The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-05-27
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liberals think Of the Soviet regime!"
THE liberals are very useful to the
4 capitalists. At critical moments,
with very few exceptions, they flop
over to the side to which they really
belong. Take the tribe who profess
to be so much concerned about civil
liberties Naturally, in a capitalist
state the workers are always the suf-
ferers, and most of the efforts Of the
civil hbertarians are directed towards
making the master class live up to
their own laws. But everybody who
understands anything about sociology
knows that there is a constant strug-
gle going ON between the possessing
class and the dispossessed class. In
this struggle it is impossible to be
neutral. One must take either one
side or the other.
TIME capitalists have the govern
4 ment on their side. They make the
laws and obey them or violate them,
according to taste and requirement.
The Communists say there cannot be
any real universal freedom as long
as class rule exists. Governments
are organs Of repression, even the
Soviet government. 1t exists to pro-
tect the workers and peasants rule
as the governments Of England and
the United States exist to protect CAPT
talist rule. That's all there is to it.
The liberals want to lift the workers
into the cloud lands of fancy, where
they picture an imaginary world. They
want to convince them that what is
wrong with our present state Of So
ciety is not capitalism, but certain
capitalists who have not learned to
do their robbing painlessly.
GOVIET RUSSIA is engaged in the
- difficult task of laying the basis for
a socialist economy. The rest of the
capitalist world is in opposition. The
bourgeoisie of all nations, no matter
how they quarrel among themselves
are united against the workers and
peasants government. They know
that the Red Republic is a standing
challenge to them and beacon light
to the rest of the proletarian world.
Therefore, they are burning up money
In financing plots to overthrow the
Soviet power, and placing every OBJ
stacle in the way of Soviet progress.
They have their conspirators inside
Russia as well as outside. What is
the Soviet government going to do
about it? Throw away it's defensive
weapons and allow the czarists who
have trodden over the workers and
peasants Of Russia for centuries to re.
turn to power?
+ the Russian revolutionists had
done this, snow white lilies would
now be sprouting over the graves Of
every bolshevik leader whose name is
today anathema to the capitalist class.
and the liberals would admit that the
bolsheviks were nice fellows but were
not practical" Fortunately for the
working class the Russian revolution
kept their guns and used them on the
enemy. The result is that today they,
are governing one sixth of the earth's
surface. They have proven them
selves to be practical" but they are
not mice"
THE "Anglo-Saxon" New Republic
claims that the Russians never ex-
perienced freedom of speech and of
the press "as they exist Except in
wartime) in Anglo-Saxon countries
This is ku klux khan, Nordic hokum.
Ask the Irish, Egyptian, Hindoo and
other oppressed peoples of the British
empire what civil liberty means under
the Union Jack? Ask the Hawaiians.
Filipinos or Cubans, what civil liberty
means under the American flag? Even
in England today, Harry Politt, Com.
munist, is kidnapped by a fascist gang
and the court laughs it off as a good
Joke. In the same "Anglo-Saxon"
country, Communists get six months
in jail for making speech against
capitalism. The liberals will not fool
the revolutionary working class with
their protests against the absence of
civil liberty for the bourgeoisie in
Russia. This is but a smoke screen
to hide an attack on Soviet Russia.