The Communist

The Communist

' r - Have you read your copy of E~rl ~rowd er 's · t~test b ~o k , . I . n;E WAY OUT, yet? , l This book is .a magnificent 1guide , to the present events ·· which are r ~ha ping: the· world. It co'ntdins the articles ~ " . and utterances whiCh ~B r owder ·placed before the Amari.- '- can people durin g tne p a st~ ye ar. It i~ THE book of 'the 'a nti- w<~r movement in the Uhited States: ' I ' • I . j t --. J There is no better· wa y to ~d u eate the pe.,ople of Amer i c~ 0. l I ~ - fo ii; realization of tne path, they must t a:k~ to keep war fr om America than to get this ke en ana eloquent book b tr,cl·' , I -t ~ ') the Ge,erai, Secretary of tile Com~tmist Party into the hanas pf i~e puDiic. - - Browder IS ., Atlanta prison. But I his message to his fellow-Americans ~burns b rig~t.er ·t han, ever ip the pages· of THE WAY O~T. , Ans er the persecution of Ea r1 ·. Br.owder py buyin~ .his book 4nd sprel!dtpg iHa.r and wide ' ' through the factories, offices,' and home~ of the country. / ~ '( , } j • 256. pages. Price $I .00 • .Or der from LIBRARY PUB LISHERS P. 0. Box 148, Station D, New York, N". Y. VOL. XX, No. 6 JUNE, 1941 THE COMMUNIST A MAGAZINE OF THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF MARXISM-LENINISM PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF THE U.S.A. EDITOR: EARL BROWDER CONTENTS Editorials 483 Earl Browder and the Fight for Peace . William Z. Foster . 497 Earl Browder-Tribune of the People . Robert Minor. 505 How to Free Earl Browder Elizabeth Gurley Flynn 508 Browder Shows the Way Out Roy Hudson 513 Earl Browder-Leader of the Oppressed James W. Ford 529 Earl Browder-Molder of Party Cadres John Williamson 53ft Who Are the Friends of the Youth? . Max Weiss 546 Earl Browder and the Southern People Rob Fowler Hall . 557 Our Debt to Earl Browder William Schneiderm.an 563 Space and Time--Fonru; of the Existence of Matter George Kursanov . 5ft8 Entered as second class matter November 2, 1927, at the Post Of}tce at New York, N. Y., under the Act of March 3, 1879. Send checks, money orders and correspondence to THE COMMUNIST, P. 0. Box 148, Sta. D (50 East 13th Street), New York. Subscription rate: $2.00 a year; $1.00 for six months; foreign and Canada $2.50 a year. Single copies 20 cents. PRINTED IN THB U.S.A. ~209 MASTER AND SPREAD THE TEACHINGS OF EARL BROWDER! Michad s. in Nov M auer. M ASTER AND SPREAD THE TEACHINGS OF EARL BROWDER! EDITORIALS the occnsion, doing honor to the BROWDER'S FIFTIETH leader of the growing peace front BIRTHDAY of the American people, by inten- sifying the struggle on all fronts TO COMRADE BROWDER in against the reactionary and war Atlanta Penitentiary, imprisoned offensive of the American bour­ by the will of the imperialists and geoisie, demanding with ever in­ warmakers, our heartfelt loyalty creasing determination that Earl and devotion, on the occasion , of Browder be freed. his fiftieth birthday. Wall Street and its warmaking This occasion is being celebrated government want the people to for­ by masses of our people throughout get Browder. But the people are not the land. They are doing so through forgetting him. Even more than special mass meetings devoted to before his imprisonment, large the Browder Fiftieth Anniversary masses of the people think of Brow- Campaign launched by the National der, study his work and writings, Committee of the Communist Party. join the struggles which he cham­ They are doing so by circulating pions and leads, and prepare to join and studying Browder's writings, actively the ranks of the Party parti:!ularly his latest book, The which·he heads. No; the people are Way Out,* in order to master the not forgetting Browder. teachings of Lenin and Stalin, the And why so? Because the people teachings that will lead them to cannot forget the war, and the victory over their exploiters and imperialist offensive and capitalist oppressors. They celebrate Brow­ exploitation. The masses of the peo­ der's fiftieth birthday by building ple are compelled to take daily the circulation of the Daily Worker notice of these evils and to fight and by rallying more closely and against them. And, as they do so, in greater numbers around Brow­ they must think of Browder in the der's pnrty-the vanguard party of Atlanta Penitentiary to which he the American working class and of was cor..fined by the ruling class for all working people-and by sending championing and leading these into its ranks new thousands of struggles. They think of Browder party members to reinforce the as their spokesman and leader struggle of the people against the whom they now need more than warmak€rs. They finally celebrate ever before, who has left an indel­ ible imprint upon their thoughts *International Publishers, New York, 1941, and emotions in the many years of 256 pp., $1. his active work in the cause of 483 484 EDITORIALS the people, especially in the last event that opened up the present decade when he stood at the head epoch of the world socialist revolu­ of the Communist Party of the tion, Earl Browder had found the United States. answer to the new fundamental From his early youth, nourished problems and tasks facing the by the revolutionary traditions of American working class in this our people and working class, Earl epoch. He found the path to the Browder has been in the very thick creation of the party of a new type of the progressive struggles of -the Communist Party-which this American labor and its allies among epoch calls for. He thus became a the working people. A Left-winger founder and builder of the Com­ in the Socialist Party, prior to the munist Party of the United States, emergence of the Communist Party, leading the fight against reformism and a militant progressive in the and Social-Democratism on a new trade union movement, Earl Brow­ and higher plane, in association der always stood on the advanced with Ruthenberg, Foster and the sector of the class struggle, in the other known revolutionary Marx­ vanguard ranks of labor's fighting ists in America. army, associating with such lead­ How then can the people forget ers of our class and people as Debs, Browder even though separated Haywood, Ruthenberg and Foster. from them by the walls of the Led to Marxism by his theo­ Atlanta Penitentiary? They cannot retical studies and practical lead­ and they will not, despite all efforts ership in the class struggle, the by the ruling class to bring it about. teachings of Marxism which he so Browder continues to influence the giftedly advances and popularizes minds and struggles of the masses, among the masses, Earl Browder vitally and potently, just as Thael­ has come naturally and inevitably mann does, and Prestes, and Zapo­ to the great continuators of Marx­ tocky, and Semard, and the other ism-to Lenin and Stalin. He em­ leaders of the people that are kept braced the teachings of Lenin and captive by the bourgeoisie of Ger­ Stalin as the application and fur­ many, France, England and the ther development of Marxism to the United States. For these are the new conditions and tasks of the best sons of their peoples, their era of imperialism and socialist nations, their working classes. revolution. He embraced these Capitalist spokesmen in the teachings in the process of struggle United States are trying to mislead against the first imperialist world the people into believing that Brow­ war (1914-1918), which he met as der is a "foreign agent," that his a working class internationalist, op­ political work and leadership are posing America's entrance into it "un-American." What travesty of and being jailed for his opposition truth and fairness! And the truth by the Roosevelts of that time. In is becoming known to ever wider the teachings of Lenin and Stalin masses of our people. It is the truth which led to the victory of the great that Browder and his party are not October Socialist Revolution, the only an inseparable and vital part EDITORIALS 485 of th~ American nation but one that Marxist historical evaluations of the represents most fully and thor­ past revolutionary struggles for oughly the best interests of the bourgeois democracy in the United American people-in the present as States, Browder has given the for the future. working class and its allies new Those familiar with Browder's weapons of struggle against impe­ work and writings, and their name rialist and capitalist reaction today is becoming legion, know full well as well as a clearer understanding how much he has done to revitalize of how to fight for the new and and activize the revolutionary tra­ higher type of democracy, for so­ ditions of the American people. cialist democracy, the true democ­ These revolutionary traditions of racy fur the people which has been struggle for national independence, established and developed in the for democracy for the people, for Soviet Union. What greater service the abolition of slavery, for world could one render the American peo­ peace and international brother­ ple at a time of mounting capitalist hood; struggles associated with the reaction, destruction of the people's names of Jefferson, Paine, Lincoln, civil liberties, imperialist world war Douglass; struggles and traditions and the most far-reaching crisis of that are the just pride of the Amer­ the capitalist system? ican people and their rightful claim Applying to American conditions to progressive leadership in that and tasks the method and principles epoch of world development when of the most advanced revolution­ feudal reaction and remnants of ary and scientific theory-Marxism­ feudalism were the main obstacle Leninism-Earl Browder has been to so:!ial progress; struggles and blazing a path for successful pro­ traditions which the ideologists of gressive action by the masses of our the American bourgeoisie in the people headed by its working class.

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