The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-04-17

The state exists primarily to safeguard the fun
damental rights Of all the people. There Will always
be conflicting human rights within the state which
must be adjusted Such adjustments will require
that the strong help bear the burdens OF the weak
The above gem Of thought is the product Of the
brain of Governor Sweet of Colorado, quoted
approvingly by the Locomotive Engineers Journal,
and is typical of the line of reasoning followed by
class collaborationists in all climes. 1t is the
most dangerous untruth ever foisted upon the
working class and if believed by them will inevita-
bly, strip them of all power Of resistance to the
insistent demands of the rulingclass.
History shows that the state came into existence
to protect the interests of a privileged class and
from its embryonic form to the complex mechan-
icism it has become today its function has been
not to Safeguard the rights of all the people" but
to safeguard the rights of minority class of
shareholders or landlords capitalists. The ad-
justments made, not on the basis of the strong
bearing the burdens of the weak but by the pos
SCISSORS Of power enforcing their rule upon the
weaker and less we'll organized group.
The slave state, the feudal state, the capitalist
state, are all forms of government produced by
the clash of historical forces and mark certain
epochs in which a particular form of production
obtained Not one of these forms of governments
have ever considered the rights of human beings
but only the rights of the rulingclass
Whenever the suppressed majority has discov-
cred the fiction of impartial government in pre-
vious periods they have overthrow that form of
government and set up new one having, ap-
parently at least, broader base
The capitalist system came into being thru this
process and its mantle of impartiality is being
rent and torn in many places today. Thru the
openings the working class is getting glimpses of
its real character as a class institution.
This is the cause of great worry not only to big
capitalists but to the lower strata of business and
professional men among whom some of the
type called liberal. They are quite valuable to
the capitalists in that they serve to disguise the
real nature of the capitalist state and make it
harder for the workers to arrive at the correct
cluson concerning its class nature.
No entry of this type of individual into positions
of power in capitalist government has made any
changes in the function of the state but in most
countries it seems to be a necessary part of the
process of disillusoning the working class
In America the Communists alone understand
this and it is with no illusions concerning the
treacherous nature of the believers in the state as
an agency of justice and Cancellation that they
support these temporary rebels against the big
capitalists and financiers in movements such as
the FarmerLabor party where are found also
large masses of workers and farmers who by their
position as members of the working class can and
will carry on a struggle for workers and farm
ers' government that will be no more impartial
than any other state power but will openly pro-
tect the interest of the working masses against
the former rulers.