LAST DITCH OF DEMOCRACY - Majority Rights

eh; on your part. You meant, of course, MEANT to set the two great
powers at each other’s throats once again and to come in when both
were exhausted. Might overdo it? Might find yourselves in the grip of
the new pincers? It used to be felt that the Americans would get more
soaviter in modo, than the Germans fortiter in re. Half time score seems
to be to American advantage. Not my place as a Yank to complain of the
material advantages gained by American policy. And yet I deplore the
American policy. NOT because it was soaviter in modo, with YOU. And
I do NOT hold you responsible for it, save insofar as you tolerated the
precedent and falsifications.
On theory, on grounds of program, I have perhaps said a few words for
Lenin. When asked to criticize the Kharkov Congress, I did so with
perfect good will. I went on writing in Communist papers. I have quoted
Stalin’s “Foundations of Leninism” over this radio. Not of course when
expounding fascist doctrine. Merely from personal sympathy with
various points made in 1922 by Joseph Stalin. In 1926 or whenever I got
the brochure, it was not with Stalin’s Bolshevism but with his
backsliding that I should have quarreled. I disliked a year ago to see
Stalin repeating the Czarist error, and sacrificing millions of Russians IN
THE CAUSE of the usurers. The NON-slavic usurers. In fact one never
does hear of Russian money lenders. I suppose Russians must have had
jobs in banks, now and again, but one doesn’t hear much of it.
I don’t know that I should have any difficulties about accepting a REAL
Bolshevik program. The artist does not, and never [has] been part of the
bourgeoisie. I object to a pretended attack on captial, on usurocracy, that
degenerates into a mere attack upon property and leaves the money
lender, the pawnbroker, setting pretty and in full control of the
exploitation system, milking the producer.
Producers of the world, unite. All right by me. The artist don’t need to
own property. Usually bores him. What he wants is to own his tools.