The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-11-05
By VIM. z. Foster

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tend with.
Russian revolutionary experience Is
so stupendous that hardly the faintest
outlines Of it can be indicated here.
No longer is the working Of the die
tatorship of the proletariat a matter
Of speculation. The Russian revolu-
ton has made it thoroly understood.
Likewise, the part the Communist
Party has to perform, with its iron
discipline and elaborate nuclei sys-
TEN, in maintaining the dictatorship.
The principles underlying the Soviet
form of government are now an open
book The true petty-bourgeois char
acter of the socialdemocratic, anar-
chist, and syndicalist movements has
been demonstrated as clearly as day.
The enormous resistance of the CAPT
talists and their intelligentsia hang
ers-on has been learned. Their in
stinctive campaigns Of sabotage and
counter-revolution have been expert
enced and ways devised to check
them. A vast fund of information has
been accumulated as to the relations
between the workers and farmers and
Of the need and manner Of the work
ers taking the lead in the revolution
airy struggle and in the work OF social
reconstruction.
In the realms Of industry the Rus
sian workers have gained an enormous
experience. They have tried out al
most every conceivable system Of
management and tested all Of them.
lThey are solving the problems Of de-
veloping the spontaneous discipline
and incentive to work, to take the
place Of the capitalist slave-driving
methods Of the past. They have WORK
cd out the principle of the new eco
nomic policy, and they know its dan
gers and advantages. Likewise, the
Russians have learned the true func-
lions of the trade unions. the co-opera-
tives and other working class ofgani-
cations, before, during, and after the
revolution. They have also mastered
the principles of proletarian military
organization, after q bitter and san
culinary experience. They have learn
ed the most valuable lessons as to the
psychology of the masses during the
revolution and its attendant hard
ships. They have solved the questions
of proletarian justice, control of the
press, and thousand others that were
not even dreamed Of before the reva-
luton.
This tremendous fund Of revolu-
tionary experience, gained at such
great cost by the Russian workers, is
at the disposal OF the world probe
tariat. All Of it. of course, cannot be
applied in every country, but vast
amount OF it can. 1t shows the right
way for the workers to go and the pit
falls they must keep clear Of. Profit
ing by the errors and accomplish
ments OF the Russians, the workers
in other countries will same them
selves endless hardships and suffer
ing. The Russian revolution marks
an epoch in the history of the work
ing class. To Marxism, or socialism in
theory it has added Leninism, or so
cialism in action. 1t has blazed the
trail for the world revolution.
On this Seventh Anniversary OF the
Russian revolution the active Com
munists thruout the world should call
to mind the three aforementioned
phases Of the world-signifcance OF the
great 1917 upheaval. They should be
stimulated by the example Of the Rus
sian revolution to make redoubled ef-
forts in their own countries, they
should diligently strive for the up
building Of the Communist Interna-
ional, and they should study and
absorb the great lessons taught by the
vast experience of the heroic Russian
working class. Thus they will realize
in some degree the world Importance
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