The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1928-11-03
VIM. 2. Foster
For the w orkers!


Eleven years ago the red flag of proletarian
revolution was raised in triumph over the
ruins of the Russian cars empire.
We celebrate the anniversary of November
Z, 1917. We celebrate the concrete realiza-
ton within one enormous country, nearly
three times the size of this one in which we
live, of the hopes and plans of the conscious
sections of the working class of the whole
world during the past hundred years. We
celebrate the founding of the Union of So
cialist Soviet Republics which is rightfully
regarded by every conscious, sincere, intelli-
gent worker in every land of the earth as the
Socialist Fatherland
The revolutionary state of the Union of
Socialist Soviet Republics is the strong right
arm of the working class of the world in its
class struggle against the capitalist class of
the world.
The proletarian revolution has won its
great stronghold not by lucky chance" but
by the most courageous action incredible
sacrifice and skillful use of the science of
proIetarian revolution. The Bolshevik Com
munist) Party under the leadership of Lenin
continued and developed the revolutionary
science and courage of Marx and Engels de-
spite all of the corrupting influences of the
agents of the capitalist class in the labor
movement. When the leaders" of the inter
national socialist movement in 1924 betrayed
the workers of all countries by making them
selves the agents of the imperialist general
stats, the Bolshevik Party alone remained
true to revolutionary MARKHAM traditions and
thus was able to lead the successful revolu-
ton.
Without the revolutionary Bolshevik
(Communist) Party there could not be today
a territory covering one-sixth of the surface
of the globe under the red flag of the Union
of Socialist Soviet Republics.
But as the revolution is the international
revolution, so the revolutionary party is the
international party of the working class of
the entire world. The victory of the revolu-
ton in Russia, clearing the minds Of the ad-
vanced workers of all countries, was followed
by the firm establishment of the revou-
tionary party of Marx and Lenin in all lands
of the world.
No longer can intelligent, sincere workers
be made to believe in the lying words that
defend capitalist democracy" against proe-
tartan democracy. The successful revolution
has indelibly imprinted on the pages of his
tory the fact that the construction of So
capitalist class. Only after the overthrow of
the capitalist class and the establishment of
the working class as the ruling class, can the
building of the socialist system begin.
The new socialist order IS being built up in
the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics. The
tremendous industrial development, accom-
panied by the simultaneous process of social
zation, blasts all the arguments of enemies of
the Soviet system. Such attacks come under
two heads: (D that economic life in the
Soviet Union is paralyzed, and (2) that CAPT
talism is being re-established.
The data available on this eleventh ami
versary of the Bolshevik revolution shows
that within the past year all expectations
have been surpassed.
Heavy industry, which last year surpassed
the pre-war level has since made tremendous
strides forward. Most significant as in
dicating the solid foundation on which in
dustry is being built is the rapid develop
ment of those industries engaged in producing
machinery of production. This guarantees
the freedom of the Soviet Union from de-
pendence upon the capitalist world for its
machinery of production.
The great identification projects, first
launched by Lenin, have gone forward at a
tremendous. pace, until electricity has pene-
trated many of the remotest sections, with
gigantic power stations dotting the country.
The oil industry has passed through a
veritable technical revolution. Especially in
the.Baku district the equipment for producing
oDis equal to the highest American stan
dards.
Simultaneous with the great revolution in
industry proceeds the agricultural revolution
One of the outstanding characteristics of the
industrial revolution is the production Of
agricultural machinery which has surpassed