The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-27


to make the revolution permanent. to
keep it going until all the ruling and
possessing classes are deprived of
power, the governmental machinery
occupied by the proletariat, and the
organization of the working classes
of all lands is so far advanced that
all rivalry and competition among
themselves has ceased; until the more
important forces of production are
concentrated in the hands of the pro
letarians. With us it is not a matter
of reforming private property, but of
abolishing it; not of hushing up the
class antagonism, but of abolishing
the classes; not of ameliorating the
existing society, but of establishing a
new one. There is no doubt that, with
the further development of the revo-
luton, the petty bourgeois democracy
may for a time become the most infiu-
entail party in Germany. The ques-
ton is, therefore, what should be the
attitude of the proletariat, and par
ticularly of the League, towards it:
the present conditions in which the
petty bourgeois democracy is also
oppressed?
CD In the ensuing revolutionary
struggles which would give them
momentary ascendancy?
(iii) After those struggles, during
the time of their ascendancy over
the defeated classes and the prole-
tariat?
G) At the present moment when
the democratic petty bourgeoisie are
everywhere oppressed, they lecture
the proletariat, exhorting it to effect
unifcation' and Cancellation; they
would like to join hands and form
one great opposition party, embracing
within it's folds all shades of democ-
racy. That is, they would like to en-
tangle the proletariat in party or
ganization in which the general social
democratic phrases predominant, be-
hind which their particular interests
are concealed, and in which the par
ticular proletarian demands should
not, for the sake of peace and con-
cord, be brot forward. Such unfit
cation would be to the exclusive bene-
fit of the petty bourgeois democracy
and to the injury of the proletariat,
The organized working class would
lose its hard-won independence and
would become again mere append
age of the official bourgeois democ-
racy. Such a unification must be reso-
lutely opposed.
Instead of allowing themselves to
form the chorus of the bourgeois de-
mocracy, the workingmen, and par
Iticularly the League, must strive to
establish next to the official democ-
racy an independent, a secret as well
as legal organization of the working
class party, and to make each COM
munity the center and nucleus Of
working-class societies in which the
attitude and the interests Of the pro-
letariat should be discussed independ.
emily of bourgeois influences. How lit
tie the bourgeois democrats care for
an alliance in which the proletarians
should be regarded as cO-partnerS
with equal rights and equal standing
is shown by the attitude of the Bres-
lau democrats, who in. their organ,
the Oder-Zeitung, are attacking those
workingmen who are independently
organized, and whom they nickname
socialists, subjecting them to severe
prosecutions. The gist of the matter
is this: In case of an attack on a
common adversary no special union is
necessary; in the fight with such an
enemy the interests of both parties.
the middle-class democrats and the
working-class party, coincide for the
moment. and both parties will carry
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