The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-01-28

AS WE SEE 1T
sy 7. J. o'FLAHEATY.

E1OLAND is preparing to mobilize
] her army according to news dis
patches from Berlin. The Polish bour1
eeoisie are looking with longing eyes
at Dantzig, Baltic port which was
created as a free city by the league of
nations. The only people who take
the league seriously, are the pseudo
pacifists, who are for peace when
there is peace and for war when there
is no peace. The capitalist powers
take what they want, If they can, by
force Of arms and talk peace after
wards.
DACIFISTS are disappointed be-
cause the Russian workers and
peasants did not invite their enemies
to debate the pros and cons of car
ism and capitalism instead OF resort
ing to arms like their opponents. Had
they done this, Jesus would have had
serious competition but pretty, little
pettles, thistIes and daisies would now
be growing over the remains of Trot-
sky, Zinoviev, Stain, Kamenev and
the thousands of others who fought to
establish the first workers govern
ment in history. Grand Duke Nicola
watch would be sitting pretty and Mrs
Nick would be entertaining another
Rasputin.
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THERE Is not the least doubt but
the Bolsheviks would prefer to
talk It out with their enemies rather
than shoot it out, but unfortunately
for the peaceful ideal there is too
much dynamite in the class struggle.
and when the clash comes explosive
words are not the only explosives
used In fact all other things being
equal the side with the most explos-
ives win The capitalist, powers that
backed up the czarists until all hope
Of overthrowing the Soviet regime
failed did not try: out any newfangled
pacitlst ideas. Had they won, Russia
would not now be on the high road
towards establishing a Communist so
ciety free from class conflicts and
wars but would be ground down under
tho heels Of despotism rivalling that
Of the czars.
The Russian revolution must not be
judged by the weapons used in set
ting it up or in maintaining it, What
matters is that the workers and peas
ants won, and it happens that in this
hard boiled world they could not win
without the use of force and they
could not maintain their power except
by the use Of force. The Red Army
must be superior in morale, efficiency
and equipment to the armies Of the
enemies of the capitalist powers. That
and the fact that the Soviet regime
has the support OF the workers anc
peasants is the guarantee OF its exist
euce. 4i
MANY well intentioned workers con
Ni fuse the use of force by capitalist
fStdtCc anu ny WOAhCto blatCos AnCy
say: III tits wrong for the capitalits
to use force in suppressing the work
ers why is it not wrong for the Soviet
power to use force in supressing the
capitalists? A similar objection t.
this has been raised at the refusal o.
New Workers to let Abramovich, the
czarist socialist, speak. The revolu
tionary working class movement, II
not founded to play the role of refere,
in the class struggle, or to see tina
both sides got an even break TIL,
workers, forming the great majority
Of the population and the producerl
q all wealth produced in modern so
ciety, are robbed OF the greater por
ton Of the product OF their labor b,
the capitalist class, minority Of so
ciety. MA
THIS minority having political pow
er. and the weapons Of politica
power armed force, holds the maiorit.
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