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

"bull" or more correctly, misinfor-
nation, and have thus destroyed or
led astray the few American work
ers who have come under your in
fluence.
Says our professor
"The advance guard tells us that
we must choose between the two die
tatorships. Why 30? Why not re-
pudiate them both? We have taught
Socialism for yea4s. We have taught
that Socialism mehnt an extension of
democracy. Wher$ bourgeois society
had left off we Would begin. To the
political democracy that bourgeois
revolutions had diven us we would
add industrial democracy. We did
not mean that Industrial democracy
spelled political despotism.
Have we taughtla lie? l think not.
| / think that wei have taught the
great truth. Thosd who in the name
of Socialism arej teaching the die
tatorship care teaching lie. So
cialism and dictatorship are ever
lastingly alien to- one another. Only
humorless paranolacs can think other
wise."
Let me repeat professor the So
cialist Party, through its official
spokesmen, it's press and it's school,
has not been telling the truth; it
has lied, again and again to the
American workers relative to their
true position in society and the
principles and tactics to be used
in emancipating themselves from in
dustrial slavery. ! speak from a IL
years experience as a member of
the Socialist Party and reader Of
it's press. Even today it dare not
tell the truth to the rank and file
VI its iieiiioeisnip. i'' i''ues' ooN
sistmg largely OF bourgeois ideaiists'
petty shop-keepers and antique poll
tlcal have-peens' nave nelther the IN
telhgence nor courage 70 declare IT.
self the advance guard" of the
American working class. lis ii'tie
wonderithe .Tnird lnternational wash
ed clean pts nands Oh the American
Socialist farty. Ana right here' let
me express wnat hundfeds' IL not
thousands OF 1ormerj members Oh the
Socialist 'farty are {nlnking out ran
70 tnlng aiouda' FWe want hei.ner
your crumbs nor your condescension'
your guidance nor your glamour,
your tuition nor your Taditloh'
Now go SIT down you oocialist pro,
fessors and learn the A. D. u oi
Communism!
WHAT DICTATORSHIP MEANS.
We do not expect to teach the
Berenberps. the Call editors or the
Rand School teachers; they already
know it all-all about Socialism. But
we dare hope and expect to help
some American workers by way of
suggestion, to grasp the real mean
inc and profound significance of
this very much misunderstood phraze,
the Dictatorship Of the Prole-
tariat." Listen please to one of the
sanest statements vet made, and
not by professed socialist or re-
yolutionary. but keen, intelligent
observer of passing events-H. N.
Br,ilsford in his recent book "The
Russian Workers RepublicD-
"The world Dictatorship" which
Russian Communists use to describe
their own monopoly of power in the
socialist state, implies that it will
be TEMPORARY. 1t should last accord
ing to the tactical theories of the
revolution. until the capitalist sys-
tenn has wholly disappeared in Rus
sin. until the former privileged rul-
ing class. has been absorbed in the
general BODY of citizens, and until
the civil war and the external war
have ceased. Opponents are scep-
tical. and doubt whether the moment
will ever come when the Communists
will voluntarily renounce the power
which they have seized. Power in
taxicates. and history shows few in
stances of voluntary abdication, save