The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-09-01
The Capitalist Press Is No
Place to Discuss Lessons of
Fate of SaCCO and Vanzetti
BY ]. LOUIS ENGDAHL.

An excellent confession of the
bankruptcy of anarchist theories
has just been made by Ephim Var
chuk, a Russian x-anarcho-syndi-
\ calist, in letter to the Pravda
(June Is, 1920, the central organ
Of the Communist Party of the
Soviet Union. Yarchuk writes as
follows
Dear Comrade Editor,-Please be
good enough to print the following
declaration:
Since 1908 l have been in the
ranks of the revolutionary move
ment and down to the present time
belonged to the anarcho-syndicalis
wing. took an active part in the
1903 and 1917 revolutions, working
IN Kronstadt. I participated in the
formation of the Anarcho-Syndi-
callst Confederation and bitterly
criticized Bolshevism. I was ar
rested several times and in 1921
was deported from the Union of
Soviet Republics.
Looking at the postwar Vest
European revolutionary movement
in general and at the anarcho-
syndicalist movement in particular,
| was forced to put the following
basic questions to myself:
l. Can the revolutionary move
ment successfully develop when
not headed by strictly centralized
party-as the anarchists believe?
2. Can the social revolution be
victorious without the dictatorship
of the proletariat?
3. 'Ts the road chosen by the
Communist Party (Bolshevik) lead
ing to Communism
During the process of my work
and elaboration on these questions.
and after long discussions with an
archlsts / must admit that:
-. only strictly centralized
party, led by experienced, tried and
true fighters with a clear and
exactly defined class-proletarian
theology, can lead the revolutionary
movement of the proletariat. Such a
party is the Party of the Bolshe
vik-Communists.
p. "The experience of the Rus
sian Revolution must convince every
honest revolutionary that trans
fer to Communism from a Capi-
talist State is possible only by
means Of force. Only the Dictator
ship of the proletariat can over
come the duplcity, cunning and or
gained resistance of the bour-
geoisie and their henchmen.
81. "If the process of the de-
velopment of the Russian Revolu-
ton has dispelled all illusions lin
GLIDING my OWN on quickly sur
mounting the resistance of the
~bourgeoisie, on a painless transfer
to Communism, then these vision
aries are alone to blame for this,
for they were unable to penetrate
the secrets of the dialectics of his
tory Taking into consideration
all the conditions and circumstances
that had companied the
development of the Russian Revo-
luton l must say straightly that
the road shown by the Bolshevik
Party is the only true and possible
road that can lead us to the COM
plete triumph of Communism.
with comradely greetings,-Ep-
him Yarchuk." --'....
Years of difficult struggle
against capitalism in this country
still face the workers of America.
The capitalist class is most in
terested in confusing the workers
in this struggle. 1t uses its press
most ably in its effort to create
this confusion.
In spite of the capitalist class
and its press, the workers must
learn the lessons of the fate melted
out to Sacco and Vanzetti, and
build its power for future struggles.
Communists have full faith that.
once learning this lesson correctly
the workers will turn in full con-
fidence to the leadership of the
American Communist PARTY and the