The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-09-27
ByT. J. O'FIuherty


placed the class struggle by dreams of
harmony between classes, have mag
med even a transition to socialism. in
dream as it were-that is. not in
the form of the overthrow Of the SUI.
premacy Of the exploiting class, but
in the form Of the peaceful submission
OF the minority to the fully enlight-
ened majority" This attitude is as typi-
cal of the Socialist Labor Party of
America as it is Of the shameless So
ciaiist Party. 1t is naked opportun.
ism.
Frederick Engels, the bosom friend
and co-worker of Marx is second
only to his great contemporary as a
socialist writer. His most popular
books are "The Origin of the Family.
Private Property and the State" and
Socialism, Utopian and Scientific"
These books rank with the Commun-
list Manifesto as socialist classics. En-.
gels with Marx formulated the theory
OF the materialist conception Of his
tory, which rests on the basis that
the production of means to support
human life and next to production
the exchange of things produced, is
the basis OF all social structure: that
IN every society that has appeared in
history the manner in which wealth
is distributed and society divided into
classes or orders, is dependent on
what is produced, how it is produced
ana now the products are exchanged.
From this point of view the final
causes of all social changes and no
hucal revolutions are to be sought
not IN mems brains, not in mans bet.
ter insight into eternal truth and ius.
tice, but in changes in modes os
production and exchange. They are
70 be sought not in the philosophy but
In the economics Of each particnlar
epoch ="
while Engles arrived at the same
formulation Of this theory indenend.
entity OF Marx he modestly gives All
credit to his great co-worker. En-.
gels was one Of the three OUTSTANDING
geniuses that the working class reyolu.
uonary movement produced.
Marx and Engels gave the CAPITALIST
CLASS no quarter during their lives
and now that they are both turned
INTO dust millions of workers are us-
ing the weapons they forged during
their existence to batter down the
capitalist state and finish the task
which history has assigned to them
Lenin, the founder of the first pro.
ietarlan state, the builder of the Rms.
sian Communist Party and the ere.
ator OF the Third (Communist) Inter.
national, was the engineer of revolu-
ton. To him Marxism was a thing
TO be applied, not something to adj
mire at a distance. Karl Radek
wrote in an article on 'Ienin's Life
and Work" published shortly after
Lenin's death: "The iron force of Len.
ms conviction found its sourse in the
TACT that he had thot out Marks 60.
clal tenets as no scholar of Marx had
ever done before, that these tenets
mad become part of his being. and
that he applied them as no follower of
the Father Of Scientific Socialism has
DONE"
Lenin, like Marx and Engels devoted
his entire life to the task of emanci-
pating the proletariat Like his two
great predecessors, he had the divine
nre or revolution within him. which
made all his writings burn with
hatred for the ruling class. He saw
his brother taken and executed for an
attack on the Czarist prosecutors of
the people. Arrested, imprisoned, ex-
lied. hunted from place to place,
Lenin never weakened in his deter
mination. He prepared himself for
leadership, was organizer and teacher
and when the opportunity arose in
1917, he gagged the right moment to
seize power and began the greatest
nwno,-ffx,ax.t 4. h..x.o.