December, 4, 1937 SOCIALIST APPEAL Partisan Review: Revolt Against With The Party Stalinism Among The Intellectuals This week we salute the appearance of a new literary collaboration in a common work. Kansas City Local Endorses Chicago Rank magazine of the left under an old name: the Partisan Is it not strange that the two and File Convention mutually Review. Originally an off spring of the John Reed Clubs should be considered incompatible and hostile? For The Kansas City, Missouri, disregarded by the and under the bureaucratic despotism of the Communist this misconception, as for many local of the Socialist Party has Whereas: the result of this has Party apparatus, the Partisan Review has undergone a others prevalent among the ra come out solidly for the Left been to split the party and to metamorphosis. It has declared its independence of the dical (and ultra radical) intellect Wing and will send delegates to allow it to leave the path of the nals, the corrupting influence of the Chicago convention on Dec. class struggle (as in the recent Stalinists and their literary policies and struck out upon have another end in view. They Stalinist authoritarianism is res. 81. In a letter sent to us, the New York election disgrace)
and Whereas: the rank and fee of its own. Since to break open e. neutral and indifferent, not boration do not matter so much following resolution for publica the party has the inalienable Once the tion: right and duty to determine its ly, clearly, cleanly with toward politics in general, but as its real content.
own and the party destiny, Stalinism is the primary only toward the revolutionary necessity of joint work is repolitics of the labor movement. cognized, it will be easy enough to Resolution of Kansas City Local Therefore Be It Resolve that condition of progress in any Is it not exceedingly anomalous find the most fruitful conditions of the Socialist Party we endorse a convention of the for collaboration.
sphere of the radical move for a revolutionary Marxist maWhereas: the National Execu Chicago on December 31, 1937 to rank and file to be opened in ment and requires not a little gazine to proclaim above all its Cannot Be Indifferent tive Committee has separated it determine the future patties of backbone, we can only con independence. of revolutionary self from the members of the the party.
In any case, the editors of the Socialist Party by disregarding gratulate the editors of the Marxist politics. Partisan Review cannot remain the dictates of the rank and file (Signed) Socialist Party, new venture upon their bold But, the editors may protest, true to their revolutionary Marx and by expelling party members Kansas City, Mo. Hara, Secretary.
decision and wish them we wish to be independent. not ist aspirations and remain indif for expressing differences of in regard to revolutionary politics, ferent to living politics. Politics opinion within the party, and The resolution adopted at well.
but only in regard its organizthe last meeting of the local with ed political expressions. Unfor including literature. In order to cease these expulsions and this one. Funds are being raised for ominates everything in our world.
Whereas: repeated demands to all votes of those prezent, except Significant Step tunately, in real life, the two are survive, progress, and become a gagging of the party have been the delegates.
inseparable. Revolutionary politics real force in literature. no less This divorce of a talented group does not exist in vacuo, but among than in politics, it is necessary of radical intellectuals from living groups of people, bound not to turn one back upon pot define Attempt to Split Rochester Party Fails bers of the younger generation Moreover, revolutionary Marxist tending ideas and forces. Not in tempt of the LaGuardia Socialmost sensitive and searching mem organized into political parties. litical questions, but clearly one attitude toward con ROCHESTER, The at sulted in a complete flop.
can no longer live in the poisoned politics did not begin yesterday. difference but intelligence; not ists James Lipsig and Hans chester upheld the expelled officAt its last meeting, Local Roatmosphere arising from the de. It has almost a century of deve anti politics but correct politics: Peters to split the Monroe County ers almost unanimously. The cay of that once virile movelopment behind it.
ment. They must break out of such is the Marxist approach to (Rochester) Local of the Social Right Wing reorganizers scoop Which one among the tendencies the problem.
that prison house of the Dead to ist Party has failed miserably. ed up all of two stalwarls for breathe fresh air and to make the ranks of the American work ienced the impossibility of ignor talist press the expulsion of roe County.
struggling for supremacy within The Partisan Review exper After announcing in the cap their lipe in the whole of Montcreative and independent revolu, tently expresses and fights for pearance of its first issue. No other leading officers, Lipsis and with regular party activity 46 Local Rochester is continuing tionary thinking and writing can the ideas, interests, and aims of sooner was its publication an Peters issued boastful press re before. Preparation are being flourish without police regula Socialism and most tions and restrictions. In the carries on the best traditions of nounced than the Stalinist press leases about their reorganiza made to send delegates to the struggle that has raged around Marxism? Which must be con campaign against the magazine organization activities have re Wing at the end of the month.
formidable lynch tion plans. Actually, their re Chicago, Convention of the Left year, a distinguished contingent volutionary movement? This ques. fear the consequences of this deThe Stalinists of advanced American intellectmals proved to be more alert to tion confronts the editors of the fection from the ranks of their Greetings From India the issues involved and more firm alone. They wish, however, to have already suffered heavily in Partisan Review, and not them intellectual sympathizers; they to their determination to fight evade Greetings to the First Conven the First Revolutionary Party of Stalinist rule of lies and terdirect answer to it.
the past year. No longer able to tion of the Revolutionary Social India under the Banner the zor than their less fortunately Two Wrong Views allow a hand breadth of inde ist Party of the Fourth International.
situated colleagues across the pendence to their followers, their May the independent workers Paat Schwalbe, Atlantic. The stand of the Parti The Partisan Review was grip upon the most critical and party the United States be the Calcutta, India, Nov. 10, 1937.
san Reviewers is a fresh mani founded, they say, precisely to honest among them is visibly true organizer of the working festation of the same healthy fight the tendency to confuse lite weakening. They must quaran lass. May it become the stimulat NEW CHALLENGE OUT rature and party politics. Not tine dissidents at all cost, and in ing force that will awake the The. December anti war issue According to its editorial ma all the confusion on this point every quarter. Thus the whole sleeping colonial of the Challenge of Youth is just nifesto, the Partisan Review however, is on the side of their frame up technique has been un countries. May it help to create off the press. Buy it now.
aspires to be revolutionary in antagonist. If the Stalinist sect limbered against the Partisan tendency and Marxist in charact arians are guilty of identifying Reviewers.
neffective riposte of the editorsary and artistic tendencies and er. The indispensable foundation literature and politics, the Partifor any kind of revolutionary san Reviewers are likewise culp these abominable and outrageous MacDonald sees as characteristic organ should be open to the best The answer of the editors to belong to the petty bourgeoise their mutual influence, we believe revolutionary literary Marxist organ, political, or trade able of ignoring, and thus denying attacks is, to say the least, woe of the New Yorker, rather than productions of livink literature, union, is a clear and correct po in practice, the close bonds bet. fully weak. The Daily Worker, to the polemical, militant charact regardless of the special political licy. One of the principal ques ween them. Their error consists among other things, assails them tions confronting the editors in mistaking sectarian politics as of the same ilk that murder 2r of Marxism?
ideas of their authors. secta révolutionary review is the re for politics in general. In reality, ed Kirov, that turned the guns Fills a Need arian policy in this sphere is ab lation between literature and no such thing exists as non on the backs of Loyalist civisolutely fatal.
politics, or, in thi Politics may lians concrete case, partisan politics.
pain and betrayed the The best critical and creative In axowing itself hospitable, the relationship between the be good or bad, correct or incor Army front line, that have been spirits among the younger ge experimental, democratic, the Pirtisan Review and existing rect, proletarian, non proletarian, caught red handed in plots with jeration, imbued with revolution Partisan Review has et its foot revolutionary tendencies. What or antiproletarian, but never non the Gestapo and Japanese mili ary ideas and emotions and dis on the right road. But it is not answer do they give to this prob partisan.
tarists to dismember the Soviet gusted with Stalinism, have long enough to have a broad circumlem?
Both the Stalinist conception of Union. In a word as Trotsky wanted such a medium of expres ference; it is equally necessary The editors counterpose two the absolute subordination of lite ists. All this merely proves, ac sion as the Partisan Review pro to have an ideological and polipolicies to each other. One is the rature to politics and the Partisan cording to the editors, the de poses to provide. This growing tical center from which all the Stalinist conception which equa Reviewers conception of its ab generative effect of imposing a company of writers and artists rest logically rauliates. Such the required for tes the interests of literature solute independence are one sided Party Line on Literature and, has hitherto lacked an organ free center of the with those of factional politics. and false. But there is a third what it is painful to us, as ra of the intolerable grip of the orientation nepakine imposes a party line on litera conception which bases itself upon dicals, to realize, the intellectual Stalinist Inquisition, whose fingers amongst the ideas and form of ture; and sets up a bureaucratic the interdependence of the two. bankruptcy of the Communist reach out in all directions our time, It alone can give chaboard of censors, armed with According to this conception, Party leadership. One is irresist strangle their talents. The new racter, strength, and direction to police powers, to enforce that which is, in our opinion, the cor ibly reminded of that brave review comes to fill a gaping hole its editorial policy and enable it Hime. They catégorically reject, rect Marxist position, there need husbandman, who shouted after in the radical cultural movement to become a genuine force avaong tihtig totalitarian trend of the be no discord between revolution a gang of bandits and assassins: Together with the editors of the the intellectuals of the rising re Stalinist commissars of culture, ary politics and revolutionary You have killed my wife, raped Partisan Review we oppose a a volutionary generation.
minous to the development of literature, but on the contrary, a my daughter, robbed my money, politically managed art and In breaking with Stalinin and living art and science. So far, 80 An depends upon establishing a don you dare touch my garden, should be the widest latitude for great opportunities and perspectWe believe that there launching upon a good.
But, in their revulsion against correct working relationship bet or will get mad!
experimentation and a complete ives are opened up to the Parisan the vicious ideas and praetices of ween them and their organized If an honest but misguided autonomy within their own field Review. Let it continue to eFarity Stalinism, the Partisan Reviewers expressions.
worker or intellectual voices such for the workers in the arts and ts ideas along Marxist lines, and have swung over to the opposite What should be the nature of accusations, it is necessary to sciences. To allow free scope for these opportunities can be richly extreme. They aspire to inde this relationship? Not one of des. explain how false and vile they the struggle of contending liter realized.
pendence in politics as well as potism and servile dependence, as are. But when a pack of conse art. What precisely is meant the Stalinists demand, nor one of cienceless scoundrels in the ser by this. Obviously, they do not toplofty inditference, and aliena vice of the great corrupter and VILLAGE DANCE AND SOCIAL Intend to ignore the influence of tion, as the Partisan Reviewers destroyer of the Socialist revoluat Washington Square North (Dr. Luttinger s)
or present politics upon think necessary. The normal and tion contrives a frame up, it is natural relationship between a imperative to defend oneself with Dancing Dining Drinking ctitural productions. See the ar revolutionary Marxist cultural the utmost vigor and to expose Entertainment on a Large Scale Heles on Flaubert politics and organ and a genuinely Marxist the motives and real roots of this Picasso contributions.
Saturday Dec. 4tk, Admission. 25 They party should be one of fraternal villainy. Does not the timid and trend.
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