Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

NOTEBOOK “ο”

(“OMICRON”)


THE JAPANESE AND THE CHAUVINISM
OF THE AMERICAN WORKERS

Die Neue Zeit, 1913 (31, 2), pp. 410-12 (June 20, 1913).

N.B.
chauvinism among workers

Erwin Gudde, “New Excep-
  tional Law against Japanese in
  the United States” (Date: San
  Francisco, May 21, 1913).
 This law, which forbids the Ja-
panese to buy land (it can be
leased only for three years) was
signed by the Governor on May 19,
1913, despite objections by Wood-
row Wilson
American
workers
and their
chauvinism

 This is “an exceptional law of the
worst kind” (410)—“a policy even worse
than the Prussian policy towards the
Poles” (412).
 The American workers, too, are guilty
of chauvinism (N.B.) (412). “The
gentlemen of the American Federation
of Labour not only want to deprive
the ‘yellows’ of all rights, but want to
drive them out of the country altogether”
(411).
towards
the
Japanese
N.B.

 This exceptional law “is proof that
the population of California, and above
all its working class, are doing yeoman’s
service for the American imperial-
ists
, who for years have been pre-
paring for a war against Japan. The
Socialist Party, too, has been found
wanting in this matter
” (411).
Workers
back
imperialists....
Socialist
Party
too!!!

This law is “only a link in a long chain of laws” (412)....


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