DEMOCRACY BEGINS AT HOME

A Yugoslav Weekly Devoted to the Interest of the Workers OFFICIAL ORGAN OF J S F and Its Educational Bureau NO 2012 DEMOCRACY BEGINS AT HOME Our. New York contemporary The. New Leader which admits being Americas leading LiberalLabor weekly suggests that with the help of the Allies the Germans that section of Germany which was Socialist and otherwise democratic could have overthrown the Nazi regime and ended the war Considering that the Socialist Party of the United States whose program we largely follow advocated a peace offensive directed at the German peoplemeaning that we Americans should encourage the German people to revolt against their leaders in the midst of the wai we can't find any fault with the. New Leaders idea However although the suggestion sounds as good to us now as it did when the Socialists made it a part of their platform we are rot at all sure that it was ever any more than a vain but noble sentiment.

How could we logically expect America to make common cause with Socialists and democrats in Germany or anyw r here else in the world when they reject Socialism and true democracy in their own country. We don't.