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

sections of the rural population who
support the dictatorship of the pro-
letariat is maintained in them, may
become one of the principal organ
national means of linking up town
and country. To the extent that
they are able to maintain their ex-
istence at all under capitalism, CO.
operative peasant enterprises under
the capitalist system inevitably be-
come transformed into capitalist en-
terprises, for they are dependent
upon capitalist industry, capitalist
banks and capitalist environment,
Under the proletarian dictatorship
however, they develop amidst diff
ferent system of relationships and
depend upon proletarian industry
proletarian banks, etc. Thus, pro-
viding the proletarian conducts a
proper policy, providing the class
struggle against the capitalist ele-
ments in the rural districts is sys-
tematically carried on and provid-
ing socialist industry exercises guild
ance over it, agricultural co-opera-
ton may become one of the most
important levers for the socialist
Transformation and collectivizatior
of the countryside.
In the course of all this militant
and constructive work carried on
through the medium of every vari-
ETY. of proletarian organization (pri-
marily the trade unions and So
viets), which indeed should serve
as the levers of the Soviet state and
link it up with the broad masses
of every stratum of the working
class, the proletariat secures and
exercises unity of will and action by
means of the leading role played by
the Communist Party in the system
of proletarian dictatorship.
The Party Of the proletariat re-
lies directly on the trade unions and
number of other organizations
which embrace the masses of the
workers and through them the peas
antry (Soviets, Cooperative socie-
ties, Young Communist League
etc.,, and by means of this system
of levers guides the Soviet system
as a whole. The proletariat can
fulfill its role as organizer of the
new society only if the Soviet gov
eminent is loyalty supported by all
the mass organizations, only, if the
unity of class will is maintained and
only under the guidance of the
party.
The role of organizer of the new
human society presupposes that the
proletariat will become culturally
ripe, that it will transform it's own
nature, advance from it's ranks in
creasing numbers of men and wo-
men capable of acquiring a knowl-
edge of science, technique and ad-
ministration for the purpose of
building up socialism and a new So
cialist culture.
In destroying the monopoly of the
capitalist class in the means of pro-
duction, the working class must
also destroy it's monopoly of educa-
tion, i. e., it must take possession of
all the schools, from the elementary
schools right up to the highest uni
versities. 1t is particularly import
ant for the proletariat to train mem
bers of the working class as ex-
perts in the sphere of production
engineers, technicians, organizers,
accountants, etc., as well as in the
spheres of science, military affairs.
etc. simultaneously the cultural
level of the masses of the prole-
tariat must be raised; their political
education and their general stand
ard of knowledge must be raised;
their technical skill and their abili-
ties for public work and administra-
ton must be developed and the sur
vivals of bourgeois and petty bour-
geois prejudices, ETC., must be COM
bated.
A particularly important task in
connection with the fight against
bourgeois prejtslices and supersti-
tions is that of combating religion
is opium for the people,
The struggle against religion must
be conducted systematically and per-
sistently The proletar,ar govern
ment must abolish all state support
of the church which is an agency of
the dominant classes and imperialist
cliques. 1t must prevent all church
interference in state organized ed
ucation and ruthlessly crush the
counter-revolutionary activities of
ecclesiastical organizations. While
carrying on anti-religious propa-
ganda by all the means at it's dis
posal- although permitting freedom
of worship and abolishing the privi-
legged position Occupied by previously
predominant religions-the Soviet
government must at the same time
reorganize all it's educational work
en- the basis of scientific, materialist
philosophy.
The international proletarian rev.
olution is a combination of pro-
cesses varying in time and charac-
ter-purely proletarian revolutions;
revolutions of bourgeois-demo-
cratic type which grow into prole-
tartan revolutions; wars for ma
tional liberation; colonial revolu.