The toiler. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1919-1922, 1921-02-19
HE AGRARIAN QUESTION.

TIE AGRARIAN QUESTION.
Capitalism dol mates agricultural production well all
other functions u the life Of society The exploitation
of the agcuu poearat links up the interests of this class
nseparaby with interests of the industrial protara of the
cities The force (which drive the city workers into conflict with
the capitalist also at work rural districts There too,
capitalism coS revolutionary action the part of the
workers. E
The toilers IN farms cannot solve their problems
Only the ndus poariat led by the Communists release
them from the Sdage of capitalism Only by joining hands with
the workers OF cities they throw off their yoke and
achieve Abundant life.
is equally 1e that the industrial workers cannot fulfill
their historic mn of beratng humanity from the domination
of capitalism ty limit their interest to the confines
of their ndua lives The proetariat becomes truly
voutionary class then it acts the vanguard of ALL the
plotted The United Communist Party must therefore, foster the
revolutionary tendencies of the agricultural workers. 1t must
ordinate their struggle with that of the workers in other in
dustres Successful action against the capitalist State bel
achieved only through the united efforts of ALL workers
In order promote this solidarity of action the United Com
munist Party must make the agricultural workers of
their interests in common with the whole of the working class
The Party must haugurate special campaign to organize units
among the agricultural poeaa to develop the struggle of those
workers into revolutionary action.
The agricultural poetaat am hands, migratory laborerS
harvest hands etc. does not constitute the only element of the
country population which has interests with the indus
trial poetaa and which must be reached by the United Com
munist Party The small tenant and the poor farmer also face
problem of capitalist exploitation less cruel than that which
os the wage worker These two also the prey of poftungy
capitalism They the victims of the landlords and mortgage
holders They harased by farm machinery trusts produce
monopoes and usous bankers They have not the necessary
capital to produce their products with modern machinery
up odae methods by which to compete in the markets.
The small tenant and poor farmer try to make up for this
lack of capital by toing from dawn till dark wage slave
would labor Gnaster; and their children and
forced ne1eTehdg grind unpaid labor Yet they cannot
compete successfully with the capitalist farmer though they
sell in the market Inevitably and nexoaby they being
crushed in the of e under the existing capitalist rules of
the game The process degeneration the small farmer into the
morgaged farmer then the enantamer then the Farmland
and migratory worker of the unceasng tragedies of the
capitalist system of exploitation
To certain extent these of farmers find consolation
for their present misery in dreams of prosperous future dreams
of times of busted trusts and peoples rule Numerous varieties
Of fake efome including the yellow Socialists these
dreams with promises of what they will do for the small farm
er, if only elected to office
1t is not the function of the United Communist Party curry
favor with these small farmers through promises of easy
the duty of the Party point them that between them
and the capitalist farmers there exists antagonsm of interests
impossible gulf that cannot be bdged By the very conditions
of their existence these elements of the country population will be
drawn into the maesom of revolution against capitalism Rapidly
they becoming conscious of the fact that there hope for
them under capitalism that long this system endues they
doomed
is the duty of the United Communist Party organize wide
spread propaganda among these classes 1t bring the small
farmers and tenants together with the farm poetaa and must
make clear them the identity of their interests with those of the
industrial poetaat 1t must point out to them that only through
Communist revolution tenanty be abolished the of the
land restored the workers without the payment tribute
eXpoe and the great estates of the capitalist farmers seized
for the purpose large scale cooperative production The United
Communist Party must organize them to take their place with
the militant working class under the banner of proearan revolt
In addition to these classes of agaans there the middle
class farmers who while working their land themselves oc-
casionay hire labor The natural tendency of this class hostility
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