The Technocrats «Refute» Marxism ofr SATURDAY, JANUARY 14, 1933 THE MILITANT PAGE Marxists did long ago. The displacement of man power by tbe machine, which is a progressive development under Opposition at Anti War Meet capitalism, was analyzed by Marx long eneres, nccording to Scot, will do away Engineers Have New Plan to thionshopoder can be list the elemento at shout our teacher er en meer met een and Left Delegates Issue Statement at Chicago Student Conference with classes and the class struggle, with Save Bankrupt Capitalism The present world orlais la capitalist ples weking liberation from imperialist factor and the form of energy of LA covered the fact but has not yet drawn revolution and with Marxists. Quite BOR is the decisive factor in the energy the conclusions which flow from them. economy, occurring as it does in the exploitation. We look upon wars of nalarge order!
of any and every society. This deter. What a difference between the dialectic epoch or imperialism, which is at once tional liberation us progressive and as fits and exploitation increases with mach mining actor is what the Technocracy materialist method and the Technocratic Energy Ine development.
school Ignores.
methods and how superior it proves capitalism and the period of its decay, tem patches the the road of Anal The whole structure of Technocracy Let us restate the problem from In other words, if we were to find the Itself to be in analyzing and pointing contains within itself the seeds of wires. An uprising of the Chiness or Indian revolves around the axis of energy. Marxist polnt of view and see what lightbasis of the equation of all use values the way to the solution.
The spread of industrial capitalism dur, masses directed towards throwing Scott says. Energy is defined as the throws upon the school of technoor society we must reduce the use values or any other form of use values can be the number of capitalist powers, the ancelve our support. The struggle in the Kilowatt hours, capital, commodities, ing the past half century has ſucreased the yoke of foreign Imperialism must reheat transfer or se work done are saia products or commodities of every so labore et me embodied within themi reduced to consealed laborto dead tagoniams between which with the crowea colonial countries does not end, however, to involve a transfer of energy.
Again: ciety is labor and nature. The determinergy. Coustant capital (machines, labor. Under capitalism wo hayo Now energy appears in many forms ang factor in society is not nature but buildings, raw material, power, etc. controls and subjects living labor the the imperialist nations. Before dead labor capital created ever sharpening rivalries between ialists, for the exploited masses will but it is possible measure them in abor. The relation of labor to produc can be reduced to congealed labor time. labor of the workers, in the proces Great War it was still possible for capul capitalists. It is for this reason that the still have to deal with their own national units of work the erg and the joule, or clon and to the ownership of the means the other part, necessary for capitalist of production. Thereby capital controls talism to escape from the recurrent crises the emancipation of these backward peo in units of heat, the calorie.
of production determines its status in production and the vital part variable The technocrats hide behind the that society, no matter how productive capital (wage labor) can be transform.
the lives of the wage earners.
by a continuous extension of the world ples can only be achieved under the word energy every form of energy sabor is.
Only when the control of the capital anarket. That is no longer possible. The leadership of revolutionary workers who ed into labor, living labor, in the process ists qver the means of production is rival imperialist powers now find it im must strive to extend the national revolt used in the present capitalist system of All value, wealth of use values in so of production. All forms of production. They do not make any dis ciety, no matter what its form may be measured by the kilowatt hour can be for this a revolution is required. Tech crisis by expanding the over seas mar: eventuate in the establishment of the energy. broken can the workers be liberated. possibe to lift themselves out of the into a struggle for power which will tinction between determining factors of. buildings, machines, energy and contributing or units of energy. Second, when they deal sities can be reduced, not to energy in Dr. Rautenstrauch and Peral leed deals struggle. There is no substitute for the are becoming increasingly impatient. In auxiliary electric power, clothes, and other neces necessary labor time. The equation nocracy cannot solve the problem in a kets. Today they are shackled with a proletarian dictatorship.
with human labor as a form of energy the abstract, but to labor and natural with Imperialist war asumes increased sikentirely different phase of the proletarian revolution and the expro order to avoid an internal upheavalmiticance for the world proletariat when they primarily deal with one phase of properties, no matter if they were made problem and does not touch the basic priation of the expropriators. For that which would jeopardize their own exist. It takes the form of an interventionat the problem and ignore the other and by hand tool production or machine pro factors of the present day economie pro reason technocracy remains an imposence, the rival imperlulist powers are attack on the USSR. The Soviet Unmost important phase.
blems. The problem their equation does ing deception.
The first phase of the problem of la compelled to struggle incessantly for lon is the first and only Workers State not touch the problem that must be bor (energy) they deal with is its dissolved if we are to have an orderly and markets, sources of raw materials and in history and as much it is the duty of Julacement by the machine. Scott says: Two Debates in Chicago planned society. Many technicians de ZINAIDE TROTSK)
spheres of financial control. Inevitably every revolutionary organization to de In other words price system demands the disproportion between the size of the fend the achievements of the Soviet Unman power if it is to succeed, and man Two debates are scheduled in Chicago sire this but do not know how it is to be attained.
importance (Continued from page 1)
productive forces (especially of the pro ion and to insure the continued existence power for production steadily becomes which are of considerable more and more a thing of the past as and interest to the militants of that city, The Key to the Problem bullet through his head in 1927 in proletariut) and the markets in the posses of the proletarian dictatorship in that according to the announcements of the Let us consider the energy of techtest against the Thermidorian vices of sion of the different imporlulist nations country pending the further develop the kilowatt hour takes its place. To Chicago branch of the Communist League nocrney in the field of capitalist pro death, in 1924, Trotsky devoted secret to settle its differences on the back and of the past few years have shown prethe party rulers. Three years before his causes a break, and capitalism proceeds ment of the world revolution. The events refer to the displacement of labor or of America (Opposition. man power and not to tell what effecti duction. So many yards of liuen in value this has upon that part of labor which on Tuesday, January 17, Norman Satir, equal so many pounds of wheat not be ary and collaborator, Glazman, took the with the blood of the great masses of cisely how the flames of war lange at same way out of the nightmare of vene the population, the workers. But imper. the frontiers of the Soviet Union simulis left in production, to to state the of the Left Opposition, will debate with cause we have some arbitrary pricamous intrigue brought into life of alist war cannot achieve a permanent taneously from the Far East and from problem without stating the determining Stattman, organizer for the won aystem but because each can be reduced the party by the dominant clique. One solution of the problems of economie dis the closer West. At the same time stranProblem wie die elopment the demachines, the subject. Communism or syndical too many hoursie de la bome empowane by one claxman, Joffe, Butov, Heinrich velopment ve capitalism in different coun. constructs in Manchuria fortresses from new Inventions and processe carry with ism.
them greater exploitation of labor.
On the same date, Joseph Giganti, or to measure all forms of energy which are Zinalde Trotsky these serene but un tries, a time soon comes when markets which to strike at the Soviets. On the Scott says kilowatt hours take the sanizer of the Left Opposition will de the result of man labor is to reduce yielding spirits have been cut down in and sources of raw materials must be other hand, the advance of Fascism in pens is that the higher composition of on the subject, What Next for the embodied in them. This labor time is turta to death, driven to suicide, nor shot nomic hegemony appears on the order of struggle for lite or death between a Fase capital an increase in constant capital Spanish Worker. Communism or Anarch the measure of value and the key to in obscure courtyards. kilowatt hours, ete, means of produc sm? This debate will take place unthe understanding of the problem the aud parasites, ex Petlurists and Menshe imperialist wars are product of the struggle against war signiffes under these tion) and a decrease of variable capital der the auspices of the Spartacus Work techniclans have unearthed but have not viks, scavengers and camp followers: development of capitalist soriety and are conditions the struggle to save the lives (Wage labor in the form of labor) ers League, at its headquarters, 1645 explained properly nor solved.
itIn causes greater exploitation of the wage Polk Street.
To regard energy in the abstract Soviets and the party, the bravest of production, the historie task of putting pensents belonging to the new generation workers, a fall in the rate of profit but rise in the mass of profit which goes rent importance and the debaters will an ure of its value, labor time is to leave the organizers of the insurrection and the production process. The prole and of thought, to save the first Workers Be todebates del seu ta themes of cur and leave out of consideration the. un ing class because of its indispensable role to preserve all the conquests of labor not to society but to the owners of the doubtedly bring forward tuer respective the ground of concrete reality and lose the heroes of the Civil War, were driven tariat, itself the product of capitalist State and the whole future of humanity.
tools of production.
If the technocracy school would realize manner as possible, enabling those who problems an the contradictions of the it is the fate reserved by Stalin for the industry, is the only social force cap It folows naturally that we cannot that private ownership of the tools of attend to judge the merits of the dis capitalist mode of production. To find Left Oppositionists in prison and esile tablishing in its place the dictatorship support any program which condemns social ownership must replace it, they production must be abolished and that All Chicago militants are cordially in tions, it is necessary first to state the Rakovsky, for all those who have stood on a world wcale, lays the basis for the sidered in its own context and from the would be a long way toward the pro vited to attend the debates.
problem correely. This Marx and the unflinchingly by the side of the Bolshe development of socialism. Only in such hint of view of the historical interest per utilization of the facts they have vik exile who incarnates the internation, a society when the private ownership of of the world acumulated. Also this would be the openal proletarian revolution. The blood of ing of the door out of the blind alley THE HISTORY OF COMMUNIST INTERNATIONAL these Bolshevik victims is on Stalin the means of production has been abolLastly, we must point out the irreconthey are now in. Filling this under head!
ished and class differences have disap cilability between our position that standing their positive facts are lost or Max Shachtman To the bereaved exile in Turkey and peared. Will the causes of war finally of paclists, who, blind to the causes of else they are utilized by reaction to misus, therefore, armed condict, dismiss all wars with a lead the workers.
will speak every Sunday evening, P on the Tollowing subjects in the to his family, we send our most deeply have been removed. To Is Labor Importance Decreasing?
felt sympathy. At the graveside of our the problem of war is a problem of class wave of the hand. Too long now have course: dear comrade Zinalde Trotsky, the Amconflict flowing from the extant mode of the masses been misled by statements Many are already using the moveerican Bolshevik Leitinists pledge them production and exchange today it is a such as that made by Henri Barbusse ment for this purpose. But the techniJan. 15 1922 The Last Leninist Congress.
selves anew to the unceasing struggle to problem for the working class because and Romain Rolland at the recent Am.
clans and scientists who want to be of Jan. 22 1924 The First Great Victory of the Right Center Reaction liberate world communism from the it in the workers who must do the fight sterdam Anti War Conterence to the er service to mankind must see beyond the and the Fifth Congress.
monstrous regime which has devastated ing and the dying and it, the workers, rect that a wave of opposition must be decay of capitalism into the future social system which is going through its Jan. 291928 The Triumph of the Epigones at the Sixth Congress.
it and sent a new victim to a premature leading all the oppressed masses, who raised against Whatever war it may be death.
alone can overthrow capitalism. Hence, wherever it may come from and whoever birth stage in the Soviet Union now.
Feb. 5The Future of the Third International: Collapse or Regenerawe, as students, can play no independent it may menace. We repeat that we are The change from hand tool production tion. The International Workers School of role. While carrying on work in our re opposed to such pacifist ntterances and to the machine age is viewed by the the St. Louis Branch is conducting a one of supporting the working class in similar position at this conference. The spective fields, our task is essentially will consistently opposed adherence to a school of technocracy as the passing of elass in the Fundamentals of Communits day to day struggle against capitalist problems of war can man Tower (labor) to kilowatt hours of INTERNATIONAL WORKERS SCHOOL Ism with Martin Payer as the instruct energy units, etc. Where they see the or. The class is held every Monday eve exploitation and of helping it resist the on the western can be discussed only replacement of man power by machines, 126 East 16th Street. New York ning, 7:30 PM at the Small Club Room they conclude that the importance of outbreak of further imperialist wars by of the Cruden Branch Library, 14th and Working with it towards the overthrow create a permanent individual member We consider it absolutely wrong to man power (labor) in a machine society Cass Avenues. Au Militant readers and of capitalism.
diminishes.
ship anti war organization. Such an orThe truth is that the im friends are invited to attend. The adi While we oppose imperialist war, we ganization will only separate the strugportance of labor in the relation of pro: Per Lecture: 15 Cents Complete Course: 00 mission is free.
affirun our support to all oppressed peogle against war from the general struggle against capitalism.
workers are in craft unions, thus elim of a rival leadership. But the example, workers and peasants government.
inating the artificial and fratricidal of the British Labor Party, then coming Vasiliev adds naively that after a per. FOR UNITED WORKER STUDENT struggles between unions over jurisdicinto power, heartened them and caused usal of the draft programs of action of YOUTH CONFERENCE tion.
the attempt of creating a political party the Left and the reformists, one is struck It workers too often fail to realize under union auspices. This same year by the similarity of the most important The great weakness of this Congress Its Rise from Feudalism to Capitalist Imperialism the decisive importance of the class con saw the split of the General Federation points of the political and economic delies in the fact that it has segregated trolling an organization, the employers of Labor with what aid from the Commands. He sees the conditions for a and the Development of the Proletariat have no illusions on this score. The munists is not clear but quite easily to united front as very propitious. Through the student yonth from the working class Congress By Jack Weber bosses in Japan have organized shop be inferred from international develop their work within the proletarian party. youth. In view of this, the committees and company unions on a ments in the third perlod Into right the Japanese Communists will no doubt ons on record as favoring: The High Speed of Japanese Development winciples of the Bolshevik Leninists, wide scale. In fact they now embrace and Left wings, the latter including syn soon be able to grapple with the taak of (n) The organization of a nation wide striking feature of post war Japan and is at the same time, flexible in its 340, 000 workers, as many as have been dicalists to an even greater extent than developing their ranks into a mass Len united front anti war conference of ese development is its rapid tempo. Born tactics, with regard to the changing re permitted to organize in all the workers Communists. Had the communis party. inist party with a strictly revolutionary all youth organlations, worker and in the epoch of imperialism, Japanese lations of forces, the results may well unions combined.
despite the persecution and the handicaps program and Iron discipline.
student.
capitalism, even before it has attained be disastrous for the working class. The year 1919 saw the gradual spread of illegality, presented as clearly as was In No. 17 of the Communist InternaThe organiation of a preliminary full maturity. undergoes all the sickReformism and Opportunism of Information concerning the Russian possible under the circumstances, their nesses of decay the stifling of expanding conference of all leading youth orThe great influence of syndicalism, later Revolution among the workers. The own political outlook had they differentional, after the complete fiasco of the productive forces by the shrinking of ganizations to prepare for such a of Communism, in the post war era forced spread of Communist ideas terrified gov tlated themselves sharply from the op all embracing mass party, we find the national conference.
markets. Its internal woes are so pro: the shrewd ruling class of Japan to avall erning circles and brought on a period portunist elements a large section of the following som. The reformists, after found that desperate remedies are sought: itself of the generous assistance of re of white terror that has not abated to syndicalists could have been won over their unsuccessful attempts to balk the (c) The election of an executive comhence the imperialist venture in China formism in attempting to trick the prole the present time. The crisis of 1920 with to communism, not to speak of other formation of the Proletarian Party by mittee of the Student Congress venture that not only sacrifices thetariat into following the path of peace its mass unemployment did not help to Left wing workers. But the Anglo Rus refusing participation, decided to achieve Against War, that will help in the work toward such an end.
ers for capitalist profit, but that demands ful agitation and development. The 11. reassure the upper class. Nor did the sian Committee, the bloc of the Chinese their sabotaging work by drawing up a for its accomplishment ever greater dlv. Luminating experiences of the English Kobe strike of 1021 with its great soll party with the Kuo Min Tang, in short program provoking the left to a split. d) We call upon the Young Comersion of resources, growing budgets and working class since the Chartist more darity parade of 30, 000 workers. In 1922 the obliteration and dispersing of the The latter took up a firm position, and munist League, the historie leader ment, the course followed by the revision, the Comintern established relations with vanguard in the mass of uncrystallized acquiesced in making every concession mounting deficits, bence more intense exists in German social democracy, the his. Japanese comrades and started an 11 workers, the voluntary ylolding of initiat only to obtain the organization of a In the struggle against Imperiallat In their desire to prewar and militarism, to initiate this national income must be reapportioned. 10ssons of betrayal were not learned in ment has remained small but exerts a the workers correctly to that force de serve the legal physiognomy of the new movement, SIGNED: able rate of 30 percent its earnings talists. The classic of dividing of many blunders under stalinist con counterpart in the attempts of the Com abandoned without any reserves the de(every citizen with an income of 150 Yetta Barshefsky, Crane College, Chgo.
munists, under the direction of the Command for the independence of the coloand ruling is applied in the union move trol.
nies (they agreed to autonomy and or more is taxed. the workers The earthquake of 1923 gave the govo Intern, to form a mass labor party.
agreed to the abandonment of the demand Landau, Crane College, Chicago.
than their previous government policy of encouraging the ernment its opportunity to behead the The Peasants Union (50, 000 members) for the confiscation of the land without receive even less Belle Landau, Crane College, Chicago.
pittance. In short, the class struggle is growth of Right wing organizations and proletarian movement. The police and issued the call for all workers to unito compensation. But the reformists, who Daniel Shelley, University of Chicago.
intensified at a pace corresponding to suppressing brutally the Left wing. Thus the military Inelted the reactionaries in a proletarian party. In No. 16 of the had previously come to an agreement Meyer Freeman, University of Toronto the unbounded program of imperialist the Yuaikal (Friendly Society of LA and their dupes among the masses to Communist International may be found with the police, quit the inaugural con Max Caplansky, University of Toronto.
expansion Eric Renouf, University of Toronto.
But not only does Japanese imperialism borers. organized in 1912 by the Chris murder all Koreans under the pretext the attitude of the Comintern on the en gress of the Proletarian party, declar Norman Knight, University of Toronto accomplish forced marches in the strain Japan. under the patronago of one of rible conflagrations that broke out as astically halling the call. Not only la weapon in the hands of the Lett. The tian socialist, Suzuki (the Gompers of that they were responsible for the tertire question.
be Norman Satir, Chgo. Branch of of catching up with the rival poters. the Elder Statesmen, was transformed a result of the quake.
Irving Bern, Spartacus Chgo.
The working class, too, undergoes rapid into the Japanese Ruth Stamm, Hunter College, transformations. In the single decade of Labor su 1919. Its Tunction deras to sands of Koreans, those most exploited interested in the organization of new teeing legality to the new party at alle Walta Karsner, Hunter College, since the war, the Japanese proletariat combat syndicalism and divert the work. Workers in Japan, performing the dirt cation of the State the whole country gates of the Peaesant Union and the Mannie Geltman, Brooklyn College congress.
Sam Freifeld, Tuley High, Chicago: whole century of British development. struggle and mass action. Through the soldiery selzed hundreds of radicals of ist wing of the commission for the forma of course, the police closed the congress Walter Dannyluk, Tuloy High, Chicago Today the Japanese workers are strung leadership of this federation of 46 an all shades and put the most prominent tlon of the proletarian party formulated down anyhow. But to go on. But the Charles Burle, Tuley High, Chicago, Rosenfeld, Tuley High, Chicago rear guard of opportunists and reform the 000 members of the seamen Un bloodedness this exploit of the Mikado the proletariant party is struggle against for long. Even If at first the Proletarian Sally Goltz, Crane College, Chicago ists always ready to desert and betray ion and the 42, 000 members of the Naval qutdid any of the Czar pogroms of the imperialism and the menace of imperial party did not have a program of action Al Glotzer, Youth Section C: of ist wars. The slogans are: Korea and worked out according to all the rules of Manute Gottlieb, Sjartacus C. battle create a division between the skilled and The Communists and the Labor Party other colonies rights to self determina Lenin, etc. even if in its program it made Des Moines, Iowa.
During this decade of proletarian the unskilled, to form an arlatocracy of The promise by the government of uni tion; hands off China. those who til opportunist, reformist, false steps, all growth the economie and political labor, on the lines of the AF of L, that rersal suffrage in 1925 (the actual voting the land must own it; the hour day: this is not so essentially important. What changes have followed ench other with could be bribed into acquiescence to not to take place till 1928. started work or full maintenance for unemploy is important is the fundamental fact that By an error, the above statement was great rapidity a sure indication of the capitalist polley. Fortunately syndical widespread agitation for the formation ed; workers control; universal surfrage the working and peasant masses are be announced for publication in the last revolutionary possibilities. The workers ist influence and the lateness of develop of working class political parties. The for all cltizens over the age of 18; dem ing brought into the proletarian party issue of the Militant. It was carried have shown themselves acutely sensitive ment of Japanese unions, permitting their right wing leaders in the unions at first ocratic libertles; abrogation of laws dir and it is also important that the objec over to this issue instead. The next to the international labor movement, but atilization of International experience, looked askance at the new development, eeted against the labor movement; aboll tro situation of the country unrestrained issue wh contain a critical analysie of unless a leadership is built up that ta assured the formation of Industrial thing In It threat to their bureaution of thie Upper Chamber and the Genroly urges the Japanese workers and pea the proceedings of the Chicago confergrounded in Marxian principles, the ions. Only percent of the organized cratic control through the organisation Council. Its immediate slogan is the wants to decisive acts and big tasks. ence.
JAPAN (b)
must