The Daily Worker Newspaper, November 7, 1931, Page 8

i Page Four - A Syste Which On the 14th Anniversary of the Soviet Union Has Proven Its So- cial Bankruptey By D. Z. MANUILSKY (Excerpt Ffrom His Report to the| ‘For fourteen years the Soviet iith Plenum of the Com. Int’L) Power has ruled over one-sixth of Comrades, I have come to the end j the globe. With every year, the an- of my report. At the basis of the | niversary of the seizure of power by theses submitted to you on the first | the Russian working class under the question of the agenda we placed | leadership of the Bolshevik Party of the contrast between the U.S.S.R.| Lenin has brought deeper under- and -the entire capitalist world. | standing to the workers of the pro- This is no accident. The antagon- | found historic significance of the ism between the two irreconcilable | events of November 7, 1917. By EARL BROWDER DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, |.° 1‘ '4* worlds constitutes the pivot of the present international situation, Today, more than ever, the les- sons of November 7 stand out sharp The proletariat dictatorship comes | and clear. forward now, not on the smoky ruins of imperialist war, but clad more and more in the steel armor of socialism not in “lining up” with the post-war economic chaos in all the belligerent countries in Europe, but in the dynamics of the upswing of Socialism and the decline of capitalism. It is no longer carrying on agita- tion only with the aid of the heroic pages of the civil war, it is corrod- ing the capitalist world with the smoke of its gigantic factories built up under great difficulties and with tremendous effort. It is rousing the peasantry of the capitalist coun- tries with the cheery sound of the first Soviet made tractors in the fields of the U.S.S.R. In the capi- talist world we have the philosophy of twilight of Europe; the master- mind—Spengler. In the U.S.S.R. we have the philosophy of the revo- lutionary struggles, and the bearer of this philosophy is the worker en- gaged in gigantic construction whose stern features express the power of a conquering class, the pathos of its struggle and Socialist construction. Among the capital- ists there is dismay, lack of confi- dence in the morrow, alarm before difficulties; in the U.S.S.R. there is firm confidence in the chosen road leading to victory, a steeled will to overcome difficulties. In the Against the decaying, collapsing cialist world has multiplied its pro- duction by 300 per cent above 1914. While in the capitalist world, the little group ofmonopolists grow richer and richer. While the masses sank into misery and degradation, in the socialist world the whole mass of the population simultaneously raises its political, cultural, and economic lev- el in a surging, enthusiastic advance of an entire people building social- ism. What is the root of the difference between these two worlds? It is the difference as to which a A * i Bdlian 5 ' i eam Dm ad \ = —~ i se "a al Soviets-The Organ of Proletarian | Rule leads the masses back to the sup- port of capitalism, to which it is By V. © LENIN. faithful servant. Just as the Bol- Shame upon those who say, “We sheviks, under the leadership of} have no apparatus with which to Lenin and Stalin, have shown the! replace the old one, which invari- world the fruits of their policy in} abhty supports the capitalist class’: the powerful socialist construction of | ror we have such an apparatus—the the Soviet’ Union—just as clearly | Soviets. Fear not the initiative and have the opposite results have dem- independent action of the masses, onstrated by the “socialist” Second | have confidence in the revolution- International and its parties, under ary organizations of the masses, and the ‘leadership of MacDonald and in all departments of the State you Henderson in England, Hilferding, will behold the strength, the mag- Mueller, in Germany, Otto Bauer in| nificence, the invincibility of the Austria, Leon Blum in France, Hil- SHOCK BRIGADE OF COAL MINERS IN THE SOVIET UNION Wages of coal miners in the Soviet Union increased by 40.5%, while for the miners in capitalist Am- erica starvation wages prevail. capitalist world thousands are ask- ing, says Professor Bonn: WOE Of cepliniens: wanes Seine: “Whether the capitalist system | ing hunger, misery, starvation Mes has any right to exist if it is un- j death to new millions of workers ebie in the richest country in the ey peasants, there has arisen out - World to create a system-where |! the November 7 Revolution the | millions of people will not be |2¢¥ world of workers’ rule, of pro- eompelled from time to time to | Jetarian dictatorship, of socialism, Class holds and uses the State-Power. liquit and Thomas in the U. 8. “socialists” have deli- On November 7, 1917, the working-, These false “soc class of Russia, following the leader-| Vered the workers into the swamp nist Party (Bol- of wage cuts, unemployment, and ee ae pe sesh Nyich fen helpless subjection to the capitalist smashed the State Power of the cap- | class. They have helped to estab- italist class and the landowners, and Dlish fascism, and are now tbusy established the power of the Soviets , helping prepare for the coming Im- five in poverty and depend npon | Protection and well-being for the charity soup kitchens and lodging houses.” What can the capitalist phil- masses. Two worlds! Is there any longer doubt as to which of the two the masses will choose? osophers, politicians and journalists of Workers and Peasants. In the | Perialist war. capitalist world, it is the working- class which has its organizations smashed, its leaders killed and The capitalist class knows only one way out of its crisis; that is WAR against the working-class of workmen and peasants, which they showed in their enthusiastic solie darity against the Kornilov upris- ing. Distrusting the masses, fearing their initiative and independence, trembling at their revolutionary energy instead of enthusiastically and umreservedly supporting it— * . . The essence of the Soviet power consists in the fact that the con- tinuous and unique basis of all State machinery and public author- ity is constituted by the mass or- ganizations of exactly those classes which were oppressed by capitalism —the workers and semi-prolctari- ans, peasants not exploiting 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 re- publics, though enjoying equal Tights in law. are still kept in prace V. I. LENIN tiee from all participation in political every country, and WAR AGAINST | life and from the enjoyment of all Gay to the millions of slaves of the capitalist system in justification of this slavery? .By what arguments of human logic can they prove to the masses the reasonableness of this tystem which has proved its social ebsurdity, unless it be with guns, machine guns, airplanes, prisons, police and gendarmerie? If we were to say that the hypocritical British bourgeoisie calls upon the millions of starving unemployed to suffer patiently and look forward to the life after death it would be regarded as a bad joke. But it is not thought a joke. One can read this in the New Year issue of the Times this year, in the leading ar- ticle which consoles the unemployed with the thought that this world is only part of the universe, that after this vale of tears and suffering, a better time awaits them in heaven! But the millions of the unem- ployed in Germany, Poland, U.S.A., Great Britain, the masses of hu- manity in China, India and Indo- China do not want to wait until the promissory note whfch The Times gave to the unemployed has expired, the more so that it has not been guaranteed by a single impor- tant bank except that of the Vat- ican. These masses are moving in- to action. They see not only the glare of impending imperialist wars, they are already the victims of sav- age war which capital is waging against them in the capitalist as well as in the colonial countries. “If Communism continues to improve its achievements it will have far greater*effect upon the life of the West than anything else and will be the biggest fac- tor since the crucifixion of Christ,” says Norman Angell in Foreign Affairs, “Russia does not need to bring disorder to the - ; Defend the itn AS iit et creed nrsnnersacnettadoemenescmest > | jailed, while the capitalist class The world ot capitalism: Holding; the massed wealth of the world, the H0lds and uses the powers of the highest technique of production, a; plethora of the necessities of life— but checked and paralyzed by its very wealth, condemning the pro- ducers of its wealth to death by starvation or suicide in the midst of their products! The world of socialism: Holding for only 14 years the heritage of the ex-czarist empire, with its pov- erty, economic and cultural back- wardness—but already emerging with sure and powerful steps to safety and security for the workers, overcoming its economic and cul- tural backwardness—at a speed ten times that of capitalism in its youthful prime, and already over- taking and surpassing the capitalist economies. While in the United States, the stronghold of capitalism, economy declines by one-third in the course of @ year, in the land of the So- viet Power economic life expantis by more than one-third. While the capitalist world drops far below even its pre-war level of 1914, the so- natural result of the proved bankruptcy of the presewt sys- tem.” And Socialism will continue all | the time to improve its achieve- ments. From month to month and day to day it will more sharply than ever put the question to the masses in all parts of the world as to the two world systems, the two dictatorships, the two roads. And the Communist International and its Sections will help the masses to make their choice, and will take charge of this struggle for the overthrow Of capitalisuz, for the establishment of the dictatorship of the proletariat. » er State. The different results of the two systems, arise from this basic fact of » ‘ch class is in power. Today the crisis of capitalism has already reashed such a point that, so long as this capitalist system continues to rule, ever more millions of people must die. Capitalism can no longer feed the people. The working-class must choose between capitalism and death, or begin seriously to struggle for so- cialism—which means to take the road of Bolshevism, of November 7. In this world crisis, the most deadly of the working-class is the party that calls itself “socialist,” the party of the Second {nternational. In the name of “socialism” to which THE SOVIET UNION. The working-class can only find one way out of the crisis; that is, war against capitalist class of its own country and DEFENCE OF THE SOVIET UNION. The workers must organize their forces for the fight; organize, organize, ORGANIZE! The fight against wagecuts, for unemployment relief and insurance, against impe- rialist war and for defence of the Soviet Union, will lead us, by step democratic liberties and rights—are now brought into permanent, une avoidable, and, therefore, decisive, touch with the democratic adminis- tration of the State. The equality of all citizens, irre- spective of sex, religion, race or nae tionality, which has always and evo erywhere promised, but never care ried out, by the bourgeois demote racy, and indeed never could be care ried out under capitalism, is immee diately and. amply realized by the Soviet power, or, in other words, by by step, on the path already shown | proletarian dictatorship. Only the by the Russian workers, by Lenin. That is the path to the overthrow of the rule of the capitalist class, the establishment of the dictatorship of the proletariat, of the Soviet Power. it is traitor, the “Socialist” Party| That is the lesson of November 7. SAILORS OF THE RED NAVY Soldiers of the imperialist armies are class brothers of the Red dictatorship of the workers can achieve this equality, because they have no private property interest either in production or in the strug- gle for distribution and redistritue tion. The old bourgeois democracy and the parliamentary system were so organized as to keep the working classes at the greatest distance from the administrative machinery. But on the Soviet power, i.e., proletarian dictatorship, on the contrary, is so organized that it brings the masses of the working class in close touch with the administration. The same purpose is attained by the legislative and executive functions under the Soviet organization of the State, and by substituting industrial units, such as works and factories, for ter- ritorial constituencies. Not only under the monarchy, but even in the most democratic bourgeois republics, the army was an organ for oppression. Only So- viet government, as the established State organization of the classes op- pressed by capitalism, is capable of abolishing the dependence of the army on bourgeois leadership, and of really amalgamating the prole- tariat with the army, of arming the proletariat and disarming the be Only Workers’ Fatherland---the Soviet Geer ay