The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-01-15
BY WILLIAM r. DUNNE.

more active participation In the government OF the
Soviet Union, is hailed by the socialist and capital
list press proof of the disruption Of the working
class dictatorship.
Upon the basis Of these phenomena, freely admit
ted by the leaders of the Communist Party of the
Soviet Union and initiated by them, the counter
revouttonsts of the world build whole structure OF
bouyant hopes to be realized when the simple peas
antry" has overwhelmed the Communist Terror"
The "Marxians" of the second International now
in the camp of the capitalist class, hold their
allies this wilo-thewsp of the collapse of the work
ers and peasants government Of the Soviet Union
and today this is about the sole consolation the i'm
perialists of the world have when they forced
TO witness the growing might OF this rich heritage
Lenin left the Russian masses and the rest OF the
worlds toiling millions.
Periodically we hear of new concessions" forced
from the government by the peasantry, of the ex
tension OF rank and file control OF the unions of
lessenng OF the restrictions on social activities etc.
The capitalist press rejoces and the socialist press
publishes rapturous predictions of the downfall of
the Soviet government
On the anniversary OF the death OF Nicolai Lenin,
whose genius rescued the revolutionary teachings
Of Marx and Engels from the revisonists of the
Ond international, and who charted unerringly the
the workers and peasants government of
the Soviet Union is following, it is of interest to
show, as Lenin showed at time when the safety
of the Russian revolution, meeting invading imper
alist armies all fronts hung in the balance that
the socalled concessions to the peasantry in the
form of increased electoral participation, the
activity of the villages in political and cultural life
the extension of democracy in the unions, etc.. rep
resents not growing weakness but growing
strength of the revolution.
The second international abandoned the revolu
tonary struggle against the capitalist state twisted
and distorted the MARKHAM teaching concerning the
role of the state. To them government became
permanent institution which, by evolutionary
process consisting of securing minor reforms from
time to time, would take on a socialist character
Having decided that the role of the socialist par
ties to work within the capitalist government,
their last thought of destroying this instrument
of oppression.
AS Bucharin says in his "Lenin as a Marxst":
"If these Marxist 'epgones' took into account
tain new changes in the domain of the capitalist
order, of the INTERPRETATION between economics and
politics, they examine under their theoretical mag
nifying glass some new phenomena in the realm OF
current life, then they would principle always
take into consideration these new phenomena from
one aspect from the aspect Of THE INCORPORA-
TION OF THE WORKING CLASS ORGANIzA-
TIONS INTO THE GENERAL SYSTEM OF CAPT.
TALIST MECHANICISM IN AN EVOLUTIONARY
MANNER. Emphasis in the Originally
Ultimately" continues Bucharn, "the whole
dictionary substance of revolutionary Marxism be-
gan to melt away"
When the Bolsheviks took power in Russia, the
socialdemocratic leaders failed to recognize that
piled Marxism. They charged everything from
archism and Blanquism to outright aid to capitalism
against the Bolsheviks and today, when the working
class of Russia, aided by the peasantry has ruled
for ten years under the leadership Of the Communist
Party they still refuse to recognize this proletarian
power as the concrete expression Of the MARKHAM
formula:
The state, that is, the proetariat organized
the ruling class.
Lenin, especially in his "The State and Revolu-
ton" drove to cover the "Marxists" who had pros
tituted Engels' sentence, "The state will not be
abolished; 1t win wither away" which the so
eial-democracy had built almost entirely it's whole
theory of peaceful, evolutionary progress towards
socialism" but he also disarmed the anarchists to
whom the sacred character of the capitalist state
vsualized by the socialists had been of great value
in their antistate campaigns.
Lenin says in this great work:
1.-THE first fact has been established with complete
exactness by the whole theory of evolution indeed,
by the whole of science-a fact which the Utopians
forgot however, and which is forgotten by the
present opportunsts afraid Of the socialist revou
tion-tha is historically there must undoubtedly be
a special stage epoch of TRANSITION from CAPT