The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-10-11

ment but the practical day-by-day po-
litical work. Therefore the Rus
sian worker knows something that
is hidden from the patented jur-
ists,-that the Soviet system is as
much superior to formal bourgeois
democracy as socialism is superior to
bourgeois exploitation. The Russian
worker is not a legal "spec," he does
not split hairs over the finest judicial
definitions. He knows the value of
his proletarian order from his own
practice. This order is the reverse
of individualistic: one does not say,
a." one says, "We"-economic, po-
litical and cultural work is done on
a coIIectivist basis.
Organization.
The Russian worker is thoroIy or
ganized. The Russian worker has
passed thru a powerful school of so
cial work. The Russian worker never
looks upon a meeting as upon pic
mic, never thinks Of conference as
good time" The Russian worker
has an earnest attitude towards his
problems and duties IN Russia, non
attendance of committee meetings, of
party school lectures, of union ses-
sions, is an unusual occurrence. In
Russia, highfalutin frey speeches
are almost unknown. In a business
like, practical, prosaic manner does
the Russian proletarian functionary
deliver his Grafton. Seriously, patti
emily and attentively does the audi
days work. Not even the term
speech" is now current in the Rus
sian political practice: instead the
worlds lecture" or report" are com
monty used. Every lecture and report
must contain an array of facts which
could be jotted down in notebook
and retold to others. The Russian
worker has learned to listen, to com
prehend, to judge, to decide. The
Russian worker has learned to re-
main silent where the problem is
clear to him or where others have
made the necessary remarks. The
Russian worker has learned to un-
tangle the most complicated prob
lens and to find solutions. The Rus
sian worker seems to be continually
preoccupied with immediate practical
questions of state interest; he seems
so restrained; COOL unconcerned;
back of this absorption in the press
ing immediate work, however, there
is a tremendous endurance, an iron
clad will, a readiness to guard the
October Revolution to the very last
breath.
Ruthless Toward Foes.
The rank and file Russian worker
is severe towards himself and severe
towards his foes. The Russian worker
has no use for kid gloves. He has
never cut intellectual capers. He
does not coat bitter facts with sa-
Iva of sweetish words The Russian
worker has an adequate name for
every fact and proper valuation for
every action. The Russian worker
does not claim to have introduced
universal equality; he bluntly and
brazenly declares that what he has
introduced is proletarian dictator
ship, i. e.. a system where the work
ing class and part of the peasants
dominate all other classes and
groups. The Russian worker declares
in the frankest and most outspoken
fashion that the aim of the proletar-
ian dictatorship is to uproot, exter-
inmate and annihiIate all exploiting
groups and classes. If anybody ap-
peals in the name of abstract "jus-
tice," the worker will say that it is
a supreme act of proIetarian justice
to abandon exploitation together with
the exploiting classes. If anybody
shields himself with the claim of
equality" the worker will say that
there can be no equality between the