SATURDAY APRIL 14, 1934 THE MILITANT PAGE LEON TROTSKY The Cuban Situation After Grau Year of Roosevelt A Centrist Attack on Marxism New Deal Grau government has crashed, DeCespedes government fell. They Dear Comrade Sneevliet: Article III and with it all the groups and screamed against the murderous and not the right to the point of therefore that in the process of deof the working class in subjection was much interested in the view. Nobody in the working classvelopment of the proletariat a cry.
Industrial recovery is now under by attaining special privileges such sectors that chorused its shouting Grau Batista Carbo government de theoretical article of Comrade de world is particularly concerned stallization of the most advanced, way with irresistible force. says as higher wages for their specific for the four lectic months. Inscribing it as a bourgeois feudal Kadt. few Remarks on the about whether anybody has the far sighted, courageous, of the elite. Alfred Scan Jr. president of the crafts, by keeping the unskilled spite of its war apparatus, in spite landowners imperialist block. And Program of the New Internation right to bring to light at some of the real vanguard, should take General Motors Corporation, in his without organization and, thereby, of its menacing gestures, in spite then they called for the insurrec al. as it represents a very impor later day a non orthodox point of place. And only through the aid report of the corporation business also on a much lower wage level of its appeals for Law aud Justion. The official Communist Party. Itant theoretical avqwal of one of view. What one wants to know is of this, its most important organ for 1933. He also added that the These officials have not changed; tice, it was displaced from power taking a schematic and sectarian the leaders of the Indepen the point of view itself so as to can the proletariat fulfill its his labor section of the NRA must be but on the old narrow union basis sistance on its part.
without a serious attempt at restand, led the proletariat to masdent Socialist Party of Holland test its real content. But the secretſtorie mission, that is to conquer clarified or there ie the certainty they could no longer furnish the simple dilpomatic maneuvre by dense in its own revolutionary caror Curfery with Batista avowed compacity. The 29th of September was for the completion of this article in in general no definite, clear cut, of a dictatorship until the complete which this country has not yet check condition required for But as well thought out point of view. liquidation of all antagonisms. seen.
capitalism to issue out of the crisis plicity was sutricient to sweep out, the culmination of that political im note this article still remains un. Therefore, he remains content with that it is a question of a dictator: It Nobody needs to doubt that Sloan on the backs of the workers.
Government of the True Itevolu was decided on as the day of the Anished. But even what has ap the right. to have no point of ship of a class is proved by the spoke from the point of view of this thereford became necessary to per relation between the class and its class. As the president of the Gen mit a broader scope of the conservtion. All the demagogic adulation Insurrection, and then the army, peared sutrices. We know that cen view.
The Class Theory of Soceity of the people, all its decrees for the which had already begun to fratrism always holds back with its vanguard: without tho support of eral Motors corporation de repre tive unions in order to make posImmediately following the above the vast majority of the class the sents the most hard boiled section wible the extension of the system nutiuulitution of labor, all of ternize with the workers, massacred strength from entering the field of its criminal legislation dealing the latter in the streets of Havana. gray theory precisely because it words of de Kadt, the latter con establishing of a workers state of monopoly capitalism. They def of class collaboration and make of with the famous 80 per cent move, Loses Its Bearings does not want to reveal itself clear tinues as follows: To give an ex would be impossible. That the pro nitely oppose union organization in it a permanent institution. That was of no use to Gruu govern. Then the Party, losing all its by the whole situation to take of the Dictatorship of the Prole complished through the intermedia. aslong as union organization can of the NRA. The laobr agenta inent. Upon the first threat of a bearings, launched the call for a stand on the programmatic tabrobo tariat when in reality the dictation of the vanguard is explainable possibly te ſrevented. But tluat is like capitalisten were given a wider Bringier and the National Recon led to the most complete rout of this step to his can be regarded as through the socialist portion of the tariat as it is given us by bistory. only they are not all equally as able men for the New Deal.
quest mob, the loud mouthed le the workers if the Labor Federation nothing short of ominous.
Basic Policy of Capitalists proletariat and the non proletarian Marx operated not with bare ab to resist as the General Motors bion of professional Cubanists, of Havana, foreseeing the disaster, In this letter wish to touch on elements that are devoted to social stractions. Class, Socialism. corporation is. Yet in face of this It is this social relation feature which, backed by the teaching forces had not then shown the way. The only a few points which, though ism? in reality we have to deal but with bistoric realities, their fact which nobody will deny which is the most fundamental as.
er centers, decampod leaving to its having the workers return to their lying in different planes, are equal with a socialist dictatorship, a actual interrelations and their of Section Ta of the NRA, which was pect of the New sponsored by the Roosevelt admin. While the hard boiled monopoly fate the authentic revolutionists. positions, and this is the reason characteristic of centrist think dictatorship exercized through so tects on each others.
cialists for socialism. Well said And the lumpen proletariat, al why the present period of struggle Ing.
Historic Role of Classes istration, recognizes the right of concerns, such as now the General indeed. to give an example. The collective bargaining to the work Motors corporation, put the most ways ready to back new masters, is not closed. Non Orthodox Point of View critic does not notice at all that by That doserters from other classes ers. Does this moun a conflict of stubborn resistance to unlon recogis again gong thru the contortions But this was not sufficient to It is not our task, dd Kaat his example he attempts to sweep participate in the dictatorship is viewpoint and policies within cap uitiou for that is what sloan ordered by the old politicians of heal the wound made by the ad writes, already to present today away, in passing as it were, the with living social matter in which means when he demands clarificathe bourgeois parties.
venturers. The disorder provoked the formulations which we consider whole structure of Marxism. For The NRA Tlusion tion this cannot shield the fact The Petty Bourgeois Farco in the proletarian ranks enabled necessary. The aim of these re here it is not a question of the classes merge into one another, atFrom official of circles that there is agreement in the main The first act of the petty bour the Government to stop short the marks is to establish in advance naene dictatorship of the proletar feet one another, and not with the geois farcin ended. As the cur workers offensive. The sectarian Jour right. to defend a non ortho ist but of the essence of the class druggist compartments in which this is actually the way in which resentatives in the matter of basie amongst the various capitalist reptain falls, new qoliticat experiment ventures of the Stalinists explain dox point de view to the elements theory of society. Marx who at ang packing and label. Want is precisely to these labor agents of capitalism policy towards labor While each has the.
Menocatists, clever at all sorts of 50 per cent law and other decrees is a questionIs it not. of work mere right to ideas but had many the decisive historie role of classes the kinosevelt New Deal is a new section will fight for special advantages and special modfications tricks and roudy for all crimes, old of fascist nature. The weakness of ing out the fundamental pelnciples a good one, considered the theory of that imparts to the progressivo deal for alvor. According to them for their Machadistas, emasculated bational the proletariat in opposing such de of the New International. It would the dictatorship of the proletariat class the ability to carry along with the policies of his administration they will support the idea of recbenefit, in principle ment of political dabblers, who are scial parts are results of the ad of a more important document. contribution to the science of 30 les. To declare the class theory for its rights against such bara ative of unions as a means Ists In short, the entire assort crees, and the cowardice of the of be difficult to conceive in this epochas precisely his most important it the best elements of other class are friendly to labor and lighting and now repeating the inaneuvres they venture of September 20th.
Under the circumstances what ciety.
tried in the days of Cespedes, who The Duty of the Vanguard should be the most urgent, immedi Back in 1812 Marx stated to de Kadt does, is the same as deny of the NRA this presentation was of preventing more militant organization and action.
are now walking arm in arm with. Therefore the displacement of ate, deepest need of every Marxian Wedemeyer that the class theory of ing the law of gravity because accepted among the broadest workIn permitting the general exCaffery as they did yesterday with the Grau government by a rightist revolutionist? At the least, the society had been discovered and balloon travels up and not down. ing class strata. They had implicit tension of the conservative unions Welles. At their head is old col block, manufactured by Cattery formulation of the most important formulated long before him by De Kadt takes next another er faith in the NRA.
it is hoped thereby to draw a line onel Mendieta, who bends his backfinds the proletariat in a defensivements and slogans which should be applied this theory to the further but against Lenin: Why must them sometbing else. The automotho Now practical experience teaches of division more effectively between observations, generalizations, state bourgeois scientists, that he Marx ample, this time not against Marx, loyally in the service of Yankee attitude. It is the duty of the reemployed and unemployed finance in the name of peace and volutionary vanguard to take carecisely because it concerns the vital carrying it to its final conclusion, gram the Soviet principle, since gret that there were no great dit system of which these union oiincorporated in the program pre development of capitalist society. we, he asks, accept in our pro bile workers learned to their reDit workers. The class collaboration.
is the omnipresent American am mediate task of the day is a fight bassador Batista with his iron without quarter against the fascist oriented, disappointed, groping proletariat. Lenin wrote his book that the Soviets were anything conference. The automobile manu become a more effective instrument hand, utilizing the ambassa laws and in defense of the con workers the answer to the burning state and Revolution. in which else than temporary (1. im. facturers and President Roosevelt. to check the unemployed and keep dor for the impwsition of his designs quests won such as the eight hour questions of our perlod. At least he clarified this fundamental Marx Browse che ne formes sont organization to rethe range the thitis, specie de entend them in subjection.
on the country. Camp Columbia day in all industries rules today inore effectively than tles, which will assume thodox Marxists.
gigantic Force for Union Organization non ortbolox revisionist fog of ately prior to and immediately afspiking the automobile workers in Grau days. Ulsiceno is in the proportions in the sugar mills, it is not so, however to, to de Kadt. Kautsky, Otto Bauer, etc.
ter the struggle for power. The strike for a union, at least for the But intent is one thing, the realll alace; Colonel Mendieta relgas possible to build more firm resist. He approaches the problem in Now comes de Kudt with his idealist and metaphysician is not time being. And since then the ties of life may be another. With but does not govern.
and inclined to attribute to the Soviet President appointee on the automo the first steps toward a turn in the unce for the beginning of greater purely individualistic, subjective, right to a point of view The liquidation of the Grau gov struggles by the union organiza anletante fashion.
For him it is makes plain to us for instance prineple any great importance, for bile labor board cooperated consist business cycle the economic pressernment is complete. It is our task ions. realistic acquaintance with not a question of formulating det on the dictatorship of the proletar soviets are nothing more than ently with the manufacturers to sure upon the workers increased en now to draw up a balance sheet for our past acts and methods are enite ideas, but of reserving the lat: Nothing of this sort exists at temporary forms of organization stall the movement further inti ormously and rapidly. That itself the Culun proletariat, indicating sential in guiding our future revo right to present the lessons to be drawn froin the lutionary activity.
point of view in the future. The ship is realzed only through the mediately prior to and immediately disorganize its attempts to get ac union organization. The workers tragic experience with the pretty entered the unions in masses but Translated from Rayo. organ question of program is however not socalistic portion of the proletariat after the struggle for power. We tiot.
for quite different objectives than bourgeois rulers. These lessons Unionism the Issue of the Bolshevik Leninist Party a question of right. What needs to and what is more, non proletarians Marxists are not at all set upon fnwill be of value in future battles.
of Cuba be presented is the point of view participate in it too. In other cluding in our program eternal, words, it is not a matter of the everlasting values; we are satis NRA experiences so far the main standard of living Throughout the whole of the those intended by the NRA. For he them it was a matter of regaining Position of the Bolshevik Leninists From the very first days of Septrule of a like minded group, a gath like Soviets, which and de Kadt concerns the question of union orAnd while today the masses from ember, we Bolshevik Leninists said that the insurrection of September socialism. Thus we see that not the seizure and maintenance of in the automobila industry, tumor dock into the existing unions, at hud a profound revolutionary conclasses decide in history but ideas. power by the proletariat. So far row it will come to a head in other the same time, due to the changes tent. The very technique employed, bringing the intervention of the The greatest issue since the Civil Indiana. Although he has been an respecting person must safeguard We are willing to grant the right is created by the New Deal pro ulations begin to impose severe reIt follows therefore that every self. that is completely sufficient for us industries. Everywhere the mechan in the business cycle, the NRA ressoldiers and classes, and the dema War has been brought into the educator for several decades, the his right to ideas. De Kadt counto De Kadt and his co thinkers Ingram, the industrial codes, the lastrictions upon them. Resentment bourgeois of the Junta of Five devedesetions Randable. are one to undertake to educate the learned a through and through idealistical form of organization; first however schemes, appear in operation as opes, or it is difused by the var measures thut might have made Wirt to the Houes Committee on Stalin who supplanted Kerensky, tory. dozen lines suffice for him temporary soviets and to conquer ment within definitely laid out this can succeed only in postponing possible the broadening out of the Interstate Commerce on Friday, the New York Times informa Dr. to break from the fundamentals of power.
revolutionary movement. We af March 23, 1984.
The issue is whe Wirt: no. it was Lenin.
channels. In that there is a speci the decision of what course the Marxisin.
Echoes of Bernstein firmed that the hegemoneous role ther the Brain Trusters are going The rethe function assigned to the rear working class will take.
The doctor must have been read.
of the petty bourgeoisie led the to succeed in their sinister Ideas and Classes sentment is bound to accumulate In this fashion could take up Lionary trade union leaders.
soverument to an indecisive policy supplant the Kerenskian Roosevelt Ing the Daily Worker.
We poor orthodox ones believe the whole article sentence by sen During the crisis the general and is due to be let loose in a serof zigzags. The ascendant march with an American Stallo, or shall in the investigation of this mo even today that not ideas determine tence to prove that excepting for wage standard had become vastly les of explosive class battles. The of the Revolution, the formidable Liberty prevail.
mentous Bralu Trust problem it the fate of society but classes; that meaningless platitudes de Kadt reduced, as was the standard of longer they are postponed the more strike struggles of the proletariat Through a series of machinations might be interesting for the sake social ideas as the old, wiso Ital article consists only of horrible living for the working class as a turbulent the explosions will be.
forced the Government to aggres a resolution is to be engineered 12 of science to peer into Wirt cere ian Antonio Labriola said do not mistakes against the fundamentals whole. How to maintain this eriya Unions at Crossroads sive acts against the bourgeoisie the United States by the members bellum to determine whether the tall from heaven, but give expres of Marxism. De Kadt never men level or keep near as possible to The conservative unions will be and imperialism. This did not ex of the Brain trust. Legislation to of his appointment to school sion to immediate or historie inter tions the lights that have given him level while advancing com at their crossroads. Recently they clude, as we suid u hundred times, thwart the recovery program is to superintendent in the Steel Trustests of classes. The Idea of so inspiration. Certainly they are not modity prices in order to restore have had a big Influx of proletarrepression against the proletariat, be introduced, the government is town of Gary colncides with the cialism is the theoretical expres Marx, Engels and Lenin. But in his the profit luducement and finally setians from the heavy Industries.
and even barbarous acts, against to assume the operation of indus day his brain ceased operation. sion of the historic trend of the latest, revisionist revelations we the wheels of industry into motion, Their composition is being transwhich we should always fight. try and banking, and the press to the plot of the Brain Trusters, proletariat coordinated with the find only echos of Bernstein, of the this was the problem which the formed. In that same measure the The correct position of the van be prevented from protesting by shrouded in the darkest mystery, logical development of capitalist German Neo Kantians and also of owners of capitalist monopoly con general working class interests will guard of the working class hinges threatening it with measures which might remain unsolved, and what society. The relation between class the Austro Marxists. And all that cerns set out to solve in their reor become more directly reflected within the unions. The more this on an understanding of a situation, compelther unvarnished truth 10 is of greater concern, succeed, dia and idea is not mechanical but should serve for the setting up organization for recovery.
The class attains sell the program of the New Interna Peaceful class relations would be is held back the more the resentditioned by living reality, and had ment is ripe, Roosevelt is to be revidual who sees deepest and lowest consciousness not through revelational? Oh no! De Kadt will have the main prerequisite. Restlessness ment will accumulate within the to follow the ascendent rhythm of placed by a Brain Trusting Stalin, Into such plots. Hamilton Pish aption but through difficult struggle to look for some different applica from the millions of unemployed unions.
the revolution Patriots to the Defense pears on the scene. Everything which takes also the form of an tion for this.
had to be allayed, actual convul. At the same time every collision The Fight for Revolutionary Juntas Menaced by this Insidious and becomes transparent. It this internal struggle within the prole Our critie is very harsh with reslons ensuing from their desperate with the NRA code regulations and subversive conspiracy, striking like way: There are twelve Brain tariat itself. So by your leave gard to Bolshevism, even the gen position had to be prevented. Some every contlict with the state forces, To ardently continue the work of snake in the White House bosom Trusters who are Socialists, be our struggle against centrism is an ine Lenin. He does not want to measure against a resurgence of which are now much more integratregrouping the proletariat, to exact from men trusted by the President, cause they belong to an organiza important component part of the Idealize it. That is not at all labor militancy had to be found. ed with the economic organs of from the petty bourgeois Govern all Washington has been agitated tion which is closely affiliated to struggle of the working class for necessary. But what de Kaqt says But the general levelling process by capitalism, be reflected within ment the fullfillment of its own like shivering gelatin. All patri the Communist movement in the self knowledge. It is demagogie program (Revolutionary ots have sprung like a man to the United States. This organization inevitable on Leninism is truly lamentable. which the formerly privileged the unions in collisions between the tribunals, the distribution of land, defenses. What to be done?
We are faced here not with princ skilled sections became further re rank and file workers and the rethe Constituent Assembly, etc. to 1s (beware, Hamilton knows all The Austrian Constitution ipled criticism but with distorted duced, let the conservative cupions, actionary officials. To the extent Let get out the Aring squad, the American Civil Liberties Union tight for the constitution of Revolu demands Senator Schall, Republl. Now we know. It looks very much The new Austrian Constitution, relations, false, personal estima these skilled crafts, almost entirely selves, in objectives, in policy and tionary Juntas, as a step to the or can, of Minnesota. It may be an like Roger Baldwin is behind the according to recent press dispatch tions etc. Refuting all this would, out of the picture.
in organization forms and methods, ganization of Soviets, and at the ancient custom, he says, but we whole conspiracy.
same time carry on intensive work may have to revive under the es, is basing itself on the papal en without being of any great value. Role of Craft Unionism explosions will occur within them.
among the masses to prepare the New Deal.
Representative Foulkes of Mich cyclical issued by His Holiness, take up too much time.
It is suf. In the past their officials could But with that also a formidable latter for defense against the ag.
igan has his own opinion of the Pope Plus on May 15, 1981. ficient to establish here, that de be relied upon to uphold their end basis for new unionism will develop. It treason! exclaims Speaker matter. He says of Dr. Wirt: Hel There will be a legislative Kadt criticizes most severely the of the system of cooperation with gression of the Government, such. ARNE SWABECK.
were the tasks set for itself by the Rainey. The matter should be in is either a faithful servant of the chamber composed of 50 delegates system of Lenin Trotsky, in or capitalism. They had been able to Bolshevik Leninist Party.
vestigated by the Department of sinister forces of predatory wealth all elected by State oficials and the der to attach himself to the system turn the conservative craft untons ORDER BUNDLE OF MILIJustice.
or consummate ass.
church. The duties of the legisla of Tranmael. Hand in hand into an instrument to hold the rest TANTS ONE CENT PER COPY.
We continued to maintain that of Why can he be both?
ture will be limited to accepting with the Norwegian social demo such tacties would maintain the Representative Bulwinkle movement on the upgrade, and as North Carolina demands a Congres or rejecting measures submitted by cracy which is only the diluted edi the government.
tion of Austro Marxism de Kadt)
Just off the Press!
result the Government would soon sional investigation, Wirt to be Correspondent Gedye, of the wants in a revolutionary manner pass from words to compromising summoned before a special commitTimes, summed up the situation as to reconstitute the International acts. The day would come when tee and the Brain Trust to be put CLASS IN TRADE UNION follows: Other autocracies, even working class movement. on the the cowardly petty bourgeoisie under the spotlight.
PROBLEMS The Brain Trust should be inHitlerism, preserve the outward basis of principles which will be would have to turn against the form however worthless it is in revealed to us only later.
BY masses. The entire effectiveness of vestigated. There can be no obour tactics lay in that we insistedjections to such a probing into the Every Wednesday P.
practice of a popular vote. In the We do not want to dispute anyon making use of this period to give gray matter of these intellects who International Workers School new Austrian autocracy general one right to a distorted point elections find no place in the con of view. But to the Dutch workers the workers the force necessary for believe that juggling the letters of This course takes in a survey of stitution.
we want to say with full convicfurther advance.
the alphabet is going to make us the history and development of The Dollfus government has also tion: To build a party on the phil5c But stupidity and the inability to all prosperous.
the American labor movement, issued a decree that anyone is liable osophy of de Kadt is to build on understand is characteristic of Wm. Wirt from Gary to detention in a concentration sand. Beware of doing so; build 3c in bundle orders of and more Stalinism. Devold of any critical The author of all these hair and problems of strategy and camp for an indefinite period mere on Marxian granite!
judgment of reality, they launched raising sensations is Wm. Wirt, tacties.
ly on suspicion of having worked TROTSKY. PIONEER PUBLISHERS, 84 East 10th Street, New York Oity, the slogan of Soviets as soon as the superintendent of schools in Gary, Instructor ARNE SWABECK for a forbidded political party. March 10, 1934 «BRAIN TRUST» CONSPIRACY us to Accuse Stalinism!
MARIA REESE