The most entirely impractical suggestion is made in a_ leading article. After a gibe at the reformist Socialists and Labourites who advocate ce-operation with the employing class to restore Capitallem to a normal level, and who would thereafter carry on the fight for Socialism on constitutional j lines, the Editor says:—
"The Communists and a growing section of working-class "opinion hold that the workers should resist with all their might any attempts on the part of capitalism to organize itself at their expense, and that they should organize their forces to take advantage of Capitalism'e difficulties and overthrow the system."
To the writer's chagrin the "mighty intellectuals" amongst the reformists sneered at this point of view, and the whole force of the traditional Labour movement, to quote his own words, was utilized to prevent its acceptance,—which says something for the commonsense of the Labour Party Is it surprising if British working-men are getting tired of the stuff that is being served up to them?
Take some of the maxims taught in the "Proletarian" or Red Flag Sunday-Schools to children who are carried in lorries to swell the ranks of May-Day processions; I have beard them myself on many octasions singing their revolutionary song.
These are three maxims out of 10, picked at random 2—Thou shall not be a patriot, for a patriot. is an international blackleg. Your duty to yourself and your class demands that you be a citizen of the 5.—Thou shalt teach, revolution, for revolution means the abolition of the present, political State and the end of Capitalism, and the raising in their place an industrial republic, 6.—Thou shalt demand on behalf of your class the complete surrender of the capitalist class and all the means of production, distribution, and ex. change, with the land and all that it contains, and by so doing you shall abolish class rule.
"Come workers sing a rebel song, song of love and hate, Of love unto the lowly and hatred to the great!" is a refrain that sits badly on childish lips, and there-is another which savours of the Atheism. these folk preach "Hold fast to the morals of your class Head not the Gospel-Cringing band; For truths' they preach to you ure every seldom true, And what is true they don't under stand."
Now for the solution of it all.
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