• ~ . I ~ WHY LENIN SUCCEEDS ( j ) Henri Guilbeaux, writing in "Moscow," states "H istory has known political gen­ iuses, great reform­ ists, audacious and glorious conquerors, but L enin alone, up to this day, has subordi­ nated his personality, his power, to a do c­ trine which he pro­ fessed at a period when he, humble, dis­ dained and calum­ niated had propagated - Marxism , }. , ' L enin is the very personification of the theory and practice of M arxism_" "Marx's wonderful critico­ analytical mind. "---Lenin. ,LENIN .. ':~ Works of Marx ~nd Erzgels Other Classical Works Capital- I. Processes of ~a pi~ali l' t Pmdu,~: ,,~-' .• , ',..> J;>o~iti ve <?utcome of Ph~l osoPltY~Dietig~n.. _:t: $1.50 tion ____ , __ __ __:.. ____ ___ < ___,<'''---- -- ----..:~- ~, $2}50 i,Phllosollh;lcal Essays-Dletzgfn ___ , __ _____ .. , ___ ___ ,_"-""_ _'. 1.50 Capital-II. 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No. 1 [Serial No. 46J January" 1922 the old labor tactics as the harvesting machine has super­ seded the sickle of the peasant. We must put our brains COMMENT into the technique of labor organization and tactics; we must solve specific problems and situations. The Face of Gompers The left wing must stop dreaming of what is happening in Russia and Italy and Germany; we are living in America. HE face of Gompers is the face of reality. We give you Paste the face of Gompers on your wall, fellow-citizens of T Boardman Robinson's portrait of it for the New Year, the world, and remember every morning that our brains fellow-humanitarians, and bid you paste it on the wall paper must match the brains of this ruthless old lion, and that of yo¥r furnished room, to be stared at every morning before workers are realists and follow Gompers only because they break~~st. It will do you good. Absorbing the iron facts think he guarantees them a job and a living wage. We must written"on that face will make you hard and strong. It will prove to them that he is inefficient and old-fashioned, and teach you that you are living in America, in the year 1922, that despite all his militancy and vigor, he is fighting for and that national progress is impossible until we have solved them with weapons of bronze when there are weapons of fine the problems symbolized by that strange, hard-bitten, prac­ steel at hand. tical, sardonic fiery countenance. The face of Gompers is the face of reality in America, as The hope (>f America is in the labor movement, and the the face of the Czar was the face of reality in Russia. main part of ~he labor movement of America is in the A. F. America, although the richest, is the most socially backward of L. It is h~teful to admit this fact, as hateful as it was nation in the world because the labor movement is back-" to the Victoria,n divines to admit that an Asiatic monkey ward. In America it is Gompers that must first be met and was the father of th~ human race and not Adam. But it overthrown-as in Russia it was the Czar-before the great is so. Admit it and gird your loins and become stronger change can begin. for the fray. So look at the Great Stone Face every morning, dear Until the A. F. of L. is lifted out of its rut nothing great fellow-worker, and remember how long the Czar and his can happen here. There will be strike after strike, wage­ forefathers reigned, and how their jobs seemed cinched for cuts and wage-gains, open shop versus closed shop, the end­ eternity, and what finally happened to the regal line. less struggle on the part of labor to make wage-slavery Happy New Year! MICHAEL GoLD. hearable, "a fair day's work ~or a fair day's pay." j Gompers is not an individual despot ruling by whim; he and llis cor­ rupt machine hold power because they express the puzzled, As to Discrimination halting mind of the American worker. The everyday strug­ N an editorial last month I accused the yellow socialists of gle, bloody and endless, to maintain merely the unions, col­ I a lack of intellectual discrimination. I said that they lective bargaining and a living wage, has absorbed all of the never could distinguish the principles upon which we split vitality of the American working-class. The administra­ from them and therefore we ought not to be influenced by tion of this great corporation in its ordinary business has their comments, either for or against our policies. In reply swamped the leadership, and made it a bureaucracy of tired an editorial writer in the New York Call advises the Com­ and disillusioned job-holders and wretched, disillusioned munists not to take me very seriously. "Within a few years," grafters. Strong and revolutionary-minded men get jobs in he says, "the incomparable Max has successively championed, the A. F. of L. and in three. or four years are as "practical" with about equal fervor and lack of saving qualification, as Brindell and Gompers and James Duncan. The nose of Woodrow Wilson, the Soviet methods in Russia, and the the A. F. of L. has been held too close to the grindstone, and American Communist movement. In turn Max has duly its leaders have become as incapable of thinking new thoughts repudia ted all these." as the average business man is incapable of thinking them. In that brief remark are contained three examples of the That is their real crime.