The toiler. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1919-1922, 1921-05-21

NO lineage counted great;
Fishers and choppers and plough
men
Shall constitute State.
And 10 and behold! how these poor
men
Shall govern the land and sea
And make just laws beneath the sun
AS planets faithful be-"
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
ut is hard to free fools from the
chains they revere."-Voltaire.
'The dictatorship of the Proletariat
is the organization Of the advance
guard of the oppressed as the
ruling class, for the purpose OF
CRUSHING the oppressors."
Nicolai Lenin.
"The question of the dictatorship of
the pr0letariat is one of the many
issues dividing the REVOLUTIONS
AIRY AND SOCIALIST LEFT
WING from the EVOLUTIONARY
and PARLAMENTARIAN right"
Ii is a question the workers Of
America had better consider, pro
and con-, not merely taking the
word Of a Professional Proletarian,
a "Friend of Labor" or even a So
cialist scribe or an old time revo-
lutionary expounder of the faith.
In the field, factory, office, mine
and workshop, the toilers, hand and
brain, should discuss this all i'm
portant, altogether Indispensable,
vital workingclass question - The
Dictatorship of the Proletariat.
A SOCIALIST DAVID"
Some working men and women
read the New York Call and are
taught scientifically Socialism in the
Rand School. Thousands of dollars
have been contributed toward sus-
taining these two institutions. Both
claim to be working for the best
interests of the ng-class-for
the emancipation Of labor. Let US
see! A professor of social science in
the Rand School David P. Beren-
berg) recently aired his views on
the "Dictatorship" question in the
eCall.S It is Quite evident David
loves not Dictatorship" be it Cap
italist or Proletarian. Both are bad;
both are to be Stunned, in favor
of true Democracy!
whoever consoles a slave" said
Feuerbach, "instead of melting him
to revolt against slavery offers help
to the slave holder" This the So
cialist-democratic Hilquits, Spargos,
0'Neals, Bergers and Berenbergs are
doing, and they are all honorable
gentlemen! All of them sincere! Says
our Socialist David:
Through centuries of anguish the
world has gone forward to that
measure of democracy which now
prevails. Oceans, of blood have been
shed that the people might learn
TO think and to act Independently!
Will the people of their own accord
surrender to the despotism Of blind
stupidity in the persons of the
Lusks and Sweets; or to the humor-
less paranoia of THE ADVANCE
GUARD?"
"The humorless paranoia of the
advance guard, this is how our
democratic David stigmatizes the
Proletariat Dictatorship, which, ac-
.cording to Lenin "is the organiza-
tion of the advance guard Of the op-
pressed and whose purpose it is
"as the ruling class" to crush and
break the resistance of the oppres-
sors and exploiters of labor! And
this has been done in Russia. The
class conscious, battling Russian pro-
letaire, in the person Of their trusted
comrade, Lenin, said at the 3rd Con-
grcss Of Soviets, early in 191S-"you
accuse us Of using force? We admit
it. All government is legalized force,
controlled by one class and used
against another, For the first time
in history, we in this hall are Great
ing a legalized force controlled by
the working class; the vast majority
Of the people, and directed against
those who have exploited and en-
shaved u.s." Later, he said: "'The
political state is. an institution for
compulsion. This compulsion was
formerly used by bunch Of money
bags, a, gang Of rich idlers. Now wei
wish to turn the state into an in
stitution for compulsion in the in
terest Of the people. We wish to
have organized force for the, sake Of |
the laboring masses" And our social
science professors can see nothing |
more in this Proletarian Dictator
ship than "humorless paranoia!p AMI
afraid there are a few panaroiacs
still left in our socialist party and