The Daily Worker Newspaper, July 4, 1927, Page 5

THE DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK MONDAY, JULY 4, 1927 Page Five j } FEN Oe the espect because it is gether a row of recently, in a George LY WORKER , we find an their forefathers of 150 years ago.” pacifist r both. i By WILLIAM F..KRUSE. Two diametrically opposite n- swers have been given to ‘this ques- ion in ot? press. One type is rep- | resented by an article “Whose Revo- lution. Is It?” by Bert Wolfe (Work. ers’ Monthly, July 1926), several re- cent book reviews by Jay Lovestene, and a DAILY WORKER © artic) (March, 1926) by Gertrude Brown, “Dictatorship in the American Revo- lution.”. None of these- may be en- 'tirely beyond criticism but they would seem to give at least the correct Marxist-Leninist approach, and point the road along which American Com- munists have much. to do. The last of these mentioned does heritage 1 the ». 192 chants, farmers and blacksmiths of days against the landed aristo- Carlson uses | é M and royal government cliques. ve of their | Comrade terror, applied by the revolu- tribunals of that time. It is to popularize the excellent i measures of the pa- “Committ of Correspon- rst, of dual gov- {tell us in effect that: tion was not (1) The rev entally a bours geois nationa uggle at all, not a 1 2) that only a small part of the American | people were in favor of it and some of these coerced by the prototypes of Ku Klux K ) that it was triotic dence"—organs, at ernment, and then of the sole reyolu- tiona government. These Bad Smugglers. ommittees of a ragged lot that owed its very ex- } Correspondence”): “Their rule was/istence to the British general's love tyrannical and despotic in the for American independence. In short, treme. Even where the loyalists w: | there was no revolution and the her- in a clear imajority they were so|itage of what struggle there wes | roundly defeated, persecuted; and goes to the Klan! Let us take up | hounded out of the country that they these points one by one. ' ‘ever opened their heads again’. . . \ Those who get in the way of a rev- olutionary committee may complain of their being “tyrannical and des- potic,” our only interest in the sub- ject is that they be timely and effec- _ tive. The Social-Democratic Anti-Reyolu- were strong for independence from the mother country.” “John Haneock was known as the Prince of Smug- glers and was to stand trial in Bos- ton (he was actually to be transported to England for trial because no Amer- ican jury would convict an WFKE) for smuggling, the very day when the battle of Lexington was fought. Simons remarks that like all smug- glers, Hancock cared little for the forms of law, and trusted to bribery and violence to secure his ends. When his sloop, Liberty, was endeavoring to run the customs he first tried to of the revolutionar A Revolutionary Revolution. 1.—The revolution was not a real revolution at all hut (quoting Simons, again uncritically) “The American phase of an English civil war. It was not so much a conflict between colonies and English government, as | 2 | Congres: measures applied by the mer-| m, it was revolu-} fall into a subjective terminology, 3. Was jt really a smu._.v: tsually associated with oppone of lence (!) to secure ends, andiputsch! “We néed not wonder that; revolutionary © activ (Spéaking | (4) that the revolutionary army was | smugglers, rum and slave traders, {it was one aspect of a war between | different di ions of the English peo-» ple on both sides of the Atlantic. It was part of the violent upheaval of society by which the capitalist class ‘overthrew feudalism and came into! power.” This is not true. | While there was a political strug- | igle between whigs and tories going on in Britain, the final political over- throw of feudalism had taken place tionary Trend. Among the leading exponents of this school are James O’Neal, A. M. Simons, Allan Benson, Irwin St. John Tucker, All belong to the numerous petty-bourgeois muck-raker school Coming down’to the American Revy- olution and the causes that led up to it, we find O’Neal saying: “Smug- gling became so popular with the bribe the officials and, f#ling, locked up the guard in a cabin and unloaded} the sloop under the protection of a gang of thugs secured for the geca- sion,” Simons remarks! Naturally! not? But how can we uncritically ac- cept Simon’s interpretation of such an event? but there is not an inkling of the Why | Seven paragraphs in this | long article are devoted to smuggling, | all sense of gratitude toward Great) ilar battles had been fought out in| smuggler of those da’ Britain when France was endeavoring | Carolina, New York and elsewhere |first weapons to w to annex the colonies to Canada”|to the complete rout of those who | bourgeoisie resorts in a (p. 106)—this was at a time when/ had pipe-dreams of transplanting a against an exploiter nation is the boy- One of the Britain was fighting to capture the | feudal society to a new world where | cott—see China. The only way an in-| French colonies for the purpose of | there was on open frontier and every |dustrially undeveloped country can closing them to Yankee products. | colonist had his own rifle. It was|/make a boycott effective against a \ There is little cause for gratitude the bourgeois republic of Cromwell| nation which controls the seas is by ‘here. As soon as England had fin-| that passed the first of the Naviga-| smuggling. The fact that it is pro- \ished France as a major colonial pow- | gation Acts against which the colo-|fitable to the smuggler makes it none | yer in North America (1763) the real] nists fought, and decades of. whig the less a revolutionary weapon, and | suppression of American commerce’ ministers had tried to enforce them.’ Hancock was not unjustified in calling and industry began, which quickly led | The whigs used the American revolt! his sloop “Liberty.” Bourgeois “lib- colonists who bore the brunt of the| tration but very few of them favored/ and with whom the rising young war against the French in Canada, complete independence. merchants and shippers that they lost | more than a century before, and sim-| revolutionary role played by the! h a colonial) struggle | up to the revolution. It was really the as a club against the tory adminis-|erty,” of course, liberty to trade where | Marx sug-' American bourgeoisie pleased, but! not for the sake of England, but be- | cause’ they were fighting for pos-| session of the western lands. Colonial | fishermen and farmers captured the gteat fortress of Louisberg, only to see Britain give it back in the course gests that Edmund Burke, one of the that was one of the things that the most vigorous champions of Amer- fight was about. “These smugglers— ica, was bribe& (Capital, Vol..1, p. and fishing as well as trading boat: : g boats 833). Certainly we know that John | came under this caegory, the banks Wilkes, the stormy petrel of British | hoing a smugglers’ paradise—gave a of European diplomatic horse-trad/ “flattering letter and a valuable pres- radicalism, graciously accepted a good account of themselves in the to winning the revolution. cott movement of 1769 brought some relief, and again the First Continental in 1774, called for a boy-| cott against all British goods, and left it to these aforementioned revo- lutionary Committees of Correspon- dence to see to it that it was carried out. (Wertenbaker, The American People, p. 60). Before the revolution The boy- more than a third of the total Bri- tish imports came from Ar 1, and more than one-foufth of her exports was shipped there. (Day, History of Commerce in U. S. A.*p. 9.) The boycott hit the British merchants so rely that they were the loudest nanding @e repeal of the Stamp Of the million and a half pounds in Act. -/ of tea consumed in America not more than 10 per eent was imported legal- ly—gn unsmuggled tea was boycotted. (Moore: Industrial History ef the American People, ‘p. 200.) In the light of these facts the story of Han- cock and the revenue officer takes on a different complexion, and between these two worthies Communists will} certainly root for John and his nigh of thugs secured for the occasion”— very likely they may have becn s caulkers whose daily political d sions became so famous that the {said to have bequeathed us the very word, “caucus,” without which our vo- cabulary is hardly complete. Who Won the War? 4.—“The revolutionary army was a ragged lot. . . . Desertions grew at an alarming pace. (Citing Hart on | whipping soldiers). . . It is im- portant to remember that General Howe, who was in command of the | British forces . . Was a most in- tensely partisan Whig. . He was absolutely opposed to any use of force against them;: believed them to! be in the right and entitled to vic- tory.” Has there ever been a revolutionary army that was not a “ragged lot’? The French ar of the Great Revo- | lution, the Russian Red Guard and Red Army—were they models of “What the Young Man Will Wear’? It may be argued that it is no dis- credit to call them a ragged lot. But is this a sympathetie or even accurate picture to be drawn by a revolutionist of a great revolutionary struggle? But as to Howe. It is true that he | was accused by the British Tories of not trying hard enough to lick the rebels, and as a scapegoat to save British pride against the defeat suf- | fered in the colonies this story is often made use of. The fact remains that |Howe was operating in an unknown jeountry without roads, 3,000 miles Vaway from his home base and that he ing. Not gratitude but land and pow- \er was involved in these colonial) wars, Borrowing a Wrong Approach. revolution, they fitted out as priva- was fighting not against an army but teers manned by a force equal in num-| against a hostile population. He did “4 . bers to the entire revolutionary army,|not do so badly. The Americans won a y , | of the aver Contry, p. 69. and their depredations on England’s!not a single pitched battle and every | Reyolutionists or Kluxers? |shipping while she was fighting not/|coast town at one time or another fell | ent” from his admirers, the. Boston patriots.* (Daly: “Radical Pioneers | From such social-democratic and | bourgeois reformist writers we can expect no other conclusion. them much valuable data can be tak-| part in and for the revolution. . en, and thus time saved in research, Large numbers of colonists were! the “smugglers though even here some caution is nec- forced into the war much against) ————— essary, since an examination of or- their own desires. Our intrepid [™ | iginal sources will undoubtedly bring “Fathers of the revolution knew how leven. more striking material to light to apply pressure and resort to force- than the reformist historian gives.’ ful means in order to gain support-! | Where the danger comes in is when jers.” (Then follows a long citation | jour comrades take this material un- from the pro-English Fisher: “True | \critieally, without distinguishing be- History”) “Truly the Ku Kluxers and | jtween worthless middle-class social-/100 percenters of today, with their J temoeratie dicta and really valuable | methods of violence and intimidation, | ‘Source material. 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Les Dances Poloytsienne Du ALEXIS KOSLOFF of the House and his famous ballet—also Ballet Internationale and Divertissements. What is Marxian Interpretation of the American Revolution? country, continue the fight. Finally, with the aid of a French army and 2 they forced the British to quit. Wash%ngton’s regular army was out- numbered, outgeneralied and whipped at Long Island, at White Plains, and in other battles, but with only three regiments he made brilliant mid- winter guerilla raids on Trenton and Again, the Mohawk Val- ley county militia shattered, one at a time, three British armies that were tended to cut the colonies in half by occupying New York from Canada to the sea. Gen. Gates cut to pieces by Cornwallis in Ch: ton and Cam- den, but he was succeeded by the guerilla bands of Sumter, Pickens, Marion and Green, which saved the revolution in the South, as did the epic march of George Rogers Clark in the West. These back-woodsmen ap- plied real partizani_ tactics, Green wrote, “We fight, get beat, rise and fight again.” And in the end they held their foes to the coast towns. De-bunk, but don’t De-revolutionise. In resentment against the classic bourgeois historians it is to be ex- pected that protesting writers will deal ruthlessly with the pretty straw- men, personifications of all the bour- »|geois virtues, that have been made out of the very ordinary (and some- time extraordinary) speciments their time and class—the “Father This goes by the name of de-bunking history, it is a very necessary process, the lot more of it to be done, but in stripping away the halos we should leave the heads. The de-bunk- ing process must not result in the de-revolutionising of actual revolu- tionists, albeit bourgeois ones, As “Al Can't Be Elected,” Senator Hefflin Tells 3,000 Ku Klux Friends Safe among 3,000 friends at a mtct- ing of the Ku Klux Klan in Richmond Hills, Queens, Senator J. T. 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LONDON, July 3.—An earthquake . . “only a small portion of the set-/ and Holland as well, and had aligned | Americans were strong—where every was registered by the seismograph at From |tlers in the Colonies took an active |against her the armed neutrality of | popular revolutionary army is strong-| Kew at 9:23 o’clock this morning, be- . ./the rest cf Europe—this cctivity of |est—was in ability to survive defeat) lieved to be-in the direction of the living off the! Island of Crete, in the Balkan area. Coney Island Stadium Concert CONEY ISLAND, N. Y. CE IGOR with Metropolitan Opera jon Square, Room 714, YERAL ADMISSION $1. | That Bosses Fear | and | EVERY BOOK REVIEWED | | OR ADVERTISED IN | The DAILY WORKER | you will find at | THE JIMMIE HIGGINS | BOOK SHOP | 106 University Place | | NEW YORK. | Save Sacco, Vanzetti! Strike Thursday, July 7 sd * Marx puts it in the “18th Brumaire”: “Unheroic though bourgeois society may seem, heroism “had been needed to bring it into being—heroi self- sacrifice, the reign of and the slaughter on t True, this is only one side of the to power of the bourgeoisie, the graft- ing, stealing, treachery to {ts allies, etc., are another aspect. True also that Marx speaking here of the French revolution, but to a somewhat more limited degree all these things ent in the struggle for of the native American bour- Theirs was a real revolution, geoisie. and we have no reason whatever to d this. More than that, it was a managed revolution from which there are lessons to be learned by Communists. This article does not purport to give a Marxian analysis of the American Revolution, it merely tries to point out some pitfalls to be avoided by the comrades who undertake this task. It is indeed encouraging to note that one of the fields to which our new theoretical organ is to be devoted is precisely this one of American his- tory. It should be obvious that it re- quires much more than citations from Simons and O’Neal to give us a real f basis for such work. ALL HANDS OUT '.| workers section, will PARTY ACTIVITIES — NEW YCRK-NEW JERSEY Educational Meeting. An educational meeting of the new morning international branch, night be held next Tuesday, 10:30 a. m. at 108 East 14th St. D. Benjamin will lecture on the American revolution. Camp Registration Continues Two More Weeks. Registration for the Young Pioneers Camp will continue for two more weeks. Arrangements are being made to accommodate 50 more chil- dren. This will allow a few more to go in the first group which leaves New York Tuesday, July 5th. Regi tration at 108 14th St, daily be- tween 10 a. m. and 8 p. m., Room 41. The rate is $10 a week. Party Units, Attention! 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