The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-03-16
new zEALANDA'S
SHAM DEMOCRACY
is DESPO TISM
Soviet Russia Only
Workers Government
BY PHILApELpHus.

There is a fundamental difference
between the political system Of New
Zealand and that Of Soviet Russia.
In Soviet Russia they have the rule
of society by the proletariat and poor
peasants-the dictatorship of the pro
letariat.
In New Zealand society is ruled By
the capitalist class, e., manufactur
ers, merchants, bankers. landlords
dictatorship of the bourgeoisie.
New zeaIand's Despotism.
The New Zealand scheme is not so
cialism in any form and has no con
nection with revolutionary Commun
ism whatsoever. Labor, in New Zea
land is the victim of pernicious sys
tenn Of state capitalism which destroys
one of the strongest weapons the
working class has to fight its battles
labor unions-and establishes a DO.
litical despotism over the workers ir
the interest Of the minority capitalist
class.
Union Part Of Government.
In Soviet Russia the land, and IN
dustries are not owned by landlords
manufacturers and bankers. Labor
unions are increasing and are an in.
tegral part Of the government and the
whole process Of arbitration as il
works out over there is concerned
with the division Of the national IN.
come among the city workers and the
poor peasants. Soviet Russia is so
cialist nation based on the common
ownership Of land, industry and I'm
ance by the proletariat and poor peas.
antry (majority of its agricultural
workers) with the Bolshevist govern.
ment, their government, acting
always in the interest Of the work
ers. ,s.,s.,
A Capitalist Nation.
New Zealand is a capitalist nation
Estate capitalism founded on the pri.
vate ownership of land, industry and
finance by the capitalists and the rob-
berry of the workers thru a wages
system supervised by the capitalist ad-
ministration. Compulsory arbitration
is the keystone of the New Zealand
system. Compulsory arbitration, with
the government as arbitrator, backed
up by non-labor police and soldiers,
and with the economic wealth in the
hands Of an exploiting class is, invai.
iably, on every serious issue between
labor and capital" arbitration
against labor. The fact that the class
conscious revolutionary workers
there, have carried on a bitter strug-
gle against the New Zealand system
Of state capitalism is one important
proof of this point.
The rock-bottom condition which
makes the difference between state
capitalism and revolutionary Commun-
ism, is not, primarily, a matter OF po-
litical form, but a matter of property
ownership e., which class owns
and administers the land, industries.
finance-labor or the capitalists.
In Soviet Russia the land, houses,
newspapers, schools, mines, shops.
railroads, banks, ships, etc, are owned
by the proletariat and poor agricul-
tural toilers thru the Soviet state.
A Bogus Democracy.
In New Zealand the government Is
an organ of capitalist rule and fnnc-
tons as a bogus democracy-Lenin
rightly dubbed it a bourgeois democ.
racy) for the reason that a minority
of capitalist exploiters own as PR
vate property the economic wealth.
Red Star Of Hope.
Finally, revolutionary Communism
the sole hope of civilization wrecked
by the vicious forces of capitalism.
the only star Of hope (red starr to the
worlds workers, exploited, oppressed
and Observation-Disclosures Com.
munism doessnot and cannot exist I'M.
less the masses of common humanity
own and control thru their own Soviet
government the tasic factors of life
liberty and happiness-th land, the