That is what the same party hacks say now, but in their election proclamation of 19 July 1930 they wrote:
“Against Brüning’s government, which is brother to big capital.” When Brüning’s cabinet was shuffled in October 1931, Dr. Warmboldt became Minister of Economics. Dr. Warmboldt was previously a director of the I. G. Farben Trust, one of Germany’s biggest industrial concerns. Well, if Dr. Warmboldt is not a big industrialist, who else could be? Vorwärts simply wrote on 10 October 1930 (sic) that “the empty post of Minister of economics has been filled by Mr. Warmboldt, who is an unknown quantity.” Why was Vorwärts silent about the fact that Dr. Warmboldt was a director of the I. G. Farben Trust? Is it uncomfortable for it to have to tolerate a big industrialist?
Why does the SPD slander the Nazis as “capitalist hirelings”? To divert the masses from the fact that not only have the Red party hacks settled comfortably in the house of capitalism, but also that the SPD receives generous financial support from the capitalism it supposedly fights.
There is a long line of people like Jakob Goldschmidt, Parvus Helphand, Sklarz, Barmat, Sklarek, and all the rest of them.
What did Vorwärts write on 22 November 1931?
“We take help from anywhere we can find it.”
The fact that they are not too narrow in their activities is proved by the Peace Society trial, in which it was proven that the Reichsbanner received 300,000 francs from France for domestic German purposes (propaganda against the Hindenberg election).
The very wide affections of the Reichsbanner in financial matters is proven by an article in the Rote Fahne [the Communist Party newspaper] of 3 December 1931 on the financial support for the Reichsbanner daily newspaper published by Hörsing (more has come in since).
The Rote Fahne, which should know, writes:
“This newspaper prints propaganda for the people’s community, which means the subjection of the workers under capitalism, is financed by the match king Ivar Kreuger. It is one of the biggest corruption scandals in the SPD, which has no shortage of corruption.”