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Ison of the pro-fascist
te) government. .- Final
|} er fascism is near in
% 1s a shameful thing
| @ethat many of our men
Sy
‘med forces, will land
‘ | where the dark forces
Bly. have given the best
Ri their life to destroy,
teiethened their, base of
fe. in our own country.
fan three and a half
i@) Canada’s people will

fee whose infamous pad-

!@yin the early thirties,

tM it..out the light of

wi in Quebec. And yet
s of the election could
| different.

‘cus the question-of.
Mise are the govern~. -

-fovernment,

‘forward boldly and called for
the election

- as 5 part \ort- the vic- .

@ir the government of

Only a little more weight
east on the side of the Canadian
people could haye tipped the

“sealés against Duplessis; for he

leads the goyernment.on a mjn-
ority, vote. Knowing that the
forces of labor were far too
weal and too divided to win the.
our party came

of the Godbout
Liberal government, for with
all its weaknesses, it has been
the best government in the his-
tory of Quebec, and was the
only political group with suffi-
cient strength to defeat Duples-

-sis’ Union Nationale Party and

the Bloc Populaire.

We wish that the CCE had
brought the same responsible
approach to the election—one
worthy of the great numbers of
progressive people whom they
lead. But we must charge the
CCF with the major share of
the responsibility for the elec-
tion of the Duplessis govern-
ment.

Running only a few eandi-

‘THE PIED PIPER OF HAMELIN.

= Flamer

UNIO OW)”

| foe = ee / f
pJermany s Secret Weapon

ow the story of Hitler’s secret weapon. , German
have been working on it for twenty years. Experi-

=a. ;

the German engineer
: Tillinge started experi-
th his rocket projectile.
2 beginning of this war
P\deriments had reached
Awhere Hitler was able

G

Secision to go all out in
roduction came, however,
fear aso—when the Nazi

Sas beaten in the air:

I ilotless plane was the
wer. Orders were
*given for all-out pro-

onely spot on the Baltic
“ar Peenemunde, away
d or railway, a strip of
isolated.

§ to be electrified, kept
wanted persons. _Only
y selected Nazi Party

Hhysteriously of a “secret
5 E

Sitealised that the Lutt—

-gan on the Friesian Island of Wangeroog in the

men and soldiers were allowed
to enter.

In this isolated spot the Nazis
began to carry out trials with
the rocket-propelled, radio-con-
trolled “destroyer.”

Then, suddenly on August 17
of last year, the RAF struck
in, one of the most dramatic
raids of the war. The target
was Peenemunde, 500 miles
from Britain. Imagine the sur-
prise, confusion and the chag-
rin of the Nazis.

' On that day there died one of *

the foremost Nazi military
scientists—-General ' von Gla-
mier-Glizenski, head of the Ger-
man Scientific Research.

The Nazis did not tell us the
eause of his death. But the
coincidence was remarkable: it
fs almost certain that he was
among the casualities at Peene-
munde.

dates, _Imowing there was xo
possibility of electing a Labor

government, they~ nevertheless

come;-the CCF have made state—
ments in which they regret the
defeat of the Godbout govern-
Ment, and express misgivings
over =the election of Duplessis.
Had the CCF not narrowed
their political responsibilities to
a, mere yote-catching campaign
for their candidates, Duplessis
would be defeated today. As it
is, the darkest forces of re-
action throughout Ganada have

‘been revitalized by the Duples-

SIS victory and are already in-
tensifyinge their activities with
a view to winning power for
a Tory coalition in the next
House of Commons.

)eeeee as we regret their

failure to speak earlier, we
welcome the CCE statement
even at this late date. We urge
the CCF to profit by the elec-
tion of Quebec, to take the
stand now that can win Canada
a federal government which will
lead Canada along avenues of
social progress.

We believe that in the next
House no one party will have
a majority. No one party will
be strong enough to form a
stable government. Since some
continuation of groups will be
necessary to form the next
government, it is now the re-
sponsibility, of all genuine demo-
erats to press for the most
democratic and progressive co-
alition realizable ‘within: the
circumstances.

The lJabor movement; includ-
ing supporters of the LPP, the
CCF, and
must demand that labor be part
of a Liberal-Labor coalition, a
democratic progressive coalition
on the left, in order to prevent
the only alternative, a Tory-
Liberal coalition on the right.

Tf labor is not yet strong
enough to form the govern-
ment, to have labor a part of
a democratic, progressive coali-
tion would be the longest stride
forward in the political history
of the labor movement in Can-
ada.

It would serve as the greatest
guarantee of the building of a
greater farmer-labor movement
in this country, would strength-
en our voice for peace and ex-
pandine world trade in the Uni-
ted Nations alliance, and be
the safeguard of the people’s in-
terests in the transition from
wartime to peacetime industry.

The Labor-Progressive Party
calls upon the people of B.C.
to send to Ottawa the largest
possible labor-farmer bloc in-
cluding members of our party,
the CCF, and independent labor,
and give it a mandate to accept
the responsibility of govern-
ment for the peonle as part of
that Liberal-Labor coalition

independent labor, -

that alone can defeat Tory re--

action.

No more important question
faces us at the present time.

The Labor-Progressive Party
urges every one of you to con-
sider our proposals with an open
mind, never losing sight of the
fact that political activity with-
in our country will, within the
next few months be decisive in
determining the character of
Canada’s postwar government.

@ Text of a radio address
given by Minerva Coop-
er, provincial secretary
of the Labor Progressive
Party. over ‘Station

CJOR August 14.

HORT 1105

not “revising Marx” but revising themselves.

by OF Bill

Revising Ma rx?

Tes cola is written by request this week. I was asked by a
visitor to the People’s Beok Store to explain the’ meaning, of an
article which appeared in the Vancouver Proyince on July 24.
I was too busy to deal with questions at the time but prom-
ised ,to do so in the Short Jabs today. :

The article appeared on the “baloney page.” This is the page
where the editorials are featured in a capitalist newspaper. It was
headed, “The Revision of Karl Marx” and was written by a more
or less, regular ‘economic’? contributor to the paper, named EH. 8S.
Woodward. s

' The article opens with the leit motif of the piece, a paragraph
which is belied further down the column. It reads, “Very significant
facts have emerged from Soviet Russia in recent years. Not the
least of these, is that the economic theories of Karl Marx are being
officially revised.”

After explaining that the purpose of this “revision” is to check-
mate efforts of the Nazis “to drive a wedge between Russia and her
allies on ideological grounds, and pave the way for closer collabora-
tion between Russia and the rest of the world in the postwar period,”
the author makes himself out either an ignoramus or a liar by writing
“The law of value is now accorded a rightful and necessary place
in socialist economics. It can only be overcome in the final Com-
munist stage of social development.”

What law of value is here referred to? The alleged “revisers of
Marx” undoubtedly mean the Marxian law of value, whatever
Woodward may mean.. This law states that value is a social relation-
ship existing between commodities; that any commodity bears a def-
inite relationship (or value) to the quantity of socially necessary labor-
time that has been expended in its production, or that may be spent in
reproducing it. ‘Since all commodities are produced by living, breath-
ing human beings the relationship is really a “personal relationship
‘between the individual human worker and all the other humans who
make up the society in which he lives. :

We will leave that angle for a moment to take up another
thread. An article appeared in an American theoretical magazine
last Spring; a translation from the Russian. It had originally ap-
peared in a Soviet economic reyiew, “Pod Znamenem Marxisma,” edit-
ed by a group of Soviet economics teachers, the best known of whem
is lL. A. Leontiev.

This article was Leninist im one way at least. It was an admis-
sion of mistakes im the teaching of economics and an attenrpt to
correct them. That is strictly followine the method of Lenin. One
cannot imagine a group: of leading university professors in Britain or
America correcting’ their mistakes thus. Several errors in teaching
were admitted, one of which was that in Socialist economics there is
no place for the law of value.

A few days after the publication of the article in Science and

Society, the New York Times, the paper that prints all the lies that

are fit to print, carries a news item built around it. It was distorted
out of all semblance to the truth. The following day, (April 3) the
leading; editorial was headed “Russia’s New Capitalism.”

Compelled to Publish Denial

(eee lying pieces of debased journalism, although practically
made from the whole cloth, were scattered widespread across the
continent and even found their way to Moscow. Two weeks later the
Times was compelled to publish a denial of its own correspond-
ent in Moscow, Ralph Parker, of the whole crooked story.

The press moguls are like the Bourbons in one respect, they learn
nothing. The English paper, New Hurope, was the first pager to
publish the filthy lie about the nationalization of women by the Bol-
sheyvaks.. It too were compelled to admit that it was wrong .on
the word of their own correspondent in Russia, Dr. Harold Williams.

. Now to return to “The Revision of Marx.” Is it Marx who is
being revised? Certainly not! —Socialism is not yet Communism
and Marx’s views on the economics of that stage are available for
any one who desires to know them.

‘He expressed himself im very definite terms on this subject in
the criticism he made of the Gotha Program of German Social De-
mocracy. In that criticism he wrote “What we have to deal with
here is a Communist society, not as if 1t had developed on a basis
of itS own, but on the contrary, as it emerges from capitalist society,
which is thus in every respect tainted economically, morally and in-
tellectually, with the hereditary diseases of, the old society from
whose womb it is emerging. Z

In this way the individual producer receives back again from
society, with deductions, exactly what he gives. The same amount
of work which he has given to society in one form he receives back
in another. Here obviously the same principle prevails as that which
regulates the exchange of commodities, so far as this exchange is of
equal value .. . equal quantities of labor in one form are exchanged
for equal quantities of labor in another form.” >

Thus the law of value operates under socialism according to Marx.
Heonomists who believed otherwise were following a line that. was
not Marxist. In recognizing their deviation, from Marx they. are
Marx needs no revision.

The Times distortion,’ however, is not so naive as it may seem.
It purposely meant to disrupt the unity of the anti-fascist forces so
necessary for victory. Reactionary elements behind the Times desire
to drive their own “wedges” to split the unity of the United Nations
and this is one of them. :

The ,Times and the Woodwards are conscious confusionists, of
whom Marx once wrote in a letter to Kugelmann,-” . . © / it is in the
interest of the ruling class to perpetuate this unthinking confusion.
And for what other purpose are the sycophantic babblers paid, who

have no other scientific trump to play, save that in political economy
one should not think at all.”