The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-01-02
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THE executive committee of the Soviet of Work
ers' Deputies decided yesterday, Nov. %
(l9O5) to reject the demand of the anarchists for
the admission of their representatives into the
executive committee and the Soviet of Workers
Deputies. The cause of this decision the execu
tive committee itself laid out in the following
form "Q) In all international practice the
congresses and socialist conferences do not have
In their composition representatives of the an
archlsts, as persons who do not acknowledge the
political struggle as means for attaining their
ideals. (2) Representation may be from party.
but the anarchists are not a party"
We consider the decision of the executive com
mlttee in the highest degree correct step, having
enormous significance both in principle and of
a practicalpoliticaI nature. To be sure. If one
were to regard the Soviet of Workers Deputies
as parliament of workers or as an organ of self
government of the proletariat then the refusal
to admit the anarchists would be Incorrect How
ever negligible fortunately the influence of the
anarchists in the midst of workers. still there
is undoubtedly certain number of workers on
their side.
Whether the anarchists constitute a party or
an organization, or group, or a voluntary union
of psrtisans,-this question is a formal one not
having serious significance in principle Lastly.
II the anarchists while renouncing the political
struggle, themselves beg to be admitted into an
Institution conducting this struggle, then such
crying inconsistency certainly shows once too
often all of the unsteadiness of the world concept
and tactics of the anarchists But to exclude from
parliament" or an "organ of selfgovernment''
on account OF unsteadiness is of course not per-
missible
The decision of the executive committee an
pears to us fully correct and not in the least
contradictory to the tasks of this institution to
ITS character or to it's composition. The Soviet
OF Workers Deputies is not workers parliament
and not an organ of proletarian self-government
not IN general an organ of sef-government but
lighting organization for the attainment of
definite aims
Into this fighting organization, on the basis of a
temporary, underlined fighting agreement come the
representatives of the Russian socialdemocratic
labor party 1.-THE party of proletarian socialism,
the representatives of the party of "socialstrevo
lutlonarles" Representatives of petty-bourgeois
socialism or the extreme left of the revolutionary
bourgeois democracy, and, $ finally, many
worker "nonlpartisans" These last. however
are not non-partisans in general but are non
partisan reyolutionaries, for their sympathy
lies wholly on the side of the revolution. for the
victory of which they fight with limitless enthus
iasm, energy and selfdenial. For this reason ii
Will be entirely natural to include also the rem
resentatives Of the revolutionary peasantry In
the executive committee
In the essence of the matter the Soviet az
Workers Deputies is an underlined broad. fight
ing union of socialists and revolutionary demo
Gratis, in which case of course mon partisan reyo