The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-06-30

only one set of rights. summarize
them as the right to be human
How, then, about cur right to be
revolutionists? That is an easy prob
lem. If human beings are by nature
revolutionary, that settles it: and the
enc thing that distinguishes man from
the brutes is that man is revolutions
airy.
se Man Must Improve.
That may sound like a large state
ment, but no one can possibly DENY
it. The brutes are all conservative.
The ants and the bees and the beav.
Iers do some marvellous things: BIZ
examine them, generation after -
Grafton, and you will notice
ARE forever doing the same
which their ancestors did. am
same way which their ancestors
them
Only when you get to man, do YOU
notice the opposite principle conspic-
uously at work. Man cannot live in
the way his ancestors lived. He can
not do things in the way they did
them. 1t is not in his nature to 90
anything of the sort He must inl-
prove on ancient methods. He must
change things. 1t is the law OF his
being. He may be sentimentally con.
servative, and he may try religiously
to stick in the mud-he may even
hate the forces which are constantly
driving him on-but he progresses in
spite of himself
We Shall Be ReVoIutionists.
Shall we, then, be revolutionists'
The answer is, we shall, because We
are law-abiding citizens and we cal
not change human nature When We
know the truth, the truth will make
us free. Until we become conscious
of the laws that really govern us. We
shall of course have all sorts OF
trouble.
/ am Communist: / do not call
1t an outrage that any legislature
should attempt to keep me from being
Communist. The poor Legislature
does not understand I am a Com
munist because it is the law OF my
nature to be Communist. To believe
that legislature has the power TO
turn me into anything else is as sup
erstitious as to believe that priest
has the power TO turn me into a fish.
The capitalists declare, for in.
stance, for "Individualism." and then
proceed to organize the most highly
collective society that the world has
ever known. They declare for con-
servatisms- they ride in the most
violently revolutionary automobiles.
They pirate profoundly of the sacred
old institutions-of god and home and
native land-but they have set up
new gods, making the old religious
conceptions no longer possible they
have revolutionized the country so that
the fathers would never recognize IL:
and they have almost utterly destroy
ed the institution OF the home.
Workers Must Finish the Job.
They have not done these things in
an orderly. way: for when people do
no know what they are doing, they
con not be orderly. But they have
done them, because, under the cir
cumstances, 1t was human nature to
do them, even tho they had to do tn.
In confusion and strife and hate
they had only been conscious,
had only known the laws OF .f
ing, we might have had all tn kl
ress without so much tragedy.
is too late now to shed tears
that. II is up to you workers con
ously to finish the job which the
less intelligent revoutionists uncol
sciously began. You have the advan
tage OF knowing that you are revolu.
tionists. You know that man is iure
naturally Communicate: and from the
chaos which these capitalistic agita.
tors have left us, you win usher in the
genuine era Of law and c~S~e.