The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-03-16
AS WE SEE IT


class war had no other aim except to
establish the right Of free speech. II
that was the only aim it would be
! better to teach the workers to always
think like their masters who would
give them all the freedom for en-.
pressing themselves that even ths
most loquacious would ask for than
to urge them to overthrow capital
ism. But that is not the aim Of the
revolutionary working class move
ment. It's aim is to overthrow the cap.
italist system and establish the rule
Of the producing classes on its ruins.
ENREE speech is impossible in a class
society. 1t can only be possible IN
classless society. There can be ne
real freedom for all while one class
rules another. Can that be success
fully refuted? OF course not. Theirs
is no freedom of speech In any cap.
italist country in the world. That il
complete freedom of speech. The reas
son is not far to seek. The capitalists
place such limits on the freedom Of
action of the workers as they deem
necessary to the safety Of their regime.
This is not theory. 1t is fact.
THERE is no freedom Of speech or Of
4 the press for the capitalist minor
ity in Russia or for their tools, the
socialists. But there is freedom Of
speech for the workers and peasants
who support the revolution. There will
not be any freedom of speech in Rus
STA for the opponents of the rule Of
the workers until that opposition in
world sense becomes so infinitismal
that it involves no danger to the So
Wet power. The Communists Of Rus
STA might win the applause of the
American liberals if they threw away
their rifles and said to the Grand
Duke Nicolaievich and his capitalist
paymasters: Here Nicky, walk right
in, and let's settle down together and
fight it out with our mouths" OF
| course, the lampposts Of Russia would
have long since carried the hanging
bodies of those Communists and their
followers If any were left alive would
be the objects of American liberal"
sympathy as they languished in Rus
sian dungeons or rubbed their frozen
toes in Siberia while the daughters
of the American capitalists would be
having the time of their lives seducing
the thousands of Russian mobiles who
had nothing else to do but risk seduc-
ton.
IT'S either one thing or the other.
4 This is fight, not debate over
the theory Of evolution or special crea-
ton. There is no free speech in war.
Even Willard of the Nation kept his
mouth shut as a clam when Wilson
was on the war path. He opened it
after the war was over to get the class
fighters out of Jail. For that we give
him credit. But he is now doing more
injury to the working cass movement
than ever Palmer or Burleson did. by
turning over his magazine TO the most
poisonous collection of rattlesnakes
that ever spewed their venom on SO.
Wet Russia.
THERE will be free speech in Russia
= and all over the world when car
italism is overthrow in the United
States, England, France, Italy and
Germany. The other capitalist coun-
tries don't matter much. But before
that is accomplished the working class
will pass thru fire in which the sup
preston of opinion will not be the
greatest OF evils. In classics society,
the government Of people, always an
organ of suppression will give away
to an administration OF things. When
the brotherhood Of man will become
reality, there will be freedom OF ex.
preston but not until then.
no we apply the same rule In meas.
- nring Soviet Russia that we apply
to capitalist countries? or course not.
Like A. A. Purcell, head of the British
trade union movement, we are biased
In favor OF the working class. The
DAILY WORKER is not concerned
with being fair to the enemy. Il IL
too busy helping to defeat MIN.