The toiler. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1919-1922, 1920-03-19
Copyright 1920 By W. f. R.
FOREWORD.


to be recognized as an essential part of any class
conscious movement having for its aim and object the
establishment of better social system
The study class movement has been handicapped in
The past by various obstacles not the least among them
being the lack of sufficient number of text books
adapted to study class use.
This little volume is the result of several wears of
practical experience organizer and teacher of pro-
etalan study classes and is sent forth in the hope that
other students will find in the subject matter of its
pages, aid to better understanding of the materast
conception of history
The author wishes to acknowledge the valuable
assistance given him in both the preparation and revision
of the manuscript by Professor John H. De Ouer Vain
able assistance also given by c. W. Garret especially
III the arrangement of some of the charts
Aside from the class conscious element in society
there few who recognize the necessity for protaran
study classes. The rest ignorant Of the class nature
OF our educational sysem and labor under the deusion
that the public school, with it's winked-at COMPULSORY
attendance laws, is all that is necessary
'The whole history of mankind since the dissolution
of primitive tribal society holding land in common
ownership has been history of class struggles contests
between exploiter and exploited ruling and oppressed
classes says Frederick Enges in the preface to the
Communist Manifesto of 1S4S
Here is fundamental truth which is completely
ignored or concealed by the bourgeoscontroed schools
and colleges of today
If all history is the history of the struggle Of one
class to get and another class to keep supremacy how
can one be we'll educated if taught in a school which
ignores the existence of classes and denies the class
nature Of socety9
Securing an education in proletarian science will
consist largely i'll substituting the dynamic for the static
concept OF llfe 1t is evident that the dominant class in
conrol OF industry will strive to keep from the worker
the fact of the calss nature of society and to foster in
hm meekness, obedience and other mental attitudes that
Will tend to make the worker productive and less
restless.
large portion Of the things which in bourgeois
society pass for scientific education is but mass of
contradictions, half-truths and a muddle of misnfor
nation
lin their daily labors for the dominant class the
working class is taught many useful bits of information
o!t most OF the education received by the worker is
gven not for the benefit of the working class but fer
the direct bcnet of the employer Instead of having an
opportunity to acquire knowledge of the science of
society," OF which he the worker, is an integral part
he is purposey kept in ignorance while his preudces
are aroused and his superstitions cultivated
Armed with knowledge Of proletarian science free
from ignorance prejudice and superstition the working
class Will have tremendous advantage in their struggle
for Industrial Freedom
CHART FOR INTRODUCTION
LAW GOVERNS THE UNIVERSE NOT MAN MADE
LAW, BUT NATURAL LAW INHERENT
IN THE UNIVERSE ITSELF.
THE FOUR CLASSES THE FOITR CLASSES
OF SCIENCE OF IDEAS
AolhoNONl1 C0SM0LOGTCAL IDEAS
PHYSICS BIOLOGICAL IDEAS
METEOROLOGICAL
ploiNOul IDEAS
SOCIOLOGY SOCIOLOGICAL IDEAS
NOTHING HAPPENS BY CHANCE.
THERE rs NO ROOM IN TIE WHOLE DOMAIN
OF SCIENCE FOR MIRACLES OR THE SOCALLED
"FREEDOM- -OF-THE-WILI."
INTRODUCTION
Words are used primarily to convey ideas or to
ceal their absence y In order that the correct idea may
be conveyed it is Of scientific Importance to use exactly
tho rimht word or words ALI sindnnts of nrnntnrnn