The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-19


letariat, a mode of conducting the
business of the state without the
bourgeoisie and against the bour-
geoisie. For the. first time democracy
is placed at the service of the masses,
Of the workers, and ceases to be
democracy for the rich.
Hollowness of Bourgeois Democracy
While the old bourgeois democratic
constitutions, for instance, pro-
claimed formal equality and the right
of free assemblage, the constitution
of the Soviet Republic repudiates the
hypocrisy of formal equality of all
human beings. When the bour-
geois republicans overturned feudal
thrones, they did not recognize the
rules Of formal equality of monarch
ists.T Since we here are concerned
with the task of overthro'wing the
bourgeoisie, only fools or traitors
will insist on the formal equality of
the bourgeoisie. The right Of free
assemblage is not worth an iota to
the workman and to the peasant when
all better meeting places are in the
hands of the bourgeoisie. Our Soviets
have taken over all disable build
ings in the cities and towns out of the
hands of the rich and have placed
them at the disposal Of the work
men and peasants for meeting and
organization purposes. That is how
our right Of assemblage looks-fOr
1.-THE workers. That is the meaning
and content of our Soviet, of our
socialist constitution.
And for this reason we are firmly
convinced that the Soviet Republic,
whatever misfortune may still lie in
store for it, is unconquerable.
It is unconquerable because every
blow that comes from the bowers of
madly raging imperialism, every new
attack by the international bour-
geoisie will bring new, and hitherto
unaffected strata of working men
and peasants into the fight, will edu-
cate them at the cost of the great
est sacrifice, making them hard as
| steel, awakening new heroism in the
masses.
international Revelation Delayed
III We know that it may take a long
Etime before help can come from you,
comrades, American Workingmen,
for the development Of the revolution
in the different countries proceeds
along. various paths, with varying
rapidity (how should it be other
wiseD. We know full well that the
Outbreak of the European proletarian
revolution may take many weeks to
come, quickly as it is ripening in
these days. We are counting on the
linevitability of the international
revolution. But that does not mean
that we count upon its coming at
Isome definite, nearby date. We have
Experienced two great revolutions in
our own country, that of 1905 and
that of 1917, and we know that revo-
lutions can come neither at a word
of command nor according to pre-
arranged plans. We know that cir
cumstances alone have pushed us,
the proletariat of Russia, forward,
that we have reached this new stage
in the social life of the world not
because of our superiority but be-
cause of the peculiarly reactionary
character of Russia. But until the
outbreak of the International revolu-
ton, revolutions in individual coun-
tries may still meet with a number
Ror serious setbacks and overthrows.
N Soviet Russia InvincibIe
Nnd yet we are certain that we are
invincible, for humanity will not
emerge from this imperialistic mas
sacre broken in spirit, it will triumph.
Ours was the first country to break
the chains of imperialistic warfare.
We broke them with the greatest
sacrifice, but they are broken. We
stand outside Of imperialistic duties
and considerations, we have raised
the banner of the fight for the com
plete overthrow of Imperialism for
the world.
We are in beleaguered fortress,
so long as no other international So
cialist revolution comes to our as
sistance with its armies. But these
armies exist, they are stronger than
ours, they grow, they strive, they
become more invincible the longer