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Tli ... ..:;t purlv of tl'i ed
States lr*.*iiifj commit!-d to u:. anti
war policy Mud th'-tuseives when
tli"; look :.i1 ->ut them upon the
Inn..- o! a dilemma. M. Z;nu-'tkili
a Uu-.-iati and a member of tin.
party points out tills awkward si
tuatin': and docs not venture to
say how it can he overcome.
The pur': passed an anti-war re
solution with iritis at their ot. Louis
convention. t'otues note tin- Rus
sian revolution. it may nest he a
so* la lit revolution: indeed it is
almost certain that it is just a
bourgeois revolution. Zametkin
then propounds the 'juestion "Is th*
Socialist party tor that revolution?
rhen he wants to know why the
socialists joined with the rest, if
they ate against ties bourgeois r
volution. in receiving Uakmeteft
and the oth r comrades from Rus
sia. "l ie- Russians did not eotne
e for . . only
Their c rying m c cl is not spineless,
meaningless, moneyless passive syin
pathy of the looker-on. We are not
quitters. We arc socialists. We
know that tiie Russian revolution
in in danger of being crushed by
Czar Wilhelm of Prussia from over
tin" border and the Black Hundreds
at home. We know that Russia
must have peace .... if the new
born freedom is to endure. And
there are but two ways of obtaining
peace. The first way is to leave
the trenches, hands up and refuse
Jo fight. “They Wont Fight" was
the recent headline announcing a
recent condition on the Galician
front.
I Tnfort unately the ‘they lH*re
mentioned compl ised only one side
of tHe fighting farmers. And. if
it is true that you must have two
to pick a quarrel, so it is true that
you must have two to keep the
peace. One side did not fight. Ifut
the other side did. and obedient to
the command of the Kaiser, shot the
retreating revolutionary troops in
the back, killing thousand on thou
sands of our Comrades who be
lieved that to obtain peace one had
hut to lay down one's arms. The
pacificist advice to be too revolu
tionary to fight has been excellent.
Hindetiberg congratulated His Ma
jesty and His Map < ■ vratu
lated Hindenberg. Both were
happy. But revolutionary Russia
was not .... Pacificism has al
ready helped the Kaiser . . . llo
we. the organized sociaists of the
United States hear the cry for
help? Or are we satisfied that the
Kaiser and Hindenberg have be
come pacificists of their own sweet
will? In still clinging to the reso
lution and against war on general
principles, do we give succor and
help to the nearly-strangled revo
lution or to his majesty the Kaisei
and cousin of the dethroned Czar?
In opposing the war do we uphold
the aspirations of the Russian pro
letariat, dying by tens o' thousands
to obtain some crumb of bourgeois
freedom of assembly and of the
pres or do we help to hold up the
up-lifted arm with the mailed fist
of the autocracy of the Czar, the
Kaiser and the Black Hundreds?’
• We know very well that the an
swer that will he made bv the Mil
waukee Socialist that it is the na
tionalism not the socialism of ?.».
Zametkin that is speaking. But
that does not answer his question
There is no getting over the fact
that this war is. It is here with us
now as ’an accomplished fact. WiP
it add to the liberty of the world
that the socialists still persist in
their anti-war attitude anil convert
their party into an incoherent mass
of all sorts and conditions of melt
whose minds are attra ted to the
party because they arc- purely and
simply pacificists and not necessarily
because they are socialists?
Take the wide endorsements of
the People's Council ; i Peace and
Democracy. II has secured wonder
ful support all over the country.
Jlui it is controlled in tlie nuill by
mi ?.
let;i r;
Li „-i.
t ractiv
U'raoi
ideals .re ao more pro
ken tin fiiaus of the Navy
hu w 1ms ■ paci'.ism is ;.t
reason of seV'-r.'.i l.ta .y
■ policies v. hii h tin ( 01.11
•i.
If tl’i* socialists who ag
ists la .ii-' fin‘y believe in
ism will i ire to turn bark
pages ut history to tin
they will In interested
soi !;tt
soi ial- j
a few
Civil War
to observt !
tlie
the
position
greatest
taken
of the
by Karl Marx
socialist think
ers even to this
disioier that he
us to approving
tile seat 1
minat- I
Vei
day
mom
situs
was
fion.
ra i I r
the
. a tin
:i i
ibt
at
i tin
-hi
ban
d i>. ami they will1
iiad no uncerlair. .
the Xortli against i
tie- North was do- ;
plutocrats of that
propo.-tion as tin-1
-i are dominating tli -
tliis epoch. Morgan
i defective ammum- ;
were holding up for
-"m .■-sinus, tl.is that am!
r tliiua bt-si • I.on i,In in tl.
administration of that day just as
it is ohsimeting the WiIson admiuisra'
tion at this day. There is not a bit!
of qualitative difference. There is
a difference of degree of develop-'
mi nt lint the quality of the situa-;
tion is directly the same.
.Marx did not allow himself to he
lost in the mazes of either sincere
or hypocritical pacificism. It is
not in evidence that lie approved
war. 11 is fine stand in the Franeo
ITussian war when there was at -
staio- only the Kmplre of Germany
against the Kmplre of France
shows how clear was his vision. And
we believe that today he would
have mighty little in common with
the political manottvres of the Mil- j
waukeoites who have turned aside
from a purely working class program
to decide something that will at
tract the other elements into the
fold and increase tlie vote.
It would be amazingly foolish j
to pretend that there is not a;
strong element in tlie United States1
opposed to this war., liut it would
bo an exceedingly grave error it
they are to be permitted to be op
posed to the war because of the
fact that working class interests
are identified directly with paci
ficism.
This war is fraught with danger.
It is not unlikely that while waging
it against the autocracy in Germany,
the democracy at home may lie
stifled.
We know ot no more effective
way of democracy here being stifled
than by the promotion of a vigorous
anti-war agitation which would
have only the result of forcing a
victory to Germany. The greatest
menace that the workers face then,
is that there would be a complete
diversion from the economic field
of endeavor to political and bour
geois anti-war agitations. Consider
that statement of Zametkin. The
Russians triad pacificism. They re
fused to fight But they found that
to bring about peace it was neces
sary that both sides should ac
quiesce. There was no apparent
willingness upon the part of the
armed masses of Germans to cease
when the Russians ceased. Xor is
it possible to observe that in Ger
many today there is any intention
of ceasing war until either conquest
or complete victory is assured. If
it is in evidence since when?
What the workers face is that
the plundcrbund is lying in the
shadows to cripple organized effort.
The capitalists dont care throe cent3
about war or democracy, for they
have threatened it at every step
and assailed it on every occasion.
But they do care about curbing the !
progress of the workers and espe- !
eially would be delighted to use:
the war as an excuse to do so.
Even now they are doing this.
They are rising to height of indus
trial autocracy which has no limits'
••ither of wickedness or tyranny.
Ard while this is going on. tin '
socialist party is much more tiou-!
ct-rm-d with ending the war on any
terms whatever, quite regardless;
of tlie- consequences to the work'rs
either here. in Russia, in Great
Britain or in France.
Is there any good reason why the 1
workers should object to the v.ar
with Germany because war? It is
almost certain if properly carr; d |
out to result in the final death of i
feudalism. It may result i., a,
bourgeois r volution in Germany;
and it may find the capitalist
throned. That brand of democracy
may not be desirable. But it is J
progress just the saia.u Was the.
French .Revolution to he opposed
because of tie fact that i! was to!
leave tie bourgeois instead of tin j
l’eudals in control? Was the Atner-!
ican revolution to be condemned
because it ultimately resulted in
capitalist domination and tlte estab
lishment of the privileged instead
of King George and his Long Dis
tance parliamentary rule?
In point of fact in the evolution
ary development of society this war
is the greatest stimulant that has
for ages appeared. We live in re- j
volutionarv times. We live in times
when the entire economic system j
is shivering anil shaking and break-1
ing to pieces before our eyes. And j
th" socialist party directs all its;
energies as a socialist party to:
stopping the shivering and the
shaking and the breaking as a me
nace to capitalist civilization! Re
volutonary indeed is such a policy.
But it is a reactionary revolution
of the extremist type.
There is big work to lie done in
America today by the socialists if
they will perform it. On all sides
are we finding the workers menaced
The situation is one that is full of
danger. And that danger is not in
the prosecution of the war but in
icirictr
the persecution of industries righ
at home. It is on the job wher
the workers belong. It is job con
trol that the workers must obtain
Their economic might through in
dustrial solidarty would be unas
sailable. Are the socialists who ar<
members of the Socialist Party pro
moting that solidarity? Not so tha
jou would notice it They extern
a sympathetic expression to a la
bor organizer lynched, to a numbei
of unionists deported, and to theii
own papers suppressed. But whal
do they offer to combat it? Thej
trot around the country with a
stop the itiinquitous war program
and pacificism run riot, but to get
the workers together to protect
themselves they have never a plan.
We dont justify these newspaper
suppressions. They are disgraceful
in a country delivered to the free
dom of the press. We dont justify
the denial of the right of assembly,
nor one single suppression of the
constitutional rights of the people
in any manner, shape or form.
But we do contend that the so
cialist agitation if devoted to really
proletarian interests could make
thi: a real w;.r for democracy in
stead of deriding those whose earn
est intention it may be for all they
knew to make it so.
Regardless whether as the paci
ficist:; contend t It is war was forced
upon America by the lust for pro
fits and markets of the capitalists
or to protect their foreign loans, re
gardless whether it is being fought
to resist the defiant extensions of
militaristic tyrannies which tramp
le.- upon evi ry human right and to
remove the nightmare the exhibi
tion of the theory of might making
right is thereby manifested—re
gardless of these things the work
ers face war as an accomplished
and unquestioned fact. Nothing
is going to prevent America carry
ing ii on as it will carry it on or
as ot!i ■ r nations were determined to
carry it on. One tiling we tlo know
that the capitalists will wrap them
sehos in a cloak of patriotism and
seek to completely enslave the work
era it the workers will let them.
The way tlie workers can aid
that sinister plan of the plunder
bund is by making common cause
with either pro-German or paci
ficist fanatic who believes by bury
ing liis head in the sand the war
clouds will pass him by. Now as
never before the workers have to
look after their own interests, and
keep a watchful eye not so much on
the prosecution of the war but
upon the capitalist machinations
against him in this war time on the
job. And that will about take
up all his time—take it up goo’d
and plenty without some enthusiasts
going out into the high ways and
byways and seeking an elevated
place to pose as a martyr to some
brand of pacificism which may or
may not be made in Germany.
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