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SJK HfKAM MAXIM.
The death of Sir ilirani Maxim in
Gordon serves to direct attention to
the international nature of capital.
Maxim was a typical modern ca
pitalist. Without concerning our
selves with the natural ability of
the man, the most striking fact in
connection with him is that born
an American, he voluntarily chose the
field where he obtained the best op
portunities for the investment of his
capital, his country.
He is the head of the munition
trust in. Great Britain and he has
been urging more and more arms
and ships and ammunition for the
British Umpire.
it was not because he would re
gard the extinction of the imperial
aims of Britain as any sort of a«
world calamity, but because connect
ed with that imperial expansion
were his industrial activities, and
the more and more arms, ships and
munitions were sold, the larger and
the juicier were his contracts.
In him is exemplified tire dena
tionalization which capitalism is
forcing upon the capitalists. They
all are not concerned w-itli the flag
under which they operate, but they
all are concerned with the uphold
ing of that flag which is profitable
to them.
Patriotism to_them is a material
fact, and with ifes materiaism comes
an ease of expatriation wonderful in
itself.
The British empire has given
many notable examples of the deli
berate choice upon the part of many
distinguished and wealthy foreign
ers in making the flag of Great Bri
tain. their flag. Not because of any
wonderfully superior characteristics
which that flag possessed, but be
cause it gave them an unequalled
field for exploitation.
Take Alfred Beit, for another ex
ample. Beit was reputed when alive
to be the richest man in the world.
He controlled practically three
quarters of the Rand and that was
hardly the beginning of his mining
enterprises. He was a German, born
in Hamburg and to his dying day
he never spoke a word of English
without markedly bet'v.cii-.g his Ger
man origin. He became a Brits,
subject. He became a British sub
ject with intense ideas concerning
a big navy and a big army and a
lug imperialism. He had nothing
but contempt for those who opposed
his views and politically he was a
Tory bitterly anti-German.
Even while Beit was forswearing
Germany, Germany was taking front
rank among the great industrial
countries of the world. But that
did not prevent Beit from throwing
in his lot with England, because
with that lot was united his great
fortune and his immense profits.
Beit himself said that no mattei
what nationality a man might be, it
was reasonable to suppose that
where he amassed wealth, there he
would seek his fatherland. But the
Greek dramatist centuries before
had embodied this in a well known
line that “wheresoever a man is suc
cessful that is his native land”, t
The modern idea of such expatria
tion is quite different than that
which Aristophanes had in mind. To
day it is realized that control of
the economic power, whether in Rus
sia. in Germany, in the United
States or Great Britain, is accompa
nied by the same degree of political
and social power. Hence it is quite
immaterial to a Maxim whether he
is a state of Mainer or a British
subject, head of the British firm of
Maxim. Vickers and Maxim Limited.
Xor is this all. It is quite imma
terial, as Marx pointed out, whether
the wealth which the ca
pitalist acquires comes from the
labor of the Chinaman, the Hindu,
the European or the American la
borer. It is not the nationality of
the laborer that cuts any figure.
It is the amount of surplus profit
that is obtained from the hide of
labor.
Thus we have the Pennsylvania
railroad importing hundreds ot
Mexican laborers to take the place
of Americans on their system. It
is quite immaterial what be the
fortunes of the labor so displaced;
it is certainly not immaterial that
the new labor is cheaper and as effi
cient for less money th^n that which
has been supplanted.
Take the case of. the Pacific Mail
Steamship Co. That line, long on its
unadulterated Americanism and
proud of its competition with other
and foreign lines, employed exclu
sively Chinese sailors and firemen.
It was quite immaterial that first
class American sailors, good men as
ever walked the deck of a ship, have
to loaf jobless in port while their
places are taken by Chinese. It is
quite material that the operating ex
penses be reduced by the employ
ment of Chinese sailors.
There is not an American mine
owner, long on Fourth of July ora
tory who gives a whoop in hell what
particular nationality he employs,
just so long as the profits are forth
coming. They will employ Amer
icans, Irish, Germans, Scotch, Eng
lish, Scandinavians, Italians, Slav
onians, Turks. Japs, Chinese, Mexi
cans or all of these, just so long as
they can be employed profitably and
those that can be employed profit
ably will be employed.
There is absolutely no preference
given Americans because they are
Americans,, except in the Army
where men employed in that must
be either citizens or have declared
their intention to become such.
When a foreign business sends
over a representative here who will
scatter investing dollars among the
American businessmen, banquets
and socials and Chambers of Com
merce gatherings make their stay
! here delightful.
Capitalists have arrived at the
very correct conclusion that profits
like every other scientific reality is
quite international. There is no
such thing as a national chemical
reaction or a national physical law;
One cannot imagine a German or an
English or an exclusively American
law of gravitation. Boyle’s law in
physics is good in Germany and in
Britain and the United States. So
the economic laws connected with
profit making are common to all
countries and hence capitalism it
self is international. It is part ot
the function -of capitalist educators
however to maintain the strict na
tionalization of labor; to pit one na
tionality against the other; to test
one against the other, and to make
use of that which happens to he the
best and handiest.
The difference between a Hudson
Maxim and a Hiram Maxim is 1101
in their different nationality; it is
in the fact that one brother had
his profits coming from the British
and the other from American cxploi
j itation. It is more than likely they
i changed little or nothing not with
! standing that one son of Maim be
j came domiciled in the Empire State
and the other in the British empire.
They obtained their profits different
ly only because of certain archaic
geographic limitations which are
useful in keeping the workers apart
so that an exploiter here or an ex
ploiter there can protect his explo
itation field against his rivals.
Men like Maxim in every country
are playing upon the patriotic feel
ings of the workers. They make use
of the love of country to
increase their own profits. It is
quite Immaterial that white labor is
little employed in some countries
under this or that flag; none the lesB
it is white labor that will fight to
keep this or that flag flying over
other than white labor.
Maxim' identified himself with the
imperialism of Great Britain be
cause that was easily exploitable ma
terial. Had the United States af
forded him as exploitable a field, he j
would have remained an American j
citizen. He went where the profits
go; just as any other capitalist
would go. The ideal patriotism
which the.educators advocate is re
served only for the workers, and it
is reserved for them that they may
truly fight and victoriously so that
the profits of the Maxims everywhere
may be lorfg in the land.
Maxim is not less patriotic than
any American who seeks profits in
other lands. South Africa, for ex
ample is full of them. An American
general manager of the De Beers
Mining Co., a Californian named
Gardner Williams, took a more ac
tive part than Rhodes himself in
the suppression of the South African
republic and the Orange Free State
as independent ljationalities. He
shipped in arms and ammunition to
the rebels in Johannesburg and as
sisted in tlie financing of that capi
talist revolt. Yet he used to take
the chair even in Africa at Fourth
of July feasting, and celebrate Am
erican Independence day with the
oratorical eloquence of a politician
seeking election. What was sought
was not any ideal of freedom in any
South African country, but simply
an unlicensed right under the Bri;
ish flag to exploit the labor and re
sources to the unknown limits of
capitalist will and desire.
Nor are these isolated cases. They
are nothing of the kind. In Amei
ica itself only when labor enters the j
ranks of the capitalist is it pro
claimed against. Thus as long as
the Japs took the places of Amer
ican labor in California, the Japan
ese were the petted and the ideal
of the American employers. But
when the Japs entered business, ac
quired property and through their
superior efficiency left the Cali
fornian rancher miles behind, enact
ments were sought of the legisla
ture to clear them out of the coun
try; their presence became “unpatri
otic”.
It was not and it is not a question
of Jap versus American, but it is
and was a question of protecting
the American exploiter against the
rivalry of the Japanese exploiter, an
entirely different thing.
Yet, it would be wrong to deny
that this is not part of the evolu
tion of society, and that the dena
tionalization so to say of capital
now just beginning to appear more
and more evident, is not also the
precursor of the denationalization
of Labor. Indeed it cannot be de
nied, for capital in its search for
profits is denationalizing labor just
as fast is it can.
What drives the average man to
emigrate from his native land is not
simply in the majority of cases a
mere wander lust. It is an economic
compulsion that capitalist exploita
tion is exerting and in America, de
spite the counteracting Americaniza
tion that follows an arrival here, the
meeting place of denationalization
is peculiarly to be realized.
Americans born in the United
States cannot grasp this as well as
the foreign born who has come here.
Yet recent happenings have re
vealed the fact that the American
ization has 'not been complete
enough to justify every policy that
has been done under the name of
i Americanism, when in point of fact
it was done in the name of Morgan
and Wall street. ,
Maxim therefore was an example
of the international nature of capi
talism. He as an American born,
became the greatest exponent of
! British imperialism, navalism and
militarism. He became more Brit
ish than the British themselves be
cause his profits in Great Britain
were larger than the average British
subject. That was all.
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