The daily worker., 1924-05-03

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during the transition period in the in.
terests of its own class-that of the
Overwhelming majority of the popula-
tion-just as in the past the state
power was held and welded in the
interests of the bourgeosie, and, be-
fore them, of the feudal nobility.
Much as the workers abhor blood
shed, much as they detest the de-
struction of human life and of the
wealth which they have produced by
their labor, they cannot expect that
the privileged classes now in posses,
sion Of the state power viii yield it
without struggle.
The first attempt to carry out in
practice the principles of socialism,
such as the naturalization of land
and industry, will meet with the i'm
mediate opposition of the ruling
class, which will call out all the forces
of the state to defend it's own inter
ests. Therefore the workers must be
prepared to meet force by force, and
to wrest mastery from the hands OF
their opponents on the battlefield.
During the transition period that must
follow, the Dictatorship of the Prole-
tariat will replace the dictatorship of
the bourgeoisie, now thinly yelled un-
der the mask of bourgeois Democ-
racy.
This dictatorship will continue un-
til society as whole accepts the new
state of affairs, and a new generation
is brought up in the ideals of the
proletarian Socialist State.
Lenin the Only ReaIist.
Such is the goal Of Lenin. And of
the three men who prophesied so diff
ferently his was the only creed
which has been carried into living and
actual reality. The Fourteen Points
have passed into oblivion since the
framing of the infamous Treaty of
Versailles; the League of Nations re-
mains what 1T must always be, "or-
ganized impotence" Wilson, the last
prophet of the bourgeoisie, died in OBJ
security after enjoying a dizzy adula-
ton accorded by millions of human
beings whose hearts turned to him in
hope at his magnificent promises of
"a war to end war;; "self-determina-
tion OF small and subject nationali-
ties; peace without annexations
and indemnities"; "open covenants
openly arrived at" and the promise
of universal disarmament safeguard
ed by the League of Nations.
The mockery OF those promises
need no longer be exposed. 1t is
palpable to the whole world who
looked to him for their fulfillment.
Had the followers of Woodrow Will
son looked less at the man and more
at the system of which he was the
spokesman, they would have been
spared the great disillusionment and
despair that weighs upon them to-
day.
Gandhi's impotent Programs.
The release of Mr.. Gandhi by the
British Government which impris-
oned him sets the public seal upon
the recognition of the utter defeat of
his program. He, too, was at one
period of his career a leader of
masses of men; one-fifth of the hu-
man race contained within the con-
fines of India alone looked to him for
their redemption, while an ever-grow-
ing following of disappointed and dis
illusioned pacifists outside turned to-
wards this new Messiah arising in the
East to seek solution for their war
weariness.
"Swaraj within year; "non-co-op-
Grafton with the existing government
until it changes its heart; boycott
of schools, law courts, government in
stitutions and titles; civil disobedi-
ence, including non-payment of rent
and taxes; such were the slogans
OF Gandhism which carried the move
ment among the masses OF the peo-
nile and swami him m fha o,,,ro,,, a