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Allin the Name of Marxism** Page Four DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 33. 1932 CAPITALIST CRISIS TIGHTENS ITS GRIP. “Only Those in hii >»;?;,I % * Maxim Qorky DailuL.iWorkerC*«W tV* litA Bastilles Know” and the PabUthrd by thn Comprodaily Publishing Co., Inc., daily rurji Jond«r. »« M It. Writes Mooney 13th St., New York City. N. Y Telephone Al.gonquin 4-7956. Cable “DAIWORK Cultural Revolution Aidre a 4' and wail checks to the Daily Worker. 56 l. 13th St., New York. N. Y. IGAIN and again Tom Mooney n subscbiftion ratis. writes to tlie International La- By nail every where: One year, 96. six months. 93.50; *» month*. J-; 1 month. 7*e bor Defense to tell us how he ap- Workers Will Honor Revolutionary Writer at eirepHnjf Borough of Manhattan and Bronx, New York City. Foreign and preciates the of Canada, One tear. 15. *» month*. *.V moothv *3 pledge solidarity Central Opera Festival Tonight which this organization of the working class gives him. He thanks By PHILIP RAHV Labor, the power of the human, us, too. for material aid. Here is literature is a mind and the power of the collec- of part of his latest letter: PROLETARIANThe working tive. Hatred the bourgeoisie, reality. class the relentless Social Fascists and Strug- world over is seething with opposition to the world new of is “Only those languishing in powers, courageously and capitalism another principal creative factor implicit capitalist bastilles on behalf of passionately striving to express its in each and every one of Gorky’s works. “If the their class, fully appreciate what dynamic, world-changing thought gle Black Belt enemy will not surrender,” he in and feeling in language of art it means to receive from their the wrote, and literature. Maxim Gorky, “we will destroy him.” ,‘J of the New Leader The guard article in the December issue comrades on the outside some whose fortieth year of white writers, the so- participa- scum ANthrows additional light on the attitude of the Socialist concrete proof that they have tion in the struggle on the cul- cial littering the capitals of Europe, have time and again pro- Party leadership towards the developing struggles taking not been forgotten—some token tural front we are now celebrat- ing, is the leading figure to whom that their comrades are thinking place in the South at the present time. In that article, James the proletarian and revolutionary of them and working for them. Denson Sayers, eulogized by the New Leader as a “veteran writers of all countries owe a great Class war prisoners arr always debt of gratitude, for Gorky is the Party, presents concrete pro- campaigner” of the Socialist a stimulated and heartened by father and teacher of this new ar- gram for the work of the Socialist Party in the South. such comradely greetings. tistic articulation. Sayers’ program is not ail individual proposal of one Gorky’s whole life as artist, Proletarian revolutionary greet- journalist, editor, leader of the organizer represents the basic line of the Party "Socialist" but Socialist ings, proletarian literary movement, on the Negro question—it is the concrete application of this line to the TOM MOONEY. fighter against imperialist war and specific situation now existing in the South. —a the present. .1 mean capitalist intervention lifetime "Lay off the TNT mine in the South for of intense and manifold class ac- Is problem must be left to evolution, Tom Mooney in the the race question. That a that believes In- tion dedicated to the interests of wait for riddanec of their tails. Labor Help just as our forefathers had to . ternational Defense. the proletariat—is a living symbol AVin white to and the race problem will him along with ILD by the Southerner Socialism supporting of the cultural revolution, a banner take care of itself naturally.’’ the Prisoners’ Winter Relief Cam- of victory in the hands of the class Sayers party against? paign, by the What is this "TNT” that Mr. warns his Winter Relief cou- to whom the future belongs. Lenin rising struggles the Negro masses, supported by pons! Sell them your friends. It is the of ever to clearly perceived immense arger of white toilers, against their brutal oppression and to: ILD, 80 the MAXIM GORKY. strata national Send all contributions class of Gorky’s creations: economic robbery shown in the present tremendous struggles in E. 11th St., New York Room value as Talla- City, “Gorky,” fie said, “is the greatest poosa County. Alabama. 430. claimed the end of Gorky as a representative of proletarian art. Against struggle Against the white land- creative writer. The proletarian whom is this directed? He has accomplished much, and lords and capitalists, against the brutal suppression and national op- class purpose of Gorky's writings will accomplish even more. ... In pression Negro people, against the economic robbery of Negro heats the foe's blood to the boiling of the the doinan of art Gorky is un- white landlords, the chain gang debt point. But Gorky cannot but, look croppers by the against system and doubtedly an the lynch terror class authority.” with at the vain and im- slavery, against hideous by which the white ruling ** disdain attempts to maintain its brutal robber rule. EDITED FIRST potent outcries of a Merezhkovsky, It is clear that the Socialist Party leaders recognize the Negro All in the Name Marxism PROLETARIAN ANTHOLOGY of a Zinaida Hippius, the lackeys question the keystone to any consideration of work in the South. of the Russian aristocrats, mer- as of In 1914, on the eve of the im- chants and whom It is also clear that they seek to obscure the character of the Negro edited the manufacturers perialist war, Gorky the iron broom of the question as one of national oppression. They attempt to make the white of revolution Socialist Party Increases Use “Marxian” Phrases to Cover Up Further first anthology proletarian lit- has out of the workers see the struggles of the Negroes, not as a struggle against capi- of Left ever At swept Workers’ erature published. that The talist-landlord slavery, but as a "race war" of the Negroes against the time even many of our own Fatherland. revolution has not white population. In this way they seek to conceal the interest of the Treachery Against Workers comrades considered proletarian weakened but deepened class to the of the Negroes their Gorky's genius. His last, work, working support struggles against op- art be dream. Gorky, pressors. to an idle By SAM I>ON ever, as a great thinker precise method. that Algernon however, faith "Klim Samgin’s Life,” paints a is for the established the no wonder then, was pulsing with social picture: in it The counter-revolutionary essence of this "socialist” position is quite purpose of robbing Marxism of They have established the fact dccla<ed in the New and enthusiasm for creative gigantic hun- THE Socialist New l oader in the its Lee recently the dreds of portraits clear. In this period of rising class and Negro liberation struggles, these .most important element, namely, that only through the dictatorship Leader that .Socialism can be potentialities of the masses. psychological arc “proposals" 1 toiling drawn and an entire class is mean not only to sanction the program of the Southern slave last few months is making he- revolution. It is not an accident of the proletariat, only through the built only when the capitalists “I am firmly convinced,” he wrote ana- drivers, but to give active support to the wildest chauvinist reaction lyzed in a concrete, historically in- roic attempts to become “Marx- at all that Engels in his famous establishment of a proletarian state will get out of the crisis! Help in tlie preface, "that the prole- against the Negro masses, be accompanied by tegrated manner. This work to inevitably the vicious ist.” Why this maneuver? Or is speech at the grave of Marx, in can we achieve a classless Social- the capitalists out of the tariat is capable of creating its own ex- class suppression of white workers. The Socialist Party leaders get poses the class enemy. "Klim are giving our statement, as Oneal, the offi- referring to Marx as the greatest ist society. crisis by accepting their murder- imaginative literature, just as it With direct aid to the white slave drivers in the present acts of violence cial S. P. “theoretician,” would call thinker, emphasized the point that in Samgin's Life” Gorky participates PRECISE METHOD ous attacks upon the working has succeeded creating—through the against the toiling masses. it, but another Communist “slan- “above all else, Marx was a revo- class and then we shall have great toil and colossal sacrifices—- most directly in struggle led by IS ESTABLISHED the Communist At, this time when more than ever the interests of the working class der?” Maybe it is not a maneuver lutionist.” Socialism! its own daily press. This convic- Party. demands the closest unity of Negro and white toilers to combat the in- at Perhaps The this article says GORKY FESTIVAL TONIGHT all. some of the new In 1930, Thomas In his book writer of A leading editorial in the New tion grew in me on the basis of creasing brutal attacks of the imperialists, Mr. Sayers’ “practical” pro- gentlemen “Marxists” of the So- further: “The ownership of indus- my constant of hun- stated: York Times, in its Dec. 18 issue, observation In the United States also we gram is directed to throttle the revolutionary struggles of the entire Party have had a real hon- “Wokers of the world unite, try must be taken from the cap- peasants cialist also helps to explain this attempt dreds of workers and are at present witnessing the rise working class, of which the liberation struggles of the Negroes is an in- est-to-goodness “change of heart.” you have only your chains to lose italist class and vested in society.” who, with greatest stubborn- of tegral to dress up the Socialist Party in the a proletarian literature.
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