rohet con industry, a mhigher erficis attained to be deemth of the chance de representation maten of internas e moins la concesiones and determine the tale communist score they to fall for under sted trane only from below vilitares the Social Reformism and the Perspectives of the Revolutionary Movement PAGE THE MILITANT SATURDAY, JULY 25, 1931 certain radical international decline of commo equalling the American volume of foreign tends the basis of sympathy for Com such a radicalization have been and are now that the economie foundation for At certain times and under dity prices.
To cut the costs of produc underwriting, munism among the workers in general. being established on an ever broader it is being shaken by the advent of the conditions an agreement with the retion is the first step in this direction.
Whether or not the United States in a sympathy which the capitalist prestasis. The very fact that the American crisis he one of the determining factors formist leaders when they are compelthe next period will reach the peak it and other institutions seek to negate by proletariat subjectively has lagued so far in driving it forward at an accelerated led to take a step forward is necessary This not only wignifies an intensified ra towards the end last a systematic campaign falsehood, mis behind the advance favorable objec. It would be a fatal error of the and unavoidable, The douma of the int ency in production, queezing out of what does flow from the whole situation, encouragement from the successful ex. and Ny step forward which it will take stand the nature of this rapid develop Leninist mception of the united front unprofitable intermediary enterprises however, is that the herculean efforts of intence of the Soviet republle and the when these olujectively favorable condi ment and the prospect of strucxles ahead and in practise leads to no united front and small business men. hut a universal the to issue out of its crisis will progress of planned cconomy under the tions compel it to adjust itself to then that will increase in breadth and depth at all.
levelling downward of the working class entail the extension of the American rule of the proletariat makes easier the and to catch up with them. In other and militancy, were they to instead look The Communists cannot, of course standard of living. From this fol plan. that is, the plan to put Europe progress of the Communist movement in words, the very backwardness of the Am. forward and adjust themselves, like the take the pisition that without an organic lows that America recorers will not be on diminishing rations in world econ the United States. The existence of the erican workers in the past. Waxed thight wing faction, to the perspective of unity of the revolutionists and the rebased in the first place upon a re estab omy. This in turn will bring with it Soviet Union is not, hy itself, the auto only upon specific historical causes but new Wictorian era for American capiformist (even if only on. le traele lishment of the internal market, upou increasing misery and exploitation of matic, mechanical and never changing alte and primarily upon the extended talist and a comfortably slow develop lon tield. It is impossible to conduct its domestic expansion, because the the European masses, the accentuation guarantee of working class radicaliza prosperity period of recent times, willment of the working class movement. Successful strucles of the workers. Yor purchasing and consumptive power of of the class struckle, confronting the tion, as the Stalinists and Right wingers can the united fruit take the forms of the proletariat will be lowered in two proletariat of Rurope with the alterna profon to Believe. Furthermore, the such a bloc of leader at the top in ways: the existence of millions of pertives: proletarian revolution, war, or intimate connection between the needs which the left winy is subordinated to manently unemployed and the decline in bonision to the super exploitation of of the Soviet Union and the interests of the agents of the hourgeoisie, and tused the standards of those employed, and be America, the millions of unemployed under capi.
as an instrument Avainst the workers.
cause the chronic agrarian crisis shows The classle form of the betrayal of the no signs of let up but rather points to The fary of America advance against talism is not utilizand by the Centrists Along what channels will the advane democracy against the proletarian rev working clans, developed Jointly by the a further impoverishment of the agri its imperialist competitors is determined along the lines proposed by the Opposlcultural producers. Armed on the one by still another factor. Arriving beton. In fact, they not only reject but ing morement of the American working olutionary movement. Add to this the right wing and the entrist (Stallu hand with its gigante financial facilities. latedly upon the field of world conquest prohibit a campulin among the Ameri class tow in the next period? The cen. Punct that the American bourgeoisie is and Bucharin in the Anglo Russian can workers for the extension of long trint illusionista proceed from the prestill powerful enough to grant such conommittee, must stanul ax lasting wat and on the other hand, with a reorgan the United States does not enjoy a colo term credits to the Soviet nion to help mise in theory that social reformism in cessions as the growth of reformizm, ing against such a cerption. Nor can Ized industry capable of competing acnial domain comparable to that of Brit bug machinery which would partially the nited States is going through and we not only have an explanation of we conceive of the mitul front as the tively in the present state of the worla tain, France, and others. Its Allie alleviate the condition of unemployment process of decline and disintegration. In expansion but also a reason to cal stalinists in in their xxx to ultra market, the United States will be in a came out of the war with increased position to turn its attention more en colonial divisions, in which the United But it remain true that the strties for while the Communist party is growing in culate pon its growth (not its arteftium. that confining the whole question to an appeal to the workers to ergetically to its foretgn trade, that is states hnd virtually no share. Its hexe ward made by the Soviet Union stand intuence by laws and rounds. This derowing down. in the coming period.
in favorable contrast to the crisis in termines their tactics to a large extent. More than ever before, therefore, the Join the communis Kr. to join the to the form of its business activity that mony in Latin America, its infiltration capitalist economy and facilitate the The Licht wing liquidators, on the other next period will be a race for leader eft wink unions and nothinx else.
must assume an ever greater position in of China, are far from aequate substi. work of the Communists in guiding the hand. proceed in their practise from he ship of the working maxses between the This is recruitment, which on al its economic life. In recent years, the tutes at color The crisis workers along the road of militant idea that the Communist movement is in social reformist particularly their Let all times, but it is not the point to foreign trade of the United States has noses this imperialist need with pointed struggle against the endeavors of the decline: they turn their reks upon the wing and the Communists, in which all of the unitel frent, ale wrinciple of not inomed up so large in its economie imperativeness. Little concerned with hourgeoisie to impose upon the proletar nasses in an around the organized Com the resources and skill and endurance of unity is not and cannot be a fetish to 1ffc. recisely this fact leads to the the fact that the loss of colonies to at the burden of the crisis.
munist ranks and under their Intluence the latter will be put to the severest the communists. But the movement belief that in the coming period, it will Europe will only mean geoper revoluIt is true that a deep economic crisis and stake their cards more and more test.
the united front is an invaluable instrutoccups an increning place in America tionary crises for the latter, the United does not lend itself to widespread econ upon the Left wing of social reformism economy. The value of American ex. states will seek to satisfy its coracious omic struggles of the workers, such as eren here, not so much upon the dis growth of the reformist movement, par revolutionary leadership for militant The Centrist apparatus men see in the ment for mobilizing the masses under ports (102) was twenty five percent appetite in carving awny parts of the strikes, particularly in face of a huge contented workers ns upon the shifty ticularly of its left wing (the Muste structe It institutes. powerful lever greater than the value of the exports colonial empires of Europe. llere, as nnemployed army. But this applies prifor inseating the reformist from their from the United Kingdom, but the ex with every other exue from the world marily and above all to crises which fol tlon proceeds from the idea that the amant communism. Anxious to have positions in the working class. The party ports per capita of the latter were more crisis, the specters of war and social rev. low a series of defents, of lost battles, advancing workers movement is flowing their own yesterdays of alliances with must take hold of this lover and exert twice the value of the per capita exports olution march side by side.
of crushed revolutions, and has been de and will flow simultaneously along the the urcells of all countries forgotten, all its pressure upon it.
of the former. It is towards a reversal But the offects of America efforts to monstrated expecially in the last decade channels of social reformism and. om. they fail to see that the Muste and simof this and similar ratlos that the issue ont of the crisis are not to be in one country of Europe after an munism. The proportionate strength of ilar progressive movements are the What is the role of reformism? TL ruthlex advance of American imperial limited to Europe alone. They will be other, and today in China. In the Unt the two parallel streams will depend in initial manifestations of working class serves as a bulwark created by existing Ist will strive. The race between the very profound and acute in the United ted States tolay, the workers have not large measure upon the course pursned discontent with which the Communists tourzewis society against the proletarian nited States and its competitors will states as well. Rapid as is the decline been exhausted by previous economic by the Communists. The attitude of the must know how to establish contact, to revolution. Azainst the rising proletarproceed at a maddening speed, despite of the costs of living, marked by the struggles and defents. On the contrars. self contented bureaucracy which regards collaborate in a united front on the basis inn movement, the wrecaisle and its in the form of commodity price declines, living standards of the American work. cently passed wits the absence of such cline of social reformism as an automation and criticient of the collaborating strengthen this bulwark, to polen its elecreasing ability of foreign countries ers is eren more precipitous. Rapid as struggles. The working class still retie mechanical process leveloping out forces. The Right wing spokesmen pre existence The Communist Mitt Beuk to absorb loans, the acute international is the decline in employment, with its tains anspent resources which, although side of time and space and unaffected by tend to see in this Tait movement only to break it down as rapidly as possible.
agrarian crisis. the wyramided burdens concomitant of misery for the millions impaired in great measures by the prethe policies of communism an attitude the ranks. and deliberately neglect to the existence of reformism in deter of war delts, etc. But in the race. the of jolles, the decline in wages has been allink unemployment, constitute a face which is strengthened with every tem emphasize the specific role played his mined essentially by the stronths of the nited States, 18 chief Inker of the even more acute. The empty pledges tor of great vitality.
world, has hy that alone a manifest ad. llcover of the industrialists, of the not stand by passively while its living wors: kind of self deception and decep of paralyzing the activities and militanes the nited States, this determinant factor vantage. In 1990, the foreign (net) of leadership, that wages will standards are so radically undercut. Ittion of the ranks. It ignores the fact of the masses, of preventing it from fol wonlal appear, at first sight, to invest relonus of the 11, which werve expand not be ent. has not prevented their be will resist the capitalist offensive in made indisputable by all recent evllowing its natural course towards rer formism with vigor for many years or the importing alillity of the borrower, ing out. It would be wrong to helieve the coming period with an increasing dence, that the basis for social reform olutionary struggle. The Luft Opposition, decades to come. In realits, however, were sc2. 200, 00 compared to England that the process of wage cutting is com militancy and on ever hader field ism in the United States, far from hav rejecting both the superficial radical 67, 600. in which despite the heroicing to an end, in reality. It has onls of struggle. It is towards the perspec. ing heen narrowed down. is heing ex its foundation in a very whaky one.
ism of the Centrists and the Menshevik Reformim flourished for derndes in efforts of Britain to expand its influence team. In the terrific offensive that the tive of these coming struggles that the tended.
attitude of the Right wing, considers the much classe countries of capitalism as in Latin America, expressed in an al capitalist class is carrying on and plans revolutionary Communist movement must most two fold increase of its loans over to extend against the working class, in orient itself.
During the prosperity wriod. social growth of the social democratic, and England and Germany in the wriod of the previous year. It did not attain the the changes produced cetvrally lw the It is plain that the hourgeoisie in reformism which, at the inception of particularly of the left social democratie the rise of imperialist sociofy, prior to American total for Latin America. The crisis, le the foundations for a change aware of the seriousness of the scope weep in the labor and its greatest (Muste) movements as a sign of great the world war and the Russian revolutfarmer Inbor significance for the revolutionary party. tion, which radically changed the relacombination on the relation of forces in working class and the opening up of pares for them in advance. Anti. com party movements, was almost entirely The Communists can win the workers tonships of international class forces.
contrast to the 1929. Tons, when Grent a broad perspective for working class munist repressive measures increased dissolved in the outright bourgeois and away from their reformist leaders only the new wave of reformism in the United Britain came within 120, 000, 000 of struggles and radicalization, movements of If they demonstrate their willingness to states is rising in the period of the number and in ferocity. More workers de La Pollette typer in the trade un join with them in an honest united front decline of world imperialism, in the. with since power of Class Movement Criminal Syndicalism Laws is being Federation of Labor (Fitzpatrick, Noe interests outside the interests of the American inperialism grow more and the of The American working class more. While the standards of the working class with a violence reminiscent of the war Gompers Green bureaucracy, The cling class with no interests separate from of the rest of the world. Its power is poxt war stages one of vigorous growth proportion to the increase in the nation movement is illegal. For the first and militant struggles, the other of ideal wealth and the national income, it time since the end of war, the Commun ary movement (the Communists) and the and militant section, it must take the of the home market or a balance between logical and numerical degeneration and did rise above the starwards prevailing ist press is being barred from the mails.
avowed bourgeois movement in the work initiative in forming the broadest imited riculture and Industry. recisely he CAUSE hands and feet of American slugzisha paxxivity. The first stage em for the working class before the war the legislative offensive against the for ing class (the of bureaucracy) front movement, showing to the workbraced the first post war years and coin and above the standards of the Eur. em lon workers is being resumed aua. Period: they disappeared as factors. It is the communists who are the most more heavily on the slaky sromnd of censed to play any decisive role in thixers at every stage of the struggle that cronomic and political power rent ever elded with the detlation of the war opean working class. But the working that has more, hundreds upon hundreds the labor morement, or they fell into ardent and willing defenders not onls the other continents. the economic ami blotted Industrial apparatus of the coun. clase purchased this internationalise them are actually being deported. Complete passivity: for these reconciled of their broad historical interests (the revolutionary upheavals in was not only a period of the tremendous laring and destroying its own class most atrocione persecutions and to that the trade union try and the eve of the 1921 crisis. It privilexel position at the cost of de Negres continue to be subjeeted to the themselves more or less completely with social revolution) lmt of the most nar ferritories tend to rock the way of the burvaneraey. or throw, limited and practical needs of the American cronomie structure with grow.
signs of a mass movement towards a tical movements. In making its profit Lynch law. This whole vile system of Inst group was composed of a diminish day (reforma. It is in this way of linking violence. Unless the United States ing few they worked in intimate con Ing the struggle for daily needs with succeed in completely lak zink Eur.
labor marts, but also of a series of tre alle concessions, the bourgeoisie in represestion demands of the Communists tact with the Communists. The trem: the finalnim, of having the former pave one. In opening up the vaxt Russian industries of the. at its upper strule for elementary democratic rights steel strike the miners movement of trata into a petty hourzenie or nemt of free speech. free press and free walitancy of the workers to such an revolutionary sense that is, it can be in the evolutionary movement in of the prosperity period dulled the Kle for reforms can be carried on in a tarian dictatorship, in exter1920, the Wix textile strikes, the rail. conreois mass. The working class, sembls. a strukslo which las been left extent that there was no place and no directed against the reformists. China and these are the likely of ktrike Seattle did not coincide acel price for the temporary improvement in liberals of all stripe. The struggle for coisie and working class of a substan workers learn only try their experiences was enjoyed by Writish imperialism for all perspectives canno! look forward need in the relationships between hour The simple, obvions truth that the to no lengthy a period of domination as dentally with the over running of Eur its conditions: As a result, it faces the hericht of the workers to gather, to til movement intermediate between revis regarded today as a boursets derit dende after decade. Even more than ore by revolutionnry crises the Triple terrifying shorks of the crisis without speak freely to write and distribute their stutton and reaction and performing the tion by Centrism. But this does not pre war England, Is Achillen her Bavarian revolutions, the occupation of merest skeleton of traic unions to dean inseparable part of the struggle to class discontentment and diverting it ble for unity of the working class against its world power. The Marxist cannot Italian factories, etc. etc.
fond itself against the capitalist can strengthen and make easier the road The second post war stage can be said paign to slash its wes and to lower development of the movements of reals. neesed not only a decline of the Comleurovided the Communist know look forward to a fatalistic perwctive from revolutionry path with the enpitalist offensive, the workers will to have begun coincidentaliy and again its lightly won standards of living. This tance to the capitalist offensive not my neident with the conclusion of fact alone would sutlice to determine. The commencement of this movement Imt an even greater relative decline of tiowats. Muxtes, et al. are incapable and of the proletariat. Surha perspective in which the nited States must be munist party Intluence and numbers. how to teach them that the hillits the last country to fall to the muscult the revolutionary wave in Europe (de the essentially defensive nature of the of resistance is already visible on the fent of the German October in 1923) and struggles taking place today and those horizon of the class strucxle. The numthe Socialist party. The Chiengotype unwilling to lead a real strucle for is only the reverse ut ne lens falso the stabilization of European capitalism, which will take place tomorrow, and to her of strikes all of a defensive nature. more with the Gompers machine and the genuine representatives of the procording to which gian or Germany of progressives became identified once their needs, that the Communists are alde of the Marxian determiuism ac.
This period of deadly tranquillity to determine it to the disadvantage of the has increased in 1981, as has the num. vanished as a distinct group. The foreve letariat 80. Such a struggle correthod first on the agenda of the prolethe American working class was marked working class.
bor of strikers. What is particularly crouped around Muste hrank into their winds most appropriately with the turian revolutoin, while using hy the steady decline of the trade union! Does it follow directly from this, how significant is the strike movement movement, the complete dissolution of ever, that the American working classi tens of thousands of miners in Pennsyxhells more and more, eking out a quiet specific period in which we are partiel dleniel the possibility of surpassing existence by the good graces of Green Dating the offensive of the enpitalist these lanits in point of revolutionary or the labor au farmer lahor party more will go throngh the crisis e. through Ivania, Ohio, West Virginia, and Ken andere ments into the avowedly pretty bourgeois the brutal capitalist offensive without tucks, agravated by the prolonged clasy, plus the weakness of the workers der. The moveness of social develop LA Follette swamp and the progressive rexistance? Such a conclusion follows crisis in the bituminous coal industry. The advent of the crisis, preceded and defense organizations (trade unions, ment. rendere particularly acute stui diminution of the specific gravity of the lenst logicalls from the situation. The It is indicative of the change in the alt succeeded by the blunders of official Com. etc. necessarily arouses among all the jerky in the present epoch of imperialCommunist movement in the working working class does not conduct a struguation that the working class whose con munisu brought with it a growing di workers the feeling that unity is im ism, may canlyndvance the tuites class. In the years between 1924 and le for an abstract, never changing stan ditions were yesterday Improved virtual content of the hitherto passive workers. perative ww more than ever States toward the head of ihe list.
1928, strikes continued to decline in dard of living, but for a concrete one ly without open struggle, is today com This discontentment is given its social Those who initiate, lead and fight most This coincides with the idea that broad number and in total participants. An connecteil with time and place. As the pelled to carry on the most violent bat. reformist translation in the resurgence militantly for the unification of the perspectives are now opened up for the unprecedented condition developed: Ab prosperity reserves of the workers tle of desperation against what is tants of the organized Muste movement (C. labor front will strike a responsive chord rowth of the communist movement, an sorbed again by the industrial economic reach the vanishing point, as the full mount to starvation, and in this inst in the trade unions and the grow among the workers. a response which idea which the more penetrating sections apparatus, working amidst ever increas and intimate realization of the radicance. finds no leadership to guide it in th of its intluence (particularly in the will hear the createst fruits for the of the hourgeoisie are not the Inst to ing riches, the working class movementl ally lowered standards penetrate the its strike except that of the Communists. textile and mining fields. in the appear Communist movement.
share. It is in this connection that the nevertheless did not solidify itself, did consciousness of the mass, as it becomes This strike, despite the specific condi ance of the ner Left wing in the soc It is to cover up their own role of reformiste seck to set up the highest not grow in milltaney, did not strike daily more erident that the solution of tions existing in the soft coal industry. Lalist parts, whose directorate is inter splitters of the labor movement, to cover! possible barriers to the rapid progress for a krenter share in the national in the crisis is still a long way off, the cannot be considered an isolated phenolocked with that of the Muste gronn up the fact that they are operating in of the revolutionary movement. On the come, did not dress its ranks in a class moals of resistance will become strong menon. Standing against a background and in the steady revival and growth of the ranks of the workers as the agents economic field, these barriers are repre manner. On the contrary. the class con er among the workers and begin to gain of other strike struksies that have taken the Socialist party as a whole Its re of the tourgeoisie, that the reformis: sented in the trade nnion movement to sciousness of the inasses was dulled to the upper hand. It is inconceivable that place in the last year or two (particu estalishment in the needle trade unions, of all shades seck to convince the woris the of burennerncy, their soe the point of disappearance its ranks so sharp a decline in the living stanlarly in the textile industry, in the growth of its press, increase in its elecers that the Community are sectar in list assistants, and the Lift wing crumbled at least insofar as its ranks dards of the workers will be allowed South) and of the sweep of the movetion votes, etc.
lans. that they want to divide the progressive tondys of the Muste school.
were represented in the American Feder to pass by them without a fight to retain ment set going around the issue of un The growth, the unleashing of the soc workers. It is essentially by innumer on the political field, most of these ele ation of labor. Yet its conditions and what was gained yesterday, or at least employment, it is indicative of hoth the inl democracy in all its shadings, im alle deniagogic variations on this theme ments week to erect a barrier in the standards of living did not become a part of it.
scope and the militancy with which thc plier a certain concession of the hour that the reformists are able to hold the form of a Labor or Farmer Labor worse, particularly in the case of the The crisis in the United States, with coming struggles of the American work revisie to the working class and an abil workers lick from Communism. This is party, that is, a bourgeois workers skilled, organized workers, but more its attendant unemployment and harders will be invested.
ity to make this concession. In the all the greater reason why the Community in the image of the British Labor generally (even if not universally) in Bhips for working clas cannot but The Left cannot accept the past pericul the American hourgeoisie was ists must become the banner bearers in the case of the less skilled and unor exercize a radicalizing effect upon the centrist evaluation. according to which able to satisfy the working class (at the struggle for unity. openly, sincerely The American revolutionary movement kanized workers This contradiction is American workers from another point the American workers are already now least its upper strata) without the aid vigorously, so that even the most back possesses the richest experiences in the to be explained in only one way: The of view: the contrast of capitalist Am. and allegedly have been, for the last of the social democracy or its left wink. ward workers will see and understand Held of Labor party politics, conductAmerican bourgeoisie. itself enjoying a rich with the advances of the Soviet two years manifesting a deep going. In the perind of its crisis, the bourge where the Communists stand. They must ed in the period of the worst revision prosperity comparable only to the days Union. There is a growing and intense mass radicalization. In its initial declaroiste has need of the social democraes emphasize and repeat tirelessly and ism in the fundamental principles of the when the British despoiled the vast interest among the American workers tions, the Left Opposition tended to ac to the extent that the dissatisfaction of prove it by deeds that the Communist Communist moveent. None of the main riches of the Indies, could afford to in the developments of the workers recept, although with qualifying reserva the working class increases. The social proposal for a united front is not 28 formulations of this problem made in grant a few fat crumbs to the upper public. The comparison of millions of tions, this false estimate. The correct democracy from its extreme Right wing the reformists charge a Communist the American party in the period between strata of the working class, thus extend unemployed in wealthy capitalist Am. appraisal of the relationship of forces in the of burcancraes to its maneuver against the workers but ra1923 1999 was lased upon a Marxian conIng its domestic market and escaping erica with the progress and alisence of at the given moment indicates that the extreme Left wing in the Muste group ther a working class mobilization against ception of the role of the Labor party or the shocks of class warfare home. unemployment in the Soviet Union ex premises, the preliminary conditions for is the staunchest bulwark of bourgeois the capitalist class.
of the nature of our epoch. In various The Prospects for the American Working imprisonment than at any other time ise elements the consummated type of ets and needs of the whole classe, The, abrupt changes and turns The tremwidely extended. Meetings and demon. selx, etc. were once more absorbed into working class in general. The Commun strations are attancker and clisrupted the black reactionary swamp of the int party is the vanguard of the work. sively wrneked and ten economie two distinct of the United States did not rise in days in many states the Communistments wavering between the revolution it. Is its most conscious enlightened. lece amil lexs founded upon an olibrium ment ne pasveil through the latter Before at