The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-07-13

Nlolenb ana peaceIul, military ana
economic, pedagogical and admins
trative, against the forces and tradi-
lions of the old society: against
external capitalist enemies, against
the remnants of the exploiting
classes within the country, against
the outcrops of the new bourgeoisie
which arises on the basis of still
existing commodity production.
In the conditions prevailing dur
ing the liquidation of the civil war,
the class struggle continues in other
forms, primarily, in the form of the
struggle between the survivals of
previous economic systems on the
one hand and socialist forms of econ
omy on the other; and these forms
of struggle undergo a change at
various stages of socialist develop
ment.
In the first stage Of the prole-
tartan dictatorship the policy of the
proletariat towards other classes and
social groups within the country is
determined by the following postu-
lates:
l. The big bourgeoisie and big
landlords, and the loyal adherents,
the officer class, the generals and
the higher bureaucracy, are con-
sistent enemies of the working class
against whom it is necessary to
wage ruthless war. The organizing
skill of a certain section of these
may be utilized, but as rule, this
is possible only after the dictator
ship has been consolidated and after
all eonspiracies and rebellions of ex-
ploiters have been decisively crushed
2. In regard to the technical in
telligentsia, which has been brought
up on bourgeois traditions, the pro-
letariat must ruthlessly suppress
every counter-revolutionary action
in their ranks but at the same time
bear in mind the necessity for utili-
zing this skilled social force for the
purposes of socialist construction. In
the process of developing this work
of construction,--econ technical
and cultural, on a wide social scale,
the proletariat must Systematically
win over the technical intelligentsia
to its side. subject it to its ideologi-
cal influence and secure it's close CO.
operation in the work of social
Transformation.
3. In regard to the peasantry, the
task of a Communist Party is to
rely on the agricultural proletariat
but strive to win over to it's side all
the exploited and toiling strata of
the rural districts. The victorious
proletariat must draw strict lines of
distinction between the various
groups of the peasantry. properly
judge the relative Importance of
each and render every support to
the propertyless and semi-prole-
tartan strata of the peasantry. 1t
must transfer to the latter part of
the land of the big landlords, help
them in their struggles against
usurer capital, etc. Moreover, the
proletariat must neutralize the in
termediary strata of the peasantry
and actively repel every attack on
the part of the rural bourgeois
which enters into alliance with the
landlords. As its dictatorship be-
comes consolidated and socialist con-
struction develops the proletariat
must abandon the policy of neutrali-
cation and adopt the policy of direct
alliance Nth the masses of middle
peasan.ry; but it must refrain from
adopting the point of view of sharing
power in any way,
a. The petty urban bourgeaisie,
which constantly oscillates between
extreme reaction and sympathy for
the proletariat, must also be neutral
lied and as far as possible won over
to the side OF the proletariat. This
can be achieved by permitting it to
retain its small property and GER
tain amount of freedom of trade and
by abolishing usurious credit, etc.
In the course of fulfilment of all
these tasks of the proletarian die
tatorship radical change takes
place in the tasks and functions of
the mass organizations and primarily
of the labor organizations. Under
capitalism, the mass labor organiza-
tons in which the broadcast strata
of the proletariat are for the first
time organized and trained, j. e. the
trade (industriaD unions, represent
the principal weapon in the in
dustrial struggle and subsequently in
the mass struggle against trustified
capital and it's state. Under the
proletarian dictatorship, these or
CARNATIONS become transformed in
to the principal lever Of the dicta-
torship, into a school of Communism
which draws overwhelming masses
of the proletariat into the work of
the socialist management of in
dustry. Thus, in so far as they pro-
mote from their ranks leaders in the
work of construction, in so far as
they draw into this work the broad
strata of the proletariat and insofar
as they set themselves the task of
combating the bureaucratic distor-
tions which inevitably arise as the
result of the inadequate cultural de-
velopment of the masses and of the
operation of class influences alien to
the proletariat, the trade unions be-
cnnaa the hackh hone of the onnnn1,,in