The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-05

: born in March, 1919, In Moscow.
Now, IN March, 1924, it is ceIebrat-
ing Its fifth anniversary.
The Communist international ,uas
born in bloody and stormy DAYS
Kolchak from the east, Denikin from
the south, were approaching dan
gerously near to Moscow. In Ger
many Spartacus received one bloody
blow after another upon its body. In
hungary the proletarfan revolution
lifted its head, victorious and full of
promise. Everywhere on the whole
long front of the world revolution
clash of arms and bloody struggles.
The capitalist class disorganized bv
the world war, and the working class
awakened, stretching out its limbs
everywhere.
Moscow itself, the capital of the
first victorious proIetarian revolu-
ton, was in danger in March. 1919:
the dictatorship of the capitalist
class was menacing Russia; but the
Communist Int International blew
mighty notes thru the trumpets of
the world revolution and its bugle
call was heard everywhere, where
ever workers were struggling.
Mighty slogans came from the
Communist international to the
masses.
We are living in the period Of the
world revolution!
Upon the ruins of deceptive capt.
taiIst democracy we must establish
the dictatorship Of the proletariatl
The workers must employ the
mighty weapon of civil war against
the capitalist class!
The victorious working class must
destroy the capitalist state and set
up its own rule in the form of the
Sovietsi
The laboring masses can venture
the final struggle only when they
drive out of their midst the treach-
erous labor bureaucrats and yellow
socialists, the agents Of the capital
lists, and choose a new revolutionary
leadership!
The Third international was born
in the fight against the Second In
ternational, and its first cry was the
battle call of revolution, the cry
against the socialist lackeys Of i'm
perialism, the cutlery against the OPP
portunism of the social traitors. The
Third International took the name
Communist International because the
word socialist had become the word
of shame, of betrayal, of selling out
to the capitalists.
The Communist International can
only be conceived of, as the success
sor and the contrary Of the Second
International
The Second International was and
is the international of words and
phrases. The Third international is
the International of action. Kautsky
revealed the real essence of the Sec
ond International when he declared
that it is only an instrument in time
of peacs, wnlcn means, in other
v'5Ius, that it sells itself to the vari-
Gus national capitalist classes in time
of war, when the capitalist class has
reached a crisis. The Third Inter-
national is the revolutionary instru-
ment of the working class in time
of war as well as peace, and it seeks
to utilize the crisis of the capitalists
by converting imperialist war into
civil war and victory Of the workers.
The Second international was and
is the International Of the labor
aristocrats Of the various nations,
and was always under the leadership
of conservative socialist parties and
trade union bureaucrats. The indi-
vidual parties Of the Second Inter-
national had interests in common
with their national capitalist
classes, and betrayed the interests of
the working class over and over
again, not only on a national, but
also on an international scale. The /
Third International is the organiza-
ton Of the real working class, the
International of the lowest strata Of |
the exploited and suppressed; and it |
is under the leadership Of profess
sional revolutionists. The Third In
ternational represents the total in
terests of the proletariat class as a
world class, as against the special |
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