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True Socialism I, TH.E NEW 'INTERNATIONAL (vVith which is merged Labor Action) A MO~THLY ORGAN OF REVOLUTIONARY MARXISM OFFICIAL THEORETICAL ORGAN, .0F THE vVORKERS PARTY OF THE UNITED STATES Publisl)ed once a month by the New International Publishing Company, 2 West 15th Street, New York, N. Y. Subscription, rates: $r.50 per year; $r.oo per seven months. Canada and Abroad: $r.75 per year. Application for entry as second class matter is pending. VOLUME II Editors: NUMBER I MAX SHACHTMAN JANUARY 1935 JOHN WEST TABLE OF CONTENTS Roosevelt and the New Congress, by John TVest. !.:.j ~i . .'. : A Nazi Confesses, by Ludwi'g Lore... .. 19 Behind the Kir:oy Assassination, by M. S. ..... ~.L!:1. .. 4 Thorstein Veblen, Sociologist, by John G. Wright...... 20 American Tr~:ei~ ;Union Problems-I, by Arne Szuclbec'k.. 7 The Anti-Ca~ho1ic Drive in Mexico, by J ean ~M endes . .. , 23 _.. I j ~.J.' 1 ... \Vill the ~u:t.9.jJJ,1pustry Strike Next? by Karl Lore;_].;. .. 9 The Peasants' IWar in China" by :Harold R. Isaacs . .... , 25 The End of,thk!~N aval Truce, by Jack Weber ... Ll.~.' . .. II AHCH1VES OF TIlE REVOLUTION: , 11)1 r.' : !. Marx's Criticisnl 'of "True Socialism", by Sidney,!Iook .. 13 The Testament of Lenin .............. " ........... 27 Bureaucratism and Factional Groups, by Leon ~1qtsl?y.. 16 Brest-Litovsk ... 1 [ ,. i'I'" ................... , ....... 27 nOOKS: ill : III i II' Captive Scien4f"by John lvlarshall.... ........ '28 j\pologetics, b:::)'Joseph Carter ...... " . .•........ " .. 28 C;ods and SOcif:ly, by Felix 111 orrow . ...... ~ ...... ' 2 9 An Angry Epic, by Florence Becker . .............. " 30 Oxford Manner, by .T. TV. .......... ".............. 31 LETTERS: . Francis A. Henson. Alice Hanson. Max Shachtman .. 32 I nsicle Front: Cover: The Readers Have the Floor. Inside Back Cover: The Press. At Home. I 'I t~.--....-...-..~.-...--. .-...---.-...-...--... L'.-".--"'--".--".--".--'.'--"'--"'--"'--"'-"'-"'-"·--" .-....--...-...--...--...--...--...--...--...-~.-..--- •• -.• .--...-...--...--...--..~~. I THE READERS HAVE THE FLOOR ! ! vVITH this issue of our review, we the ferment and shifts which mark the in the world, even if it is ten times as ) ! start the second volume of publication. end of the old political frontiers, and the large as ours, that is publishing a periodi- 1 1 This gives. our readers, both friends and abrupt, sometimes bewildering changes cal of the size and contents of our review t , skeptics, six~ 'issues as a basis for exam- which throw to the surface new problems at so Iowa selling price. (For example, , \ ination, appreciation and criticism. or old ones in new guises, more than ever the similarly priced leading British radi- , We address ourselves first of all to require an alert and conficlent guide. cal monthly has, in its 64 pages, only half ( those of a critical turn of mind. ,What That guide, said Engels, is the theory of the reading matter contained in our 32 are their opinions about our review? It Marxism. Our review wants to incarnate pages!) Of all the 'economies that can I was launched, as its motto says, as a that o'uicle in its pages conceivably be made, the one we are cold- l theoretical organ of revolutionary Marx- . lla~e we succeeded' fully in attaining est towards is a reduction in the size or ! - 1 ism. OUt:! 2.im has been to present to the this aim? Are we well on the road and number of pages of the review. Still ~ serious workers and students in the moving in the right direction? The edi- another way of 111aking enels meet is to \ t working 1class movemelit the Marxian tors cannot say that they are entirely raise the selling price, which would be 1 point of view on the important problems content. A good beginning has been obviously unsatisfactory-at least to our and events of our day. Unlike the Eu- made, they feel, and it is indicated by readers! iWe have hitherto made the , ropean movement, the American has suf- the growing circle of readers. And the most strenuous financial efforts to keep I : fered from a gross neglect of the sci en- latter-are they entirely content? We do going at the present price and with the !r tific socialist theory expounded by Marx 110t suppose so. That is why we invite present size. We are now compelled to ! and Engels and rescued fro111 oblivion specific criticisms and suggestions. make a direct appeal to our readers to ~ and distortion by Lenin. If the weakness What themes are being dealt with or join with our efforts. The review can ! of the revolutionary movement in the stressed too much? What is insufficiently be stabilized, ;'and we can devote ourselves 1 Unitecl States was the cause of this airy covered or even neglected entirely? Are more completely to improving its con- C ! attitude to revolutionary theory, the lat- we devoting too much attention or space tents, if our. readers will pledge them- ( l ter in turn helped to perpetuate this to international events and too little to selves to generous assistance. ( 1 weakness; Recent developments, how- events in this country, or the other way There are three ways you can help: 1 ~ ever, have given strong indications that around? Arc the articles too long or too r. Get subscriptions from your friends, t t far from remaining at the bottom rung short, should there be more or fewer in for a solid subscription list is the sound- ~ .. of the revolutionary ladder, the move- each issue? Our book review section- est foundation for our review. 2. 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Wifl you l which could at best be considered dubious. NEW INTERNATIONAL. We say confidently help? l _ T:: gr:i:,:·.:tu~ ~~~~~:~:~::~::~~~:~~~.:~~:~:~~:~ ____ ~ ; 'i THE NEW INTERNATIONAL A MONTHLY ORGAN OF REVOLUTIONARY MARXISM VOL. II JANUARY 1935 NO.1 Roosevelt and the New Congress THERE IS A peculiar character to the contradictions of the groundwork for a transition to Fascism. To put this in another Roosevelt administration that deserves more careful study way: psychologically and to some extent politically, the task of the than has yet been given. I do not refer to the central contradic­ administration was social democratic; whereas economically the tions of a declining capitalism, present to a more or less acute preparation for Fascism was demanded. Or in still a third way: extent everywhere. What interests me here, rather, are the dis­ the United States, considered abstractly, from a merely "internal" tinctive features of the form these central contradictions are taking point of view, was over-ready for social democratic developments; within the United States. It is easy enough, and indeed true but considered actually, as an integrated part of the world system, enough, to say that "the Roosevelt program is in essence the pro­ it had to make the turn toward Fascism. gram of monopoly capitalism". Nevertheless, this is not particu­ The second paradox is bound up with the first. In the case of larly illuminating. The description applies equally well to the neither of these tendencies-the social democratic and the Fascist programs of most governments-including Fascist governments­ -did the administration have the distinctive and appropriate social in the late stages of capitalism. ,We must ask why the Roosevelt base; Roosevelt was neither a working class supported social demo­ program takes the special forms we have seen and will see. cratic president, nor a middle class supported pre-Fascist. It is The Roosevelt contradictions come to light along a number of this that has made possible the reconciliation of the two terms of approaches. For example, the administration has been frequently the first paradox. If the class lines of Roosevelt's mass base were attacked from the extreme Right - especially during the more clearly drawn, he could not have bridged the contradictions first year and a half-as "socialistic" or eveI\ "communistic". in his policies. He would have been much more definitely one These attacks cannot be merely dismissed as verbal smoke-screens thing or the other. But this is merely to say that the United laid down to fool the masses. They have been seriously made by States would have been another country at another time. reasonably intelligent critics. And there can be no doubt of the These two paradoxes require further elucidation to he meaning­ very real opposition to Roosevelt on the part of many leading ful. bankers and industrialists. There must be, in the Roosevelt pro­ There is, of course, no "normal" development of capitalism, ex­ gram, some basis for these attacks, however confused they may cept in broadest outline. The idea of a normal development is an essentially be. Marxism cannot be content to answer political abstraction, useful for analysis, but in the specific case of any questions by a scornful shrug of doctrinary shoulders.
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