The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-07-28
Where Is Russia GOing7

IKFE have previously shown how, II
w the Industrial Workers of the
World were given full charge of rev.
olution in the United States, with the
same strength Of numbers as has the
Communist Party OF Soviet Russia to-
day, it would have to go absolutely
contrary to its present anarchist ad-
visers and establish a government or
the armed proletariat to suppress by
force the remnants of capitalist power.
But with this done or in the doing the
struggle to establish a communal So
ciety would only have started.
Most of the industrial machinery
would be destroyed in warfare, whole
armies of .technicians would desert
production or remain only to sabot-
age. A fair-sized part of the popula-
ton during such troublesome times
would not be charmed by any pretty
pictures of the future, but would de-
mand regular meals-and serve as
counter-revolutionis if they didn't
get them.
THE 1. w. w. would find, in such a
l. case, that there is a transition
period between capitalism and Com
munism. 1t might find, for example,
that instead OF socializing the agricul-
tural industry over night, it would
have to make peace with the ten or
twelve million farms, so that they
would send food and not counter-revo-
lutionary armies to the cities. If the
city workers could have that assur-
ance of peace, they might have more
time and energy for rebuilding ruined
factories, railways, mines and mills,
Wilhelm the measure they were so
cialized-would represent that much
advance away from capitalism and to-
ward Communism. Any retrogression
would have to be guarded against by
the centralized workers government
upheld by the armed proletariat.
We restate our proposition. If the
I. w. w. had such situation on its
hands and wished to succeed, 1t would
have to recognize that the revolution
is a process of some duration, only be-
gun by forcing the capitalists out Of
governmental power. 1t would do al
the things, in short, that it allows an
archists within the I. w. w. to at
tack the Russian workers for doing.
We see, therefore, that when the
anarchists launch an attack they are
attacking the /. w. w. also, along
with the whole working class. 1t was
quite typical that the anarchist article
which appeared in the l. w. w. press
deliberately distorted the words Of
Kamenev, spoken at the 14th con
ference of the Russian Communist
Party. ts
A RGUING against those who said
n that Soviet Russia was in danger
Of going back to capitalism, and point
ing out that the direction Of develop
ment was consistently toward Com
munism, Kamenev said;
"Our state industries are really en-
terprises of the soeIalist-consisten
type, because they represent the own
srship of the working class"
Because Karnenev added that, 1--WE
have not yet an industry that is com
pIetely socialist" the anarchist writel
in the l. w. w. press clearly distort'
Kamenev's words when he asserts tina
everything in Soviet production is "ir
no respect socialistic." OF course this
is done to get the /. w. w. members
to swallow the propaganda that NJ
transition period is necessary In rev
olution, and that the Soviet Union ha'
reverted to the capitalist system"
(WHICH way, in truth, is the Sovie
w economy going? Since the an
archist writer thought the I. w. W
membership interested, and since HI
said, 1.-The comrades can give us thi'
information better than anyone else,
why did he publish few words o
Kamenev's only to distort them? VIII!
did he not publish the resolution
adopted by that same 14th conference
OF the Communist Party of Russia
which, in part, says: