The Daily Worker Newspaper, January 19, 1935, Page 9

a i LENIN ON THE SUBSTANCE OF PROLETARIAN DICTATORSHIP, Communist Party is Vanguard of the Working Class By V. I. LENIN fee Victory of Sotialisin—as the first stage of Communism over capitalism—requites that the pro- letariat, as the only really revolu- tionary class, should accomplish the three following tasks: first—to over DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JANUARY 19, 1935 | Parliamentary, judicial, military, | bureaucratic, administrative, muni- | cipal, ete—up to banishment or in- | ternment of all the most danger j ous and stubborn exploiters, the | tablishment of strict supervisior over them for the repression of in- | evitable attempts at re: and | restoration of capital only such méasurés can guarantee the real subjection of the whole class of exploiters. Moreover, just such a glossing- over of capitalism and bourgeois democracy, just such a deception of dj and which is the more refined an4 the old leaders of the ternational, that the ma toilers and exploited will to ond In- of the able e under conditiéns of capi- very, under the bondage of jie, a bond: sumés an endless var! which a ty of fort at the same and merc given capita fill ‘clarity of Socialist cot ness and firmness of Socialist con- victions and character. In reality, only after the vanguard time the more cruel throw the exploiters and in the first | the workers, is the view commonly | of the proletariat, supported by ‘the instance the bourgeoisie, as their ehiéf economic and political repre- sentative; to defeat them complete- ly, to crush their resistance and to tender impossible attempts on their | part to reimpose the yoke of capital | and wage slavery. Second—to induce not only the entire proletariat or its overwhelm- ing majority but also all the toil- ing masses exploited by capital to follow the leadership of the revolu- tionary vanguard of the proletariat, the Communist Party; to enlighten, organize, train and discipline them during the very course of the im- measurably bold and mercilessly firm struggle against the exploiters; to wrest this overwhelming ma- jority of the population in all cap- italist countries from their state of dependence on the bourgeoisie; to inspite them, through practical ex- perience with confidence in the leading rolé of the proletariat and its revolutionary vanguard. Third—to neutralize or render harmless the inevitable vacillations between the bourgeoisie and the pro- letariat, between bourgeois democ- racy and the Soviet power, on the part of that class—still quite nu- merous in almost all advanced countries although constituting a minority of the population—of small Proptietors in agrictilture, industry and commerce, as weli as the cor Tésponding stratum of intelligentsia, employees, etc. The first and second tasks ate in- dependerit tasks, each requiring its Special methods of action in regatd to the exploiters and in regard to the exploited. The third task re- sults ftom the first two, requiring Only a skillful, timely, and supple combination of the methods of the first and second, depending on the concrete citcumstances of each sep- arate case of vatcillation. ate ey IN THE present situation—which throughout the world and espe- cially in the most advanced, power- ful, eflightened, and free capitalist countries has been created by. mili- tarism. and imperialism, by the strangling of the colonies and weak nations, by the imperialist world slaughter, by the Versailles “Peace” ~—to harbor any thought of a peace- ful submission of the capitalists to the will of thé majorityof the ex- ploited, of & peaceful, reformist transition to Socialism, is not only proof of extreme petty bourgeois stupidity but is an outright decep- tion of the workers, is to gloss over capitalist wage slavery, is to con- ceal the truth. This truth consists in the fact that the most enlightened and democratic bourgevisie even now does not shrink from any deception and crime, from the slaughter of millions of workers and. peasants, {h order to retain the right of pri- vate ownership in the means of production. Only the forcible over- throw of the bourgeoisie, the con- fiscation of its property, the de- struction of the entire bourgeois | entertained by the old parties and whole or by the majority of the pro- Johnstone to. Speak At Lenin Memorial PITTSBURGH, Pa., Jan. 18— Jack Johnstone, District Organizer of the Communist Party in Pitts- at a Lenin Memorial Meeting to be held here under the auspices of the Hill Section of the Party at Pythian Temple, Room 5 (Wylie Street en- trance) on Saturday, Jan. 19. ‘The life’s work and teaching of Lenin will be the subject of John- stone’s talk. Ben Carruthers, Dis- trict Orgafiizational Secretary, will talk on the significance of Lenin’s Writings to the Negto workers, Tom Myerscough, Section Organ- izer here, will be chairman of the meeting. There will be no admis- state apparatus from top to bottom Sion charge to the meeting. Rally in Pittsburgh | burgh, will be the principal speaker | | Robert Minor To Talk At Lenin Memorial Minor, well-known working class leader, will be the main speaker at a Lenin Memorial. Meeting to be held here on Wednesday, Jan. 23 at 7:30 p.m, at Lyran Hall. Hundreds of workers who came here to a meeting last year to. hear because of a terrific storm that dis- rupted the meeting. A latge gath- ering of workers is expected to hear Minor on Wednesday. The program of entertainment will include orchestral and vocal music. Admission to the- meeting will be ten cents. Meeting in Rockford crushed by capitalism. ROCKFORD, Ill, Jan. 18—Robert | comrade Minor were disappointed | |Proletariat Must Be | Organized for New | Social Order the only revolutionary ye overthrown the ex- pl shed them, freed the ex- slavery. mediately at the expense of the ex- | propriated capitalists—only after this, and during the very course of the acute class struggle, will it be possible to bring about the enlight- ehment, edtication, and organization of the broadest masses of toilers and | | exploited under the influence and | leadership of the proletariat, to lib- erate them from their egoism, their |lack of solidarity, their. vices and | weaknesses, which ate being engen- dered by private ownership, and to transform thém into free workers freely allied together. ie Le R the success of the victory over capitalism it is necessary to have |@ cortect interrelation between the leading Communist Party, the revo- lutionaty class, the proletariat, and | the masses, ie., the whole body of; toilers and exploited. Only the Com- | | munist Party, if it really is the van- |guard of the revolutionary ciass, if | it iricludes in its ranks all the best | | representatives of this class, if it |consists of fully conscious, devoted |Communists, schooled and steeled by the experience gained in the stubborn revolutionary struggle, if |it has known how to link itself up | lindigsolubly with the entire life of | its class.and through the latter with jall the exploited masses and how | to inspire this class and these mass- jes with full confidence—only stich a Party is capable of leading the proletariat in the most mer¢iless, final and decisive struggle against | all the forces of capitalism. On the other hand, only under the leadership of such a Party will the proletariat be able to deply the whole force of its revolutionary on- sSlaught, nullify the inevitable! apathy and in part the rosistance of the small minority of the labor | aristoctacy corrupted by capitalism, of the old leaders of the trade | unions, cooperatives, etc.; only then | will it be able to deply all its force, which—by reason of the very eco- homie structure of capitalist society | —is immeasurably greater than its | share in the population. Lastly, only when actually liberated from | only after acquiring the possibilit; of freely (unhampered by the ex- ploiters) organizing in their own Soviets will the masses—i., all the toilers and exploited—be able for the first time in history to utilize | jall the initiative and all the energy | of tens of millions of people now | INLY when the Soviets become the only State apparatus, will | |teal participation in administration | | be achieved for all the exploited | | massés, who even under the most | enlightened and freest bourgeois de- mocracy were always, in 99 cases out of 100, actually excluded from participation in administration. Only in the Soviets do the exploited masses begin really to learn—not from books, but from their own practical experience—how to under- | take the work of Socialist construc- tion, the creation of a new social | discipline, of a free alliance of free | workers. (Lenin “Theses on the Basic Tasks of the Second Congress of the C.I.”) Lenin’s Teachings Once Again Borne Out —- e Leninist Analysis of NRA Contrasts With Socialist Theories By Harry Gannes Whether it is the course of the New Deal, or the hetoic, world biaz- ing battle of the Spanish miners in Asturias, the genius of Leninism re- eeived bfillant confirmation. ‘The intense and bitter struggles of the working lass and colonial peoples thtoughout the entire world during the past everitful year, proved again to the hilt the cor- rectness of the revolutionary teach- ings of Lenin. Examitie, fot instance, the So- cialis} Patty's theorizing on the New Deal and the N. R. A. and see into what miserable swamps it led the working Glass. Contrast to it the clear fotesightedness, the brilliant and accurate penetration of the Communist Party analysis, based on Leninism. The Socialist Party lead- ers saw in the N, R. A. & possible peaceful path to socialism along with & graduel improvement of the Ameri¢ah workers, The Communist | learned Party, on the contrary, with the scientifié tools forged by Lenin, was able to lay bare the -real inner significance of Roosevelt's program. With the sharp knife of Lenin’s teathings, it was able to cut away thé rotten demagogy concealing the real inteht of the big bankers of the huge monopolies and trusts. Clearly forseeing the N. R. A. road of assault against the Ameri- can toilers, the Leninist Party in the United States with the tactics of Marxism-Leninism was able to direct ahd lead the workers along the path of day-to-day struggles, on the road to revolutionary resistance to capitalism. S Where the struggles of the ex- ploitéd masses were the sharpes, there Lenin’s teachings, the highest advancement of Marxism, proved themselves most. ce ‘The tenth year after the death of the great working class leader was especially rich in revolutionary bat- tles. In Austria and Spain the highest question before the exploited and oppressed in their fight against capitalism Was raised, that is, the question of the seizure of state power, The failure to gain the victory in both of these countries was due to the fact that the working class did not have at its head the party trained in Leninism and fully versed in the greatest accomplish- ment of Lenin’s genius, the prole- tarian revolution in Russia. In Austria the workers, saddled by the death grip of the social- democratic old men of the sea, the Bauers and Adlers, wete held back from the fight against fascism until the master class had insured itself of the victory. The working class of Austria de- sired a fight to the finish. It hero- ically proved its ability to make the greatest sacrifices for the over- throw of capitalism, but it was forced into defensive armed upris- ing, resulting in its defeat. This defeat has now led the majority of the Socialist workers of Austria to realize that the Leninist goal of the proletarian dictatorship, the strug- gle for Soviet power, is the only guarantee for the defeat of fascism. While the Austrian workers had from the treacherous be- trayals of the German Sotial-dem- ocratic leaders, and did not sub- mit ‘without an inspiring battle, shoulder to shoulder with the Com- munist Party, the Spanish worker's carried to still greater heights their revolutionary fight against fascism. In the province of Asturias, Spain, where the workers followed one hundred per cent the banner of Leninism, the road of Soviet power, the victory was won. It was only because the Socialist leaders, and more particularly the Anarchist be- trayers, prevented the complete ap- crete oud carrying out of Lenin’s revolutionary program and Strategy, that the red flag of the victorious letarian revolution does not y fiy over Spain. All mistakes made in the course of the October armed battles in Spain, which impeded the triumph of the revolution, were precisely the failure to carry into action the his- torical revolutionary experience of Communism, developed to its by Recent History Austrian and Spanish Struggles Show Truth of Leninism Proletariat now stand a head taller, its ranks stronger, steeléd for great- ef decisive battles, because in its failures and mistakes it has learned more thoroughly the correctness of Lenin’s way, the only way whith achieved victory for the working class in one sixth of the globe, and ‘the only way which holds that vic- tory against every counter-revolu- tionary assault. In the rapid strides of the whole imperialist world towards a new, bloody imperialist war, Lenin’s analysis of imperialism receives daily a thousand-fold confirmation. In the fight against fascism, the Communist Patties in Germany, Italy, Austtia ate forging the in- struments which inevitably will give a death thrust to fascism, and its rotten source, decaying capitalism. These Parties drank deeply from the well of Leninist teachings on undér- Sfotind revolutionary work, the combination of legal and illegal ac- tivities; the preliminary prepara- tion for illegal existence and strug- gle, ahd the building of ‘the united front for the storming of capitalism. The Soviet Union, with its So- calist construction, is @ living, tow- ering monument to the correctness of Lenin’s teachings. Despite all the howlings of the Trotzkyites about the failure of Socialism in the Soviet Union, in which chorus they bay in unison with the coyotes of the Czarist remnants and the fas- cists enemies, Socialist upbuilding speeds ahead from victory to vic~ tory, firmly guided by the teach- ings of Lenin through his foremost disciple, Stalin, Nowhere have Lenin’s ideas and thoughts proven more fruitful than in the revolutionary peace policy of the Soviet Union. Every move for peace has followed Lenin's way. The Soviet Union has been able to uti- lize every conttadiction, every breech among the imperialist ban- dits to block and stave off war, to highest point by Lenin’s genius. In both Austria and Spain the \ assist the workers thro. shout the world to strengthen and steel their ranks for the inevitable offensive against the war-mad bosses. Every day of peace, forced by the mighty power of the invincible armed forces | of the Soviet Union plus the revo- lutionary diplomacy of the U. 5. 8. R., helps the advance of Socialist construction in the U. 8. 8. R., Yaises higher the Walls of the fort- tess of the world revolution, | This is the Way of Lenin. The near future, certainly fraught with even greater stormin, of the heavens of capitalism, wil raise to gregter heights the power of Lenin’s teachings as the greatest weapon for victory in the entire arsenal of the working class and colonial peoples of the whole world. No wonder the slimy Hearsts rave and rant against Lenin, the mas- ter guide of the path to the dic- tatorship of the proletariat. No wonder the Hearsts and the Trota- kys, each in his own skillful and specialized way, try to sully the true teachings of Lenin. 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