Class Struggle 1934

Interesting resource. See the two excerpts. See especially the
conclusion to the second for a good joke.

http://www.weisbord.org/FourTwo.htm

CLASS STRUGGLE
Volume 4 Number 2 .......................... February 1934


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Featuring:
Cuba -- Litvinoff's First Payment To Roosevelt ..... by Albert
Weisbord
Roosevelt's Constitutional Dictatorship ............. by Sylvia
Freeman
The "New Deal" and the Negro ........................... by N.
Schwartz
New York's C.W.A. Laborers .............................. by Phil
Lewis
On the "Jewish Problem" ............................... by Leon
Trotsky
Productivity Under the Crisis ....................... by Richard
Childs
Fascist Organizations in the U.S. ..................... by Murray
Braun
The Real History of Unity ................................ by Vera
Buch
New York Food Workers Unite

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CUBA -- LITVINOFF'S FIRST PAYMENT TO ROOSEVELT
by Albert Weisbord

That Russia and the U.S. have entered into an alliance at the expense
of the international revolutionary movement is becoming clearer and
clearer as the events unfold themselves since Litvinoff made his
little deal with Roosevelt for the recognition of Russia. The terms of
the pact were clear enough, they were to the effect that neither the
Communist International nor any other body on Russian soil could act
for the overthrow of the social system of the U.S. or in its
territories. Many of the comrades thought that this was only a trick
on the part of the Soviet diplomats to fool Roosevelt. They could not
believe that the Communist International meant to make peace with
Roosevelt.

Unfortunately, the case is far worse than even we dared to think a
month ago. The Communist Parties under Stalin have dropped all
pretense. They have become the open agents of American Imperialism.
They have rushed into the Revolution of Cuba to save Cuba for
Roosevelt and the American Imperialists. They have adopted a program
in which they call upon the Cuban masses not to seize the American
enterprises, but to protect American interests and to drop all
anti/Imperialist agitation..

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ROOSEVELTS CONSTITUTIONAL DICTATORSHIP
by Silvia Freeman

The August 15, 1933, issue of the CLASS STRUGGLE (Volume III, No. 7)
presented a complete analysis of Bonapartism in the Roosevelt regime.
The general process was summarized in the following way: "The local
and state forces give way to the federal forces; the federal forces do
away with the old checks and balance system and become more and more
centralized; the Houses of Congress and the Supreme Court give way to
the President; and the Party gives way to the Leader, the Strong Man."
The fascisation of the governmental apparatus becomes evident when the
scattered data are brought together.

The liberals, recovering their second wind, console themselves with
the thought that after all the Constitution remains to stand guard
over the democratic rights guaranteed in it. So long, they sigh, as
the Constitution remains, we have nothing to fear of dictators nor of
fascism. These nearsighted bourgeois apologists fail to see that the
most powerful of the grants to the President have been through the use
of the Constitution. In fact, the Constitution provides for tremendous
potentialities of presidential power.

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These steps are certainly in line with the significant speech made by
Berle when he said, "If private functions can't get there the
government may have to take over certain of them . . . The government
has had to move into the economic field to a degree hitherto unknown."

Marxism, however, points out that as capitalism becomes State
capitalism, as capitalism comes to a head, it becomes topheavy and
topples over. This the workers of the U.S. will yet demonstrate!