The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-04-22
AS WE SEE 1T
BY T. }. o'FLAHERTY.


ONLY short time ago the capital
- list lie mills had Zinoyiev's troops
attacking Trotsky's troops and both
were having each other arrested or
besieged in the Kremlin. A Honolulu
editor mistook that ancient edifice for
a prominent member of the Russian
Communist Party, and when private
in the United States army pointed out
his mistake the editor called up the
authorities and the private got forty
years in jail.
THE discussion in the ranks of the
4 Russian Communist Party on the
theoretical position of Trotsky was a
hot one, and it is no secret that the
former war minister was fiattened out
like a pancake, politically, after the
discussion was over. The counter
revolutionists, the yellow socialists,
the liberals and the intelligentzia
rushed to his assistance. The 21s
internationalists grasped, like drown
ing men, at this latest straw OF hope
that blew their way. Perhaps they
might yet be saved from oblivion!
Trotsky in the meantime was saying
nothing but taking the sun in the
Caucasus.
Yr~rru Jo+oct .anorte annaoriuo in the
4 capitalist press, regarding Trotsky
are not of nature to give aid and COM
fort to those who expected Trotsky to
sulk in his tent like a disappointed
Napoleon and become the center for
an international opposition against
the Communist International. If the
reports are true, Trotsky is slated for
an important position in the Soviet
government and is again ready for
active service. Perhaps the lie fac
tories will have Trotsky arresting Tin
oviev in few weeks from now.
OUR scribblers never seem to real
~ ize that what is governing Russia
today, is not little group of adven-
turers but a powerful, well-knit and
disciplined organization, with pro-
gram, theory and tradition. Piffle-
headed historians, who present the
history of the human race to us as
a series of conflicts between individ-
ual leaders, without taking into con-
sideration the social forces behind
those individuals, may see in the pres
ent situation in Russia only the result
of Lenin's "scheming," and not new
era in human development marking
the first successful revolution of the
workers and peasants against the
capitalists and feudal landowners.
COMMUNISTS do not minimize the
~ Importance of men of genius like
Lenin, Marx, Engels and other intel
lectual giants who have charted the
stormy sea of the future for the work
ing class. They helped to fashion
history. But they also know that no
man or group of men no matter how
brilliant can build an enduring struc-
ture on a principle that is not in harm
ony with economic evolution. The
Union of Socialist Soviet Republics
chow that title must stick in the
throats of the capitalist fiunkeys who
are obliged to use it, is in harmony
with evolution. 1t is established on
the principle that those who produce
the necessities of life for society,
should be the rulers and that those
who render no useful service should
have the full social value of the pro-
duct of their uselessness.
TT happens that the useful people
L are in the great majority, and
when this great majority gets the gov
ernmental power in its hands, which
means the military machine, and has
the intelligence to direct that power
and is sufficiently conscious of its
ability to retain that power, all the
bright schemes that were ever con-
cocted could not turn back the wheels
Of progress one millionth part of an
inch. This is the reason why the die
tatorship of the proletariat in Russia
is growing stronger every day, while
the black relationships in Italy, Hun
gary, Bulgaria, Poland Spain and
other countries are on the verge of
collapse despite the support given to
them by the millions of Wall Street.
As
THE Russian Communist Party, the
1 political party that directs the
Soviet government is, perhaps the
most remarkable organization in the
history Of the world. To properly UNI
derstand present developments in
Soviet Russia, 1t is not enough TO
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