The daily worker., 1926-08-01
THE PRoLETARIAN REVOLUTION

Inc greater part OF the members Oh
the Socialist Party split away from it
and joined the Communist Party in
1919, because the Socialist Party re-
fused to learn the historical lessons
taught by the workers revolution in
Russia. The Socialist Party still
maintains and propagates the idea
that Socialism will be achieved thru
step by step legislation bringing about
municipal ownership and nationalist
tion of industry while the capitalist
system continues and while the capi-
htalist class and its state bureaucracy
remains in control of the government.
In other words, the Socialist Party be-
lieves that it can reform" capitalism
out of existence.
The left wing of the Socialist Party
in 1919 contended and the Workers
(CommunisD Party today maintains
that this reformism is an illusion i'm
posed upon the workers by false lead
ership. Fhe Workers (Communist)
Party declares that in order to abolish
capitalism, and to establish Socialism,
the workers must first achieve con-
troll of the governmental power as
was done in Russia, and must then
use the governmental power to sup-
press the capitalist class and to abol-
ish the capitalist system and build a
Socialist economic system in its place.
AS to the method thru which the
workers will achieve control of the
governmental power and establish a
workers and farmers government,
that is, dictatorship of the prole-
tariat, all history shows that a ruling,
privileged class has never given up
it's power without resorting to force
to maintain its privileged position.
That was true in Russia, it was true
in Hungary, the struggles in Germany
have shown it to be true and the re-
cent developments in connection with
the General Strike in Great Britain
show that it is true there.
Do you believe that, in the light Of
American history, the Civil War, a
class struggle which resulted in the
use of armed force, and in the light
of the repeated use of armed forces
against the workers even in strikes,
as in West Virginia, that the develop
ment of the class struggle between
the workers and capitalists will take
another course here? The whole his
tory of the American capitalist class
shows that it will as quickly resort to
force to maintain it's privileged posi-
ton as the capitalist class of any
other country.
The Workers (Communist) Party
therefore makes it clear to the work
ing class that the final form of the
class struggle thru which the work
ers will set up the proletarian dicta-
torship will be an open revolutionary
struggle against the capitalist class
and the capitalist government
THE AMERICAN FEDERATION
OF LABOR
Neither the left wing, the Commu-
mist Party or the Workers (Commu-
nist) Party at any time proposed the
destruction of the American Fedora
tion of Labor, but on the contrary
the program of the Workers (Commu-
nist) Party declares emphatically for
the organization of the workers into
the labor unions, for the entry of
these unions into the American Fed
Grafton of Labor.
However, the Workers (Communist)
Party is not satisfied that the Ameri-
can Federation Of Labor maintain its
present policy Of organizing the work
ers into craft unions, but urges that
the existing craft unions be amalga-
mated into powerful industrial unions
so as to strengthen the WORKERS in
their struggle against the capitalist
employers. II urges further that the
American Federation Of Labor drop
lis policy Of supporting candidates Of
the republican and>Semocratic tick.
cts and aid in the formation OF a la
Dor party, and further urges that. the
American Federation OF Labor carry
on a militant class struggle in the ia.
terests OF the workers and for the