2 THE REVOLUTIONARY AGE July 19, 1919.
olution for it was on that day in 1917 that CAF made work for death instead of life the Now to French Revolution as a great event.
Work Combined with The New York Communist November symbolizes the proletarian revNational Organ of the Left Wing Section the Russian proletariat conquered power.
Socialist Party Abuse and slanders are the portion of the normal occupation of peoples. It disorganized Louis FRAINA, Editor men and women of this Revolution; the whole EADMONN MACALPINE, Managir. Editor world of bourgeois privilege is arrayed against death. Capitalism did all these things in order industry, encouraged destruction and idealized the Soviet Republic, the Bolsheviki being stigOwned and Controlled by the Left Wing matized as beasts and assassins, precisely to promote the supremacy of Capitalism.
Section of the Socialist Party as during the French Revolution.
The terrible tragedy of the war was a proNATIONAL COUNCIL When the world accepted democracy, it reduct of the terrible tragedy of peace. Capitalism is latent war and destruction, becomJohn Ballam Ruthenberg versed the original opinion of the French RevMax Cohen ing actual and all consumming at a particular Benjamin Gitlow olution; when the world accepts the Com James Larkin Ferguson munist Commonwealth as it will the world moment. The necessity of war and destruction creates its own ideology: Capitalism Bertram Wolfe will reverse the prevailing opinion of the Rusmakes a litany to war and destruction necesI. Ferguson, National Seetarv sian Revolution, and greet it as the greatest event in all history, since it initiated the final sary to Capitalism but against life and peace.
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The Small Nations sacrifice, of honor and courage, of the finest in man. Work, in itself, was beautiful in the measure that it promoted war. It was necesBEFORE the Allies secured the services of sary to fight and destroy, argued Capitalism, Woodrow Wilson in creating an ideology for in order to realize one ideals.
the war, they conceived the war as a war to Union Bureaucracy But the workers did not realize any of their protect the small nations. But these nations were not protected at the Peace Conference, ideals during the war they simply realized WHEREVER militant labor gets in action, it being used by the great powers in making the death, agony and oppression. War was to the meets the antagonism of the bureaucracy of world safe for their Imperialism.
workers a tragic teacher; it taught them that the old unions. The American labor mu re Under the conditions of Imperialism, there ideals, but in a particular way. The masses it is necessary to fight and destroy to realize ment is familiar with the contemptible in can be no real independence for the small trigues of the of bureaucracy against nations; they may have their own governof Europe, accordingly, are restive; they have strikes, and particularly during the ments, but these must act in accord with the accepted the ideology of power; they propose great Lawrence strike of 1912, when the Imperialism of the great powers. The small to fight and destroy in the struggle against of officials did all in their power to Capitalism in order to realize their proletarian nations, moreover, become means for the break the workers struggle. This tendency ideals.
great powers directly to promote their own also characterized the recent general strike in predatory purposes.
But now Capitalism, realizing the menace Seattle.
New nations are being created in Central of its own teaching, is speaking piously against The union bureaucrats are particularly Europe. Poland, Czecho Slovakia, Jugowar and destruction. It now sings a litany against industrial. unionism, since industrial Slavia. and others are in prospect. No carving to peace and work.
unionism ends craft divisions and craft dis out these nations, the Allies have one general The statesmen of the world, until recently putes, which constitute the power of the union purpose: to erect a barrier against Bolshevik idealizing war and destruction, are now idealbureaucracy. In Canada, the One Big Union Russia. It works this way: the Allies decided izing work. In Italy, France, and England, in industrial unionism has captured the im that Soviet Russia should be crushed: accord the Socialist Republic of Germany and in agination of the organized workers. The ingly, they bargained with the Czechs that, the United States, the chorus now is: Cease One Big Union directed the great general in return for national independence, they your struggles, workers. We must have social strike in Canada; but, says an observer, the should fight against Soviet Russia. This peace. An end to destruction! In work alone International Brotherhoods have out bargain has been agreed upon also with Fin is our redemption.
against the strikers, shrewdly forseeing in the land. Now comes the news that the Allies Work is now necessary to Capitalism, as One Big Union the destruction of their orga have decided that Soviet Russia must be war was necessary for almost five years. The nization. This is a damning indictment of crushed, but they dare not send their own proletariat is always urged to do the thing the old unionism.
troops to do the dirty work; accordingly, an necessary for Capitalism.
One of the chief functions of the Commun agreement is concluded with Rumania and But this means work under the old condiist Party now in process of formation will Czecho Slovakia to fight the Hungarian So tions of peace, with the oppression of the be to wage unrelenting war upon the old viet Republic. The Allies control the world worker by the employer. There is not much union bureaucracy, to encourage and rally trade and finance and use this control to redemption in that for the workers.
the militant mass movements in these unions, coerce the small nations.
Struggle is necessary. It is necessary to to construct a revolutionary union movement.
Imperialistic France is developing a grandiose scheme for the domination of the construggle against oppression, against injustice, against the dominant class and its old order.
tinent of Europe. In fulfillment of this scheme July 14 November It is necessary to destroy this order of CapFrance is erecting a group of small nations in Central Europe which are under the diploma the struggle against Capitalism ends in the italism. Social peace is realizable only after JULY 14, symbol of the conquest of the tic and financial control of France, and which Bastille by the masses of Paris, was this year cannot act unless allowed to by the imperial in order to realize life.
destruction of Capitalism. Life must destroy in France officially a celebration of the victory istic clique that governs France. Imperialover Germany. The July 14 of 1879 symWork is necessary.
istic France conceives this scheme so importBut work under Capbolizes revolution and progress; but the official Victory celebration of July 14, 1919, ant that it antagonizes Italy in order to constitalism means drudgery and oppression. It ruct a Jugo Slav nation under French control.
means that man lives to work, instead of worksymbolizes reaction. Yet among the masses there was a revolutionary threat. The small nations, moreover, are satisfied ing to live.
to be used by the great powers. The capitalists In work alone is redemption, says that The bourgeois press offers its tribute to of the small nations possess large appetites Capitalism which just a year ago urged that July 14, and the French Revolution, greeting and small power hence they adopt means of redemption was in war. There is redemption these events as real contributions to the pro intrigue and become vassals of the big imin work, under new conditions. If the workgress of the world. Simultaneously, the perialistic nations. They are utterly reactionary ers return meekly to work under the old conpress heaps slander and abuse upon the Rus and terrible oppressors of labor.
ditions, it will mean redemption for Capitalism.
sian Revolution.
Time was when the struggle for national It is necessary that the workers should strugOne hundred years ago, the French Rev independence was revolutionary and progress gle to end Capitalism, after which alone work olution was slandered as an orgy of assassins ive. Now these aspirations for national inde will mean redemption for the workers.
and beasts. The whole of privileged Europe pendence are simply an opportunity for Im To work? Yes! To work in the struggle intrigued against the Revolution, precisely as perialism to aggrandize itself. The struggle against Capitalism, to destroy the old order.
it now intrigues against the Russian Revolu of our epoch is the international proletarian Then will work mean redemption a new life tion. But the ideas of the French Revolution struggle against Imperialism.
and a new world.
come