i S i. (e) rt J ab S MUU ; ' tems ‘The Red Prussian’ SOMETIMES think I would like to be a book re- viewer, and then when I consider all the rubbish that is published and having to read even part of it, I change my mind. But every so often a book finds its way on the market, so rotten that it has to be reviewed, and I have to tackle the job. Scribners has just published one such book. It is among the most scurrilous ‘pieces of anti-Communist. propaganda that ever came off-a printing press. Written by an unknown money-grubber by*the name of Leopold Schwarzschild, it purports to--be a’ life of Marx; its title, The Red Prussian — The Life and Legend of Karl Marx. . The lying begins in the title. for Marx was not a Prussian any more than an Irishman from Cork is an Englishman, nor did he possess. any of the characteristics ascribed to the “Prussian” mentality. It ‘is not a biography. It’s as foul a piece of slander- mongering and character assassination as ever flowed from a poison pen; a contribution to the present anti- Communist offensive of dying imperialist capitalism ‘in which the snarl] of the tiger of the snake. : ca ieee A critic in the ‘Morning Freiheit took time out to compile a list of the things the book says about’ Marx. He was an autocrat; an ambitious boaster; an intriguer; a begger; a duellist; a liar; a maniac; a sadist; a scandalmonger; an exploiter; a trajtor; a*parasite; a plagiarist; a pseudo-scientist; a preacher of hate and blood; a swindler; a drunkard; an enemy of, the workers in whom he had no faith, ‘ Quite an imposing indiotment—if it were true, whic it ig not. But when all is said and done, it dges not touch in any way the fundamentals of Marxism which today inspire hundreds o ; oppressed and downtrodden workers with . hope and their oppressors with fear, So apparent in their frantic efforts to stop the growth of Communism in every corner of the ,world. : es Schwarzschild is a poor prop for imperialism, for in his puny attempt to besmirch Marx, the greatest figure in human history, he tries to comfort his masters by telling them that Marx was & failure, his books were published in small editions by unknown printers, some of them even in England and America, and could not find readers. plain the avidity with whic today, in hundreds of languages some 0 hardly known by name in Marx's time. h.they are being read f which were } is blended with: the venom . _ clear.” f millions of the world’s ‘3 “and then deStroyed the First International. He does not attempt to @xX- Nor does he trouble to explain, since Marx was such a failure, why, in the USSR, over one-sixth of the world’s surface, the teachings of Marx are the guiding principles in the daily lives of about 200 millions of people and why other millions are rapidly following their lead. The publishers have become aware of this “failure” of Schwarzschild through the unfriendly notices of even capitalist press reviews, and have issued a Statement to the effect that there was a chapter dealing with this question which had to be left out because of ‘circumstances.’ i Traitors into heroes F COURSE there are some heroic figures in the book, ranging all the way from Bismarck to Bakunin— Ruge, Lassalle, Schweitzer, Karl Schurtz, Bruno Bauer, Hyndman and others, all great and noble men, not tainted with vices Schwarzschild finds in Marx. But the known lives of these is their indictment. Ruge and Bauer sold their talents to Bismarck. Schweitzer edited the Social Demokrat which was paid a financial subsidy by Bismarck. Lassalle, for whom this alleged biographer of Marx seems to have a special liking, was proved in 1928, through the discovery in the Prussian state archives of correspondence between him and Bismarck, to have been a traitor in the ranks of the German labor movement. ’ Karl Schurtz, Schwarzschild quotes as a slanderer of Marx, but does not quote when he writes, “He (Marx) had a reputation for great learning in his sub ject, and what said was, in fact, solid, logical and Schurtz emigrated to the US where he quickly forgot all about the workers and became, first, senator from Missouri and later secretary of state in the government of President Hayes, of whom Marx wrote - to Engels, “The policies of the new president. will make farmers, already dissatisfied, into allies of the workers.” But ‘Schurtz labelled them “misguided abitators whose only desire was for soft money.” Of Bakunin it is not necessary to say much. \ He was the leader of the anarchist wing that first split Hyndman became an imperialistic, flag-waving warmonger, not above accepting Tory money for paigns. He stole Marx’s work and published it as his own, with the excuse that the English did not like to be taught by foreigners. a “hese are the heroic figures of The Red Prussian. These men sold themselves to reaction, Bakunin for power, the rest for money. But when Marx was ‘approached by. Warnebold, the personal agent of Bis- d ‘The lron Curtain’? NH nt his election cam-’ by OL BILL ’ marck and offered like rewards so Bismarck could use “his. great talents in the interest of the German people,” he refused to sell out, which is the reason why he lived in poverty, and why a rat like the author: of The Red Prussian calls him a beggar. Sure, Marx was a hater but it was the kind of hatred described .by Mazzini when he wrote that Marx had “I fear more hatred, if righteous hatred, in his heart, than love.” And what is the matter with right- eous hatred; hatred of ugliness and rottenness, hatred of traitors and stool-pigeons in the labor movement, hatred of these Schwarzschild heroes who sold the workers and their movement as Judas sold Christ? Ignorance compounded CHWARZSCHILD'S qualification to deal with Marxism are lower’ than those of most other apolog- — _ists for capitalism and its dog-eat-dog philosophy. He displays his ignorance fully in criticizing Marx’s theory of value. He writes: “Take, fpr instance, a house which is sold at three times e price it once cost to build. The whole increase in. value constitutes a profit but where is the element of work time in this profit?” He doesn’t know the difference between price and value. ee : He treats facts in a very cavalier manner, in’ one place naming James Watt as the inventor of the locomotive. We are justified therefore, in believing that the rest of his “facts” are of equal worth. It is natural, too, that a writer who thinks that the references to bourgeois family life in the Com- _munist’ Manifesto are “spicy” should finish his book ‘on a pornographic note, After Marx’s death he says, “The house was given up. Engels took charge of all Marx’s papers—and Lenchen Demuth.” This is the same kind of criminal innuendo on which his indict- ment of Marx is built. It is definitely a proof of a turbid mind. eat The Red Prussian is certainly one book which will not be featured at the Book Fair at the Pender Auditorium next weekend. : eae Who's be by MARK FRANK | —OTTAWA. IDED by _ four RCMPolice and using an official RCMP car, 50. technicians, actors and directors started cameras grind- ing on Parliament Hill last week to film The Iron Curtain, based on a story by Igor Gouzenko, self- confessed Soviet Embassy in- former. : Denials made by the depart- ments of justice and external : WallStreet Its place has been taken by the dollar, ; a : kaa question naturally arises: Could Britain shake off her dependence on America? Undoubtedly she could, "but _ that’ would necessitate a policy diametrically opposite to - the one pursied by Attlee and Bevin. ~ j We know that Bevin is one of the most ardent protagon- ists of the Marshall Plan. He was the first to interpret Mar- shall’s speech at Harvard Uni- versity as a lifeline thrown out by America to. drowning Europe. , . Of course; Bevin and his col- leagues are, not so naive as to- fail to see that the so-called Marshall Plan is designed not to save but to strangle Europe. The enthusiastic support siv- en to the Marshall Bevin and his followers, 88 2 _ Plan allegedly designed to save Britain and all Europe, only Means that they have complete- ly committed themselves to the ; camp, , a Britain can really shake off her dependence upon America Snly by pursuing a consistent hin affairs and the RCMP that co- Plan by _ imperialist and anti-democratic FRIDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1947 — operation. is being extended be- yond the usual coutesy given to those who “want to take pic- tures,” are sharply contradicted by the busy scene before the Parliament Buildings and within the House of Commons corrir dors. . : Heavy electrical _cables are threaded through the central . Hall of Fame for interior light- ed shots. (Justice department officials have been steadily de- nying that permission has been over Britain democratic and socialist policy, both domestic and. foreign: _only by ‘real, not fictitious, nationalization of the key branches of British economy; —only by curbing the vora- cious appetites of the British capitalists; : : —only by working for a dem- ocratic peace and by a firm determination to build up friend- ly relations and develop econom- ic ties not only with her do- minions, but also with the coun- tries of Hastern Europe — first and foremost with the Soviet — Union. Ten Such a policy might ensure the 47,000,000 British people real prosperity within the British Isles, with their natural resourc- es and highly developed indus- try. The vast majority of the British people. would undoubt- edly support such a policy. “But the present policy of the British government is leading” ‘the country along an entirely different road, the road | mapped out by the Truman- Marshall Plan. , It is, road beset by formid- able dangers to the cause of peace, a road that means sul: cide for Britain. -“sought or granted” for the tak- ing of interior shots of gov- ernment buildings.) 3 oh A check with the official “shooting script” for the film re- cords the following scenes to be taken: “Exterior, Parliament Buildings; interior, corridors; exterior, Justice Build- ing on Wellington St.; Exterior National Research Laboratory.” In addition, shots will be taken of Rockliffe Air Force barracks -and Carleton County Court in- _ terior. As cameramen rigged equip- ment four RCMP members, in- cluding one staff-sergeant and a corporal, hustled a crowd of curious onlookers about. Two of . them played “bit” parts in the “spy” drama. The RCMP staff car provided communications for the Hollywood crew. _— The part of Gouzenko is play- ed by. Dana Andrews, that of Mrs. Gouzenko by Gene Tierney. © ' Immediately following their arrival in Ottawa top director William A. Wellman and “Wasa- ington contact’ Anthony Muto for Twentieth-Century Fox con- ferred -with government officials prior to shooting scenes the next | day. ¢ ‘ Confronted with an editorial from the Ottawa Citizen of No- vember 25 pinning down movie- men as “Fomenters of Ill-Will.” Director ‘trench-coat, said he had “noth- ing to say” in reply. “After all-we’re only up here doing a job,” -he explained. A ~ legitimate question which might be put in the light of local eriti- .cism about the unpleasant no- toriety, fanning of international suspicion and possible libellous features of tae film, would be: “Who is the job being done for — the state department in Washington or external affairs in Ottawa?” ‘~ members’ © Wellman garbed in . 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