• • socialism comes as an alien voice. sh~ . .W.). Proletarians of "Among all classes that confront all lands unite!" the bourgeoisie today, the prole- From the party of workers united tariat alone is really revolutionary. front, to the party of People's II MEMORIAM: The lower middle class, one and all, Front; from the party of class fight the bourgeoisie in the hope of struggle to the party of class col- safeguarding their existence. • • . laboration; from the party of the THE COMMUIIST PARTY They therefore are not revolution- proletarian revolution to the party ary but conservative, nay more, of the counter-revolution. The Com- .. Born 1919 • Died 1937 _ they are reactionary .... If they munist Party of the United States ever become revolutionary, it is is dead. In Boston, in Symphony only because . . . they are forsak- Hall with Earl Browder pronounc- Burial Services Performed by Earl Browder At The ing their own standpoint to adopt ing the funeral oration, it was in- that of the proletariat." decently buried. It is only pity for Symphony Hall, Boston, Sept. 19, 1937 If we were to say that, we would the years we spent in trying to be denounced as "extremists," build it and for the misguided pro- communist party is nothing if lished by the Constitution and the "POUMists," "Trotskyist-Bukha- letarians who still follow it and it is not revolutionary. If it victory of Jefferson in 1800, is in J'inist-German ~Japanese-wrecker - try in vain to give revolutionary Agives up as its aim the overthrow danger of being destroyed," &aid spies," or perhaps--oh fearful fate interpretations in their ownfashion of capitalism, the dictatorship of Browder, acting as preacher. Then, -"Lovestoneites." The quotation to these counter-revolutionary, an- the proletariat, the proletarian as coroner, certifying the deadness just cited is the first page of the ti-Marxist, anti-communist speech- revolution, there is nothing to dis- of the deceased, he added: "But it Communist Manifesto. And, on the es, it is only pity for the wasted tinguish it from a social-democrat- is not threatened by the commu- last page, we read: "Communists years and effort and sacrifice and ic party, a labor party, a populist nists nor by any vague proletar- scorn to hide their views and aims. loving devotion, that prevents our party, from bourgeois democrats, ian dictatorship." Vague indeed, They openly declare that their pur- rejoicing that it has so openly cer- liberals and reformists generally. attenuated to the thinness of an pose can only be achieved by the tified its death as a revolutionary Once it ceases to be revolutionary, astral body haunting the folds of forcible overthrow of the whole ex- party and left us a little freer to it retains the name "communist" "Old Glory" and prevented only by tant social order. Let the ruling carry on the work for which the only to besmirch it. Once it ceases the tortured thought of a yet un- class tremble at the prospect of a Communist Party of the United to be revolutionary, it ceases to ex- buried hammer and sickle from communist revolution ("We com- ist. Dead men continue to bear leaving this earthly region alto- munists quietly and calmly tell the States was founded. Browder has pledged himself to counter-revolu- the names they bore while living; gether, for the limbo of the lost president that he has nothing to they are corpses just the same. souls and eternal rest and forget- fear from us."-Earl Browder) tion. We take this occasion to pledge ourselves anew to the prole- By the above tokens, the Com- fulness. "Peace, peace, thou tor- Proletarians having nothing to lose munist Party of the United States tured spirit," said the melancholy but their chains. They have a world tarian revolution as the only real Earl as he cast the hammer and road to "a peaceful, happy, pros- is no more. On September 19, lS't7, to win. Proletarians (the very word after a lingering and painful it, sickle into the flames and released perous and free America." has been lost in the People's Front ness, it died of bourgeois democrat- the ghost forever. Issued by the ic illusions, vulgar reformist hallu- "I have 00 hesitation in declar- cinations and constitutional anemia, INDEPENDENT COMMUNIST LABOR LEAGUE ing, for the Communist Party and complicated by acute diarrhea of its followers, that with the central .... 357 131 West 33rd Street - New York City words and chronic constipation of thoughts and the direction of thoughts. The last rites were fit- President Roosevelt's speech, we tingly pronounced by the combina- are in practical agreement and that, Jay Lovestone tion doctor, coroner, preacher, and on such questions with which we undertaker, Earl Browder, who disagree, these are not questions Speaks on killed it by his treatments, dressed for immediate and practical sola- it for the cemetery and pronounced tion." The Communist Party died THE SOVIET PURGE its funeral oration at Symphony of agreements with the ruling class The Future of the U.S.S.R. Hall, Boston. It is a sad and fit- party in power. It had reservations ting fact that the cradle of the in theory but they do not make any and American bourgeois revolution of The American Communist Party practical, nor immediate difference. the past should be the final rest- All differences with the New Deal ing place of the party that once in practice have disappeared. IRVING PLAZA HALL was dedicated to the making of the 15th Street and Irving Place "When the corpse was buried," American proletarian revolution of reads the police blotter, "certain Thursday Evening, October 21st at 8 P. Me the future! of its theoretical effluvia and other Rooseveltian In Practise possessions were left unclaimed Tickets available at 15c from "American democracy, as estab- and unburied in the ice house at INDEPENDENT COMMUNIST LABOR LEAGUE 131 West 3Inl Street, New York City (Room '107) JOIN THE Independent Communist Labor League capable (nothing to jority of the people..•• If there the morgue." "These are not ques- tinues, "President Roosevelt an- ture of capitalism, just a m tter should arise in America anything tions for immediate practical solu- swered this question correctly as of personal incapacity-B.D.W.) to similar to the situation in Spain, tion." follows: produce a far higher standard of where the democratic republic, "We have those who really fear living for the masses. Only pro- while repulsing the fascist invasion, "Bourgeois Communism" the majority rule of democracy, duce constantly that higher stall- was stabbed/ in the back by the "In our generation," President who want old forms of economic dard of living, even show only a 'uncontrollable extremists'-a min- Roosevelt had said two days earl- and social control to remain in a consistent and effective fight for it, ority of the anarchists and the ier, "a new idea has come to domi- few hands.''' and all fear of the impatient mass- Trotskyist P.O.U.M.-Then we. nate thought about government- And, continues Browder to Roose- es can be laid aside as unreal." like our brothers of the Spanish the idea that the resources of the velt, "We communists declare our Browder is counting, it seems, on Communist Party, would be in the nation can be made to produce a full agreement with this identifi- the belief that, with the C.P. out forefront of the struggle to sup- far higher standard of living for cation of the main enemy and the of business, no other group or or- press such extremists, who are re- the masses if only government is form of its threat against the peo- ganization will engage in the task ally agents of fascism, and render intelligent and energetic in giving ple." of proving to the masses that them harmless." the right direction to economic Your reporter stirred uneasily given the nature of capitalist par- Now the secret is out! Even with life." as, thru the recesses of the great ties, such a fight cannot be "consi- bluff and bombast and padded fig- We used to think thlllt Marx had hall, came the shadowy voice of the stent"; that, given the nature of ures, the Communist Party of the so long "obsolete" Communist proved that the condition of the the capitalist system, such a fight United States claims only 50,000 masses could not get better and Manifesto declaring: "There are cannot be "effective" and that only members, but it is already offering better under capitalism, that there certain bourgeois who want to re- socialism can give the masses a itself to the ruling class as the par- was an inevitable tho zigzagging dress social grievances-in order to "constantly higher standard of llv- ty of counter-revolution, as the tendency towards concentration of . safeguard bourgeois society." And ing" and solve the problems of war, murderers of the future Nins and wealth in fewer and fewer hands these, the Manifesto calls apostles depression, unemployment, and ex- the crushers of the future struggles and ever bigger wars and depres- of "conservative or bourgeois so- ploitation, which beset them all the for a proletarian dictatorship in sions and increasing misery and cialism." days of their life. the United States! In Spain it has Dead Parties Make No Revolutions tyranny for the masses, so long as Perhaps you think that this re- tasted blood and, while the prole- capitalism should endure. That and Browder continues to reassure porter is stretching it, that Brow- tarian dictatorship is not on the that alone made necessary a revo- the President that his party will der is not really so ignorant of order of the day at present, it con- lutionary party, socialism and the not trouble the bourgeoisie any Marxism or of Leninism-which siders its offer as an instrument of revolution itself. Therefore the more. We quote: is "twentieth century Marxism"- counter-revolution to fight against Communist Manifesto, an ancient "The President then goes on to nor so vile in his misrepresentation the proletarian dictatorship; and document which cannot keep up express a fear which we believe to of it. But Browder comes to our against the proletarian revolution, with "Twentieth Century (People's be without ground, with which we aid, by being ever more explicit: as a practical matter to be pledged Front) Americanism" .declared as disagree, and which we think is "The progressive program is not in advance! A pledge against the early as 1847, when the communist already disappearing from the revolutionary nor comm.unistic.• •. revolution is already "upon the or- minds of progressive Americans. movement had just been founded: It can all be achieved under capi- der of the day." "The immediate aims of the com- He said: "'And we have those who are in talism-if the progressives rally to Where Is the Class Struggle? munists are the destruction of bour- the people for a real battle to What more can we say 1 The in- geois supremacy, conquest of poli- too much of a hurry, who are im- achieve it." terminable funeral oration leaves patient of the processes of consti- tical power by the proletariat." Watchdog of Counter-Revolution us speechless and miserable. Not a tutional democracies, who want "Proletarian dictatorship," con- word about the role of classes and But Browder believeswith Roose- utopia overnight and are not sure velt. "With this central thought that some vague form of proletar- tinues Browder, "can become a class struggle and class society. of President Roosevelt's speech ian..dictatorship is not the quick- practical order of the day in Amer- "The people" and the "progres- (the one just quoted above- est road to it. Both types are equal- ica only if President Roosevelt's sives" and "Thomas Jefferson" promise of a higher standard of and not a word of Marxism in the B.D.W.) we declare our heartiest ly d~ngerous.' " agreement. With every group or living under the present system is entire speech, a speech made to a person which makes this thought Have no fear, says Browder, ac- defeated or betrayed. We of the communist convention of the State the guide in formulating policy, we cepting the President's characteri- Communist Party are prepared to of Massachusetts! Even Jefferson of the Communist Party can find zation of the revolutionists: cooperate with everybody who will and Madison knew enough to think an ever.growing basis for common "The impatient ones among the help to win that higher standard of in terms of classes, and not merely action." masses, those who want to jump to living for the masses. in terms of good capitalists and "What prevents this policy from utopia overnight, can have no pow- "The Communist Party repudi- bad "economic royalists." Even being expressed in government ac- er except the power of large num- ates, now as in the past, all theo- they knew that the fight with the tion 1" asks Browder. Will he an- bers, and numbers they can get Ties or proposals looking toward a "royalists" was over, but this swer: Capitalism-the dictatorship only if the majority of the people forcible imposition of socialism or twentieth century American pea- of the bourgeoisie thinly disguised should come to feel that they have any utopia (how easily he falls in- nut politician does not. in democratic forms-the inevitable been betrayed by their progressive to the language of the enemies of To many a new party member tendencies of capitalist economy1 and democratic leaders, or if those socialism!-B.D.W.) upon the rna- today, the voice of revolutionary leaders should prove themselves in- Not Browder! No, Browder con- JOIN THE Read the Workers Age Independent Communist Labor League