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It’s somewhat entertaining to ob
eerve that purely socialist papers
still continue to discuss the why and
the wherefore of the collapse of so
cialism’s opposition to war, and wh"
it is that those who wero so strong
ly anti-militarist before the Great
War began, lined up with every re
actionary powers and became in
many instances more militarist than
the militarists thomoolves. And
furthermore it is only a reasonable
deduction from this condition that
if any other country became in
volved In war, no matter how preda
tory of hoW aggressively a war of
conquest','the'socialist politicians in
other countti&i With a few academic
exceptions would do exactly as the
German and as the French socialists
have done.
We dont think that there can be
any doubt about this; and for this
very reason it is very necessary that
some explanation be forthcoming ad
to why it is 30.
A dispatch in this issue says that
three Swedish editors who are so
cialists have been arrested and
charged with high terason because
at a conference a resolution was
passed wherein a revolution an.,
general strike was urged in case of
Sweden’s entering the war.
The action of the authorities is
ranjKinnlilo cnougli and readily 1111
j, but we certainly have a
[cm on hand.dt f*,o.lperjB|
mr that shnul!) Sweden -
bring that should Sweden
involved in the war, the socialists
of that country w-ould do as their
comrades in other countries have
done, and sacrifice all their inter
national theories to the impulsive
<1 riving force of nationalism, falling
in line to support the war just as
lias been done elsewhere.
Yet it would he a very question
aide thing to entertain for one mi
nute that they would act otherwise.
Possibly here and there an undaunt
ed few might protest the war. but
the vast majority would rather givt
way to the feelings of patriotism
and nationalism and fight when
called upon and still more support
the idea of such fighting.
It is an interesting thing to con
sitier why men will act one way to
day and auotncr ."’in un.'iiy mn .
ont "'ay tomorr> r.^r - ;s
no getting arounl tl; , .iu.: I'm;
that mos t of tin) very foremost soci
alists, men like Kaustsky in tier
many, Van dor Velde in Melgiun-.
llerve in France for example, eat
their own words and swallowed their
own theories to adopt theories and
to speak and write words which
might have been spoken and written
by the most reactionary among
them.
The key to thn situation we believe Is
iot to bo found in the parliament
urianism of which they were the ex
ponents pure and simple. For the
most radical of the anarchists with a
few exceptions have thrown off their
internationalism with the same case
as have the socialists. Thus wt.
discover men like Kropotkin a id
hundreds of others, lining up with
the patriots who yesterday were the
abhorred of such.
Is it not without some significance
lor us that the men who have been
the real pacificists and who have,
rendered strongest voice against wai
have not been the radical socialists
or anarchists among tlfo belligerents
but the workers who were orga
nised? And it is certainly worth
thinking about that the least belli
cose of all have been those who have
had the economic pressure of the
struggle for existence with them fot
every day of the year. It‘s the em
ployed and unemployed among the
workers and not the intellectuals of
any brand who resisted war and
frankly didn’t want it, who wb-n
the war was on realized its neces
sity only as a cloak to hide their
dislike of it, and who persisted in
seeing the class strugle in spite of
the superior overshadowing ot the
war itself. ;
Not >’cry many ertho quarter mil
'.on Welsh coal digger;* '.vuo struck
were socialists, they mimed no tine
spun theories fr nr. the works ot
Marx, nor ,1id they consider such
elevating problems as the emanci
pating influence of the irama. But
they did realise the facts of .heir
exploitation and the grafting grab
l.ery of their employers who wi*«
prolitting from the war. The fact
is that the position they held In
society, not that of trained econom
ists or dialecticians, not any intel
lectual theorists with hair splitting
casuistry, but plain workora -with the
problem of the Job before them al
ways, made them in truth and fact
the only opponents of railitarisii
per se as well as jingoism.
And in considering the failure oi
the socialists as anti-militarists an(
pacificists we have to face the fae
that quite a large number of then
did not stand in society as momberi
of an exploited working class, bu
as members of a bourgeois class wh(
had exploited with their able in
tellects the labor movement, whil.
the bourgeois instincts they ima
glued suppressed were not suppres
s<*l at all, but upon great provoca
tiofi and stronger stimulus came t<
the front and wiped out of existenc
wliat had boon merely a class aber
ration.
Why the socialists failed therefor
i^Jjecause they were capitalist po
I^Baus with nrai•■socialism as ilittl
and aim. an why the anarchist
failed is because their views wer
identical with the individualism o
capitalism extending warranty t
the system because of its individual
ism. There was no economic orga
nization which professed reall,
strong radical opinions in any o
these countries—that is radical opt
nions born of the job environmen
characteristic of the interests tha
wage environment involved
and bent dirctly towarsd
a cultivation ot tne ego or tne worn
crs as workers, and not as men vvh
were part of the machinery of
capitalist and military civilization.
It has always been peculiar tlia
ttie socialist politicians who too1
part in capitalist cabinets shouli
ilioinselves be anxious to take
r.d in capitalist legislatures, am
.ve should long ago have inquire!
why was this. That inconsistent
Iona should have provoked soni
iggcstive thought which might liav
prevented the socialist papers tod a
cudgelling their brains so scverel
now to hammer out an explanation o
the insufficiency of faith that fillei
the comrades so their ero the wa
cock crew they had denied thci
own cause not thrice but a dozei
times.
Wo think that the euro for th
failure of the radical movoment i
to take it altogether from the hand
of the wind jammers and the theor
ists and rest it upon the men wh
are on the job—the wage workeri
The movement will then reflect th
discipline of the wage working on
vironment and will, being controllei
by it, evolve with the worker
therein.
If anything shows clearly cnougl
that the basis of the radical move
ment is the economic organizatioi
of the workers, it is this failure o
the socialists to live up to the!
principles in trying as well as non
critical times. And it shows u
that without the radical industria
movoment fine spun thoories hav
no salvation and inspire no faith it
the truth that makes men dare am
compels men to do.
i_
One of the most extraordinar
developments of later day capital
ism are theBe Foundations. The:
are the apologies of the owners o
great wealth for their swollen foi
tunes, and their efTort to justlf:
what they are pleased to term thel
stewardship.
That the promoters of thes
Foundations realize this partlcula
feature of such institutions, is seei
in the elaborate pains taken in gtv
tag all their activities publicity. The
publicity department la the most
important of them all, as if they
would rivet the eyes of the people
not on anything else but the great
good they do.
It seems to be accepted by them
that the Public, glancing at the
superficial merely, will think only of
the good and not at all of the evil
and will acclaim with unanimous
accord the very great and philan
thropic work with which such insti
tutions are identified.
It is not possible to deny the fact
that much good as been accomp
lished by the Rockefeller Founda
tion; that in the field of medical re
search and in other social activities
a very real work has been done.
This is the fact that forces itself on
public attention, and which Rocke
feller and his men insist the nubile
’shall alone consiaer in considering |
the Foundation. But there is an
other and totally different \iew in
volved in all of these Foundations,
just as there is in all of the Charity
Organizations and their welfare
work.
In the first place it is reasonable
to ask what relation is there be
tween conditions as they exist and
the accumulation of great wealth,
and if these like many other insti
tutions do not take with one hand
while returning with another only a
port*on of that which they absorbed?
That these very activities for which
tht-ee Institutions stand sponsor, are
not in truth possible because of the
system which enables these men to
accumulate their vast fortunes;
v And there is ye* another hut
closely related objection. The mohey
so spent creates positively a host of
men salaried by thea-j Foundations
and in their support of other organ
izations they bend the activities of
such to their own Interests.
The Bureau of Municipal Research
in New Tork was doing a great and
’ valuable work. The research was
proceeding along radical lines how
1 ever and the scientists in charge be
' trayed a tendency not to avoid diag
nosing the causes of evils that ob
truded themselves upon their atten
tion. That Bureau became the re
cipient of Foundation charity, and
the activities became there and the i
turned into another and less iadical
j channel. The public testifies jto the
excellent wcjrk performed!
!south in curbing the ravages
j hookworm. But the public d<|
! know that the well fed, well!
islied and well clad seldom
are victims of this diseas
ordinary course of things; that the
naked of foot, the badly nourished
body, the ill clad were its especial
victims and that it is essentially a
disease of poverty and the wage
working system, a system builds up
Rockefellers.
It is really impossible to over-rate
the enervating effect of those great
endowments upon men of science,
and we have noted the continuous
efforts made to effect a purging of
tho faculties of the universities
which were beholdon to these great
Foundations, of all who were tain
ted with radicalism.
If it is imagined that the Amer
ican academic world is not afflicted
with an itch to kow-tow before
wealth, we become immediately cor
rected by a short consideration of
the case of Scott Nearing, so well
known that it is not necessary to
do anything but mention It.
These Foundations are simply ana
for the most part valuable to the
owners of swollen fortunes in se
curing a valuable and learned para
sitic class of employees whose In
terests are wrapped up there and
then with the interests of the capi
talists; who boost these very insti
tutions themselves and accomodat
ingly turn their investigations to
wards the directions where the pro
prietors of swollen fortunes desire
them to be turned. Tr.ese Founda
tions do for the really rich what
many feudal privileges did lor the.
lords in that they secured the
assistance and co-operation and
loyalty of the higher ecclesiastics
whose places under capitalism are
taken by these later day teachers
and Rockefeller scientists.
It is allowed that the Foundation
has in many respects alleviated
human suffering, but it has at the
same time operated to remove
further and further from solution
the economic cause of all such suff
ering. It Berves to buttress up a
system that creates considerably
more human misery and human
wretchedness than the most elabo
rate endowment of the Foundation
could in a hundred years hope to
palliate. It substitutes a dangerous
narcotic which only aggravates the
disease that can be removed only
by the surgeon’s knife.
It really helps little that Rocke
feller Foundation monies are used
to relieve sleeping sickness so that
the Egyptian slaves of tho cotton
fields on the Nila might become more
i efficient, when that Foundation’s
! wealth is built up on an exploitive
condition such as horrified the peo
j pie during the strike at Bayonne,
j It helps little that men should de
vote their iives to the advancement
of science when they obtain their
salaries from those who have estab
lished on the ruins of democracy,
an industrial serfdom.
These are serious things that all
the philanthropy in the world wont
j and can’t hide. They are real things
which are not to be concealed be
neath the philanthropic paint that
mental prostitutes pile on thick ani
sticky to ply their degrading trade.
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