Page SOCIALIST APPEAL February 26, 1938 Fireside Chat GREEN LEWIS WAR HATE WAR ROOSEVELT effects of Marxism and Collective Security capitalism abroad which the defense of SOCIALIST APPEAL the Soviet Union calls for from the workVol. II. No.
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at 116 University Place, New York, It is the old anti Marxian dogma For Position in United Body Telephones: Local Office: GRamerey 9142 of Stalin, for it not only repeats the naNational Office: Algonquin 8547 tionalistic formula of a socialist utopia By JOHN ADAMSON Subscriptions: 00 per year; 00 for in one country alone, but even emphas70 months. Foreign: 50 per year. Bundle order izes the conception that the working class At the recent convention of the holding back the natioral build3 cents per copy. Single copies cents. abroad is reduced to playing the role, United Mine Workers of Ameri ing program which would ensure All checks and money orders should be made not of revolutionary internationalist adca, every reference to affiliation the return of prosperity. The Adout to the Socialist Appeal.
versaries of capitalism, but merely of with the of was strick ministration is maneuvering the Entered as second class matter September frontier guards patrolling the borders en from the constitution of the of Building Trades De miners organization. The Ex partment into the defensive po1997 at the post office at New York, New York, of the Soviet Union.
ecutive Council of the of Sition where the Building unions under the Act of March 3, 1879.
No revolutionary turn is possible on countered by expelling the Mine will be held responsible for the such a rotten foundation, and Stalin has MAX SHACHTMAN Workers from the Federation. stagnation of building work in made none.
Editor.
The then announced that America. The Administration will Yet, the Stalin letter does represent it would persuade several thus be in a position to put an HAROLD ROBERTS FRANK GRAVES Associate Exlitor a revision of the official stand taken in of Internationals to affiliate ultimatum to the Building Trades the past not in 1926, but in 1935. Urozwith the body. The Ex unions to voluntarily accept BOB BROWNE henko, the local official who removed ecutive Council answered with reductions. In addition, all inBusiness Manager, Ivanov from his post for referring to the threat that it would launch dustry is poised, waiting breathStalin 1926 formula, argued. Comrade an organizing campaign among lessly for the signal from any Stalin said this in 1926, but we are now the coal mining, metallurgical one of America major concerns and flat glass workers. Does this to embark on a general campaign LEON SEDOFF in 1938; at that time we did not have furious exchange signify the end of wage cuts and union busting.
final victory, but now we have it and of the unity negotiations and the Both the of and.
We lower our banner over the open there is now no need for us to worry declaration of a new war to the are entering the new pe.
grave of Leon Sedoff, stainless soldier at all about intervention and restorafinish?
riod with reduced incomes and in the war for the liberation of the dis tion.
No, the battle of words bet with their own hands full, trying inherited.
Whereupon Stalin observes in his reween the and the to hold together their union To his grief stricken parents Leon of will probably never to memberships and preserve the Trotsky and Natalia Ivanovna Sedoff, ply to Ivanov: Comrade Urozhenko translated into action.
assertion can be explained only by his new present conditions in their own whose daughters Nina and Zinaida were failure to understand the surrounding SECRET fratricidal war between the two industries. Far from spending hounded to death several years ago by reality and his ignorance of the elementWAR organizations is extremely un huge treasuries on jurisdictionthe same unspeakable monsters in the likely. Here and there, in this al raids, both unions fear a conary propositions of Leninism, or by the PLANS Kremlin who have buried the fourth of or that particular locality, the certed drive on the part of the empty boastfulness of a conceited young present conflict may be mitigat open shop employers to cut to their children, Sergei Sedoff, in a prison bureaucrat. Bravo! It could not be put ed or aggravated according to ribbons the gains won by the or a grave we send a deeply felt mes more exactly. Only, in this respect, Urozthe local conditions, but the unions in the past two years.
sage of condolence, and of continued henko is simply one of the obscure rank.
launching of a new nation wide solidarity from comrades in arms who and file followers of the collectivity of battle between the two unions is Ranks Want Unitiy are more determined than ever to remain august personages, headed by Stalin practically excluded. Too many The membership, who feel the with them at the front lines of the himself, which, for the past three years, factors of major importance mistruggle for which Leon Sedoff gave his the crisis much more has been teaching him to make the argiHitate against such a step and, directly than the union officialife. ments he directed at young Ivanov. For as a matter of fact, are pushing doms, have grown tired of the Leon Sedoff was of the younger gewith inexorable force both orga jurisdictional squabble. They want it was no less solemn and responsible a neration of Russian Bolsheviks who re body than Stalin hand picked Seventh nizations onto the road of unif. unity. And they are becoming cation sisted the corrosive effects of Stalinist less interested in the Congress of the Communist Internationcorruption and disintegration. At the al in 1935 which not only declared that Drive Stopped final disposition of the posts, so first sign of bureaucratic decay of the socialism was possible in a single country long as the two organizations Workers State and the Third InternaFirst, the economic crisis has get together, put an end to the and that a classless socialist society had tional, he joined hands with the older brought to a halt the great or jurisdictional war and the battle already triumphed in the Soviet Union, ganizational drive of the 1o. of newspaper statements, and generation of Incorruptibles in the his but decreed that this triumph was alThe mass influx of new members preserve the industrial union toric fight for revolutionary internation ready final and irrevocable. From that has stopped for both the structure in the mass production alism. For fifteen of his thirty two years, moment till the hour of Stalin letter, and AF. of unions. The industries.
he stood steadfastly in the ranks of the the final and irrevocable victory of soBy JAMES BURNHAM strength and progressive cha The Roosevelt administration is Bolshevik Leninists, taking a leading cialism in the Soviet Union was a car.
racter of the over the a staunch supporter of unity betpart in the unremitting campaign they In their editorial notice pre it will; the same attitudes of matter, however unpleasant a folder and more conservative ween the two warring camps. In conducted, active in one country after Church, and woe betide the heretic who ceding the debate between Earl loyalty will keep support behind truth it may seem. Te capitalism unions of the Federation of Labor a normal period of history, an another, finally becoming one of the questioned it (as Ivanov has testified. Browder and Charles Beard. Both policies, moreover, by you obviously cannot get rid of went out and organized the mass would probably play one union founders and leaders of the Fourth InUrozhenko, like all other Good Believers, the editors of the New Republic hiding the true nature of war, war without getting rid of cap. production workers in steel, auto against the other one, and show ternational.
was simply repeating what the Seventh write: No more important sub of the government, and of italism. To divorce the struggle mobiles, rubber, textile the nerve preference, if anything, to the Selflessness, infinite devotion to the Congress in 1935 told him to repeat. ject is before the American imperialism in general, spread against war from the struggle centers of American economy. more conservative of cause, single minded attention to the Now, it appears, the formula dictated to people today than the struggle, unshakable firmness in prin the Congress in 1935 by Stalin can be ciple, boundless courage these were the explained in Stalin own language of foreign policy usually described people, and divert any genuine to give up the struggle against hardest driven and the most ex ministration, however, is no or by the alternatives of collective struggle against imperialist war was far as any possible effec ploited section of American labor. dinary capitalist government, characteristics of Leon Sedoff, faultless 1938 only by his (Urozhenko s) failure To attract them to unionism, it operating in a normal period of model of a proletarian revolutionist.
dreams.
to understand the surrounding reality security and isolation.
This simple truth is systema was necessary for the to history. It is rather, a bureauThe new generation of revolutionists The current hearings on the Even more fatal is the fact tically obscured by both the ig establish low dues and initiation cratic, home grown variety of a who pick up his banner will march for position of Leninism, or by the empty naval appropriation measure be that both of these policies, each norant and the conscious liars. Lees. One dollar monthly dues people from povernment covers ward inspired by his unforgettable exboastfulness of a conceited young bur fore the House of Representatives against war, serveterive morat their consciences wy feeling that prevail in all of the Co. ishly preparing for war and imample!
eaucrat.
unions. The initiation fee is twice perialist conquest. labor move.
Naval Affairs Committee are justification to the war when it they are working for peace. that amount.
The victory of the working class will Thus, while the Stalin letter does not The new unions ment divided into two hostile, similarly being conducted in the comes. This happens partly be but at the same time they do not were enabled to accomplish their warring sections is a luxury that avenge his untimely death!
represent a turn towards revolutionary light of this same alternative: cause, as the last war showed, wish to take the risk of working work and build up the proper or can only be afforded in times International is quite incapable of action. Every speaker who has ap publicly as the leaders of the persons we must say: Deliberate of the great number of workers sent volcanic period in American Stalin Letter complishing it does represent a sig: peared before the Committee opene support of the war as soon ing yourselves. Which do you in the very necessity of orga ed labor movement can be better and empty boastfulness of the Seventh supports, with whatever personal as it starts. The masses reason: really want. pesce or capital, nizing the masses of America, integrated within the machinery The much publicized letter of Joseph Stalin to the Young Communist League Congress formula.
modifications, one or another of If these men, who lead the fight ism? You cannot have both. If lay the strength of the of the capitalist state in the event Why? Why does Stalin, for the first these two policies.
member, Ivan Ivanov, has given rise for peace, support the war, then you are unwilling to give up ca: To a certain degree, that very of war.
time in years in three years at the very to a good deal of speculation about a new it must be a good war; and, even pitalism, then your pretended strength, has now become Beard and Browder, also, it it is not, we cannot oppose it fight for peace is a fraud, and a weakness, a The economic crisis No New Feud leftward swing of the Stalinist machine.
least suddenly remind his followers of throughout the course of their effectively without their help. fraud which alds no one but the has hit first the heavy industries the existence of such a force as the debate, assume that the choice is But these policies themselves war makers.
Superficial observers, especially those These important factors al. machinery, steel, automobiles most exclude the possibility towho have not read the letter, even see in working class in the bourgeois countries limited to these two policies, provide moral justification apart etc. The unions have day of a new feud flaring up it an abandonment of the hitherto cano. and of the Soviet Union need of the Neither of them makes any men from the men who advocate them. FEAR OF WORKERS thus felt the full brunt of the anew between the of serious support of this working class? tion of any third possibility. Each as, a lawless breaking of collectnized doctrine of socialism in one counEnch The war will be propagandized CHECKS WAR MAKERS try. Among the capitalist press, the Why is there not on single syllable de.
if he can refute the position of ive security, or a violation of of the workers, which hy fered a tremendous drop in inThe day by day class struggle various Internationals have sute and the o. They point, rather, to the inevitability withNew York Post, for example, which the voted to as much as a mention of the his opponent, then his own view neutrality and isolation; and thus strengthening the working class come. The and of the two bodies. How the posts in the next period of a unification gullible Daily Worker had hitherto praisfamous peace loving countries, of the equally famous democracies, of the is thereby proved.
ed as a liberal associate in the Popular the very fight for peace will is implicitly directed against ca have reduced their staffs Front crusade for Peace and Democ People Fronts. which have been re TWO POSITIONS seem to the masses to clemand pitalism, is thus a far more real to less than a quarter of the and honors will be divided is, of a war to enforce the peace poistic means of checking the war original size. The United Auto dict. That the basic principle of course, almost impossible to preracy, interprets the letter in a sense ferred to in thousands of official Stalin. FUNDAMENTALLY RELATED licy.
revealed by the sensational headline of ist documents as the great bulkwark of preparations than all of the pa mobile Workers of America, larg. industrial unionism for the mass cifism, isolation and collective est and most powerful of the new production industries will be preits front page editorial: Stalin Takes the Soviet Union, as the effective foe This should serve to indicate ANALYSIS OF CAPITALISM security ever imagined. Fear of unions, has removed every orga served that is assured.
Off the Mask. that is Stalin always was of anti Soviet interventionist fascism? that the two positions of collect ONLY TRUTHFUL ANSWER what the workers may do is the nizer from its payroll.
and still is in favor of international rev There is but one answer, and in it is ive security and of isolation, The recent bold exchange bet olution, and current communist utterA. Also Hit ween the Mine Workers and the contained the secret of the Stalin letter: in spite of the seeming contradie. Marxism, therefore, does not only real hindrance to the warExecutive Council tion between them, do in point answer collective security by an makers. They laugh at, and exis merely The whole People Front policy of the of fact share important features appeal for isolation. Marxism, paganda of isolation and collec. a more favored position, from a bloc of Hillman, Dubinsky and ances in favor of peace and democracy to their own ends, the pro. The of although in Lewis way of replying to the have been calculated only as a cover for Communist International has collapsed incendiary internationalism.
like the house of cards it always was!
in common. However great the bases its answer Stalin course has led not to strengthen they are in fundamental respecto a truthful analysis of the nature throw of capitalism itself is the feets of the economic crisis. The as much as they will he, Lewis, gap between them may appear, of war squarely and bluntly upon tive security In the end, however, the over not escaped the catastrophic ef organization that they may shout The truth of the matter is that, however significant the debated letter, it reing the defense of the Soviet Union, but alike.
presents no alteration whatsoever in the to consolidating world capitalism, to e two positions are alike, in other basis must lead to lies, il only conceivable means for stop metal trades and several other will not sell until he gets his fundamental nationalist policy of Stalin. isolating the Soviet Union to a greater the first place, in that neither Iúsions, or demagogy.
As the letter itself indicates, Stalin ar extent than has been the case for years, analyzes the actual cause of mo Marxism points out that so long will end war because socialism more than a third of their mem price is rather high the undis.
gued a dozen years ago in favor of the and to enhancing enormously the perils dern war. Both argue merely on a capitalism endures, wars will and it alone will root out the bers out of work and their in puted leadership of the American the surface, as it war were due come, that war under capitalism the socialist revolution, when the The building trades unions the Many more press statements following two propositions. 1) a class which face the Soviet Union today.
Jess socialist society could be established The pipe dream of a democratic capitalist Soviet bloc against the warwithin the confines of one country alone men, the effect of this or that ceptional event but an integral question is finally and fully under heart of the of organi. may be flashed across the headand by the efforts of the people of that loving fascist powers, is giving way law, or the success of some clever part of the very mechanism of stood, is the only anti war pro zation have, in addition, been lines and many more lighting bit of diplomacy.
capitalism. War is just as much gram.
singled out by the Roosevelt ad words spoken. But that is only country alone, regardless of the course before the eyes of the world to the rude They are alike, secondly, in a part of capitalism as are eco ANSWER TO WAR ministration, as the scapegoat, in the jockeying for position, the or fate of the working class movement, reality of the movement for a Fourthe drive to reduce wages. attempt to win hegemony within or the revolution, in the rest of the world Power Pact of the imperialists from proposing a solution for the home crises. You cannot have IS SOCIALIST REVOLUTION campaign is in progress to prove the united organization. In the but that (2) the final victory of this which the Soviet Union will be exclud mework of capitalism. Collective Fiodic erises and you cannot have. This does not mean that it is to the nation that the high labor end the boys will be forced to socialism, that is, guaranteeing it against ed and by which it will imminently security and isolation equally capitalism without periodically impossible for revolutionary so costs in the building trades aro get together.
foreign military intervention, required menaced.
presuppose the continuing exis Kaving wars. The causes which cialists to unite with others not the victory of the workers in at least In this international situation, the tence of capitalism.
bring about wars, the inescapable yet accepting their perspective several countries.
genuine defenders of the revolutionary Thirdly, they are alike in that need for every advanced capital. to further certain specific objectMARXIST SCHOOL In both these propositions, reiterated conquests represented by the Soviet Union cach offers as its solution a pro ist nation to attempt to expand ives. Both concrete actions, such in the latest encyclical, is contained a will once more be shown to be not the gram for adoption by the govern its markets. Eain cheaper sources as boycotts and demonstrations, NEWARK, ment of the United States: that of raw materials, find new outlets and even primarily agitational radical break with the theory of revolu spurious and flighty Friends of the tionary Marxism, of proletarian interna Stalin bureaucracy, but the militant to the war crisis a set of actions capital investment, can none of cific moves of the war makers The Progressive Workers School of Newark, New Jersey, tionalism. If anything, Stålin now goes working class of the world, acting inde to be performed by an imperial them be eliminated without eli. Withdraw all Armed opened its 1938 session at the Workers Educational Center, a step further by discarding his 1926 pendently as a class, and those revolu ist state.
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