The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 2, 1929, Page 2

DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY The Sovie t CAST YEAR AND. The Red Army--and the Army of the U.S. NEXTINULS.S.R CONSTRUCTION Résults of 1928-29, and - New Prospects Plannihg Comm ed, toward the end of review of the , and of its points * out that year of tremendous on the part of the ; both urban and e manifestation of this ¢ petitions” review further branches sing the ear Plan, will f great importance will be the introduc- our day operating in many additional factories, nes and offices. Industrial m during “1928-29 increased which was in advance e. Somewhat less sat- the achievenients as per. cent, i sfa y égards reduction of production ed about 5 per cent xpected decrease of in- the ominal wages cent during pe: he organization of state farins. “An important ding the area under tem‘ whereby n of ‘seeds and ma- " Big Bailway Boom greater The preliminary data billion ton- silometers. A The receipts of the federal bud- -et for 1928-29 are provisionally es- ed by the commission ‘at 7,925 n rubles, as against the esti- n th eplan of 7,281 million During the year 1929-30 Soviet in- 3 s are expected to make con- iderable further progress. The plan hes directed the industrial horities to take measures to ize existing equipment to the aximum mt, and to speed up onstruction of the numerous en- rises under.way. It also empha- the necessity of concentrating on the more,important projects, at che expense of those which are of importance at the present time. Aécording'*t> the State Planning Commission the production of in- under the super- preme Economic 1 must ‘show ‘an increase of per cent in 1929-30, as against nerease of 21:5 per cent called by the Five-Year Plan. ‘ogether with power plant con- truction and the allotment for the promotion’ of techni¢al education, the capital investment in industry will be 8.5 billion rubles. The State Planning Commission expeets an inerease in average wages of 9 percent. The productiv- | ity of labor is to increase 23-25 per cent, while production costs are to be reduced at least 10 per cent, Farming Forges Ahead As regards agriculture, the most importan: development during the year will be-an expansion of state end cooperative farming consider- ably beyond that provided in the Five-Year Plans~ The program for agriculture includes a 7-8 per cent inerease ir the total area under eul- tivation, in comparison with 1928- 29, and a total sown area for state end-collective farms of 15-18 million hectares. The state farms alone are expected to have a cultivate area of three million hectares. The pro- gram also provides for an increase in the yield per acre of 7-8 per cent, to be realized through better meth- ods of cultivation and the increased utilization of fertilizers. The total ellotment for agriculture in the fed- eval budget will amount to not less than 700 million rubles. The Commission stresses the ne- cessity of fostering particularly the industries serving the needs of ag- riculture. It also calls attention to the need for developing animal breeding. The Gosplan program f Tailway transportation provide: for total freight operations of 208-210 billion ton-kilometers. Passenger - traffic is estimated at 33 billion passenger- kilometers. Nominal wages on rail- ways are to be increased by 7 per cent and the productivity of labor by not less than 18 per cent, The necessity of better utilization of the available personnel, in order to take care of the many Yew enter- ‘prises which will start production this yoar, is stressed. Building costs must he reduced during the year by ten per cent, according to the schedules. The total revenue jn the federal to only 165 billion ton- | a |been transformed into an efficient | |protector of the Workers’ Father- | By Walter M. Trumbull The Workers ‘and Peasants’ army of the U. §. §. R. was built and consolidated in the heat of the civil war, in a stubborn struggle against counter-revolutionary ge foreign interventionists. of worke: and the defense of of ‘the October Revolution, At one’ time during 1919 «there remained in the hands of the work- qu ‘inity of Moscow, out vast territory of what oviet Russia, Denikin grad, Tula within a few hours of Mos- cow; Koltchak, who was armed by was approaching Clomence Voroshilov Fe ra he Army and Navy oj the Jnion, since 11925, Clenience Voroshilov, is the son. of a worker, a miner. of Donetz | Basin. He himself’ wos a metal | worker before the Revolution, and | |was persecuted .by the Czar. He later a Red Army division. inate nonoanamanomaamnaanannonne ‘the foreign imperialists, was march- |were advancing from the west. | Why the Red Army Won The Red army won its victory over {consciousness and its clear view of \land. The Red Army has been re- lorganized and. perfetéted. “It is in | this connection that Lenin laid down {a clear line of policy, He said: | “At all events we must preserve |our fighting readiness. Regardless |of the blows that we have delivered to imperialism, we must preserve |the Red‘ Army and its readiness for battle. This, of course, will not pre- |vent us from freeing a certain part jot the army and proceeding with jits rapid demobilization. We think |that the enormous experience which \the Red Army and its leaders ac- \uired will help us now to improve |its quality.” | Let us examine this Red Army as \it is today and compare it with the |U. S, Army; | Soldiers serving in the Red Army {under the “regular system,” i. e., from 1%° to 2 years or more in the various sections of the army, are jexempt from social taxes, Where |the family of the Red soldier suf- |fers from the decreased income due |to the withdrawal of the soldier's | |contributien, the family ig also ex- |empt from these taxes. Red soldiers’ | families are given first choice on |the waiting line when land or tim- |ber is being divided among a group |of peasants, If the soldier’s fam- ily lacks a horse to work their fields jin his absence, the local Soviet is bound to provide cne for the nec- essary period of time. By special law a Red soldier’s family may not be moyed out of their present quarters under any cireumstances unless given equally | good or better ones and moving fa- \ cilities are provided free. In the Red Army, soldiers. are courage continued contaet with their families and friends. The American soldier's family may be starving, may be thrown out cf their house and haye their belongings thrown into the gutter upon any one of a dozen excuses. If they need a horse to work their fields they may continue to want for all the U, S. Government cares, If they suffer from want because of the soldier being away, they have to pay their taxes just the same or else have their land and home (if they are fortunate enough to pos- sess one) sold at public auction. The Red Army soldier, unlike the American soldier, participates in the elections of the Deputies to the lo- cal Soviet. These elections are car- ried out at meetings of all the work- — Ht budget is éstimated st 10 billion ru- bles (about five billion dollars). The program of the Commission with refe stabilization of the prices paid by state’ and cooperative procuring or- rganizations for various agricultural products. These prices are to be no higher than the average paid by the organizations in 1928-29. Prices of industrial products must be reduced 6.2 per cent for products of per- sonal consumption. A> a result of these reductions, the cost of living index for urban communities is ex- pected to decline byfnot less than 4 per cent ants only a few prov- | ch was imperiling. Petro- | given free postage in order te en-. nce to prices calls for a Union Proletariat Is the Vanguard of th n the enterprises in a given ard or section as well as all mem- of the Red Army whose b; are located in this locality. civil and army deputies, whole assemblage, soldiers and ciy- i vote together. Thus, the oldiers of the Red Army are closely knit together with the civilians in their parti |the Soviets The American soldier is complete- lly disfranchised upon his entrance into the army. Education in the Red Army Before the revolution one of the | most backward countries in Europe, | with millions upon millions of to- tally. illiterate adults and children, the Soviet Union has utilized the |Red Army to good advantage in |spreading edycation. In cases of complete illiteracy the soldier's first three months of service is devoted entirely to learning to read and write. That he may write a letter to his people at home is alway spur to him, and his first letter an event. sent to the large cities where they may learn by experience and thru contact about the industries of the cities. Thru this system, the peas- {ants get a broader perspective of the problems of their government and are urged thereby to do all that they can to hasten the construction of the socialist state, The American soldier is given ed- ‘uecation up to the eighth grade of common school. The instructors are neyer competent men but usually “gold bricks,” men wko have found ‘drill and fatigue too hard for them and who have pulled strings or done some judicious hand-shaking to get a soft berth. Technical education is also on the same level in the U. S. Army, Discipline in the Red Army The Red Army aim has conscious m the fought through the civil war, first | discipline based upon an understand- , some- | commanding guerilla detachments, | ing of the reasons for the existence |of discipline in. the army. The sol- diers are taught to know what it is |that they are in the army for, and ef the railways ing from the east; the Polish troops | learn what their role is in defending the conquests of the October revolu- tion. They are aware that» their |work is not done until all the toilers ht operations |these hordes because of its class |of the world are free as they are. The contrast between the Red Army and the U. S. Army is in the fact that the U, S. Army is taught worship of fetishism, is taught dis- cipline thru fear of punishment rather than an understanding of what role they are to play. The larmy officers dare not teach the American soldiers what their role \is to be. Should they do so, the army would desert almost enmasse. Every effort is expended to keep the | American soldier in ignorance of his despicable rele as the oppressor of colonial peeples and the subjugator |of the workers of his home country, If a Red commander gives an or- der that the soldier thinks is unfit or unjust, the soldier will (if the order is not of a direct counter- | revolutionary nature) obey the order |and then report the matter to his next highest commander, This is |encouraged among all soldiers, He lis taught that the reason for the \order to be carried out, is in order |not to create chaos and dis-unity \of action in the army. The Ameri- \ean soldier is foreed to obey because “his superior has given a command.” During the hours of duty (8 hours), the relationship of the Red soldier and his commander is on a purely business-like basis. After duty, the private and the command- er may be seen having teg together at the same table, playing chess, go- ing to the show together, etc. They may belong to the same club if their hobbies are similar. The pri- vate may he the chairman or the organizer of the Nucleus in which his commander may he merely an active member. hey are Com- rades in every sense of the word and inequality of rank does not in- terfere. The American soldier is eomplete- lly separated from his officers by carefully preserved class lines. ‘The officer *ig a member of exclusive society while the soldier is not al- lowed to form or join elubs of any sort except possibly religious ones. waderie or good fel- There is no com: lowship between officers and men in the American Army and yet the discipline of the Red Army is vastly superior to that of the U. S. Army. The Red soldier is a free, think- ing, actively. participating member of society who is conscious of his impertant role in society. The American soldier ts an en- slaved tool of the capitalist class held in his place by the fear of brutal punishment'from hig officers who are his class enemies and never fail to show it at every opportunity. Soldiers of the Red Army realize that they are fighting not only for the only workers’ country, the So- yiet Union, but for the cause of the working class thruout the world. The A in soldiers are begin- ning té awaken to the fact that they are tools of the capitalist class and that they are used against their fellow workers and against them- selves. American soldiers are be- ginning to learn the lessons of the Russian Revolution. This awakening among the armed forces of Wall Street imperialism is just beginning, but the very cirst indication: class consciousness among the servicemen strikes terror in the hearts of the jingo’ who tow that this is @ very dangerous germ, Workers and soldiers nominate both | Then the | ipation in the affairs of | a Peasants inyariably are | Mechanizing a Soviet Port You may never have heard of Mariuy But it is not overlooked in the This big on the Black Se of Soviet industrialization. transport through the port. kraine trans-loader i up to speed The War Against the on Eastern Front USSR By HARRISON GEORGE. thesee lines, while across the border in Manchuria thousands of Soviet citizens are interned, imprisoned in vile prison camps, suffering unspeakable atrocities from the Chinesee militarists and their Crarist white guard bloodhounds, starving, freezing, racked by illness. But across the border also smould- ers the voleanic force of the Chinese revolution, loyal ally of the Soviet workers and peasonts who are to- day celebrating the birthday of their victory over just such mili- tarists and imperialists as have seized the Chinese Eastern Railway and attacked the Soviet Union, Long before the imperialist world war, the Russian czar threw a thou- sand miles of railway across the Chinese province of Manchuria from the west. Again entering Russian territory of the narrow maritime province, it terminated at the port of Vladivostok. From the Manchu- rian town of Harbin a branch was built south to Port Arthur, The Chinese Eastern Railway saved time used in the all-Russian route around the northward bend of the Amur imperialist ambitions of the czar, who himself owned great timber and mineral resoyrees and meant to extend them against the rising sun of Japan, The C, E, Ry. was able te transport troops rapidly to the east—to war. Imperialist Russia lost a big part of the southern branch to Port Ar- thur to Japanese imperialism, which has steadily penetrated Manchuria, ® province Japan now speaks of as “Japan’s daughter,’ and “the apple of her eye.” But imperialist Russia still held the 1,000 miles of the main line of the C. E. R., and ruled the entire region with an iron hand. China had nothing to say about it, received nothing of itc profits, and minions of the ezar, . Came the Revolution! this there emerged the world’s First Workers and Peasants’ Republic. But, weak in its infancy, the world imperialists attacked revolutionary Russia, invading it on all sides, among others on the eastern front. Siberia was one great battlefield, and in Manchuria and Mongolia ezarist counter-reyolutionists, en- couraged and paid chiefly by Japan, tuled and robbed in a veritable ocean of workers and peasants’ blood. Japan encouraged “disorder” as it gave her an excuse to occupy Manchurja with troops to “restore order.” The C. E. R. “belonged” to anybody that took it—according to the imperialists. But the Soviet Pewer in Moscow, speaking over their heads, declared to the Chinese people that it renounced the ezar’s imperialist conquests in China, re- serving the right to treat with China direetly as an equal for recession of all czarist claims, denying all im- perialiat claims, Yet Japan’s troops eld the C, E. R. American imperialism, -however, ever jealous of Japan’s advance in the Hast, claimed th e“right” of eo- occupation, and Yankee and Jap- anese troops together “guarded” the C. BE. R,—and watched each other— for over two years after the war, while the American engineer Stevens with Russian czarist assistants, was boss of the railway until the Red army, clearing Siberia of white guards and invaders, and seeing the C. E, R, was by no means -in the hands of China :but was a prey of imperialists: and a constant threat of being used to move troops against the Soviet Union, negotiated a treaty with both the Mukden and Peking governments for joint Chinese-So- viet operation, joint sharing. of profits, and @ provision that China might, when it wished, acquire full ownership by purcha Ste- vens, and the troops of hoth Ameri- ‘ca and Japan were forced to retire: A. joint Chinese-Soviet -committee took control of the C. E. R. But Japan kept provoking troyble in administration through corrupt officials of he» Mukden. “govern- men” of Chang ‘Tso-lin, who--was Like a wall of steel the Red Army | watches the Siberian border along} Manchuria as the reader peruses | River and the whole line served the | The war came and. Japan won. | The world war came: in Russia | it turned into ciyil war and from | |Japan’s puppet, repeatedly trying to | get an excuse to allow Chang to | seize the C. B. R. for “China”—but | |of course, in reality, for Japan. The Soviet Union abided by the treaty | of 1924 and no excuse could be man- masses | |ufactured. The Chinese were passionately friendly towar the Soviet Union and th ism. Imperialist “Wisdom” But the Chinese bourgeoisie and feudal military elements betrayed and suppressed the C! se masses, the credit backing of American im- |perialism, With Nemking’s formal |authority acknowledged in Manchu- ria, American imperialists thought it had another chance to assert its ambitions in Manchuria at the ex- pense of Japan, and since both Britain and Japan thoroughly agreed with America that an attack on the Soviet Union was always in order, America, England and Japan. mo- bilized their various Chinese mili- tarists to seize the C. E. R. But America’s idea that its Nanking puppet could gain prestige for it- self and imperialist advantage for America by attacking the Soviet Union was an imperialist “wisdom” |that turned out to be a stupidity. policy of armed peace. The Army, backed by the Soviet millions, stands like a rock wall along the frontier, and against it vainly hurled and still hurls the savage czarist white guards and Chinese mercen~ aries—agents of imperialism. Chinese Masses Aroused And inside China from north to along the railway the Chinese work- | south a wave of resentment of 400,- ers were beaten and brutalized by | 000,000 people upset the calculations of the imperialists and their Chi- jnese tools, Nanking, with all its backing of Wall Street, was -half paralyzed, The mass reseniment at Nanking |was seized upon by Britain and Japan, who summoned Chang Fa- Hsueh-liang in Manchuria itself to rebel against American hegemony expressed through Nanking, mean- while the London and Tokio diplo- mats coldly rejected Washington’s | proposal for “internaticnalizing” the Cc. E. R, (with America guilelessly playing the role of “neutral”!). The Soviet Union also, knowing how “neutral” any robber imperialism is, firmly rejected the proposal of such a “neutral” to arbitrate, as proposed by Washington, Japan’s Manchurian puppet, ac- tually controlling the C. E. R,, turned a cold shoulder on emissaries Nanking sent north, while British and Japanese imperialisms set their Chinese militarist puppets into a war thrust at Nanking so that \it Mukden, and could only give advice to which nobody listened. The fairy tale of*“red imperial- ism” awoke no alarm in’ the Chinese masses, despite loud wails of Chiang Kai-shek—for what have the Chi- nese workers and peasants to lose wages, strong unions, short hours, cultural education, social insurance, and all benefits Soviet labor ‘enjoys —while since the seizure of the C. E- R. ail this is: taken away; men, ed into prison camps, itself becoming a wreck. . American Workers’ Duty As you read these lines the situa- forthe. toilers of all the. world, 19: e International Working Class! es rose in revolution against imperial-|}roadeast by the capitalist press, is and the Nanking “government” of Chiang Kai-shek was inflated with | America miscalculated its clever- | jness in maneuyre against the in- | | terests ‘of British and Japanese im- perialisms—and_ all three underesti- mated the indignation of the Chinese masses at the attack on the Soviet Union—the only world power friend- ly to péoples oppressed by imperial- ism. “And all together the imperial- ists were confounded by the Soviet Red kwei in the south, Peng Yu-hsiang | in the north-center, and then Chang | could send no troops north to weaken that on the ©. BH, R.; under Soviet administration, Chinese and Russian railway workers alike enjoyed rising women ahd children are being herd- starved and killed, and the railway tion remains as described, and it is the duty of American workers to protest, and in. action—to prevent war supplies and white guard re- | cruits from reaching Manchuria to be used against the Soviet Union— the only nation which befriends op-. pressed peoples; the beacon Jight hip of other classe in that it arises from the nee | sity of suppressing. the armed re- | e of the class that loses its al supremacy. The funda- difference between the 2 atorship of the | landowners of the Middle and that of the capitalist | in all civilized capitalist countries is simply that the two | last named dictatorships were a | forcible supp’ ion of the resist- ance of the exploiters, i.c., of an insignificant minority of the pop- ulation—the landlords and the capitalists. Hence it follows that the proletarian dictatorship must | inevitably bring with it not only | s change in the forms and insti- tutions of democracy, generally speaking, but also precisely such a change as will bring a hitherto undreamt-of extension in practice of the use of democracy by those who have been opposed by capi- talism, i .@., by the working Thesis submitted to the working classes.” (Thesis sub- mitted to the fiyst Congress of the Communist International by V. I. Lenin.) * * The favorite charge heratded by the official Federation of Labor and their socialist party allies, by the ‘social reformists of all countries, and ‘that ‘no democracy exists in the Soviet Union.” The more skilled of |these agents of imperialism in the |ranks of the working class broaden | this accusation and charge that not only has democracy in the sense of in determining either wages and working conditions in industry or in determining government policies. The direct opposite is the truth. various branches of government and |in the management of industry, The trade unions with their more than | 10,000,000 members are the founda- ‘tion of the Soviet power. Without | the support of the masses of work- lers in the trade unions the govern- jment could not last twenty-four hours. Real Majority Rule, The Soviet system is the most | democratic of all governmental sys- |tems. It is the first governmental system in which the majority of the population, which, of course, con- sists of the industrial workers, the toiling masses of the countryside |and their families, and working in- | tellectuals has been able to fully ex- \press its class interests as against | thost of a small minority of capital- ist and agrarian exploiters. Capitalist writers, histerians and braries telling of the wonderful |demoeraey of ancient Greece and of the democratic governmental meth- ods of the Saxons, Norsemen, etc., in olden times. Especially is it em- |phasized by these press agents of the ruling class, that democracy in ‘so-called As.glo-Saxon countries, {blooms so iuxuriantly that every person, be he worker or capitalist, jean pluck a bouquet, and that this jis the result of the heritage handed jdown from a democratic Nordic ancestry. Marx and Engels long ago ex- |ploded this myth. They showed that jall societies are class societies and will continue so until the working class, under the leadership of the Communist Party, tak2s power, es- ship, makes the worki.g class the ruling class and begins the transi- tion period which ends in Commun- jist society—elassless society. The demoevacy of Greece was a democ- racy only for the aristocratic slave- holders. The great majority of the population—the helots—were chat- tel slaves and had the social status of beasts of burden. The so-called Anglo-Saxon democracy was a dem- ocracy of the nobility, The majority of the populstion—the thralls—had no rights of any kind. Their mas- ters had the power of life and death over them. apitalist Democracy! What: does American capitalist democracy mean. to the American working lass? It is true that nomi- nally all citizens have the right te vote, It is likewise true that the from “Communist propaganda”? is the majority of the population. Depa ras uth wont: ‘They know |The’ working class and the work- ‘ing population of the farming dis- trictg: together constitute an whelming majority of the population, But in the e ntire history of the | United States there has never been a state or national government which represented the class interests of this majority, 4 See contrary, as the working. clags hgs increased numerically, as the United States had developed into the permier industrial nation of the world, government has become more and more openly “the exeeutive committee of the capitalist elass.” American government today savage- ly attacks every section of the work- ing elass whése discontent with low wages and the increasing speed-up ripens into revolt. The armed forces of the city, county, state and na- tional government are constantly at the hon of the capitalist ene- mies of the ‘ em tortured, philosophers have written whole li- | |tablishes the proletarian dictator- | working class in the United States | of the franchise by the in capitalist soi The United mple of the co: ement. In’ no -coun of e*m, the} an so little to free assemb! been abolishe ling, combined with the heroism of | |the Russian workers he led, won| \ result of capitalist robbery and op- \pression than in any other section | of the United States, there is not| |a single paper which voices the class | linterests of the workers and far-, mers, | | In this same South the millions | of Negro voters, a third of the en-| |tire population, are forcibly pre- vented from exercising their “con- stitutional” right to the franchise. In industry the millions of unor- ganized workers have absolutely |nothing to say as to their wages and working conditions. The trade union members, for the. most part labor aristocrats, close to the lower section of the middle class,.and dom- jinated by the Greens, Wolls and | Lewises, together with the members |of the four railway brotherhoods {peddle themselves year after year| Red Cavalry | | Red cavalrymen. of the Soviet Union are expert horsemen, and know that they are trained to fight my, | mers, a ‘Workers’ Democracy in the Union | of the Socialist Soviet Republics |to one or the other of the parties sof. American imperialism. But it is precisely from the above - sources that the worst lying state- ments about the lack. of democracy and the suppression of. the working class in the U.S.S.R. come. hip in the Soviet Union is granted Citizen- only to those» who: perform~ useful labor, It'is exactly this fact, known to all ‘class’ enemies of the working | that arouses them to frenzy. Workers and farmers in the U.S,S.R. led by the: Communist Party, thru the Soviet form of government, rule - jone-sixth of solely in the. the earth’s.. surface interests of the toiling |masses of the cities and agrarian | districts. One Land of Labor. In no country ja the world is the press so free—for workers and far- It is nanis of the not free for the rem- capitalist: class or for the dwindling remains of the ezar- ist aristocracy, or for landlords, or for agents of nress is the imperialism. The entire press of the masses. Through it, and through the mass elections for all branches of govern- ment, the masses make war on all evils which arise—and correct them. Government same pay as the In officials receive a skilled worker. some cases, as the wages and stan- dards of living of the workers are constantly ineréasing — the only country in the world in which ‘this is true—government officials re- ceive even less than skilled workers, swer to the - All government’ offi¢ials’must’ an- workérs ‘arid’ péasints for ‘their “acts and ‘the’ press,‘ espe- 5 cially by means of worker ¢drrés- Organizer and Commander of the|pondence, carries on continually the leaders. the formal right to vote for all| Red Cavalry, Buddenny, was a poor | most merefless eriticism. The same classes been destroyed, but that the |peasant until the Revolution of 1917.\holds true of all factory. managers, working class itself has no voice In the civil war his genivs and dar-| executives and Communist-- Party Writing ‘of the Paris Commune, selecting government officials and|many victories for the Revolution. | Mave pointedout that: it had deli- . 'vered_ a terrible blow to the govern- example: In the entire South, where | ment: bureaucracy “by placing the In no country in the world does such 'the more bitter struggles have taken | income of all offitials ‘on the same a large proportion of the toiling |place and where there is more mass | hasis as those of workers and‘em- masses ta ke part directly in the| misery to the square mile as the | phasized “the fundamental’ vevolu- tionary character of such a step. In the Soviet Union the begitining made by the Communards has been carried to completion. In the same thesis from which we quote at ‘the begin- ning of this article Lenin ‘says: “The essence of the Soviet ‘pow- er consists in the fact that the continuous and unique basis of all State machinery and public auth- ority is constituted by the mass organizations of exactly those classes which were ‘oppressed by capitalism—the workers and semi- proletarians, peasants not exploit- ing hired labor and forced’to sell at least’ a fraction’ of their’ own labor power. ‘These very’ masses, which ‘even in the most democratic bourgeois republies, though enjoy- ing equal rights in law, are still who have the same socal outlook,| kept in practice from all partici- ~ pation in political life arid from * the enjoyment of all demiocratie liberties and #i brought into permanent, uni able, and, touch . with ministration “The equality of all ci respective of sex, religion, race or ° nationality, which was always and ~ everywhere | carried oiit, ocraey, and carried out’ ts— are now therefore, " de the di ens, ir- * promised, but’ never by the bourgeois dem- indeed never could be under ¢apitalism, is | - immediately and amply realized by the Soyiet power, or, in other words, by proletarian dictatorship, Only the dictatorship of the work- ers can achieve this equality, be- " cause they perty, interest either in or in the struggle for di haye no private produ : istribution and redistribution.” (My emphasis * ang Fee ART eepehels ‘ Genuine Democrgcy.” This is the essence of working’ class demoeracy expressed in the. words of the greatest leader of the world’s working class, ‘This is the’ democracy that exists in the U. §. This is the democracy that 8. R, establishes the seven-hour day while” in al] other ‘countries, “democratical-. ly”, xoverned or otherwise, longer working hours are being foreed upon: the masses as part of capitalist ra-, tionalization and as part of. the. preparation for a new imperialist world war, Against the tremendous achieve.” ments of the Soviet power in the, last. twelve ears. the lies of the. enemies of the world’s workers falls. shattered, The U..8..8..R,, build-, ing 4 socialist s lety at a speed which amazes and frightens the rob- her governments of the other na- tions,"is the fatherland of the work. ing class,” Knowing this, ‘the work-’ will defend Army of the attacks, |ing class *and@the colonial peoples still- more oppteand by-i erialism, t-together with the Re: U, 8-8; R. againat all [ Be eR I