The toiler. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1919-1922, 1921-04-09

AdulShidH .SIyic iC quOsSo viz N
este or such as suits the purpose OF
renegade. Here is the passage ne
uotes to us which is capital
sed just as he prints it.
"The proletariat will use its
political supremacy to wrest by
degrees, all capital from the
bourgeoisie, to centralize all in
struments of production in the
hands of the state, i. e., of the
proletariat organized as the rul-
ing class; and to increase the
total of productive forces as rap
idly as possible. Of course, in the
beginning, this cannot be effect
ed except by despotic inroads on
the rights of property, and on
the conditions of bourgeois pro-
duction; BY MEANS OR MEA-
SURES, therefore, WHICH AP-
PEAR ECONOMICALLY IN
SUFFICIENT AND UNTEN-
ABLE, BUT WHICH, IN THE
COURSE OF THE MOVEMENT
STRIP THEMSELVES
NECESSITATE FURTHER IN
ROADS UPON THE OLD So
CIAL ORDER, AND ARE UN-
AVOIDABLE AS A MEANS OF
ENTIRELY REVOLUTIONIZ-
ING THE MODE OF PRODUC-
TION."
Now, indeed, is the perversion of
the Manifesto by this reformer ap-
parent, and the hypocrisy of this
renegade revealed. Let US quote the
paragraph in the Manifesto just pre-
ceding the above quotation and an
alyze both. The quotation is from
page 4O-Kerr edition Of the 1Oc
pamphlet. 1t reads:
"We have seen above, that the
first step in the revolution by
the working class, is to raise the
proletariat to the position of the
ruling class to win the battle of
democracy.
"The prOletariat will use its
political supremacy, to wrcst, by
degrees, all capital from the
bourgeoisie" etc. as above quoted.
! Put the two paragraph together
as Marx and Engels wrote them and
their meaning becomes clear to any
except the perverters of Marx.
Was there ever a more dastardly
peryersion Of the meaning of Marx
and Engels than in this Kautskiar
method which this cheap follower
initiates? Here he attempts to lift
out one paragraph, to separate ii
from its logical place in the body
of the chapter and then to pervert
it's meaning further by applying il
to his own misconceived ideas Of
working class tactics.
"The first step" says the Mani
festo, is to raise the proletariat tc
the position of ruling class" Why
Because either the master or the
slave must rule. They cannot botl
rule. And after the workers have
supplanted the capitalists as the
ruling class, has created the prole.
tartan State i. e. the "proletariat or
ganized as the ruling class, in con
troll of the armies, navies and police
power, THEN begins the expropria
tion of the capitalists, as fast a:
possible under the conditions Of the
hour, which may indeed, be such a:
to prevent an immediate total ex
preparation as was true in Russia
To say that the appropriation Of thu
bourgeoisie can take place before thc
workers have become the ruling class
before they have control Of the StatC
power. is plain mistatement o.
fact.
In attepting to make this quota
tion apply to his scheme of unem
ployment relief, how laughable is he
Where, in his scheme can he appl!
this: "to wrest, by degrees, all capi
tai from the bourgeoisie". Wher,
is he wrestling in any degree one cen
Of capital from the exploiters? Il
a scheme which offers the capitalist
"best markets" for their idle capita
and good investments" where il
there room for proletarian expropria
tion Of capital? Such opportunit.
does not exist. The quotation i.
entirely inapplicable and cannot b.
any method of perversion or cheaI
lying be made to apply to this piec
Of degrading, reformistic deceit.
What the Socialist Party of Obi
is attempting by this pseudo-relie
measure is to delude the worker
with the gospel Of bourgeois demo
cracy; that the workers can becom
the ruling class thru the operation
of the political machinery of tn
capitalist State. All that's require