The Real Moscow Defendant Hippodrome Meeting INTERNATIONAL LABOR LETTERS TO THE EDITOR SOCIALIST APPEAL March 12, 1938 Kerensky, will hardiy condemn Stalin SOCIALIST APPEAL only in order to exchange him for the Vol. II. No. man and the system that were kicked Saturday, March 12, 1938 Published every week by the into oblivion by the revolutionary masses SOCIALIST APPEAL PUBLISHING ASS of Russia in November 1917 703 EUR For it was under Kerensky that the An Editorial at 116 University Place, New York, first big frame up a la Stalin was launchTelephones: Local Orice: Gramercy 9142 ed against the Bolsheviks. It was KeIn an editorial statement last week, How Not to National Office: Algonquin 8547 rensky who sought to besmirch and exFight War, we pointed out the futility, and worse, Subscriptions: 00 per year: 00 for terminate the party of Lenin and Trotsof the dangerous course embodied in the Thomas Lovemonths. Foreign: 50 per year. Bundle order ky by bringing the latter to trial on the stone pacitist movement which they call Keep America cents per copy. Single copies cents.
charge of being German spies. In fact, Out of War.
All checks and money orders should he made Trotsky and Lunacharsky were actually The Hippodrome mass meeting of this movement on out to the Socialist Appeal.
imprisoned by Kerensky on that infa March 6, completely confirmed our analysis. The two Entered as recond class matter September.
mous charge, and Lenin and Zinoviev chief speakers whose addresses went out over the radio, 1927 at the post office at New York, New York, were compelled to go into hiding to esSenator LaFollette and Major General Wm. Rivers, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
supplemented by Homer Martin, symbolized the meetcape Kerensky counterpart of Stalin MAX SHACHTMAN What Kerensky is really imbued ing and set the tone for it. And the tone of the meeting, with, therefore, is envy of Stalin because as described in the report elsewhere on these pages, Editor.
HAROLD ROBERTS of the latter murderous success in acwas patriotism.
FRANK GRAVES complishing what Kerensky tried and The working class is patriotic to its own class and Associate Editors.
BOR BROWNE failed to do.
its own class interests. Patriotism to the fatherland, There is no tragedy, it is said, withwhen it is owned and controlled by the capitalist class, Business Manager.
out its humor. The Kerensky visit has a its interests. The working class can be patriotic to its its humor, too. It is supplied, morhidly Advance Information! by his whilom admirer and present dav country only when it has a country, which means, simply, hireling of the Kremlin despot. Mr.
when it has taken over power and rules the nation. Revelations at the Moscow trial reJ. Olgin. Writing on Kerensky visit The most extreme, and consequently the most congarding plots by alleged Trotskyists to in the Daily Worker (March 8, 1938. sistent expression of crepitalist patriotism was Majorundermine China resistance to Japan Olgin says: General Rivers speech. At bottom, it was the most were predicted here today by the Chinese After the (Petrograd Bolshevik)
logical expression of that pacifism which characterizes Communist daily Hsin Hua Jih pao. The demonstration, he (Kerensky) wrote in the whole Thomas Lovestone movement. Rivers made paper says the trial will show the alleger! a radiogram broadcast To All. it perfectly clear that he differs from the outspoken plotters were following the orders of It has been established definitely war jinyons and biy navy people only on technical the Japanese to assist the conquest of that the disorders in Petrograd were orgrounds. They believe more armaments are needed for China. Thus reads a Hankow dispatch ganized with the participation of Cer defense. and what bandit state ever went to war to the New York Times on March man government agents. The leaders for any other reason except defense. General Rivers Last week we exposed the frame up believes that the present armaments level of the United machinations of Stalin G. directed selves with their brothers blood, with States is high enough for defense. Defense of what?
the crime against the Fatherland and the or the 48 United States and of toward the discreditment and exterminAmerica imperialation of the revolutionists organized in Revolution, are being arrested.
ist position throughout the world. If this gentleman the Communist League of China, Chinese Kerensky radiogram of 1917 sounds is a qualified spokesman for the Keep America Out section of the Fourth International.
of War Committee, the latter should by all means inword for word like an excerpt from the Wang Ming (Chen Shao yi. agent of Vyshinsky announcement of a new trial vite the Republican Party minority of the House Naval the in Hankow, was evidently against the Trotskyist agents of fasAffairs Committee, who also oppose the Roosevelt naval tipped off on a coming China Japan cism. Actually, Stalin is simply plagiprogram.
Trotskyist angle of the macabre frame arizing the terms and methods of the Homer Martin, who has been exploiting the genuinely up trial of Old Bolsheviks now proceed bourgeois reaction, and its frame up sysanti war sentiments of the auto workers, shouted his ing in Moscow. But what stupidity to fem. as exemplified in his time by Mr.
readiness to shed the last drop of his blood in defense tell the whole world about it in advance! Kerensky.
of the United States against invasion. Again we ask: On March 5, the day after receipt What imperialist state ever went to war without claimThe choice between Kerensky and of the Hankow dispatch (which was ing defense from invasion. dated March 4) the contours of StaStalin is the choice between the wrerkMartis and Rivers, each in his own way, are imbuing age of a politician trying to drag him.
lin frame up of the Chinese Fourth self out of history garbage can and a the masses with the reactionary spirit of capitalist Internationalists began to emerge in the is. politician, still at the top, but destined totalitarian courtroom in Moscow. just as surely for the discard.
that is the essence of middle class pacifism, which al Christian Rakovsky is testifying to a. ways played such a lamentable and treacherous role conversation which he alleges he had the minute imperialist war actually broke out.
with a highly placed individual in Nailed Again Editor, Socialist Appeal: political science. The attitude of of Marxism, if they are to pro The fact that the lavestoneite representative at the Tokyo in 1934. This individual (unYour tactless treatment of the your reviewer towards literature gress.
meeting was in this pacifist mudhole with both feet, in the last issue of the Appeal w: Partisan Review (see Socialist is the authoritarian attitude named, of course) said to Rakovsky: Many intellectuals in their reonly emphasizes the perfidious role of the Lovestone We are aware that you are a very close Appeal, December 5, 1937) was under which bureaucratie despot vulsion against Stalinismi enterdevoted considerable space to a critical group. It supplies the radical coloration for a fundanot well calculated to win the ism grows. Uncorrectect it would tain the notion that the interests friend and adherent of Mr. Trotsky. analysis of the new Keep America ou mentally patriotic gathering and movement. As for artisan Review over to our po reviuee us to Staline que depths of revolutionary culture and lemust ask you to write him that a cer of War movement, started by the love litical position. You dealt only John Wheelwright. volutionary palities are funda Norman Thomas, his part in this sorry affair is best tain government is dissatisfied with his storeites and the Altman Thomas Social with the first four and the last mentally incompatible and anti med up in the fact that he led the applause for the articles on the Chinese question and also ists, and officially launched last Sunday three pages of the magazine. InOUR REPLY gonistic, and that a revolutionary REW Messiah of the anti war movement, La Follette.
with the behavior of the Chinese Trots at a mass meeting in the Hippodroma ternal evidence showed that even Our December article on the socialist party must bright all The Hippodrome meeting only serves to emphasize kyists. We have a right to expect of Mr. reported elsewhere in this issue Our this treatment was cursary, Partizan Review has evoked retouches. In these ideaz they ra. again that an anti war movement divorced from the Trotsky a different line of conduct. Mr. statement declared this movement, Where the artisan Review fell joinders from its editors and se semble, in their own sphere of working class struggle against capitalism the system Trotsky himself should understand what founded on outworn pacifist notions ani short of a revolutionary line on veral comrades who believe that activity, those anarcho syndica! at the root of imperialist war is a snare and a delusion.
a certain government needs. There is having nothing in common with the re letters the Appcal did not rrect the interests of revolutionary ists who resent and reject in united movement of the working class against the no need to go into details, but it is clear volutionary struggle against war (which Marxism is a guide culture are best served if its principle the interference, ic war danger is proper and necessary, but it is a movethat to create an incident in China would means the class struggle against capitalto act practitioners remain independent the activity, of revolutionary sa nent coomed in advance if it stands on the foundation ha desirable ground for being able to ism. to be a device for the deception disciplines because its aid is in theory or in practice.
which prevails over other cut of revolucionary politics, either in cialists in the trade union. capitalist patriotism and its middle class pacifist deSuch ideas and attitudes have ir tervene in Chinese affairs. Daily and disorientation of the people, above dispensable to the creative ima fenders.
nothing orker, March in common with a all the workers.
The artisan Review protest Ver dear children, it is all so perfectWe pointed out, too, that no one rej. Imagination guides in itical and that the Appeal, by equating in. ism. Just as we combat the re difference with ly clear: The government of imperialist independence, and activities of revolutionary Shachiman Heard esenting the revolutionary position of Lion Japan being unable you all know, to MARXIST SCHOOL lands us in pure aestheticiam, is the Socialist Workers Party (Trotskyentirely amiss. We criticized the of the interests of the organized sialists in jure the adement pirate its own incidents in China, was Charges Negligence ists) was asked to participate in the Partisan Review. not for ind obliged to turn to Trotsky and the Chi. March meeting and that the suggestio. By failing to review the body ference towards polities in gener workers, so we deny that they The Third International, foundroop Trotskyites. Thus, you understand, of one committee member to invite an of the magazine from this gen al, but for an indefens hic in must necessarily harm the most ed nineteen years ago this month, Trotsky and his Chinese followers are eral standpoint, the Appeal difference towards revolutionary the contrary we hold that they meeting of members of Leal 69 at the Marxist School every speaker for the meeting was viNEW YORK. capacity is the subject of critical analysis the ones responsible for the Japanese invasion of China. that is, if you believe gorously rejected. Furthermore, we drew was negligent. Furthermore, the labor politics. That is not pure are not discordant in principle (Dress Pressers) of the Inter Wednesday evening, at 8:45 review was anonymous, and aestheticism, but impure, e. and can be harmonized in practice national Ladics Garment Worker On March 23, Joseph Carter, attention to the fact that the organizers fairy tales thus partaking of the character inconsistent and of the movement had calmly signed to incompleto, of an editorial, involves our Party Marxism.
Union listened intently on March will consider the background and But who nowadays believes fairy their program the names of all those tales?
in a statement of general policy to a lecture by Max Shacht proceedings of the Third Conwho had for one reason or another To Socialists towards workers in the arts and Present rogram man, editor of the Socialist Ap gress of the International, 1921.
agreed to sponsor the meeting some sciences.
The following letter, addresse peal on Dictatorship and Demo This will be followed at succeedhow, in the great majority of cases, forThe editors partially acknow by Norman Gilbert to members cracy, after the chairman of the ing sessions by a study of the It is a bad statement of a bad ledge the cogeney of our arcu Mr. Kerensky Comes To Town getting the one detail of consulting the policy, indistinguishable from ment by presenting their politics of the Socialist Party in Penn hocalha de exposed befario made later congresses. the development Mr. Alexander Kerensky has come sponsors about the call to which their is even more opportunistic. You write is the program of Marxing no real forces of their own dissuade members from attend versus Trotskyism. the politics to town for a speaking tour. The former names were signed.
Prime Minister of the Provisional GovOrson Welles, Broadway actor, was should be open to the best pro means being for the revolutonZam clique are apparently sock Shachtman made his present the forces and prospects for the crnment of Russia fore the Bolshevik apparently one of those signed up with of Jiterature, re Revolution, is very indignant and morttress their feeblenens tion so lucidly and forcefuily Fourth International, out being consulted. Up bobs the Stal gardless of the political views of dry overthrow of capitalist 30 by claiming that Gilbert, a well that no one left until after the On Wednesday. ally outraged. He is especially incensed inist Daily Worker on March 4, the day their authors. But a revolution and for international orientation known militant, is in their camp. speaker had replied to the numer: 7:00 Bily Morgan, labor over the last Moscow trial and feels that following the appearance of the Socialist ary organ must pay regard to in contemporary terms it implies his democratie sensibilities have been Appeal, with the charge that Welles ac its authors polities if it is to help the struggle against capita ise To Members of the Pennsylvana Many were the expressions: Best secretary. Local New York, Sooffended. Like so many other democSocialist Party: cuses the Trotskyist Committee of the in the understanding of Marx in all its modern guises and s Dear Comrades: cialist Workers Party, conducts lecture we ve had.
ratic hacks, he is trying to restore some March Anti War Meeting, to be held This response was evoked by the course in Problems of the ism. The politics of writers is gaises, including bourgeois demoof his woefully faded prestige by referin the Hippodrome, of forging his name to a letter sent to Broadway actors, pro Yet you are wrong in saying. social democracy. Stalinism. attention that a paper is being democratie and dictatorial, and 7:00 Marxian Economics, one guide to excellent writing. cracy, fascism, and reformism It has just been brought to my the apt presentation of the re Trade Union Movement. Other cords of the capitalist powers, courses include: Elementary Soence to the horrors of Bolshevik dicta Politics dominates everything cialism, Hal Draper, Monday torship.
ducers and playwrights, calling upon We are not, as is known, among those them to attend this meeting. The bold in our world, including literas forward from their previous to the Socialist Party, wherein over their systems of alliances the John Wright, Tuesday 7:00 ture. Politics is not the modern tal silence on the subject. But my signature an represented experiences of who believe that support of the Russian headline reads: Welles Accuses Trots destiny, as Napoleon said it was; these admirable ideas, whics as indorsing the Altman Thomas themselves during the last worl Principles of Revolutionary Revolution and the leadership of Lenin kyists of Forging Name to Meeting por, as Blake said, does Empire coincide with our own remien Zam clique and retaining men war; and pertinent analogies de Socialism, Maurice Spector, 8:45 makes necessary an endorsement of the monstrating the shallowness and Which is just the sort of thing one has underties all culture Literature, between heaven and caith. Haviny want at this time to make falsity of the arguments of the sions for any course is twenty.
Admission for individual sesdreadful atrocities committed by the counter revolutionary regime of Stalin to expect from the long practised forg politics, science, etc. respond au explicitly rejected ideas and it perfectly clear to every one Stalinists and social democrats.
five cents. Classes are held at and Co. Quite the contrary. But especi ers of the Daily Worker, who take their The many questions put by sotonomously, each retarded, each organizations of the Second and concerned that when the above 116 University Place, New York ally those who have not forgotten the orders from the world greatest forger advanced by the other. Such po Third Internationals, will the mentioned clique rode rough sha al democratic workers gave City.
history of the short lived rule of Mr. in Moscow!
litical Philistinism as yours, editors of the Partisan Review, over every principle of party do to show, on the basis of the workShachtman further opportunity would attract only third rate who remind us that Marxism is mocracy, violating the party coners own experiences in the union This splendid issue of the writers.
WANTED not only a theory but a guide to stitution, expelling those memand in strikes, and their expermonthly organ of revolutionary Stalinist Depths?
action, descend still further from bers who upheld it, thereby preBack Numbers of the Appeal Marxism is on sale at the office of the New International, 116 Above all, protest your con heights and tell their readers, and disgraceful betrayal of the the Socialist Workers Party is their mist wrapped Olympian paring the way for a shameless onces with their leadership, that Vol. No. International has just come off Revolution, being a document City, and all branches of the So Muence of political science in think of the ideas and wheregte nimey man Browder Wall Street and Russian Revolution and of revo Vol. No. the press. Included among its from the archives of the revolu cialist Workers Party.
Comrades having copies of contents is a review entitled literature or of political events tion of the Fourth International support of La Guardia in the New Sutionary working class internathese issues which they do not tionalism in this country, York elections, switched my sup.
Comrade Wheelwright main ort to those comrades who uphela of Gene Debs.
Burnham need or which they are preSome Union hy the editors, an Prospects for the Development VANGUARD GROUP to this, prefer the empirical be kept wholly free from the in Compromise, No Political Trad. et a membership card in the new political machines upon literature contention that literature must the time honored position of No am now the proud bearer discusses pared to donate, please send article on The Crisis and the of a Labor Party in the United them in immediately. They Bankruptey of the Liberals by States, while Arne Swabeck Sunday, March 13, 8:30 cial reality. Political machines are needed to complete the Dave Cowles, and an article on writes on The Trade Unions in ly formed is, in our opinion, a dangerous ing.
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