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obscur1ng the teachings OF Marx
relative to the historical necessity of
the Dictatorship of the proletariat,
they had become converts to bour-
geois democracy, to evolutionary"
processes, they ridieaIed the revolu-
tionary struggle and laid all empha-
sis on peaceful" procedure in world
where the ruling class was numbering
workers by the million.
CAD Kautsky: "Hence the term,
- the Dictatorship Of the proIetar-
lat, referring as It does to the die
tatorship not Of one individual but
Of a class lpso faceo excludes the
possibility that Marx In this connee-
ton uses the word Dictatorship in
its literal sense. IN fact, he speaks
in this connection NOT OF A FORM
OF GoVERNM EMIT but Of STATE
OF THINGS which MUST necessar-
lily supervene wheHevlr and wher-
ever the proIetarIat hAs conquered
political power. That Marx did not
have in view form OF government
is proved by the fact that he was
Of the opinion that In England and
America the transition can take
place peacefully, and therefore, in a
democratic wayH
1T was this CLOSING oyer Of the role
| of the state that proved the real
counter-revolutionary character Of the
Second International and It's apollo
gists. Such virulent poison had de
vastating effect on the revolutionary
movement and the working class out
side of Russia were still very i'll when
the Third (Communist) international
was organized in 1918.
Desperate diseases. demand desper-
ate remedies and it was necessary to
determine what groups in each coun-
try were ready to break with the
past, accept the leadership of the
Communist international ana under
its banner begin anew the struggle for
the overthrow Of world capitalism.
THE famous 81 points were intend
l ed to and did draw clear line
between the revolutionary and re-
formist groups. Out of those revolu-
tionary working class organizations
that accepted them, amid the bowls of
the reformists, the Third Information
al was built. us gsaq a+ a,s-
It was formed when the revolutions
airy tide was at food. World capital
ism was shaken to its foundations.
Even in the United States the CAPT
talist class became hysterical. In
Germany and Italy, Hungary and Fin
land, the workers openly fought for
power. 20 81
The revolutionary tide ebbed and
once more the Second International
lists, whose support of their capitalist
governments in the revolutionary
years had enabled the rulers to
crush the workf4 class, dared to
claim that capitalism had stabilized
itself, had weathered the storm of the
postwar years and was on the high
road towards reconstruction and pros
perity.
THE Third Congress of the Commu-
l mist International again answer
ed the social traitors in its thesis
adopted July 4, 1921:
a. There is no ground what
soever to speak Of any restoration
of lasting balance today either in
the sphere of production, commerce
or credit with reference to Europe
or even with reference to the world
as whole. The economic decline
Of Europe is still going on and the
decay Of the foundation of Europe
an industry will manifest itself in
the near future. -. Thus we see
that tho Europe has been thrown
back number Of decades as to its
material resources, the intensified
ton Of the social contradictions has
not only NOT refrigerated or been
suspended but has, on the contrary,
assumed a particular acuteness.
"This cardinal fact is, of itself suf-
fieient to dlspeI any Illusion Of the
possibility of lasting and peaceful
development under a democratic
i WITH " government. nc SOCIAL
differentiation proceeding along the
line Of economic. decline predeter-
mines the most Intense convulsive
and cruel nature Of the class strug-
GLE" s'r
THIS fact of the interrupted, but
| nevertheless continuous down
ward trend of world capitalism is the
most obvious Of all the phenomena Of
its career. In snite Of the demonstra-
BILE truth of this statement Of the
Third Congress-, the second interna-
tionalists are striving with might and
main to revive capitalism; in so do
ing they have become the most bit
ter enemies Of Soviet Russia, of the
revolution and OF the working class
even in its daily struggles for more
. bread.
They deny not only the possibility
Of revolution, but the revolution IL
self that is taking place before theiI
ewes