuss the prospects for the future and their political consequences and tionary crises and the resperate alterolution in Germany it will not be for haleyon days before the war. But the omle old age. although a new industry effects for the labor movement. Future articles will deal with specific indus. nativo of war. Thero remain two lack of support in the capitalist camp. test of events rendered a diferent ver which has been developed rapidly may tries coal, copper, steel, automobiles, textiles, railroads and banking from typical reformist illusions Increasing In the chorus of praise which has greet. dict. The Appeal To Reason became a age fast. Aviation may be considered the standpoint of the economie background of the class struggle. the real wages of American labor at new intervention in Europe from ulgar warmonger. Marxian theory to be in the first stage: electrle refri the expense of national savings (in all the bourgeois parties and factions stood its ground and becanie the founda eration, whose sales increased over 10 Ry Field reality prots. and the peaceful, volthere is not a note of discord to be ton of a new proletarian movement. percent in 1930 over 1920 in the face untary coordination of Industry and labor heard. Everything is in close harmony. Because of that experience and to the of depression, in the second. radio set as though all the parts had been us extent that the present day movement of manufacture has quickly reached the thy Industries with those which have only more mouths to feed not more motive e tavoror na palanned syste signed and rehearsed in advance 1a readiness for the signal of the maestro the lesson, It stands on higher ground textiles or coal, which have a sort of of economic old age kives a general creased population means, by itself, thou of national economy. We shall not. The union is even superior to that of and cannot be dragked back Arntn to the privato permanent depression of their idea of the extent to which capitalist possibility of sales at a profit, implies sult the patient comrades who have fol that the contradictions of capitalisin have lowed us this far by an elaborate ex practised orchestra and more firmly swamps of yesterday. Agitation in itself own are in the last stage of capitalist degeneration has already set in.
based. They are all united behind the sesses no revolutionary virtue. Only decay. The change from one stage to an This analytical examination of the already been overcome, as expressed in posure of the futility of such expectaschene by the compulsion of common to the extent that proceeds from rev other is clearly illustrated by the auto presnt state of capitalism in America ability to earn profits, and therefore the Political Perspectives interest in the existing social order olutionary theory. and is constantly mobile industry. In 1908, the industry by Industries and groups therefore brings nereaso in populdtion cannot be the tion in Germany. That is the real secret serve as an impetus to the development point and registrations at the end of tic examination of the economie strucsm this would be reasoning in a clrcle. cutting all the last expedient to mainwhich is directis mennced by the situs tested and regulated by it. does agitation was still young, from an economte stand. erece this tione conclusiewonin e true meant be solving the problems of capital meu bist soorte al prolonged period of wage From this standpoint out of the ap foremost task is to advance this idea higher than in the beginning and in the contlict between wages and profita: American capitalism founded on the dest result in acute wake struggles: an plauding volces deserves a special men and struggle for its hegemony.
velopment of its export trade are quickly as the workers come to realize the tion. On July Norman Thomas halled At bottom this is what the strugglotion of 13 percent. In 1930, however, capitalism America bare already dashed Ww an analysis of what American hopelessness of the situntion these wage the moratorium polley as step to save of the Oppositon signifes. It detrives registrations increased less than per reached a highly acute state compared exports really consist of. They are of struggles will be transformed into poll with past periods of development. The two types. Raw materials and food. tical struggles.
its historie importance not only from cont, in other words, only a few more The great drawback to Speaking before the Unton Theologici Its implacable antagonism to the ola cars were made than were scrapped last possibility is strongly suggested that the stuffs. Ach as whent. cotton, copper, and the development of political class con Seminary as quoted by the Times of the reformist agitation under the old and year.
further growth of American capitalism petroleum. These are in reality a sur sciousness in America hitherto has been Applying the foregoing to the situafrom its own dynamie resources is not rival of the pre war days when America the possibility for the worker to solve Germany under the Hitlerites or Commun et the old movement on this basis has ton even in the socalled prosperoner tires are confined to stabilization. that plier of raw materials to the more high into the growing and prosperous hour Ists threatens the collapse of all Eur been sufficiently demonstrated, at least they ending In 1929, we find a number opo, or even all of Western civilization in the eyes of the workers vangunrd. Af Industries which were sharply de 18, the effort to maintain a decliningly Industrialized nations of Europe. Am Although Hoover plan does not go far more neute and immediate danger is the pressed and were unable to make satis geolsle, Instend of on a basis of class profit margin against shrinking markets.
enough, it is good as far as it goes. attempt to smuggle in the outworn meth factory profits Politically, this can mean only oue erica is being displaced in these fields solidarity. by still newer countries Canada and proof of the close connection between To Hoover and his Wall Street backers ods and conceptions under the flag of lumber, meat packing. Agriculture in this continuous agariton Was South Africa in copper, Perala, Vene economie old age and increasing acute this point of view is irreproachable. Communism. The blustering agitation general, fertilizers, furniture manufac and living standards, offering a back zuela and Russia in oll, Argentina andness of wage struggles which gradually Support from the left is necessary for of the Centrista, debasing all the theorture, paper rublur, shipping and leath: ground for increasing radicalization of the politicians of reaction, and highly ettcal traditions of the movement bor er. To these may be added a group of the working masses, while the increasing Canadian beat the Sudan and Central Asumo a polítical tinge, is found in the valued hy them. But how should the rows more than a little on this account. industries which is able to make a propaves the way for a breakdown of pro Ilmited class in foreign countries in the industries, coal and textiles.
acuteness of the problems of capitalism Antcal devices, luxuries appealing to the oldest and least profitable American Fighly finished mech history of the labor movement in two of workers many of whom Imagine Thomas The ignorant ballyhoq ahout mags Work At in good times, but whose profits raspeaks in their interest regard this ut. which is heard on the fringes of the Lett pidis shrink In depression timessuto ultimately of the whole profit system Ing peture Alms, fountain pens, and opportunities will diminish rapidly, and If the above analysis is correct, the terance?
Opposition is at bottom nothing more mobiles, clothing, building materials of production.
Thomas Is fearful of a collapse of all than this.
iron and steel, machinery, mining, rail.
similar Yankee notions. Our exports the working class will be Impelled into Europe, even of all of Western civiliza So you will give up the slogan, Go ways, etc. The relatively young tuWays Out?
trade is not built, like that of Great Increasingly revolutionary activitie tion. regardless of whether this col te the masses Sy the advocates of dustries, which are still capable of ex The only possible alternatives are at Britain on basle economie necessities with minimum of wasted time ar lapse occurs under the Communists or agitation for its own sake. No. But in Danding or at least holding their own ther rideulously inefficient or are theunsteel ralls, ships, and the like. To de struggle in the socialist reformis the fascists. It would be in place to order to make its meaning clearer to in depression times, are few moving selves symptoms of the growing disinvelop such a trade would imply a great Iboral, or other blind alleys. The cr!
ask first of all what such a collapse arm the movement against Appeal to pictures, prepared foods, certain chemi tegration of capitalism.
colonial expansion, for which America that began in 1020 may go down in. under the Communists would consist Reasonism. open and disguised the Opcnls. chain stores, office supplies, pub Growth of population does not of entered the mace too late as a world tory as the last of the crises on of, and who stands to lose and who position adds an amendment to make the Tehing, cigarettes, electricity, gas, tele itself create new markets which must imperialist power, after the best tercentury old upswing of American ca stands to gain by it. Hoover and Co. Slogan read: Go to the masses with a phones, and electrical equipment are the bo delined as outlets for the sale of ritories had already been divided up: talism, and all the door leading to a nu could answer that question without a revolutionary polley!
most important. To compare the number Hoods at a profit. Increased population or it would mean the radical displace era of struggle for the American moment hesitation. They thought of and importance of these relatively henl in a decaying capitalist system means ment in the world markets of AmerJetariat.
theory.
Economic Crisis What Next?
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