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OCIALIST APPEAL an Organ of Revolutionary Socialism Published Monthly by Socialist Appeal, Room 719 — 35 S OCIALIST APPEAL An Organ of Revolutionary Socialism Published Monthly by Socialist Appeal, Room 719 — 35 S. Dearborn St., Chicago, HI. Subscription: One dollar for 24 issues Vol. Ill—No. 1 JANUARY, 1937 Price 5 Cents CONTENTS Editorial: Communist Party and Political Felix Morrow: Proposed Solutions to Spanish Asylum 1 Crisis 6 James Burnham: His Excellency's Loyal Arne Swabeck: The Strike Movement Begins.... 8 Opposition 2 Albert Goldman: Toward Socialist Clarity 10 Political Asylum HE STALINIST campaign against the right of asylum The considerable space devoted to an accurate picture of T for Trotsky is meeting with serious reverses. the meeting in the Socialist and the Jewish press, effec- The Stalinists had banked heavily on the ability of tively spiked the Stalinist distortions. Lombardo Toledano, unofficial Soviet representative in The SOCIALIST CALL and LABOR ACTION have Mexico and secretary of the CTM (Federation of Mexican commented adequately on the issues dealt with at the Workers), to supply them with a "workingclass" protest New York mass meeting. A few words need to be said, against Trotsky's asylum in Mexico. But Toledano has however, on the "closing remarks at the Plenary Session been unable to deliver the goods. At this writing, he has of the Central Committee, C.P.U.S.A. December 6," of had several meetings of his Executive Committee without Earl Browder, which were printed together with much securing from it an endorsement of his anti-Trotsky line. other display stuff in the December 17th "DAILY In addition, some of the m'ost powerful unions of the WORKER." CTM have declared for "Trotsky's asylum, among them Browder justifies hostility to Trotsky's right of asylum the Oil Workers, the Graphic Arts Unions, the Federa- anywhere, on the ground that Trotsky has been proved tion of Construction Workers. The December issue of an assassin. And in the course of justifying this position, the official organ of the Construction Federation has just Browder revises, in all fundamentals, the attitude of arrived; much of it is devoted to telegrams sent by unions Bolshevism toward asylum in capitalist countries. We to President Cardenas supporting his granting of refuge can touch on only a few points: to Trotsky. 1. Marxists have never fought to limit asylum in In America, the Committee for the Defense of Leon capitalist countries to revolutionists only. On the con- Trotsky has secured the adherence of perhaps the largest trary, one could cite numerous instances when Marxists and most distinguished group of intellectuals and publicists defended the right to asylum of capitalist, reactionary ever joined together for a defense issue. Its first public refugees. And in no case have Marxists campaigned meeting, December 18th in Newi York City, filled the against asylum for any capitalist refugee seeking to Hotel Center with 2500 people packed to the doors, over enter a capitalist country. Why? Because Marxists know a thousand more turned away, and with nearly a thou- that any limitation on the right of asylum, like any sand dollars in the collection. It is bringing out for mass limitation on any democratic right, will inevitably be distribution a book, "World Voices on the Moscow utilized against workers' use of the given democratic Trial," compiled by Sidney Hook and Max Nomad, of right. For example, no revolutionary Marxist has ever representative labor and liberal opinion in the leading supported a bill depriving political groups of the right to countries. Local subcommittees of the American Com- meet, publish a paper, etc., because no matter how ex- mittee are beginning to function in San Francisco, Boston, plicitly framed to refer to reactionaries, such a bill would Minneapolis, Chicago, and other cities. inevitably be used against the labor movement. The New York Meeting blind hatred of Stalinism against Trotsky has thus reached the point of wiping out the fundamental foundations of The American Stalinist lynch campaign against Trotsky the Marxist position on democratic rights. came to a sudden hiatus after the enormously success- ful New York meeting. The only DAILY WORKER Police Psychology of Stalinists comment on the meeting came several days later, in a 2. "We are against asylum anywhere in the world for whining article addressed to Norman Thomas. The article those who make assassination their weapon of political made no mention of the speeches of Suzanne La Follette, struggle, no matter who they may be," declares Browder. James T. Farrell, and Max Shachtman; was equally silent And as examples, he mentions the assassinations of King about the extraordinary impression created when Herbert Alexander and French Minister Barthou! Solow, as his Am'erican editor, read excerpts from Carl What is the traditional Bolshevik position on this Von Ossietsky's writings excoriating earlier frame-ups question? We need only refer to the celebrated case of engineered by Stalin. The article mentioned Norman the assassination of the Russian reactionary, Colonel Thomas' speech only to pervert it. And it concentrated Trepov, by Very Zasulich. Though Marxists fought on a few remarks by Max Eastman in which he stated a against assassination as a political weapon, nevertheless position of his own in the Soviet Union which, as he said, the Bolsheviks did not condemn her. Thanks to the is not "shared by the orthodox Trotskyists." Thomas, European labor movement, she secured asylum in Switzer- who followed Eastman, while pointing out that he and land. And there none other than Lenin sat with Vera Eastman differed,vigorously emphasized that the issues in- Zasulich on the board of "Iskra," the first Bolshevik volved in Trotsky's case were clear and unambiguous. paper! Yet these Stalinists have grown so utterly cor- SOCIALIST APPEAL rupt that they dare to ascribe to Leninism the police- was accused of inciting them to assassination, and was psychology of refusing asylum to those representatives expelled from France. According to the Stalinist proposal of the national minorities wlio, if mistaken in their weap- to "outlaw assassination by international agreements," ons of political struggle, nevertheless fought against Trotsky would then have received asylum nowhere else. King Alexander and Barthou from progressive consi- One could list a dozen other examples of what this reac- derations ! tionary Stalinist doctrine implies. But enough. Stalin- 3. "We will" declares Browder "support every sincere ismj is attempting to wipe out the classical Bolshevik effort to outlaw assassination by international agree- position on the right of asylum! ments." This is even more serious a revision of Marxism As to the alleged motivation for Stalinist revisionism, than the previous points. All any capitalist nation need namely that Trotsky plotted to assassinate Soviet leaders, do, after making such an international agreement—the the American Socialist party has declared itself ready to Soviet government has already proposed such agreements give the Stalin government an opportunity to meet —is to accuse a political exile of murder, try him in his Trotsky face to face before an international workingclass absence and secure a verdict of guilty, and then demand commission. Trotsky himself has repeatedly declared his he be turned over to the hangman by the authorities of desire to be heard before such a commission. But Stalin- the country where he has taken refuge. Is this not ex- ism dare not face such a commission, it has no case which actly what Hitler has just attempted to secure from will stand up outside of a Stalin-controlled court. Every Switzerland in the case of the Communist Heinz Neu- Socialist should patiently explain to Communist party mann? In 1916 Russian soldiers in Marseilles mutinied members what a revelation of bankruptcy is stored in and killed their colonel; Trotsky, as editor of Nashe Slovo, these facts. His Excellency's Loyal Opposition BY JAMES BURNHAM QRIS SOUVARINE, in his monumental work on in this illusion will, in the minds of many sincere work- Stalin, preserves an unusual degree of objectivity. ers, cover a vast multitude of crimes. Belief in this il- He is not, however, able to avoid a cry of pain and an lusion would scarcely hold up if Stalin were to declare: apology to his reader when he finds it necessary to quote "We have altogether abandoned the international revolu- from the speeches or writings of Stalin's protagonists. tion ; we have given up the class struggle; we are liquidat- And, indeed, the influence of the style of the great chief ing the revolution inside of the Soviet Union; we are in- of the world proletariat—that style compounded of "ele- terested only in the maintenance of our own power and mentary dogmas, reworked platitudes, tiresome repetitions privilege; for this end we are prepared to sacrifice the stated with that accent of absolute certainty which be- workers in Qermany, Austria, Spain or elsewhere, and trays utter ignorance"—is perhaps not the least among to turn them over to the imperialist war in any country his sins. For the parrot-like imitation by which the little that will ally itself with us or promise neutrality." This chiefs throughout the Comintern try to insure their term is the actual policy of Stalin; but, to be acceptable, it of office includes, alas, imitation of the indescribably must be hidden in an elaborate context of the traditional tedious style of their master. and tim'e-honored phrases of Marxism and Leninism. I hesitate, therefore, to recommend study of little chief These phrases stimulate a favorable emotional response Browder's report to the Central Committee Plenum, in the hearer, producing a kind of mental anesthesia under delivered on December 4th, and reprinted in the DAILY which the treacherous needle ca'n be inserted without WORKER of December 14th. Browder is so apt a parrot any effective opposition from the patient.
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